California Lawyers for the Arts

California Lawyers for the Arts
in collaboration with Arts Council Silicon Valley and California Arts Advocates will present
The Third Symposium on California Arts and Healthy Communities
3 pm to 4:30 pm
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

More than 250 persons celebrated C.L.A.'s 20th anniversary of services in the Los Angeles community at the William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica on March 2, 2008. Actress Annette Bening presented one of C.L.A.'s first Artistic License Awards to State Sen. Jack Scott of Pasadena, whose leadership in 2004 resulted in a $1.8 million augmentation to the California Arts Council budget through increased fees from the state's artistic license plates. Other award recipients were LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, LA City Councilwoman Jan Perry, Artist June Wayne, Attorney Greg Victoroff, Rose Marie Cano, Executive Director of Plaza de la Raza, and the law firm of Greenburg Glusker. C.L.A.'s activities were profiled in the Santa Monica Daily Press.
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Annette Bening and Senator Scott during the C.L.A. Artistic License Award reception. - Photo Credit: Akintoye Moses
We have posted more pictures!
Here is a downloadable pdf file of the Santa Monica Daily Press weekend edition for the weekend of March 1, with an article by Melody Hanatan about the party and our organization. Just scroll down to page 7 in the PDF and you'll find it.

Don't miss our last Relax With Tax seminar this week in Sacramento! If you
missed our tax seminars, please note that we have a limited number of our tax workbook, The Art of Deduction, for sale!

The video on our Second Symposium on California Arts and Healthy Communities, filmed at the Lesher Center in Walnut Creek in collaboration with the Arts and Culture Commission of Contra Costa County in February, 2007, received a Western Access Video Excellence (WAVE) award from the Western States Region of the Alliance for Community Media. Congratulations to everyone who worked on this project, especially Amy Kaizuka, Program Director, and Missy Ablin, Program Assistant, with a special note of appreciation to the project's funders, Keker and Van Nest, the Gerbode Foundation, the Merit and Carol Hancock Fund and the California Arts Council.

The video, which was taped and edited by Contra Costa TV and distributed by our staff, has been scheduled for viewing on 27 cable access stations across California.

California is dead last among all fifty states in its allocation of funding for community arts programs. Our public service announcement advocating for better state support for the arts in our communities, produced and directed by video artist Michael Masucci of EZTV, has won a CINE Golden Eagle award! If you have difficulty viewing our movie file, you can find the PSA on YouTube as well.

Check out our art-law workshop calendar!

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