Gilman Playground Open Skies - Open Skies Parks & Projects - Open Skies - Open Skies: Celebrating the Frontier Spirit of Today's Artists October 19-21, 2007 3 Days - 10 San Francisco Parklands - 15 Contemporary Artists Curated by Elliot Lessing Open Skies is a citywide Contemporary Arts Exhibition that celebrates the spirit of wonder, renewal, and creative social action through artist-driven public projects that activate space and community resources. Open Skies unites 15 Contemporary Artists with 10 San Francisco neighborhood parks to deliver extraordinary site-specific art projects of all media for families, new residents, and city visitors. All exhibitions, tours, workshops, special events, and educational materials are completely free to the public. Combined, these project features highlight our neighborhood parks as living outdoor classrooms - thus transforming Open Skies into a welcoming community enrichment project. Open Skies is at once a brilliant opportunity for families, community members, and city visitors to enjoy a rich synthesis of inspiring artistic visions, dynamic educational programming, and constructive civic engagement. For more info, please view: www.cocanow.org

Gilman Playground Open Skies

Open Skies Parks & Projects

Artist: Ellen Lake
Project: Tinkadelic

NOTE: FILM TINKERING WORKSHOP SATURDAY NOON-3 PM

Tinkadelic celebrates innovation, both past and present through this heritage-building project.

Revisit past inventions, inspired from a list of 100 Black Inventors and their Inventions at the Gilman clubhouse, through artist-designed decks of trading cards given to all park and Open Skies visitors.

Children, teens, and all-ages community members are invited to participate in free'n fun Film Tinkering Workshop to create scratch animation on found films and film leader. Using nails, ink, and other basic tools, Ellen will teach our newest filmmakers how to make scratch films. ALL Tinkadelic Films, created in this workshop, will be uploaded to a special website for a Global Debut Screening!

Join Ellen Lake, as we create Animation, and bring life to your ideas!

Open Skies

Open Skies: Celebrating the Frontier Spirit of Today's Artists
October 19-21, 2007
3 Days - 10 San Francisco Parklands - 15 Contemporary Artists

Curated by Elliot Lessing

Open Skies is a citywide Contemporary Arts Exhibition that celebrates the spirit of wonder, renewal, and creative social action through artist-driven public projects that activate space and community resources.

Open Skies unites 15 Contemporary Artists with 10 San Francisco neighborhood parks to deliver extraordinary site-specific art projects of all media for families, new residents, and city visitors.

All exhibitions, tours, workshops, special events, and educational materials are completely free to the public. Combined, these project features highlight our neighborhood parks as living outdoor classrooms - thus transforming Open Skies into a welcoming community enrichment project.

Open Skies is at once a brilliant opportunity for families, community members, and city visitors to enjoy a rich synthesis of inspiring artistic visions, dynamic educational programming, and constructive civic engagement.

For more info, please view: www.cocanow.org