Archive for category Philanthropic
Zero Breast Cancer – Honor Thy Healer
Posted by TheBigPicture in Philanthropic on May 12th, 2011
Zero Breast Cancer is a Marin-based nonprofit organization dedicated to helping to determine the causes of breast cancer through community participation in the research process. They are just down the street from us and we have been a proud supporter of them for many years. They hold an annual fundraising event, Honor Thy Healer, to honor healers in the community.
We’d like to share a part of the video that we created for the event, and if you have the time please check in with them at www.zerobreastcancer.org to learn more about this very important organization.
The Big Picture has created two scholarships with Emmy San Francisco
Posted by TheBigPicture in Awards, Philanthropic on May 11th, 2011
The Big Picture Film & Video Arts is honored to have created two $3,000 video production scholarships through the San Francisco chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to be awarded to one outstanding undergraduate student and one outstanding graduate student.
These scholarships have been created in the names of Jerry Jensen and Steve Davies. Two colleagues of George Lang, with whom he worked at KGO-TV with for many years.
George says, “Jerry was a mentor to me from the time I was 20 years old and helped me with my career throughout his life. Steve Davis and I worked closely together through the tumultuous 80s and all the major news stories that Steve was assigned to. There was no better journalist and one of few who fought for principles.”
Click the image below for information about the scholarships and how to apply. Click here for the Outstanding Graduate Scholarship and here for the Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship
The Paper Princess – Youth in Arts
Posted by TheBigPicture in Philanthropic on April 26th, 2011
The Big Picture Film & Video Arts takes pride in contributing to philanthropic projects for San Francisco and Bay Area community organizations. Here we created a promotional video for Youth In Arts, “The Paper Princess.”
Youth in Arts’ world premiere musical theater production is based on Elisa Kleven’s popular Paper Princess book series, adapted for the stage by YIA Director Miko Lee and featuring original bilingual music by Miguel Martinez, large-scale puppets and multimedia effects.
The cast with the author. (source: youth in arts blog)
artwork from the children’s book: (source: youth in arts blog)
Wells Fargo Center for the Arts – Art of Dessert Fundraiser
Posted by TheBigPicture in Philanthropic, Uncategorized on March 8th, 2011
As proud sponsors of the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, we were honored to attend the Gala Fundraising Event “The Art of Dessert” last Saturday, where over 300 people gathered to enjoy a gourmet dinner, eat scrumptious desserts, and bid in a silent and live auction that raised $200,000 for education in the arts!
The Wells Fargo Center for the Arts has live events the enrich the community with comedy, theatre, dance, music and so much more. Their arts education program provides workshops, courses and programs directly into the schools in Sonoma County teaching writing, visual arts, music history and culture. This life enriching culture and art education curriculum would otherwise not reach the children in the schools.
We are passionate about this program and produced the following video with Rita Moreno for the event to show some of the fantastic things that the Wells Fargo center provides to the community. We would like to thank Rita Moreno for her time and contribution to our community.
Bringing Music to Schools
Posted by TheBigPicture in Philanthropic on January 11th, 2011
As part of our ongoing sponsorship of the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts we create video messaging for them that brings to light the wonderful programs that they provide in their community in Santa Rosa.
Bellow is a video we created for them, for their newsletter which you can view here:
This video covers the music for schools program, which puts instruments into the hands of students from disadvantaged families.
Proud sponsors of “Youth in Arts”
Posted by TheBigPicture in Philanthropic on November 9th, 2010
Staying in line with our previous post, concering support of community art programs, we went back to the archives to pull this video that was put together for Marin County non-profit, Youth in Arts.
Youth In Arts is a Marin based non-profit that provides after school programs and community events that promote education and arts for primarily low-income youth in the Area. They have a teen acapella ensemble, “‘Til Dawn”, and put on an annual Italian Street Painting Festival, of which The Big Picture Film & Video Arts is a Proud Sponsor.
View the video to learn more about them!
Click here to go to our flickr album of the street painting festival from this spring:
Proud Sponsors of the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts
Posted by TheBigPicture in Philanthropic on November 2nd, 2010
It’s no secret that we support the arts, community programs, and other philanthropic endeavors. We are privileged to be able to do so and believe that anyone that has the opportunity to get involved in their community should do so.
We are currently proud sponsors of the Wells Fargo Center Arts in Santa Rosa, a fantastic non-profit organization with it’s own venue that has really great events. It is one of the top-ranked performance centers in California where one can see music, theater, dance, comedy and spoken word performances year round.
You really need to take a look at their upcoming calendar to see the scope of events that that are going on in the near future: Santa Rosa Symphony, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the Moscow Ballet’s nutcracker, Natalie Cole, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Kathy Griffin and countless plays and concerts.
We are working on an outreach video for them which we hope to share with you soon. Here are some behind the scenes photos of us shooting back stage at Rob Schneider’s comedy night.
Mille Grazie Party for Youth in Arts
Posted by TheBigPicture in Events, Philanthropic on August 6th, 2010
Last night we attended the Mille Grazie Party in salute of volunteers, artists, entertainers and sponsors from the Italian Street Painting Festival.
Located at A.G. Ferrari in Corte Madera and sponsored by Youth in Arts and A.G. Ferrari, this first-class event featured exquisite food, excellent wine and an eclectic crowd of people passionate about Youth in Arts.
Host Isabella was pouring fine wines that we couldn’t help but purchase a few bottles of… in support of Youth in Arts, of course.
The evening was a wonderful thank you gift for being part of a festival that is near and dear to The Big Picture’s heart.
Can’t wait ‘till next year’s festival!!!
The Big Picture sponsors Italian Street Painting Festival
Posted by TheBigPicture in Philanthropic on June 15th, 2010
Each year in June, local San Rafael non-profit youth organization “Youth in Arts“, transforms A street in downtown San Rafael into a canvas for the Italian Street Painting Festival. We involve ourselves with this each year in some way, and this year we sponsored a large 9′ 12′ foot piece by local artist Tricia George
This festival is a double win – it brings beauty and creativity to our community, drawing revellers from all of the Bay Area, and it raises funds for Marin Youth programs.
Hope for Haiti Thank you Ad
Posted by TheBigPicture in Events, Philanthropic on February 4th, 2010
Running today in the Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety is a huge thank you advertisement for the Hope for Haiti Telethon. See if you can find The Big Picture, George Lang, and Abel Machado amongst the countless other that helped out such as Quincy Jones, George Clooney… well there are hundreds!
Click on the image for the bigger version…
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