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pARTicipate pARTies!!

NEXT EVENT ­ Saturday, October 20  2007
OFFICIAL SF OPEN STUDIOS pARTy!!

 
Featured Artists
Suzie Buchholz
Amy Nordstrom
Stuart Sheldon
Leslie Terzian
Richard Felix
 
Musical Talent
Shissla (pARTicipate, House of Lotus)
Shooey (The DeepEnd)
Prof. Pickles (Space Cowboys)
 
On-site Art Project 
Where YOU are the featured artist.
 
Silent Art Auction for Youth Art Programs
Suzie Buchholz has taken your work from the last pARTicipate and turned it into amazing mixed media collage & sculpture STARTING AT $50!!
 
SomArts Gallery
Saturday, October 20
7pm - midnight
$7 Donation, $5 for ArtSpan members
Cash Bar
934 Brannan Street (btw 8th & 9th)
San Francisco, CA

pARTicipate pARTies feature YOU as both artist and patron.
These large-scale multi media art/music gatherings showcase an art project every guest is encouraged to contribute to in their own way. It's entirely voluntary, and you need no artistic skills beyond enthusiasm. We provide a theme and all necessary art supplies and let you run wild. The pieces you create are collected and transformed off-site into a dynamic installation which will be displayed and auctioned off for charity at the next pARTicipate event...where we encourage you to come and see what the fruits of your creative labors have become.

pARTicipate grew organically from years of friendship and artistic collaboration between Jim Shissler (DJ Shissla) and myself. Since 2001, Shissla and I have thrown ART pARTies all over the globe (SF, Brussels, Paris, Miami, LA) annointing spaces with sound, spirits and artwork. We called these stuART pARTies, since they started with a small group of paintings in my Potrero Hill living room. The San Francisco Bay Guardian referred to these cozy events as a "collective search for meaning."

Watch what ABC News has to say about pARTicipate!

Make ART, not war!