Come celebrate with us this Friday from 5-9pm at Farley’s East, a coffee shop just around the corner. Farley’s will donate 20% of their profits during the happy hour to benefit the ongoing operations of RPSC. Come have coffee, drinks, and snacks in good company for a good cause!

Friday, September 10th, 5-9pm
Farley’s East
33 W. Grand Ave. (just east of Broadway)
Oakland, CA 94612

See ya there!

Our lovely table neighbors Susie Cagle & Joey Alison Sayers

Our other lovely neighbors Jen Oaks & Will Scovill

So many generous donations were made and we swapped them duplicates from our library!

Rockin the first ever RPSCollective Stroller

Emeryville Babies showcasing the ever popular Zombies Attack Oakland choose your own adventure zine

You can look forward to reading these zines in our library soon!

SAVE THE DATE
Art Auction 2010

Rock Paper Scissors Collective

Saturday September 25, 2010 7-10pm $5 admission*

Its that time again! COME OUT AND BUY SOME AWESOME ART! We have work from all over the Bay that will tingle your senses. Enjoy a night of live music, food, drinks, great people  and INTERESTING ART – all at a reasonable price.

All the proceeds will go to RPSC’s general operating costs. So we can continue to offer low-cost  and free classes, amazing free gallery exhibitions, and hand made goodies in our retail section.

*No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

RPSC is looking for two artists to work in collaboration with Phats Beets Produce (also working with the Children’s Hospital of Oakland) in creating a food justice themed interactive booth. Artists will be working with nutritionists to create interactive booths that deal with issues regarding: food justice, farm workers rights, children and health, food production systems, seasonality of food…or anything in between. These booths will need to be portable and mostly displayed at the Farmers market in conjunction with the Children’s Obesity Clinic.

If you are interested and feel you can take on this project in the next month, please email a resume, short bio, and 2-4 work samples (email friendly size PLEASE) to: community@rpscollective.com, by Sunday  July 25, 2010.

The intention of the Tibetan Memorial Quilt Project is to raise awareness about human rights. The Tibetan Association of Northern California organized the Tibetan Memorial Quilt Project (TMQP) in 2009 to commemorate 50 Years of Tibet’s Occupation by China. The quilts, made by the Tibetan community members, memorialize more than 1.2 million Tibetans who have died in the struggle for justice and freedom. Many of these Tibetan s/heros are monks and nuns persecuted for their belief in Tibetan Buddhism and their uncompromising loyalty to His Holiness the 14^th Dalai Lama.

Like the AIDS Quilt Project, this series of quilts juxtaposes human pain and suffering with the warmth and comfort of quilted fabric.

This project was launched on April 25, 2009 during His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visit to the Bay Area. At the occasion, the Dalai Lama was presented with the first quilt for his blessing. TANC’s goal is to have at least 50 Quilts (each with 25 patches). To date, 16 quilts have been completed, each measuring 36 square feet.

The ultimate vision is to transform TMQP from a “TANC project” to a “Tibetan-wide project”. To this end, invitations to Tibetan Associations in North America to participate in this endeavor in their local communities were sent. To date, the Tibetan Association of Southern California and Tibetan Community of New York/New Jersey have expressed interest to do something similar in their local communities.  We welcome their interest and look forward to working together with TASC and TCNYNJ in the near future.

Volunteers & Sponsors

The TMQP project would not have happened without the contributions from many people such as:

• - Lindsay Kelly (quilter and volunteer), Gyen Pega la (master tailor), and John Scottdugger (professional banner-maker) for giving up many voluntary hours with me on the TMQP Committee &  of course, to the TANC Board for their moral support to this project.
• - All the Tibetan Sunday School parents/teachers and other community members who have sewn the panels consistently since the project began in April 2009.
• - Ingrid Good of the former (no longer in business) Sew Your Own of Waterside Workshops in Berkeley for her initial support with community sewing space.
• - Sunflower Fabrics (no longer in business) that made generous donations of the very first reels of fabric to begin the TMQP.
• - Suzan Steinberg, co-owner of Stone Mountain and Daughters Fabrics in Berkeley that generously gives us free use of its sewing space, 20% discount on all purchases for the project, and highlights TMQP as one way to “give back”
• - All our project endorsers so far with ongoing search for more endorsers.
• - Virginia Cambour for her donations of exquisite clothes.
• - Tibetan Gift Corner in San Francisco for the beautiful Rajasthani quilt that adorns borders of one of the TMQP quilts.
• - Tenpa Jamyang la and Amchi Kelsang la for their respective calligraphy in Tibetan and sewing.

AND so many more Tibetans in the community who have quietly contributed to this project over time!

Funders

In addition to the in-kind support from volunteers, the TMQP received financial support from Catherine Shine and a grant from the Office of Tibet in New York.

Find out more on their website – http://www.tanc.org/programs/quilt-project/

READ ABOUT THE OPENING NIGHT ON THE TANC WEBSITE

Please send no more than three 300dpi JPEGs in a zip file no larger than 10mb per email to gallery@rpscollective.com. There is no entry fee. Submission deadline is September 5, 2010.

Notification of acceptance by September 12th. Accepted pieces must be ready for display and delivered to RPS in person Saturday, September 25 or Sunday, May 26 from noon – 7pm or via mail by September 25.

Work to be shown in the RPSC Gallery October 1 – 22.