Arts Committee Agenda

Location(s)

VENICE N. C. ARTS COMMITTEE MEETING

Monday June 30th 2008 AT 6 pm

BLANKENSHIP BALLET COMPANY

132 BROOKS AVENUE, VENICE, CA 90291 (Beside the Christian Science Reading Room)

FREE PARKING IS AVAILABLE AT THE SENIOR CENTER AT THE DOG PARK ON MAIN STREET OR BEHIND THE BLANKENSHIP BUILDING.

(COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND GUESTS ARE INVITED TO BRING REFRESHMENTS TO SHARE WITH THE ALL WHO ATTEND.)

1. Call to Order & Roll Call

2. Approval of this agenda as presented or amended

3. Scheduled Announcements

4. Public Comment on items related to the Agenda (No more than 2 minutes per person)

5. OLD BUSINESS (approximately 6:15)

Introductions and Invited guests

C C Carter as liaison to N C Education Committee

Fred Dewey Beyond Baroque

Joh Todd to join Communications sub-committee and Carol Incontro as arts liaison to Santa Monica

Marc Saltzberg N C Outreach to discuss system of endorsements

Michael Vann to join film committee and present Other Venice Film Festival

Mike Newhouse N C President to discuss system of endorsements

Sean Kelly N C Communications officer to discuss positing listings and endorsements

CO-CHAIRS’ REPORTS:

Budget

6. NEW BUSINESS (approximately 6:20)

Committee reports, presentations and discussions note that no presentation is to exceed 5 minutes

FILM, MEDIA AND MUSIC (A J Peralta (or Michael Vann?), Mark Farina, & Stephen Fiske)

Other Venice Film Festival presentation

Forthcoming events - Endorsement requests?

COMMUNICATIONS (Deborah Glusker, Kathy Leonardo, Jeffrey Solomon, (Joh Todd?) and Eric Vollmer(*) )

Certificates – editing text and design (for example, remove the word unanimous)

How to handle listings and presentation endorsements. ( All events that petition will be listed in all arts committee press info releases. Endorsement are to be voted by the Arts Committee and approved by the N C Board. One differentiation between sponsorship vs. listing might be single performance vs. a more comprehensive project) Posting all Venice Cultural events listings online

Continuing discussion re the N C involvement in awarding certificate to:

Venice H S presented the Myrna Loy sculpture restoration project.

The Blankenship Ballet presented plans for a monthly Cabaret Series

Voice in the Well Productions presented plans for monthly Chautauqua events

Mark Farina proposed artist designed recyclable trash containers

Outreach liaison with the Arts in Santa Monica – Joh Todd and Carol Incontro

Venice Barbecue presentation – how can the Arts Committee help?

THEATRE DANCE LITERATURE AND STUDENT ARTS (Tania Getty, Nadine Parkos, Marilyn Fox, Liz Koravos, Mark Blankenship, & Jonathan Zeichner & Eric Vollmer(*))

Screening of Mark Twain Hamlet video sponsored by N C?

The Pacific Resident Theatre 4 week course for young adults in conjunction with the Venice Public Library

Liaison with N C Education committee

Beyond Baroque presentation

ARTS ARCHIVES AND PROJECTS (Theo von Hoffmann, Arnold Springer, Todd von Hoffmann, & Daniel Samakow)

Discussion of Heritage museum and Venice Historical Society

Venice Colonnades – fundraising relative to the percentage for art paid by developers

VISUAL ARTS (Corinne Chaix, Paulin Paris, & Aldis Browne)

Update on non-violence sculpture and Venice Peace Park

Autumn exhibition of paintings done at the Art Wall during Venice Fest and storage

Annual public art symposium planning

7. ANNOUNCEMENTS & PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEMS ON THE AGENDA (NO MORE THAN 2 MINUTES PER PERSON)

8. ADJOURN (approximately 7:30)