The Stockton Aesthetic Initiative

ATTENTION! Super important/awesome upcoming screening/meeting for the The Stockton Aesthetic Initiative! Thursday, March 14, 2013, marks the second monthly gathering of Arts Incubator, the cross-school/community forum in which students from Delta College, University of the Pacific, and to the general public interested in creativity come together to discuss ideas, collaborations, and resources. Professors Paula Sheil and Keith Hatschek will be there.The meeting will be at Whir...lows, at 4PM-5:30PM! Prior to the meeting, the SJDC Writers' Guild, Arts Incubator and the Stockton Aesthetic Initiative will present a free screening of "Creative Problem Solving: How to Get Better Ideas" at Delta College from 2:15PM-3:30PM with a discussion led by Ryan Camero! The 1979 documentary is pretty awesome- students, faculty, interested community members and artists alike are encouraged to attend! Come get inspired broskies!! Screening will take place in the Locke building, room 302. THURSDAY, MARCH 14TH, 2013: Screening of "Creative Problem Solving: How to get Better Ideas" San Joaquin Delta College, 5151 Pacific Avenue- Locke 302 2:15PM-3:30PM, discussion with Ryan Camero 2nd Arts Incubator Meeting Whirlows, 1926 Pacific Avenue 4:00PM-5:30PM, community forum Hope to see you guys theeerreeee!!

Happy New Year everybody! The end of the first month of 2013 is coming close, time flies! Excuse the lack of posts lately, but there are plenty of awesome things coming up this year! Stay tuned :) If you'd like to know about more immediate things coming up, join the group page at the link below: https://www.facebook.com/groups/stocktonaestheticinitiative/... In the meantime, if any of you are interested: 'Arts Incubator is forming in Stockton for creative, imaginative, idea people. This monthly forum will be the place to bring your ideas, debate their merits with others and discover resources with which to make those ideas come true. Born from the minds of Delta students, this "club" is open to anyone. Professors Keith Hatschek of the University of the Pacific, and Professor Paula Sheil of San Joaquin Delta College will be there to welcome you, but it's YOUR CLUB, YOUR FORUM and it needs YOUR PARTICIPATION. The first meeting of the Arts Incubator is Feb. 7 from 4-5:30 pm at Whirlow's.'

Free download of a report detailing how arts education can strengthen itself by embedding itself deeply in a community - forming partnerships with mayors and police to lessen crime, for example, or engaging elderly residents in oral history projects ...

A thank you to Kevin Shawver for sharing this information: "The Friendship Train, 1947. Drew Pearson, a journalist, was in Europe at the end of WWII. He saw the gratitude Western European citizens expressed to The Soviet Union for the donation of some boxcars of grain. Not believing America should be upstaged by the Communists, he organized a food drive. The Friendship train was actually three trains, consisting of 270 boxcars. Stockton residents, SUSD, COP, and Stockton Junior College students went to work, filling several boxcars with over 37 tons of contributions. Shown here is one of ours as it leaves for Oakland to join the main train." Rare and amazing piece of history from our city !

The power of positive visuals is underestimated. Amazing!