Intersection for the Arts' Weekly Update

Making and appreciating art is an evolving process of refinement. With practice and experience, we
can learn to see more, catch more subtleties, or create and perform in exciting new ways. So it
comes as no surprise that tonight's Terrence Brewer Quintet show at Intersection for the Arts is
a thrilling treat for anyone who loves to see artists at the top of their form. Brewer has been hailed by jazz aficionados everywhere and The San Francisco Chronicle's David Rubien writes that Brewer's "melodies inhabit your head" with "a natural, inviting sound that instantly transports you back to the heyday of classic jazz guitar." Combine this with Intersection's intimate setting
and you have the recipe for an extraordinary evening. And if you are inspired to refine your own craft, take a look at the Intersection Institute's series of summer workshops designed to help
you hone your skills alongside other artists. If you are inspired to perform, to create works of art,
or to write, we have just the opportunity for you!

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Jazz at Intersection - Terrence Brewer Quintet TONIGHT!

Intersection Institute - Summer Workshops (Choose from acting, hip-hop performance,
dance, installation and set design, literature and much more!) Enroll now!

IWL Book Release Party - Wednesday, July 16

Limited Edition Intersection T-Shirts and Tank Tops Designed by Ala Ebtekar only $30

Acting

Hip-Hop Theatre

Campo Santo Beginning Acting Workshop with Margo Hall

Rewriting Your History With Beats, Rhymes And Spoken Word
with Dan Wolf and Tommy Shepherd

Mondays, July 14, 21, 28 & August 4 & 11
6-9pm
$195 ($185 for Intersection members)

Click here to register>>

Tuesdays & Wednesdays July 22, 23, 29 & 30
6-9pm
$180 ($170 for Intersection members)

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Dance/Theatre

Installation and Set Design

It's Your Future After All: Create Your Own Performance
with Erika Chong Shuch and Sean San José

DREAM IT & BUILD IT: A two-workshop series
Creating a Set or Installation on a Bare-Bones Budget

Mondays and Wednesdays July 21, 23, 28 & 30
6-9pm
$180 ($170 for Intersection members)

The final class includes a performance for an invited audience at Intersection for the Arts!

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The final class includes a performance for an invited audience.

Visual Design for Theater or Art Installation
with Victor Cartagena
Tuesdays and Thursdays July 31; August 5, 7, 12, 14 & 19, 6 8pm
$180 (for this workshop only) ($170 for Intersection members)

Moving from Concept to Reality
with Josh McDermott
Saturdays August 2 & 9, 12-3pm
$90 (for this workshop only) ($80 for Intersection members)

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Take this two-workshop series with Victor Cartagena & Joshua McDermott for only $250! (Take both workshops and participate in a group exhibition in the Intersection gallery August 15 & 16)

Literary/Performance

Literary

Personal Stories for the Stage
with Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick from The Porchlight Storytelling Series

Writing from
Experience
with Stephen Elliot

Wednesdays, August 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2008
6 -9 pm
$180 ($170 for Intersection members)

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The final class includes a performance for an invited audience.

Tuesday, August 19
6-9pm
$50 ($45 for Intersection members)

Click here to register>>

THE INTERSECTION INSTITUTE

The Intersection Institute provides year-round opportunities for people to engage in an interactive exploration of the complete process of creating new art from conception to fruition. The program includes classes, workshops, forums and performances that combine unique social and aesthetic content with interdisciplinary artistic elements.

Full descriptions of our many workshop offerings are available on our website at:
http://www.theintersection.org/resource_classes.php. Check back often to see what's new at the Intersection Institute!

To register for any of our workshops, please visit our website at www.theintersection.org or call us at (415) 626-2787.

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IWL 2008 Book Release Party

Wednesday, July 16| $5-$15 | 7:00pm
Intersection for the Arts
Information available at www.theintersection.org or 415.626.2787

Join Intersection & Kearny Street Workshop for chapbook release party of the 5th Annual Intergenerational Writers Lab(IWL), a literary program that explores multiple forms of
creative expression and generates new work. Spanning three months of workshops led by six lead artists, and four public readings and performances, this evening features readings and performances from IWL instructors and IWL 2008 participants.

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Limited Edition T-shirts and Tank Tops designed by ALA Ebtekar
White silkscreen on black, sweatshop free organic cotton

T-shirts (M-XL) $30 + sales tax (plus $4 shipping & handling )
Womens' Tank Tops (S-XL) $30 + sales tax (plus $4 shipping & handling)

*Printed by Alliance Graphics Northern California's only silkscreen T-shirt shop affiliated with GCIU
and the Allied Printing Trades. They are committed to great products without sweatshop practices.

T-shirts are available by calling 415-626-2787 or by emailing chida@theintersection.org

To mark Intersection's 43rd Anniversary, Bay Area artist Ala Ebtekar designed a limited edition T-shirt just for us! He combines images from photographer Jamel Shabazz's book "A Time Before Crack" and archival photographs of participants in the Persian tradition of Varzesh-e Pahlavani to create a hybridized heroic pose of celebration and style, traversing cultural traditions and geographic boundaries.

Ala Ebtekar (Berkeley, CA) received his B.F.A. from San Francisco Art Institute and M.F.A. from Stanford. He has exhibited locally at Gallery Paule Anglim, Gallery 16, The Luggage Store, Asian Art Museum, Richmond Art Center; nationally at Haven Arts, Asia Society Museum, The Annex, and internationally in France. His solo exhibition "Elemental" was presented at Intersection for the Arts in summer 2004. He was included in the 2006 California Biennial and received the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Print Award in 2006 as well as San Francisco Art Insititute's Presidential Merit Scholarship. He was recently selected for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts upcoming Bay Area Now 5 exhibition.

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Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia Street (btwn 15/16), Mission District
San Francisco, CA 94103
Reservations at 415.626.3311 or www.theintersection.org

INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS is San Francisco's oldest alternative art space and provides a place where provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists and audiences can intersect one another. At Intersection, experimentation and risk are possible, debate and critical inquiry are embraced, community is essential, resources and experience are democratized, and today's issues are thrashed about in the heat and immediacy of live art.

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