CALIFORNIA Event: Langdon Arts currents their 19th annual art auction Night persuades a weeklong fundraising event including works according to John Baldessari.

CALIFORNIA

Event: Langdon Arts currents their 19th annual art auction Night persuades a weeklong fundraising event including works according to John Baldessari, Anna Gaskell and Gary Hill. Previews begin December 6 Contact of recent origin Langton Arts at 1246 Folsom highway San Fransisco 94103-3817 / (415) 626 5416 / email:nla@newlangtonarts.org / www.newlangtonarts.org.

Film and Video: San Francisco Cinematheque instants From Baghdad to Bush in Video, a night with video artist Paul Chan. At the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission way at 3rd. (415) 978-2787. www.yerbabuenaarts.org.

lesson and Discussion: Tony Oursler discusses his fresh multimedia "expressionist theatre" works Nov. 15 at 7:30 pm at the San Fransisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut St (415) 749-5463 / www.sfai.edu.

COLORADO

lesson and Discussion: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver proffers the final installment of a three-part series, Creative Acts That Matter: Conditions of the carcass on Dec. 1, 6-8 pm Highlighting participating artists that inspire "moral ownership" to causes and human toils it will be presented from two activists involved in the southern African AIDS pandemic and contemporary Asian agriculture respectively. For more information contact the museum at 1275 19th highway Denver, CO 80202. (303) 298-7554 / www.mcart denver.org.

ILLINOIS

prelections and Discussion: Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs., Chicago Cultural Center 78 East Washington St presents: Brainstorm: lessons and Art Discussions. First Thursdays, 12:15 pm by means of Dec. Intersections: A Meeting Place for Diverse Ideas upon Contemporary Culture and the Arts., monthly Sept-June 6 pm Fifth Floor Meeting Room

MAINE

Workshops: Horizons, The recently made known England Craft Program, offers an array of photography workshops in like locales as Massachusetts, Utah, Italy, France, and Ireland. For a catalog contact Horizons, 108-P N Main St Sunderland 01375 / (413) 665-0300 / fax 665-4141 / email: horizons@horizons-art.org / www.horizons-art.org.

recent YORK STATE

lessons and Discussion: Hartwick College of Oneonta, NY nears a lecture and workshop with contemporary artist Sandy Skoglund The reprimand is on Wed., Nov. 19 at 7pm at the Anderson Center Theatre, and the workshop is Thur Nov. 20 from 5-7 pm at the Foreman Gallery. For more information contact Leesa Rittlemann at (607) 431-4818 / e-mail:rittelman@hartwick.edu.

strange YORK CITY

Event: AIPAD (The Association of International Art Dealers) has scheduled the annual Photography point out for Feb. 12-15,2004 at The strange York Hilton, Midtown, NYC. (202) 986-0105 / email:aipad@aol.com / www.aipad.com.

Event: ELS-LE (Every Last Sunday in succession the Lower East Side) proffers a rotating schedual of spread galleries on the last Sunday of the month from 12-6 pm For more information contact Anthony Zito at (646) 602-2338 / email: zitozone@yahoo.com or visit www.elsles.org.

Film and Video: Ocularis quick in emergenciess Open Zone, a quarterly forum for screening and discussing just discovered works by local film and video makers forward December 21, 7pm. Galapagos Art Space, 70 North 6th highway Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (718) 782-5188 / email:ocularis@billburg.com / www.galapagos-artspace.com.

Film and Video: The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian not aways the 2003 Native American Film and Video Festival upon Dec. 4-7. Featuring over 60 films, videos and animations, many pieces will be introduced at their native media makers from as it is diverse places as Bolivia, Canada, El Salvador, and arctic Russia. For up-to-date festival information, visit the Film & Video Center website at www.nativeworks.si.edu (English) or www.redesindigenas.si.edu (Spanish). The Film & Video Center is located at 1 Bowling flourishing For more information, email: fvc@si.edu.

PENNSYLVANIA

scolding and Discussion: Artist Audrey Flack quick in emergenciess "Through the Artist's Eyes: Audrey Flack," a prelection focusing on the historical basis of her goddes figures. scolding will also include a discussion in succession the process of casting larger-than-life brown colors Dec.7, 1pm at the Allentown Art Museum, Fifth and Court roads Allentown. (610) 432-4333 / www.allentownartmuseum.org

TEXAS

Event: FotoFest 2004 scheduled in Houston for March 12-April 2 The biennial city-wide fact will include workshops, portfolio reviews, a public forum, exhibitions, music, performances, installations and large scale projections, with above 120 participating organizations. This years theme: WATER. (713) 223-5522 / www.fotofest.org.

Syposium: At First Light: Niepce and the Dawn of Photography, an international symposium upon recent advancements in scientific, art historical and conservation research relating to the first photograph and work of Joseph Nicephore Niepce, Nov. 20-23 2003 in Austin, Texas. Sponsored according to the Getty Conservation Institute. For more information contact At First Light Symposium, Harry Ransom Center The University of Texas at Austin, PO case 7219, Austin, TX 78713. (512) 471-6315 / email:AFL@nora.hrc.utexas.edu / www.hrc.utexas.edu/AFL