San Pablo Arts District


	A Vision of Art, Business, and Community The San Pablo Arts District fund’s (SPAD) mission is to establish an arts district along the San Pablo Avenue corridor, between 53rd and 67th Streets in Oakland, CA. This stretch of San Pablo Avenue, also known as the ‘Golden Gate Business District,’ is suffering from the recent economic downturn, furthering extant vacancy and blight. Through a series of programs focused on property and community revitalization and active neighborhood promotion, SPAD will establish artist spaces and galleries along the corridor, and set up art initiatives and events in the community. The programs will benefit existing residents and businesses along the San Pablo Avenue corridor and encourage others to visit, work, shop, and move here. Proposed programs will include utilization and improvement of existing structures to form affordable artist work spaces and live/work spaces. This will be accomplished through volunteer work, donations, and grants. SPAD will establish partnerships with well-known local and international galleries and art associations set up community outreach programs, foster public art, and produce events to promote the district. For more information please email us.		November 2011 San Pablo Arts District Fund Presents: Lip Service West: True Stories Featuring Authors Meredith Jaeger, Hin Leung, Laura Lucero,Mindela Ruby, Jeff Zittrain Friday, Nov 11th, 2011 Pegasus Books 2349 Shattuck St. Berkeley, CA 7:30 p.m. Media Contacts: Joe Clifford, Producer, Lip Service West: joe@lipservicewest.com Idan Levin, Executive Director, San Pablo Arts District Fund: idan@sanpabloarts.org ***** Meredith Jaeger writes women’s fiction inspired by real life experiences. She is hard at work on her second novel, about a twenty-nine year old woman unable to embrace adulthood. Her first novel, The Trouble with Twenty-Two, follows the adventures of recent college graduates. She is still on the daunting quest to find an agent and she blogs at: thetroublewithtwentytwo.wordpress.com. Hin Leung is a native of Hong Kong. He fulfilled his childhood fantasy of moving to San Francisco to find himself after graduating from Stanford, where he was nominated twice for the Boothe Prize for Excellence in Writing. He is currently living out more childhood fantasies as a visual arts student at Berkeley Extension, where he is concentrating on digital photography. Laura Lucero loves to write, mostly for herself and her elementary school students, but has never been published or publicly read her work. She is an overachieving, stress-a-holic, who is in the maddening process of finishing her Master’s thesis on classroom defiance and aggression. Mindela Ruby** has published wee bits of fiction in FRiGG, BoundOff, Literary Mama and other journals. Her recently completed novel, Mosh It Up, is set in Oakland, California. Jeff Zittrain is a Bay Area musician, bringing “heartfelt, lyrical, and occasionally incendiary” guitar playing to his original songs in Z-Trane Electric Band, and to Blue Oyster Cult interpretations inFlaming Telepaths. He had a writing gig for a few years with an online music magazine, penning a monthly column called Right Action, about the confluence of music, transcendence, and worldly responsibility. Those columns are all archived on his music website at http://www.jeffzittrain.com/rightaction.htm ABOUT SPAD SPAD is dedicated to promoting art while facilitating urban development in emerging or underserved neighborhoods. Converting storefronts into functional, alternative art galleries, SPAD confronts inner-city blight and strengthens community relations, while showcasing cutting-edge art. Visit their website at http://www.sanpabloarts.org/

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