To commemorate The Drawing Club

Illustrator and caricaturist Gogue will be holding an exhibition, entitled

Members of ASIFA-Hollywood are invited to come for a very special evening at DreamWorks Animation, located at 1000 Flower Street, Glendale, for a presentation of the winners of ASIFA East's 34th Annual Animation Festival. This is a free event for members of ASIFA-Hollywood and their guests. Members must RSVP by email to asifareeleast@yahoogroups.com or call the ASIFA-Hollywood office at (818) 842-8330 by Monday, September 29, 2003 at 5 pm to reserve their seat(s). To guarantee reservations, members must include their full name, contact information, and the full name of their guest(s) at the time of RSVP. For security purposes, everyone must have a photo ID when arriving at DreamWorks to be allowed on campus - no exceptions. Seating is limited to 150 people. Due to limited seating, we cannot accept all requests. We ask that everyone on the guest list be in attendance at the event.

John Truby will be teaching his famous 22-step Story Structure Class in New York City at DV Dojo. Day One will tackle finding the perfect structure for your story, creating the single driving force, three variations to classic story structure, seven steps to a great premise, four requirements of a good hero, three character traits to avoid, using desire and motive, five major character changes, four keys to the perfect opponent and writing characters who aren't like you. Day Two will focus on 22 building blocks in every great script, tricks of Hollywood's most popular genres, pacing by character growth -- not page number, stacking, creating the visual world, using the subplot, building the reveals, creating the strong middle and writing three-track dialogue. On October 6, Truby will be teaching a special genre class. Topics include: what each genre really means under the surface, three ways to handle genre and which one is best, how each genre varies from classic structure, the crucial question for each story form, key structure points for each genre, the difference between crime stories, detective stories and thrillers, the central theme of each genre, mixing genres: the key strategy for blockbuster films and bending the genre rules for originality. For more information visit www.screenstyle.com.

The 2003 Icograda World Congress brings together more than 1,400 designers and students from more than 40 countries to discuss identity, entertainment, sustainability intellectual property and education in the design industry. The conference will contain exhibitions, social events and visits to Japanese companies. For students, the conference will include an International Student Poster Competition and an International New Designers Workshop. Challenging the traditional conference presentation, the event will include unique ways of conducting its discussions, which is being called Visualogue. For more information about the event contact it at 18th Floor, Business Center Bldg., NADYA PARK 18-1, Sakae 3-chome, Naka-ku, Nagoya 460-0008 Japan; Tel: +81-52-249-3695; Fax: +81-52-265-2901; E-mail: info2@visualogue.com; or Web: www.visualogue.com.

MIPCOM: International Film and Programme Market for TV, Video, Cable and Satellite is one of the world

This year's show will be held in the fall (late October, early November) and tour four major cities in three states (Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles). Our goal is to put on a good, entertaining show, so help us out. For the past four years our festival has grown and grown. Now we are bringing it to four big cities, and many hundreds of pairs of eyes. Go to our site (http://www.fafcom.com), download an entry form, and/or drop us a line. We will look at Flash, quicktime, mini-dv, prodv, vhs, dvd, vcd, anything. The only hitch, it has to be in a DV format that we can edit together later (you can supply this when/if your short is chosen for this year's show). FAF is looking for the fun and the strange. Fill our mailboxes with your submissions. The early deadline is the end of JULY, no fee attached. The Late Deadline is the end of August 2003 with a $20 late entry fee (check or money order).

The Screenwriting Expo features 10 guests of honor, 14 panel sessions focused on marketing your spec script, more than 250 classes and seminars, a two-day Pitch Fest, the CS Open on-site writing contest, and a trade show. Jean Ann Wright will be hosting a discussion on

SAFO 03 will present the 2nd Teacher's Symposium. Animation teachers from around the world will attend the day-long conference to discuss the current state of animation education, discuss new methodologies, industry pressures and how to work together to solve various pedagogical problems facing educators in this heavily competitive digital era. Starting at 9:00 am, internationally recognized animator, historian and teacher, John Canemaker will speak about the need for teachers to reiterate the continuing importance of communication, storytelling, animation history, drawing and soul, in this age of high technology. Beginning at 10:00 am, a panel entitled

This program will discuss what it means to be a politically active artist in the new millennium. Topics of discussion will be: Has political art changed since Sept. 11 and who are the current activist artists? This informal panel discussion at the Armory Center for the Arts on will begin at 8:00 pm. Addressing these and other questions will be some of the most knowledgeable and controversial activist artists and curators: Kim Abeles, internationally recognized Los Angeles artist involved with social and political issues and Professor of Sculpture, Cal State Northridge; THINK AGAIN Agit art group, including David Attyah and S.A. Bachman; and Carol Wells, founding director, Center for the Study of Political Graphics. The panel will be moderated by Jay Belloli, the Armory's director of gallery programs. The panelists will show slides of their work or work by other activist artists, followed by a general discussion. The program will take place at the Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond Ave. in Old Pasadena. Admission is $5 for the general public and free to Armory members, seniors and students. For more information, call (626) 792.5101 x 122, or visit www.armoryarts.org.