The Stockton Aesthetic Initiative

03/05/2013

ATTENTION! Super important/awesome upcoming screening/meeting for the The Stockton Aesthetic Initiative!

Thursday, March 14, 2013, marks the second monthly gathering of Arts Incubator, the cross-school/community forum in which students from Delta College, University of the Pacific, and to the general public interested in creativity come together to discuss ideas, collaborations, and resources. Professors Paula Sheil and Keith Hatschek will be there.The meeting will be at Whirlows, at 4PM-5:30PM!

Prior to the meeting, the SJDC Writers' Guild, Arts Incubator and the Stockton Aesthetic Initiative will present a free screening of "Creative Problem Solving: How to Get Better Ideas" at Delta College from 2:15PM-3:30PM with a discussion led by Ryan Camero! The 1979 documentary is pretty awesome- students, faculty, interested community members and artists alike are encouraged to attend! Come get inspired broskies!! Screening will take place in the Locke building, room 302.

THURSDAY, MARCH 14TH, 2013:

Screening of "Creative Problem Solving: How to get Better Ideas"
San Joaquin Delta College, 5151 Pacific Avenue- Locke 302
2:15PM-3:30PM, discussion with Ryan Camero

2nd Arts Incubator Meeting
Whirlows, 1926 Pacific Avenue
4:00PM-5:30PM, community forum

Hope to see you guys theeerreeee!!

12/04/2012

Free download of a report detailing how arts education can strengthen itself by embedding itself deeply in a community - forming partnerships with mayors and police to lessen crime, for example, or engaging elderly residents in oral history projects ...

12/02/2012

A thank you to Kevin Shawver for sharing this information:
"The Friendship Train, 1947. Drew Pearson, a journalist, was in Europe at the end of WWII. He saw the gratitude Western European citizens expressed to The Soviet Union for the donation of some boxcars of grain. Not believing America should be upstaged by the Communists, he organized a food drive. The Friendship train was actually three trains, consisting of 270 boxcars. Stockton residents, SUSD, COP, and Stockton Junior College students went to work, filling several boxcars with over 37 tons of contributions. Shown here is one of ours as it leaves for Oakland to join the main train."

Rare and amazing piece of history from our city !

11/16/2012

The power of positive visuals is underestimated. Amazing!

A healthy human ecosystem requires art. And other things.

10/10/2012

The monthly open mic poetry night is back! Come out and revive paper prose and take a break from the web-lit words, bring a favorite poem or maybe even your own work! This Wednesday, October 10th at 8PM.

Words For Wednesdays returns to Empresso Coffeehouse THIS WEDNESDAY, October 10th at 8PM. Please bring something to read! Your original work or even a poem you really like. Let's try to make this one not so dragged-out; I beg you!!

09/10/2012

If you sing, dance, draw, or act -- and especially if you watch others do so -- you probably have an altruistic streak, according to a new study.

09/03/2012

Empresso Coffeehouse is hosting free live jazz with some seriously talented musicians tonight. Come by at 8:30PM and check it out, end your three-day weekend right!

09/03/2012

Great job, Malik Girley, Serena Miller and SKILLHOUSE Collective doing major work in Stockton! Much respect to you guys :)

STOCKTON - Where some may see ramshackle, vacant old buildings in downtown Stockton, artist Malik Girley hears blank walls screaming for him to paint murals.

07/17/2012

06/10/2012

CHECK THIS OUT GUYS! If you didn't know already, the Fantastic Four originated from Stockton. Anybody who wants to get in on this contest should definitely try to!

06/05/2012

Jefferson Airplane performing at Stagg High, circa 1967. From the Archon Summer Supplement.

Grace Slick! wow!

05/31/2012

Congratulations, Surf Club, on their article in SF Popfest! Yeaayeaahh

it was also in print! SO STOKED!

http://www.sfbg.com/2012/05/22/landlocked?page=0%2C0