Casbaa Convention is dedicated to the growth of the television industry in Asia. Day One will address Satellite: Limitless Benefits for Television, Satellite: The Life Line for Telecoms, Satellite: Something You May Not Have Thought About, Finance: How Do We Get the Money?, and Satellite Operators CEO Forum: Keeping the Customer Satisfied: Reliability, Flexibility & Imagination. Topics addressed on Day Two will include: Making It: New Products, New Markets, New Ideas, Selling It: Turning-on & Tuning-in Asian Pay-TV Advertisers, Stealing It: Chasing the Dragons of Asian Piracy, and Growing It: Lifting the Lid on the Successful Players in our Region. Day Three will look at the following: Legally Binding: The Do

ETA-Entertainment Technology Alliance is dedicated to brining the entertainment industry and technologists together. The event will take place at the Hudson Hotel. Speakers will include people from such companies as AT&T, E! Online Entertainment, Microsoft Windows Digital Media, Screen Digest and Time Magazine. ETA Expo hopes to create a better understanding in the field of media technology and entertainment business. For more information, contact tel.: (310) 229-8915, e-mail: info@etaexpo.com or Web: http://www.etaexpo.com.

Artist, curator, nonprofit veteran, and CalArts faculty member Karen Atkinson will once again teach her famed survival workshop series for emerging and mid-career artists working in the Greater L.A. area. For years, Get Your Sh*T Together was only available to students at CalArts. Thanks to continued support from LA Cultural Affairs, Side Street Projects is proud to offer this vital workshop once again to artists from all disciplines that need to get their sh*t together. The event will provide attendees with information and resources to make things happen for themself. Learn how to tap-into systems of support designed to help you practice your craft without selling your soul. Explore theoretical and practical issues, questions of professionalism, ethics, funding, project management, and the nuts & bolts survival strategies every working artist needs to know. The workshop is open to artists from all disciplines: visual arts, film & video, theatre, dance, writing, music, performance, etc. All participants receive a mammoth 400-page class reader chock-full of information, forms and resources, grant info, templates, etc. Space is extremely limited. First come, first serve. The event takes place at the Los Angeles Farmers Market over six Wednesdays from 7:00

WIA/LA will be presenting "It Sounds Crazy, Doc, But It Might Just Work!: Starting An Independent Animation Studio." A panel of indie artists will discuss how they have survived. The panelists are: Antonella & Roland

Thurs. 10/30: CINESPACE INDUSTRY PARTY/Dracula Screening Co-hosted by Mac Africa and Planet Shark Make your Dinner Reservations early for an exclusively wicked Halloween Celebration Dinner for THE DINNER/MOVIE in the Main Room. Screening: Bram Stoker's DRACULA directed by Francis Ford Coppola) Showtime: 8:00pm Enjoy a sinful three course special Chef's Menu featuring Francis Coppola's wines. A surprise evil guest will be hosting trivia after the movie for delicious rewards and prizes! UK Producer/DJ Blackliquid - Soulful, funky house House in the Lounge (9pm-2am). Plus DJ Crash - Hip-Hop, R&B, Drum & Bass in the Main Dance Room (10pm-2am) Pre-Halloween Mask Party w/prizes for the best mask including a $50 voucher (dinner for 2 @ CineSpace). SHARK'S GUEST LIST - NO COVER UNTIL 10:30 pm! RSVP: PARTYSHARKLA@AOL.COM w/the names of all those in your party. For dinners, please also note your desired chow time* Cinespace: 6356 Hollywood Blvd. 2ND LEVEL Right above Club Ivar. Hollywood, CA Valet parking Available. 21 & up :) ****** shark www.planetsharkproductions.com los angeles, ca - planet earth "The path to success is to take massive, determined action." -- Anthony Robbins

Artists Helping Artists (AHA!) and THE CREATIVE LINE magazine will be holding an AHA! artists gatherings. This AHA gathering is free. The meeting is a safe space where artists, musicians, writers, arts educators and community arts leaders can make new contacts and share and align their creative visions and projects. It

PGA New Media Council presents a panel discussion titled

Starting at 6:00 pm, the Cartoon Art Museum will be holding a free showing of more than 60 works considered too subversive, tasteless, offensive or all of the above by some critics. Special guests include Rex Babin, editorial cartoonist for THE SACRAMENTO BEE; Tom Meyer, editorial cartoonist for the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE; and Mark Fiore, political animator. The exhibition, organized by The Andy Warhol Museum, opens October 18 and runs through February 1, 2004. For more information, visit http://www.cartoonart.org/events.html.

The first annual ShowBiz Expo's Entertainment Technology World will be held in Chicago at The Donald Stephen's Conference Center (formally Rosemont Convention Center). The event will consist of a four-day technical conference (November 6 - 9) and two-day Expo (November 7 - 8). This spin-off of ShowBiz Expo covers hot new technologies including hi-def production, digital video production, digital distribution, VFX software, capture technologies, DVD authoring, etc. The purpose of this event is to fully examine the spectrum of tools, techniques, technologies and creative approaches for pre/production/post in video, commercials, broadcast and film. The event expects producers, directors, cinematographers, editors, art directors, camera operators, screenwriters, location managers, digital artists and sound professionals to attend. Technical class sessions and keynote speakers will focus on corporate video, special event videography, indie filmmaking, commercials, broadcast applications (both in sports, the newsroom and the network episodic programming). For more information visit www.ent-techworld.com/sbr.aspx.

Animation historian John Canemaker will appear at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with a colorfully illustrated multimedia presentation: THE ART AND FLAIR OF MARY BLAIR, based on his new Disney Editions book. The 7:30 pm lecture/demo will be followed by a book signing, plus a rare 35mm screening of Disney's ALICE IN WONDERLAND, the 1951 cartoon feature principally art directed by Mary Blair. Using nearly 300 illustrations, Canemaker will describe the art and life of Blair, a prolific and gifted designer/colorist who was one of the few woman artists to reach the top creative rungs at the Disney studio. She profoundly influenced the color and design of many classic Disney animated features, including THE THREE CABALLEROS, CINDERELLA and PETER PAN, as well as theme park attractions, most notably the "It's A Small World" boat ride created for the 1964 New York World's Fair. For more info call: (323) 857-6010; or visit: http://www.lacma.org/art/film/film.htm.