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The Rhode Island Film Collaborative (RIFC) presents:

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

RIFCRegister now for our upcoming screenwriting class–
there are still a few spaces available!
Looking for help with the finances?
Take our survey
for a 25% discount
on your first RIFC class.

The Rhode Island Film Collaborative (RIFC) presents:

From Your Head to the Screen: 
Writing a Winning Screenplay

Instructor: Jenn Dlugos

Everyone at some time or another has had an idea and said, “That would make a good movie!” This class is for anyone who dreams of making that dream a reality. The class will teach students how to make their idea marketable before they even write a word, craft compelling characters and dialogue, follow proper screenplay format, and make use of the advantages of a visual medium when crafting their story. The students will craft the Pitch-perfect one-minute pitch, and learn all the routes to get their script produced including the studio system, the indie market, and producing it themselves.

5 Mondays, 7-10pm, $225
Nov 16, 2009 through Dec 14, 2009 
Classes held at Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire St, Providence RI (map)

Register online at www.rifcfilms.com (www.rifcfilms.com/education.aspx)

Jenn DlugosJenn Dlugos is an award-winning screenwriter, winning awards for six screenplays (two shorts, four features) including the Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Competition, the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Twin Rivers Media Festival, The Vine Entertainment Film Festival, the Kids First! film festival, the Feel Good Film Festival, The Beverly Hills Film Festival and the NYCMIDNIGHT Screenwriting Challenge. She was the screenwriter for the short film The Pitch for the 2007 Providence 48 Hour Film Project. The film won four awards, including 2nd Runner-up for Best of Providence, Audience Favorite and Best Twist Ending.

Her screenplay The Last Promise of Giles Corey is contracted by Firesite Films for their Historic Haunts & Legends of America series, and she is the screenwriter for Big Hope Films, a charity which helps disabled children realize their dream of making a film. Most recently, a producer in Seattle acquired the rights to her screenplay Followed, and she is making her documentary directing debut with a humorous documentary There She Is, Mrs. Massachusetts, which finished filming in Spring of 2009.

Her edgy humor won her the Shock Your Mama! humor writing competition, and she was recently published by Travelers’ Tales in the book, Whose Panties Are These? and Chicken Soup for the Soul. In 2000, she published her first book, How to Survive a Small Town Without Being Trampled by a Cow.


Please take the RIFC Classes Survey
for a 25% discount on your first class!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=cI7hbz50k866WxadM9nDRg_3d_3d


Greetings, fellow filmmakers!

The RIFC Educational Program is gearing up! We’re drawing together great instructors, locations, funding and equipment, to give our local actors and filmmakers the kind of learning opportunities that they can really use. Our focus is on hands-on training wherever possible, and instruction by industry professionals who have the experience to lead us forward. 

We’ve done our best to incorporate everyone’s ideas to create a truly helpful course catalog, and now we’d love your feedback! Please take our RIFC Classes Survey –let us know what you think of our ideas, and let us know your own! It’s a bit long, but if you fill out the survey (reasonably) completely, there’s a nice ‘thank you’ offer at the end. Please take a little time to help us create the classes that you really want to take!

Greater Rhode Island Consumer Research Study

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Opportunity awaits… and we know where!
Your new customers -
We know who they are & where they live. We know what they buy & what they do. And we’re sharing the data with You!
Research is now available from the Greater Rhode Island Consumer Study that will help your organization grow.
The Arts & Business Council of Rhode Island, Acadia Consulting Group & Obalil & Associates researched consumers in Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts. The primary goal of the study was to understand the composition, attitudes behaviors and drivers of arts and cultural
activities among the overall greater Rhode Island Marketplace. Register to find out what the data reveals about your next customer!
Visit www.artsandbusinessri.org/programs/professional_development.asp or
Call 401.621.6127
ADMISSION FEES
$75 (Includes complete data set)
$50 Members of Affiliate Organizations
Chambers of Commerce
Rotary Clubs
American Marketing Association
Public Relations Society of America
Rhode Island Hospitality & Tourism Assoc.
Providence Warwick CVB
$25 (Does not include data set)
No fee for our members & staff of study funders
ArtTix Rhode Island
IndieArts/ri
Rhode Island Foundation
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce
Providence Warwick CVB
LOCATIONS
Nov 17th - Newport Public Library 3-5 PM
Nov 19th - Fidelity Investments, Smithfield 3-5 PM
Dec 8th - Warwick Public Library 12-2 PM
Dec 10th - Kingston Free Library 12-2 PM
PRESENTERS
DEBORAH OBALIL
Obalil & Associates
PETER BRAMANTE
Arts & Business Council of RI

It’s HIVE O’CLOCK at Blaze Restaurant!

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

What time is it? 
It’s HIVE O’CLOCK at Blaze Restaurant!

Tuesday, November 17th / 5:30-7pm
Blaze Restaurant @ 776 Hope Street in Providence 

HIVE O’CLOCK Happy Hour Workshop
Shake off the workday, have a bite, and make something cool. Sara Kudra will lead a Sonobe Origami workshop. Come make magical star ornaments, decorations, or even earrings!

$10 covers the workshop, all materials, and appetizers.

End your day with art. 
Bzzz,
Alyssa



Alyssa Holland Short
Executive Director
The Hive Archive

www.hivearchive.org

Calling all artists! Open Painting 2010

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Calling all artists! - $2,000 in cash prizes  The Providence Art Club will be hosting Open Painting 2010, an open juried exhibition open to all artists nationwide. $2,000 in cash prizes to be awarded by juror. All work must be for sale. Application deadline: November 25, 2009.  Exhibition: January 17 - February 5, 2010.  For prospectus: www.providenceartclub.org and click Call for Entries or SASE to 11 Thomas St, Providence, RI 02903.

Drumming Lessons for Kids!

Thursday, October 29th, 2009
BDC

A New Community Offering at the Black Rep:  Drumming Lessons for Kids!

 
The Black Rep will begin hosting drumming lessons for children ages 5 and up taught by Sidy Maiga. Sidy specializes in Djembe, Dun Dun and Calabash.  
 
The classes will be held on Saturdays at 1pm beginning this Saturday, October 31.  The classes will run for 8 weeks at a cost of $120.
 
If you are interested in joining the classes, please come to Black Rep on October 31st at 1 pm to sign up during the first class (276 Westminster Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903).  Please help us to spread the word about this new community service offered by Black Rep!  All are welcome!
 
For more information on Sidy, please visit www.sidymaiga.com.
 
We look forward to seeing you there!