The JUMP Society will be hosting a visual storytelling workshop on Tuesday, December 13th at 6:00 in The Ruby Room. The workshop will be an opportunity to learn about the basic elements of visual storytelling.. which we really know nothing about but will try to teach you anyways.
The Ruby Room is located downtown in the Emporium Mall between Heritage Coffee and Commercial Signs and Printing.
Best of the Northwest Film Festival
Strap on the moon boots and mittens, it’s gallery walk this weekend! That’s right, bring your Tupperware, it’s time to load up on cheese and crackers for your holiday parties. And once you’re done drinking wine… I mean looking at art.. we’d like to invite you to join us for the Best of the Northwest Film Festival at Centennial Hall.
Slide on over to Centennial Hall at 8:00 and see this show featuring a selection from the 31st Annual Northwest Film Festival. As usual, the show is free but we’ll have one of our poor loveable film making street urchins manning the donation bucket and a dozen more picking pockets inside. Proceeds will be split between the JUMP Society and the North West Film Center.
January Show DEaDliNe
It’s time! Start documenting the growth of your avocado tree or wrap yourself in tinfoil and talk like a robot. Do whatever it takes to make that perfect short film you’ve been planning because it’s already time for another JUMP Society film festival!
Entries are due January 7th and the show will likely be on or around the weekend of the 21st or 28th. We do like to get entries early so if you’ve already got a film in the can, drop it by Lucid Reverie or mail it to:
JUMP Society (rocks the world)
174 S. Franklin Suite 104
Juneau, AK 99801
Preferred format is Mini-DV but if that’s a problem then let us know and we’ll figure something else out.
Pre-Film Festival Visual Storytelling Workshop
I’m holding a visual storytelling workshop sometime in early December. I’m not an expert on the subject but I do have several good books and I’m pretty sharp with that googly internet thingy so basically it’ll be awesome. I’ll scrape together an overview and a few hands on exercises but we I’m hoping we can all pool our knowledge into.. a bigger pool… of knowledge. Then we will drink the pool? I’m obviously still working on logistics but I’m leaning towards Sunday afternoon on the 11th of December. Let me know if you’re interested… in drinking from the pool of knowledge… mmm… refreshing…
Laters
Ok, that’s the newsletter. Awesome I’m done. Now I can go play Nintendo.
The film festival went smashingly well this summer and we apparently need to have more shows next time around. Sorry to those who were hoping for an encore show but we’re already on to our next grand adventure…
Kembrew McLeod and Illegal Art
We’ve been working with the Juneau Arts Council to put together a discussion on intellectual property rights featuring professor, author, and artist Kembrew McLeod. Kembrew is perhaps best known for taking out a trademark on the term “Freedom of Expression,” his way of suggesting that some intellectual property laws may overstep their bounds.
Things will get started this evening (Friday, August 5th) with an illegal art show at the Arts Council Gallery located at 206 N. Franklin Street. The exhibit will feature local artists who push boundaries of copyright and open discussion of ownership through their work. Kembrew will be there to answer questions about intellectual property rights and to help dissect some of the issues surrounding the art. The gallery will be open from around 4:30 to 7:00.
Saturday evening Kembrew will host a lecture at Centennial Hall at 7:00. Admission is free and the presentation will include clips from short films and music videos as well as a question and answer session.
Laters
Hope you can make it to one or both of these events exploring intellectual property rights. We’re an information age and the discussion of who owns an idea and for how long is becoming increasingly relevant not only to filmmakers and artists but to everyone from farmers to doctors to engineers.
