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George Featured in This Month’s Off Camera News Letter

TheBigPicture — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:32:46 +0000

Our very own George Lang was featured in this month’s edition of The National Academy of Television Arts and Science’s Off Camera newsletter. The article focuses on the announcement that George will continue to offer two scholarships for overall Video Production Excellence for 2012.

Click here to read the article!

Zero Breast Cancer – Honor Thy Healer

TheBigPicture — Fri, 13 May 2011 01:00:15 +0000

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.

Click here to view the embedded video.

The Paper Princess – Youth in Arts

TheBigPicture — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:27:49 +0000

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.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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

TheBigPicture — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:33:49 +0000

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.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Bringing Music to Schools

TheBigPicture — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:48:16 +0000

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:

http://wellsfargocenterarts.org/e-mail/html/e-newsletter-011011.html?utm_source=wfca&utm_medium=enewsletter&utm_content=view-online&utm_campaign=011011

This video covers the music for schools program, which puts instruments into the hands of students from disadvantaged families.

Tango Buenos Aires at Wells Fargo Center for the Arts

TheBigPicture — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:11:31 +0000

We are a proud sponsor of the great Wells Fargo Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa. They put on great events while enriching the community. We have seen some truly magnificent musical, comedy, and theatre events there. If you haven’t checked them out – please do! Click here to be directed to their Calendar of upcoming events!

Coming up next week is Tango from Buenos Aires…

The Big Picture has you “meet the Sixers”

TheBigPicture — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:26:53 +0000

The Big Picture Film & Video Arts produced this music artist interview piece on Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers. Check out the video below to hear them discuss how they are pursuing their version of the American Dream and what their music means to them.

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This video as well as other music related content can be found at WakeUpYourPhone.com, click the image below to be taken to the site:

Proud sponsors of “Youth in Arts”

TheBigPicture — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:19:45 +0000

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 view the embedded video.

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

TheBigPicture — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:40:45 +0000

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

TheBigPicture — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:34:12 +0000

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!!!