MAY 14 – JULY 2

All-Level Fiction Writing Class with Junse Kim

Wednesdays, May 14 – July 2, 2003; 7-9pm,
SomArts, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco

Class is full

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JULY 23

Warning: Graphic Contents
Graphic novelists and writers read from their comics in creative ways

with JASON SHIGA, DEREK KIRK KIM, and HELLEN JO
presented with the Chinatown Community Arts Program

CCAP Gallery
750 Kearny Street, between Clay and Washington
(Holiday Inn building, 3rd Floor, SF)

6.30 - 8.30PM
Free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact info@kearnystreet.org or 415.503.0520.

About the artists:

HELLEN JO writes, draws, and xeroxes the perennially lame "komisches buch", as well as an angry, untitled monthly comic for hardboiled, a UC Berkeley APA political news periodical. She has been spotted making out with a cardboard dummy of herself at local Clarendon Hills, Skyflakes, and Knulla Roofs shows. She is currently struggling to complete komisches buch no.3, a comic/cd split collaboration with the Clarendon Hills, but she is really mean and lazy and difficult to work with. Hellen also pretends to go to college, but please, who would believe that? http://hellen.gq.nu

DEREK KIRK KIM was born in Kumi, South Korea in 1974, and has been writing and drawing as far back as he can remember. He came to the United States when he was 8, leaving behind a deceased father. He studied at the Academy of Art in San Francisco and immediately began a career in comics upon leaving. For the past three years, he has been serializing deeply personal, poignant, and often hilarious short stories at his website,
smallstoriesonline.com. Most recently, he has released a book collecting many of the aforementioned short stories entitled, Same Difference and Other Stories. He likes Tabasco sauce on everything.

JASON SHIGA was born in Berkeley, went to highschool in Berkeley and graduated from UC Berkeley. He now lives in Oakland. He is the author of over 20 comic books, 5 board games and 1 card game. He has created the world's second largest interactive comic. His comic strips have been cancelled from two different local newspapers. He is the only one of his coworkers at the library that can program the function keys. He has accomplished much, yet there remains a void in his seemingly happy life.

JULY 21–SEPT 8

Beginning Drawing Class with Rick Godinez

Mondays, July 21 – September 8; 7 – 9PM
SomArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street

Drawing is the foundational skill of all the visual arts. It is the most direct and immediate form of visual expression, offering a way to visualize experience or realize design concepts. This course will introduce participants to the basic elements and principles of drawing. Line, shape, form, value, rendering, proportion, foreshortening and composition will all be addressed, with an emphasis on representational drawing: most of us go through life "seeing" in a very cursory way. Learning to accurately depict what we see through the act of drawing hones our perception, bringing us into a much more intimate visual relationship with the world around us. Apart from the finished work, equal attention will be given to the act of drawing itself as a performative experience in its own right, and to the intent and concepts which inform the drawings.

About the instructor:
Richard Godinez is a painter who lives and works in the bay area. Richard teaches painting, drawing, and figure drawing, at community colleges in the Peninsula and South Bay, as well as the Palo Alto Art Center. He recieved a BFA from San Jose State University and an MFA from Stanford University. He is the recipient of grants from the Silicon Valley Arts Council and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Price: $125 members; $145 non-members

To register, please send a check made out to Kearny Street Workshop—with your name and contact info included please! (phone, email)—to Kearny Street Workshop, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. For more info, please contact program manager Samantha Chanse at 415.503.0520, or info@kearnystreet.org. Visit www.kearnystreet.org for more general information about KSW.