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

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.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam, one of Europe

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The City of Santa Clarita and the CalArts Alumni Association will be hosting

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.

PGA New Media Council presents a panel discussion titled

The First Annual FilmMakers' Expo will run tandem with the AFI Fest for two days at the historic ArcLight Cinemas/Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. Approximately 70 exhibitors and 10 panels & workshops are currently being scheduled for the two day event. This expo is one of the few of its kind - a unique opportunity to connect with a mix of burgeoning and experienced independent filmmakers who are looking to connect with vendors & services in the trade. It is also a "classroom," where technology, technique and the incentive to "imagine" will proffer up unique tools and profitable contacts. Animation software, unusual and underused techniques, like rotomation, and the ins-and-outs of the gaming industry and bringing games to film, are just a few of the topics that will be covered in the panels! On-line attendance registration is free at www.filmmakersexpo.com. The cost is $15.00 at the door.

C21 Media's inTELEgence is designed to bring program makers together with program financiers and broadcasters to create new partnerships and a better understanding of collaborative international television business.

The San Francisco International Film Festival, committed to celebrating the art of the moving image, has presented the best in world cinema since 1957. Now, the 15-day festival presents 200 films from 50 countries and reaches an engaged audience of nearly 95,000 with screenings in San Francisco, Berkeley and Palo Alto. The festival highlights current trends in international film and video production with an emphasis on work that has not yet secured U.S. distribution. First features by emerging filmmakers are eligible for the SKYY Prize, which includes a $10,000 cash award and was established in 1997 by the Festival and premier sponsor SKYY Vodka to recognize a director whose film exhibits a unique artistic sensibility. The Golden Gate Awards is the competitive section for documentaries, shorts, animation, experimental, youth-produced, and television works. Juries award cash prizes ranging up to $5,000 in 10 of the 14 categories. The winning short film automatically qualifies for an entry into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science