The Entertainment Industry Incubator,
in association with the Miami International Film Festival,
continues its seminar series with accomplished Florida filmmakers.

FREE FILM INDUSTRY SEMINAR
A Conversation with Filmmaker Brian Hecker
Wednesday, April 1 @ 6:30pm
Miami Science Museum,
3280 S. Miami Ave, Miami
Across from Vizcaya. Ample free parking is on-site.
Hecker grew up in South Florida, the setting of his new autobiographical feature film Bart Got a Room, which opens April 3 at AMC Sunset Place and Aventura. The film stars William H. Macy, Jennifer Tilly and newcomer Steven Kaplan in an off-beat coming-of-age comedy shot entirely in Florida. Hecker received an MFA at the American Film Institute where he was awarded ‘Director of the Year’. His short thesis film Family Attraction, starring Martin Sheen and the late Chris Penn, earned over a dozen national and international film festival awards. Paramount Pictures has recently hired Hecker and his writing partner to write a biopic for Leonardo Dicaprio about the 29-year-old rebel-genius Nolan Bushnell who, in 1972, created Pong and started Atari. Brian Hecker has recently joined the Miami Filmmaker Project Advisory Board.

This event is part of the Entertainment Industry Incubator Miami Filmmaker Project.
For more information, visit www.eincubator.org or email info@eincubator.org.

A Timely Return for a Perennial Favorite: LegalArt is partnering with Miami Art Museum once again to present Demystifying the Proposal Writing Process, aimed at helping artists and small arts organizations craft successful grant proposals. The workshop will take place Saturday, March 7, from 10am-2pm in the Museum’s auditorium. Arts Consultant Susan Caraballo, who has reviewed proposals for both Miami-Dade County and the State of Florida, will lead the seminar. LegalArt is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing affordable legal services, educational opportunities and other events for the Miami arts community. Advance registration is required and a $20 fee is payable at the time of registration. Previous workshops on this topic quickly filled to capacity. To register, call Mayra Suarez at 305.375.4073 or email education@miamiartmuseum.org.

UNCERTAIN ECONOMIC TIMES
A joint symposium for Miami-Dade nonprofits and funders

Steady leadership in uncertain economic times requires communication and partnership on all fronts. Working together across funder-nonprofit lines, and leveraging CEO and board synergies, is more important than ever. Join Miami-Dade’s leading funders, nonprofit CEOs, and board leaders for a morning of dialogue and learning.

March 26, 2009

Workshop Topics:
· Where Are We Now? Local Nonprofit & Funder Survey Results
· Funders & Nonprofits Working Successfully Together
· Nonprofit Boards Members: A New Level of Involvement
· Adapting Internal Operations

Registration at 8:00am
Program 8:30am – 12:30pm

Location: Temple Israel, 137 NE 19th Street, Miami

Initial registration limited to funders and nonprofit pairs consisting of CEOs and Board Officers. Space permitting, registration will be open to individual nonprofit representatives after March 13th.

Click here to RSVP by March 13th or visit www.c-one-miami.org. Click “Events”
$25 per person

Thank you to Peacock Foundation Inc. for its support of this symposium

Donors Forum of South Florida is a nonprofit regional membership association made up of private and public funders that support nonprofits. Members include private foundations, corporate giving programs, public foundations, government agencies and individuals. Donors Forum is a central voice and source of information for philanthropy and nonprofit funding in South Florida. The more than 120 Donors Forum members are among the most engaged funders in South Florida. Collectively, members provide more than $725 million in grants each year. www.donorsforumsf.org

Center On Nonprofit Effectiveness (C-One), powered by Hands On Miami is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping Miami-Dade County’s nonprofits effectively achieve their missions. C-One connects nonprofit leaders with resources they need to succeed—from management information to self-help tools, training, and customized services. C-One operates a management resource library at United Way. Through a strategic affiliation with Hands On Miami, C-One links nonprofits with business volunteers to serve as board members and nonprofit advisors. www.c-one-miami.org

ArtCenter/South Florida’s
Plein air Painting Workshops @
The Miami Beach Botanical Garden & The Barnacle State Historic Site in Coconut Grove

Enjoy two of Miami ’s hidden jewels-The Miami Beach Botanical Garden and the Barnacle State Historic Site. Join us for a midweek escape and paint the tropical and Japanese gardens at Miami Beach ’s Botanical garden. Travel back in time at the Barnacle-the historic home of Commodore Ralph Munroe and paint the sea from his Coconut Grove backyard.

Instructor: Lisa Egeli
$155 members of ArtCenter / $165 non-members
To register, please call 305.674.8278 ext 15
Miami Beach Botanical Garden Workshop:
Wednesday & Thursday- February 25 & 26 from 10 am-4pm
The Garden is located @ 2000 Convention Center Drive , Miami Beach
For more information about the Botanical garden please visit- www.mbgarden.org
The Barnacle State Historic Site Workshop:
Wednesday & Thursday-March 18 & 19 from 10am-4pm
The Barnacle is located @ 3485 Main Highway, Coconut Grove
For more information about the Barnacle please visit- www.floridastateparks.org/thebarnacle

Please note- Students should bring their lunch, beverages, sunscreen and a hat.

Plein air painting is resurgent around the country as artists rediscover the joys of painting and observing directly from nature. Whether your primary goal is to exclusively paint outdoors, or whether most of your painting is done in the studio, this workshop will help sharpen your eye and hone your skills.Lisa Egeli will teach her approach to capturing nature’s light and beauty through painting outdoors. Emphasis will be on beginning with a well-drawn and composed scene, and progressing to a harmonious painting capturing the light and color of the scene. Students will start the day with a demo by Lisa and then begin their own work. Each day will close with critiques of the day’s work.

About the Instructor
Lisa Egeli’s paintings are moving and sophisticated portrayals of the places we treasure. Her landscapes and portraits, in oil and pastel, have been featured in many exhibits and permanent collections in her two decade professional career. Her life as a painter, however, began long before, growing up a third generation artist in a family of artists, and learning her earliest skills from her father, portrait and maritime painter Peter Egeli. Lisa’s formal training was at the American Academy of Art in Chicago . Her work has been recognized in a variety of distinguished regional and national events, including Plein Air Easton , Paint Annapolis, Oil Painters of America’s Regional and National Exhibitions, and Arts for the Parks. Lisa has been juried into “Plein Air Easton ” for three years in a row, and in 2007 was awarded “Best Pastoral Painting” by Juror Kenn Backhaus. In 2008 she was among 30 artists nationwide selected to participate in “Telluride Plein Air” in Telluride, Colorado . In 2008 her painting “Low Tide, Zanzibar” was juried into the 14th Annual Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists, which will travel to six museums on the East Coast. Lisa Egeli lives by the shores of the Chesapeake Bay for most of the year and lives and paints in South Florida for the winter. www.lisaegeli.com

The Business Of Music Discussion and Reception at Miami Science Museum

Thursday, February 5th, 6pm
Miami Science Museum
3280 South Miami Avenue

Panel Discussion Featuring
Will Edwards, Lauren “Lolo” Reskin, Andrew Yeomanson/DJ Le Spam

RSVP by Feb 3 to info@filmiami.org

www.filmiami.org

The Luxury Marketing Council Miami/Fort Lauderdale presents
“Who Are The Affluent & How To Effectively Reach Them”
Graciously hosted by Mandarin Oriental, Miami
Monday, January 26, 2009
6:00 Reception
6:30 – 8:15 presentations
Mandarin Oriental, Miami
Brickell Key
RSVP to rsvp@floridaluxurycouncil.com and please indicate that you’ll be attending the Miami/Fort Lauderdale event. Space is limited.
“Luxury Marketers Are Looking With New Interest At DM… And, With Good Reason.”
Presented by Lois Geller President, Lois Geller Marketing Group
Lois Geller is president of Lois Geller Marketing Group, which was on Madison Ave. for 12 years and is now located in a marina in Hollywood, Florida. Prior to owning her own company, Lois Geller was President of several agencies. In New York, she headed AC&R Direct, a Saatchi and Saatchi agency, and Geller Direct, a TBWA subsidiary. In Toronto, Canada, she headed up J. Walter Thompson Direct and Vickers and Benson Direct. Many of her programs are for international markets.

Lois holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Boston University and has been an adjunct professor at New York University, where she led
the Direct Marketing Lecture Series and was named Professor of the Year. She has been a Dale Carnegie instructor and taught the Catalog Marketing Course for new clients and employees at Y&R.

Lois has written many books in the field of Direct Marketing,
including Response! The Complete Guide to Profitable Direct Marketing, (published in nine countries), Sold! Direct Marketing for the Real Estate Pro and Customers For Keeps. Lois’ articles are published in many magazines, including Direct Marketing Magazine and Today’s Manager and Selling Power and Fortune Small business.

Lois has appeared on CNN and on CBS radio with Joe Connelly.
Monthly she’s on the radio as part of the Jim Blasingame Brain Trust. She is on the Board of Directors of the Direct Marketing Idea Exchange and a member of the Direct Marketing Club of New York, the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, the Financial Women’s Association and the Cornell Club. She won the Silver Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement in Direct Marketing, the Echo Award in direct marketing and many RSVP Awards in the U.S. and Canada.

Keynote speaker and guest lecturer, Lois Geller travels the world to speak (and do training) about branding, direct marketing essentials, customer retention and creative strategies. She has been a guest lecturer and a popular keynote speaker at dozens of direct marketing conventions and industry associations, in the U.S, Canada, Sweden and Russia. Lois specializes in breakthrough strategies for companies including Fairmont Hotels Spas, American Express and J.P. Morgan Chase. Her direct mail, internet, websites, blogs and social media strategies have given her high rankings in terms of response and ROI.

“Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy”
presented by Dr. Steve Kraus Vice President, The Harrison Group
Understanding your affluent customer is paramount to success in 2009.

The economic shifts, new perceptions of wealth, lack of trust in our financial system, stealth purchasing and the widespread belief that the only way out of this dilemma is to increase taxes has the affluent reeling and pulling out of the market.

In his new provocative book, Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy, marketing and branding expert Stephen Kraus mines success stories of the truly rich to learn how they acquired their fortunes, whether it has changed them and how they live their lives.

Arguing that the wealthy are poorly understood by the average American, the media and marketers of high-end products, the authors contend that accurately understanding this group is critical for success in the marketing, sales, product development, branding and advertising fields. They dispel the myth that most of the rich have inherited their money and reveal the socioeconomic factors behind their self-made rises to success.
Exploring how the rich spend their money and what influences their buying decisions, the authors identify the five classes of the newly wealthy with distinct reactions to the value and purpose of money; groups that greatly differ in their lifestyles and financial attitudes. Charts and graphs throughout distill key data into easy-to-grasp nuggets, lending clarity to this book whose fresh take on the habits of the American economic elite will be indispensable to marketers.

About Dr. Steve Kraus
Vice president, The Harrison Group
Co-author, The New Elite:Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealty
Based on a ground-breaking series of studies, The New Elite busts the myths about wealth in America, and provides a research-driven look at the attitudes and lifestyles of the wealthiest 1% of Americans. Learn more about the book, and why Publisher’s Weekly called it “indispensable to marketers,” at www.TheNewElite.net.

Steve is also author of Psychological Foundations of Success: A Harvard-Trained Scientist Separates the Science of Success from Self-Help Snake Oil. His articles have appeared in BrandWeek, AdWeek, the San Francisco Chronicle, Contemporary Psychology and a variety of scientific psychology journals.

The Luxury Marketing Council is a marketing organization that focuses on intelligence, collaborations and professional/personal development.

floridaluxurycouncil.com

Smithsonian Curator to Speak at FIU
Frost Art Museum Presents Virginia Mecklenburg, Curator of Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Virginia Mecklenburg, senior curator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum, will speak on Friday, Jan. 23 at 8 p.m. at FIU’s Wertheim Performing Arts Center as the featured lecturer for the Frost Art Museum’s Steven and Dorothea Green Critics’ Lecture Series. Mecklenburg will talk about 20th century abstraction and the exhibition Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, on view at The Frost through March 1.

The Frost is the first stop on a national tour for Modern Masters, which features more than 30 artists who transformed American art in the years after World War II. Mecklenburg included five pieces donated to the Smithsonian by Patricia and Phillip Frost in 1986, including works by Josef Albers and Hans Hofmann. Modern Masters is the debut exhibition for the new Frost Art Museum, which opened to the public Nov. 29, 2008.

Mecklenburg is a writer and lecturer who specializes in American art. She has organized exhibitions and written on Edward Hopper, George Bellows, Earl Cunningham, Robert
Indiana, Jame Rosenquist, abstraction in the 1930s and 1940s and other 20th century artists and movements. Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, which she co-authored with Rebecca Zurier and Robert Snyder, won the Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award in 1997.

In the important exhibition Modern Masters and in her lectures, Mecklenburg, chronicles the emergence of postwar abstraction, and Abstract Expressionism in particular, from the mid-1940s through its “triumph” in the late 1950s. She brings to life this pivotal period, and the world of the artists who helped defined the movement. Richard Diebenkorn and Nathan Oliveira in California; immigrants Hans Hofmann and Louise Nevelson; New Yorkers Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell, and many more explored powerful color and the nuance of line as they sought to express what it meant to live in the mid-twentieth century.

Some were friends who dropped by each other’s studios, attended each other’s openings and then retired to bars and restaurants to talk about art. Others never met, but knew of the paintings and sculptures created by their colleagues from reports in the press.
Some of the artists, among them Seymour Lipton and Theodore Roszak, probed the dark side of man’s unconscious. Sam Francis and Adolph Gottlieb explored the mysteries of space. Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell captured the color and light of the natural landscape; Romare Bearden and Larry Rivers explored meaning in family and community. Others, including Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt and Esteban Vicente, tested the nature of human perception. They all experimented, reversed course, refined and readjusted to capture the thoughts, feelings and moods of America during the Cold War.

Her lecture is the second featured as part of The Frost’s respected Steven & Dorothea Green Critics’ Lecture Series. The museum presents four lectures each season. Contemporary film maker Robert Adanto spoke Oct. 24 about his experiences creating the provocative film The Rising Tide. On Feb. 20, Robert Storr, dean of Yale University’s School of Art, will talk about the evolution of contemporary art he has witnessed and helped to shape in his 30 years as a writer and critic. On April 3, internationally recognized visual artist Ann Hamilton will discuss her large-scale multi-media installations exploring time, space, sound and experience.

Since 1981, the Green Lecture Series has introduced an array of art world luminaries to the South Florida community, including renowned artists, museum curators, scholars and critics. The Frost has hosted such distinguished figures as Philippe de Montebello, Terry Gross, Carlos Fuentes and Michael Graves.

About the Frost Art Museum – Florida International University
The Frost is an AAM accredited museum and Smithsonian affiliate. The museum is located at 10975 SW 17th Street across from the Blue garage and adjacent to the Wertheim Performing Arts Center on the University Park campus. Hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday 10-5 and Sunday noon-5. The Frost is closed on all legal holidays. For more information, please visit www.frostartmuseum.org or call 305-348-2890.

Presidential Inauguration – Live Television Simulcast Adrienne Arsht Center

Inauguration Live Simulcast
THE ARSHT CENTER [View Seat Map]
Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 11am

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County invites you to a FREE television simulcast of the inauguration and swearing-in ceremony of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. We invite the citizens of Miami-Dade County to come together as a community to witness this historic event.

Lunch will be available for purchase from Performing Arts Catering by Barton G. General Seating.

TO MAKE YOUR RESERVATION, FOLLOW THE THREE EASY STEPS BELOW:
www.arshtcentor.org/obama
1. Enter promo code OBAMA in the box at the upper right hand corner.
2. Select 1 or 2 from the drop down menu and proceed to make your reservation.
3. On the checkout page, leave the credit card information blank before submitting your reservation.

PLEASE NOTE:
This is a free event with general seating, but reservations are encouraged.
A reservation does not guarantee admission; guests should arrive early and will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis.
Walk-ups without reservations will be admitted on a space-available basis.

Lunch will be available for purchase from Performing Arts Catering by Barton G.

The Inauguration Celebration Sponsorship Committee is in Formation
If you would like to join us in sponsoring this historic event, call 786.468.2223 or email inauguration@arshtcenter.org.

Sponsored by The Miami Herald and the South Florida Times

PERFORMANCE, WORKSHOPS & SLAM
FOR GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER YOUTH

JOIN us for a weeklong residency with nationally recognized Jamaican lesbian spoken word poet STACEYANN CHIN that includes workshops and an open mic for GLBT youth. Chin’s poetry is a bracing, no-holds-barred yet tender examination of her own life and the world around her that locates itself at the complex intersection of sexual, gender and racial identities. She co-wrote and performed in the Tony Award-nominated Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam and presented her own one-woman shows Off-Broadway.

SCHEDULE:

MONDAY, JANUARY 19
7:30 PM
Panel discussion, Race, Sex and Gender with Stayceyann Chin, Marga Gomez & others co-presented by Miami Light Project
Light Box, Miami Light Project, 3000 Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 100, Miami
Open to general public

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20
8:00 AM & 9:15 AM
Workshops with GLBT support groups
North Miami Beach Senior High School
For North Miami Beach Senior High School students only

2:30 PM
Workshop with Gay Straight Alliance
Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School
For Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School students only

6:30 PM
Workshop for gay teens
Pridelines Youth Services, 180 NE 19th Street, Miami
Open to teens.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21
1:00 PM
General assembly and workshops for teens
Homestead Senior High School
For Homestead Senior High School students only

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22
6:00 PM
SpeakOut open mic for GLBT youth hosted by Staceyann Chin and Teo Castellanos
Miami Beach Regional Library, 227 22nd Street, Miami Beach
All materials need to be gay friendly. Open to teens.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23
7:30 PM
Reading and performance
Books & Books, Courtyard, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables
Open to general public.

All of the above workshops and events are FREE. For more information contact
Tigertail Productions at 305 324 4337 or visit www.tigertail.org

The SpeakOut program and Staceyann Chin’s residency is made possible, in part, by a grant from the GLBT Community Projects Fund at Dade Community Foundation, Greater Miami’s permanent endowment made possible by generous donors since 1967 and the National Performance Network’s Performance Residency Program. Major contributors to the National Performance Network include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), Altria and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. Tigertail Productions is a Partner in the National Performance Network (NPN). NPN is a group of cultural organizers and artists facilitating the practice and public experience of the performing arts in the United States. NPN serves artists, arts organizers, and a broad range of audiences and communities across the country through commissions, residencies, culture-centered community projects and other artistic activities. For more information visit www.npnweb.org.

MAP ForYourArt
Art Basel Miami Beach

Los Angeles-based publisher covers Miami art fairs in the first
Special issue of well-known cultural guide

MAP ForYourArt features favorite Miami spots chosen by 15 contributors which include André Balazs, Bonnie Clearwater, Mayor Diaz, P. Diddy, Liam Gillick, Anna Kournikova and Terence Riley

Compliments of Ovation TV

Link to the full guide, LARGE PDF file.

Also blogging all week from the fairs at www.foryourart.com

Following four successful issues covering arts and culture in and around Los Angeles, L.A.-based ForYourArt (FYA) expands its reach this December to cover the largest U.S. contemporary art event of the year and publishes its first-ever special issue of MAP ForYourArt: Art Basel Miami Beach.

MAP ForYourArt is the insider’s guide to contemporary art and culture that documents a particular theme relevant to the cultural landscape of the time. In this issue, FYA gives readers an unparalleled, curated guide to Miami with the help of 15 contributors–from civic and cultural leaders to music moguls, from art world insiders to resident athletes–who share their favorite places that include historic examples of architecture, museum and gallery spaces, classic restaurants and trendy clubs. Compliments of Ovation TV, the only network devoted to art and culture, MAP ForYourArt: Art Basel Miami Beach is free as well as downloadable at www.foryourart.com/downloads/MAPFYA-Miami1.pdf

FYA contributors include André Balazs, Hotelier; Jose Bedia, Miami-based artist; Tory Burch, fashion designer; Bonnie Clearwater, Director & Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Rosa de la Cruz, Miami-based collector; Manuel Diaz, Mayor of Miami;
P. Diddy, music mogul; Liam Gillick, London and New York-based artist; John Keenen, Architect, K/R, NYC; Anna Kournikova, Professional tennis player and model; Cathy Leff, Director, Wolfsonian–Florida International University; Margi Nothard, Architect, Founding Partner and President of Glavovic Studio Inc.; Terence Riley, Director, Miami Art Museum (MAM); Craig Robins, President, Dacra Development; and Erik Spoelstra, Head Coach, Miami Heat.

MAP ForYourArt: Art Basel Miami Beach is organized by neighborhoods—South Beach, Miami Beach, Design District, Downtown, Greater Miami and Wynwood as well as by art fairs—Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA and the dozens of satellite fairs—and features detailed keys to navigate the many and varied programs and events that are taking place all over the city December 2 through December 7. MAP ForYourArt includes Plan ForYourArt, a curated list of must-see talks, discussions and openings; a feature on Miami Architecture; and a special interview with curator and Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist asking “Is Art Important?”

In addition, the center insert of the MAP ForYourArt is a guide that serves as a quick reference to which galleries at Art Basel Miami Beach and NADA have work by some of the top artists. Select artists include Devendra Banhart, Matthew Barney, Chris Burden, Sophie Calle, Bruce Conner, Marcel Dzama, Olafur Eliasson, Gelitin, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Paper Rad and Chris Ware.

A new guide to some of the city’s most interesting architecture has just been published by ForYourArt, an organization started by Bettina Korek to promote civic engagement with the arts in Los Angeles.
–New York Times.com on MAP ForYourArt: Architecture Issue

ForYourArt.com keeps me up to date.
–Ann Philbin, Director of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Times

–FYA–

MAP ForYourArt Facts
o An important snapshot of culture
o Listings for museum and gallery exhibitions, FYA curated picks, and maps of neighborhoods to help navigate the cultural landscape of a select city
o Designed by Brian Roettinger and Tiffany Malakooti
o MAP ForYourArt is free and always downloadable at www.foryourart.com

MAP ForYourArt, Los Angeles edition (Circ. 20,000)
o Quarterly, themed publication; past issues have covered Los Angeles, Past and Present; Los Angeles Art Weekend; L.A. Architecture
o Launched in January 2008
o California Biennial Issue (October–December), the only guide to the California Biennial, on view October through March at the Orange County Museum of Art and curated by Lauri Firstenberg of LAXART, and the numerous off-site projects taking place in conjunction with the exhibition throughout California: http://www.foryourart.com/downloads/MAPFYA-LA4.pdf

MAP ForYourArt, Art Basel Miami Beach–Special Issue (Circ. 50,000)
o Downloadable at www.foryourart.com/downloads/MAPFYA-Miami.pdf
o 72 page-pocket-sized booklet, organized by neighborhood with exhibition listings, art fair info, special Miami hot spots picked by 15 contributors with a fold-out quick reference guide to artists’ work on view at the fairs
o Available at select art fairs, museums, galleries, hotels, retail spaces, restaurants and bars as well as at Artbook (Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Guest Lounge, Hall D, Booth T6).

About ForYourArt
ForYourArt is an interdisciplinary producer, meta-curator and publisher creating fresh initiatives to invite cultural patrons to participate in creative civic engagement. ForYourArt provides tools to navigates the cultural landscape, publishes media to engage with emerging trends, produces events to celebrate the arts community and organizes public art projects.

ForYourArt was founded in 2007 by Bettina Korek.

For more information and to sign up for weekly emails: www.foryourart.com

About Ovation TV
Ovation TV is a multi-platform network devoted exclusively to art, culture, creativity and making art more accessible to viewers in their daily lives. The network showcases the world’s greatest artists in theater, dance, opera, literature, film, visual and fine art, music, design, photography and architecture. Ovation TV reaches a national audience of more than 28 million households through carriage on DirecTV (channel 274), Dish Network (channel 157) and on cable and telco systems in major markets across the country. Ovation TV’s programming is also available on video on demand (in both standard and high definition), as well as at http://www.OvationTV.com.

Parodi Lecture in Philosophy of Art, December 7th at 11AM

miamiartmuseum.org

Plan Your Art Basel Week With LegalArt

Collins Building
139 NE 39th St
Miami FL 33137

Green Flamingos is back again Saturday, October 18th from 6-9PM at Coverings, Etc Showroom Headquarters (New location: 7610 NE 4th Court Miami, FL 33138) in Miami’s Little River Industrial District. In its second year, Green Flamingos informal business networking forum serves as an educational opportunity focused on the latest green designs, services, products, and technologies. Six speakers will come prepared with Power Point presentations to educate 100+ people—builders, developers, architects, designers, home owners alike—for no more then 8 minutes each. The idea is to present as much interesting green and varied information as possible.
The evening begins with Gabriela Sanchez-Vegas of Concreative4 whose feminine touch to engineering, design, and concrete creates one of kind pieces of art. Gabriela traveled to San Francisco to study with renowned Concrete Master Fu-Tung Cheng and will share learned secret concrete techniques. Next, architect turned furniture designer Bannavis Andrew Sribyatta will share his PIE! PIE stands for his furniture line Project Import Export which explores the
ultimate concept of Living Space in relation to the complexity of nature. John Panchookian of Eco Toilet Kit will follow with his innovative solution to reduce water consumption, no need to replace existing toilets, and reduce utility bills at the same time. Then Amy Creekmur of TREEmendous will explain how her non-profit organization’s tree planting efforts make Miami-Dade County a greener, cooler, healthier and more enjoyable environment. Bamboo Master, Barry McCarthy of Bamboobarry will follow with the countless innovative bamboo—a rapidly renewable material—solutions for furniture, fencing, sculpture, and bridges. Some varieties grow six feet in one day! Roz Gatewood of Destiny will conclude the evening with a video presentation. Destiny is America’s first Eco-Sustainable City located in Central Florida’s heartland.
Special Green Notes
The Coverings, Etc Showroom Headquarters is a USGBC LEED register project.
The trees provided by TREEmendous for the evening’s raffle will be used to off-set a part of the carbon produced to host the event.
Car pooling and public transportation is always encouraged.
Green Gables Café mother Ana Rabel and daughter Laura Alfonso team will be serving food that is fresh, environmentally responsible, local/community oriented, and most importantly homemade.

Green