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coming up at rps
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
6:00pm: Fashion Design for Absolute Beginners
Thursday, August 28, 2008
6:00pm: RPS Craft Night
Sunday, August 31, 2008
5:00pm: Order Bulk Food and support Peoples Grocery
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
6:00pm: Fashion Design for Absolute Beginners
Thursday, September 4, 2008
6:00pm: Political Street Theater for Everybody
Friday, September 5, 2008
5:00pm: 1st Friday Art: Everybody Get Up
Gallery: Call for Work
Food Justice
Rock Paper Scissors Collective is currently looking for community organizations, artists, and individuals passionated about Food Justice to take part in our month long exhibition in November 2008. The opening night is the First Friday of the month. We are currently working with a local West Oakland artist who will be leading classes with City Slickers' Backyard Gardeners to create a photography project to exhibit in our gallery space. There is plenty of wall and event space and we'd love to include all organizations currently active in the area. There is room to exhibit art work related to food justice, food politics, urban gardening, and all relevant subjects. Also, we would love to highlight any projects organizations are working on either inside our gallery, or on the street during the First Friday Street Fair on 23rd during the monthly Art Murmur. Some ideas we had: cooking and selling fresh and locally made food to the gallery crowd outside, a separate workshop at RPS on some aspect of urban gardening, any fundraising ideas any group has.
RPS also hopes to include a mapping project in the exhibit. First, we hope to have a large map printed on the wall marking all food sites in West Oakland-----and we'd love to work with a youth organization on this community map. Secondly, we want to go to a variety of organizations (primarily, but not limited to West Oakland, its just the district we are in) with maps of the area and have participants map what they ate that day and where they got it from. These maps will be part of the exhibition and the same blank map will be up in the gallery opening reception for those onlookers/gallery viewers to map their consumption.
Screenprinting Update
You're probably wondering..
Where did the screenprinting go? Well, it's not around for the moment, but it's coming back. we're joining a group of screen printing homies at a new lab. And it's still getting set up.
But when it does - and when we get our teaching staff and schedule all worked out - there will be some new screen printing classes offered, namely:
- a six week master screen printing course
- a tee shirt screen printing class
We'll also be keeping around some old standards - Photo and Non-Photo Screen printing. But let's call them "Screen printing on Paper" and "Screen printing at home."
I can see you raising your hand over there. you want to know when right? Well, I can tell you that it will be going on by June - hopefully earlier.
And by the way - thank you, thank you, thank you to Lobot Gallery for being so kick ass and letting us host a weekly night at their Screen Printing Lab for the past TWO YEARS!!!
Buy Bulk Food
Bulk Food Group for Collective Households
Starting in January of 2008, RPS will be hosting a monthly meet-up for households to go in together on Bulk Food. We will be ordering through The Peoples Grocery and 5% of every order will go to benefit their awesome organization! Get more information on the event here.
Sunday, Feb 17th, 7 - 8pm. Bring a way to put your money (cash or check yo). And if you can make it by to look at the catalog (we've go one that lives at rps), we recommend it. It's got way more than you think!
If you'd like, you can sign up for the bulk food email discussion list here.
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did you know
Our fiscal sponsor is in Oakland?
Yup, they are
21 Grand
our neighbors and "a volunteer-run interdisciplinary arts space hell-bent on presenting a macrocosmic panoply of emerging and experimental artists, focusing on genre-bending and innovative works of visual arts and live art (i.e. performative and media art presented to a live audience). Events range from the populist to the academic."
Visit
www.21grand.org
and check out their awesome art shows and events!
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rps news
08.22.08
new email address for rock paper scissors classes
so some crazy spammer was using our classes email address as their return address. we were getting thousands of bounced viagra commercials in our inbox every five minutes. so we had to get rid of that email address and replace it with a new one (don't tell the spammers please) you can find it on our contact page - happy emailing!
05.02.08
Things to do after artmurmur
lesse here. there's always tons and tons. here's a few
first friday follies - FREE @ stork club
Dead Science + Sholi + Active Crime Transplant - ?? @ 21 grand
oakland indie awards afterparty - $20 @ sweets ballroom
don't forget we close the street at 9pm. so get down here early.
05.01.08
pics of april first friday
weekend wakeup has some good pics of "whispers of the revolution: tremors of change" - the performances on 23rd st. during last first friday up on flickr.
04.02.08
Are you an artist? Do you teach?
Got this email from the Alameda County Arts Commission and thought it'd be good to pass along...
Teaching artists and community artists interested in teaching in schools are invited to participate in conversations about new opportunities for professionalizing the field of teaching artists and current steps to re-energize Teaching Artists Organized (TAO) to support the resource needs of teaching artists. The gatherings are free and new ideas and feedback are encouraged. Information collected at the meetings and through the attached survey link will be used to evaluate the needs of local teaching artists and guide future planning.
Saturday, April 19, 9:00am to noon
Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, 2025 Addison Street, Berkeley.
Monday, April 28, 3:30pm to 6:30pm
Chabot College Little Theater, 25555 Hesperian Boulevard, Hayward, Bldg 1200.
South and East Alameda County artists especially are invited to attend this meeting.
03.13.08
pics from bike prom are in!
 
come check out your bad self with your bike! and everybody else too. It's all in here.
03.06.08
Bring Out Your Bikes!!
This first friday, along with the bicycle art show, there will be a whole mess of bike activities:
- Cyclecide will be appearing with a bike ride (that means a ride made out of bikes).
- There can get your bike prom photo taken (that means your bike is your date).
- Just like every month, Oakland Critical Mass will be riding by.
- And there may even be some bike polo going on!
Also, you should check out all the cool bike classes happening throughout March.
02.24.08
we're glad you were there!
thanks to everyone who came to rock out for rps at the benefit show yesterday -- for donning rain-gear, buying 12-packs, sharing your licorice rope, showing up, and most of all, showing your support.
every thing you do helps RPS get back in the swing of things post-break-in, whether that's donating your living space for the event (thanks carey, amanda, aaron, and all of the boat parking house!), cooking super tasty vegan tacos (thanks Digestive Systems Catering, mmmmmm), or drawing out a crowd by playing music (extra special thanks to maus haus, kreamy lectric santa, wave and particle, saything, and miguel and rosie (who came out sick as can be on her birthday no less!).
you all made it a really awesome afternoon!
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