Independent Arts & Media

IAM is excited to be a part of an amazing team of Bay Area arts service organizations to launch the Bay Area Arts Worker Relief Funds! In this time of crisis - when so many of us are turning to the arts for creativity and inspiration - PLEASE GIVE TODAY to support your local arts and culture workers! Applications for workers in the performing and musical arts are currently being accepted by Theatre Bay Area! ... Application coming soon for workers in the visual, literary, media, film and video arts! In partnership with Arts for a Better Bay Area, ArtSpan, Intersection for the Arts, Dancers' Group, Emerging Arts Professionals - SFBA, Theatre Bay Area

IAM is hiring a new part-time Operations Manager! Here is the Idealist job posting with more details!

SF Artists - you have until April 15th to apply!

Join Clarion Alley Mural Project's (CAMP) second event of their Wall + Response project, featuring sixteen Bay Area poets responding to the social/ political/ racial/ justice narratives of four murals on Clarion Alley, hosted by Booksmith and The Bindery on Friday, February 26, 2021 at 7pm. Curated by CAMP artist and organizer Megan Wilson (wall) and poet Maw Shein Win (response), the second event in the series features Karla Brundage, Jennifer Hasegawa, Tureeda Mikell, and Kim Shuck responding to the mural What We Want! by Emory Douglas/Black Panther Party / Remix by CUBA, Unity, MACE. RSVP here --> http://ow.ly/PTBY50DFFE5

Now You Hear Us is a podcast created by Youth UnMuted, an organization aimed at elevating the voices of displaced youth. From refugee camps to host communities around the globe, Now You Hear Us highlights displaced youth voices as they discuss a variety of topics including displacement, migration, political and socio-economic inequalities, mental health, identity, friendship, art, and love. In the 3rd podcast Episode of Now You Hear Us, their Youth Advisory Board members each explore the concept of responsibility based on their own experiences and views. Click below to listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l33lsJMGuI&feature=youtu.be

via The Frisc: If you live in the Haight, grew up in the Haight, shop or hang out in the Haight, you should read this. Or maybe you don't give a rat's ass about the Haight, but you wonder how #SanFrancisco got into such a #housing and #homelessness mess. How can a neighborhood fight tooth and nail against gentrification and displacement, then 50 years later end up super-white, rich, ever-more "progressive," and riven by infighting? You should read this. https://thefrisc.com/in-the-fractious-haight-ashbury-sfs-ho