21 Grand: Right Behind God’s Gym

21 Grand is accepting submissions for its 8th Annual T-10 Video
Festival, featuring works that clock in at 10 minutes or less.
The T-10 Festival will take place January 12 & 13, 2008. There is no
entry fee. This year’s festival will be guest curated by Kriss DeJong and Eliot Daughtry of Killer Banshee.

Eligibility Guidelines
All pieces must be 10 minutes or under. All forms of video from
experimental to narrative…innovative, cutting edge & non-
traditional…including performance/video hybrids are encouraged.

Submission Guidelines
Include the following with your DVD submission: artist name, piece
title, running time (must be 10 minutes or less), format, brief
description & bio, contact information (include: mailing address,
email & phone number) & credits. Mark the DVD with the title of the
entry & artist name. If you would like your submission returned, pls
include a SASE.

Entries can be mailed or dropped off in person to: 21 Grand, 416 25th
St., Oakland, CA 94612

Submission deadline: December 12th, 2007
Festival Dates: Saturday & Sunday, January 12 & 13, 2008

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East Bay Express profiles Ike Levin and tonight’s Forward Music Festival. We’re not sure whether we appreciate being referred to as a place improvising musicians are “relegated to,” however.

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We’ll be sporadically posting calls for entry, volunteers, and news here, as well as links to articles in the press or other blogs that mention us or the people that are exhibiting and performing here. We might even go so far as linking to online documentation of things that happen here. We will invariably spend time deleting spam comments from here on a regular basis.

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We’ll be sporadically posting calls for entry, volunteers, and news here, as well as links to articles in the press or other blogs that mention us or the people that are exhibiting and performing here. We might even go so far as linking to online documentation of things that happen here. We will invariably spend time deleting spam comments from here on a regular basis.

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Derk Richardson in the Chronicleon the inimitable David Slusser.

Scroll down for SF Bay Guardian calendar pick of Old Time Relijun. Bonus points to the author for referring to a previous show.

Oakland Magazine’s Mills College Music Department article mentions 21 Grand several times and devotes paragraphs to regulars, Aurora Josephson and Theresa Wong.

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21 Grand’s existence has certainly given the East Bay Express things to write about; not as much as Jerry Brown has, but we do our part. The East Bay Express has sometimes showered us with praise, and at other times, covered us with clueless and condescending prose, sometimes in the same article. We know enough not to be outraged by this. After the 2001 blurb in the short-lived Urban View that proclaimed 21 Grand is “so hip it sucks,” our skins thickened quite a bit. We did breathe a sigh of relief when the Express ceased to be a tentacle in the New Times Village Voice Media empire, as it significantly decreased the likelihood that we’d be the subject of a salacious exposé of the Invaded by Hipsters variety.
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10th Anniversary of Moe!kestra and “Piece #1: Death of a Piano” presented by 21 Grand at the Lab in San Francisco on May 25, 2007
Video by Aurora Josephson

Aurora captures the piano’s demise:

Another view, courtesy of Tim Perkis

And finally, a previous “Death of Piano” performance at a 21 Grand eviction benefit at Liminal Gallery in Oakland in December 2004, courtesy of Kevin Brown. The OPD officer waiting impatiently outside commented, “This is not a quiet, acoustic band!”

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We were contacted by a fact-checker for this one-pager in the October 2007 issue of San Francisco Magazine, and we did appreciate being referred to as “one of the most established art spaces in Oakland.” However, we wonder how January 2006 to October 2007 could equal 3 years.

May 2007 article by Reyhan Harmanci in the SF Chronicle, that is well-written, but erroneously listed the hours as from 5-9pm.

Oakland Tribune article from April 2007 that plays at “the new journalism” or was it “the new ethnography” (we’ll have to scour our 10 year-old college readers for the answer).

The November 2006 Oakland Magazine article that gives 21 Grand a meager paragraph composed almost entirely of factual inaccuracies.

The infamous East Bay Express Hipster Invasion article from August 2006, that quotes 21 Grand’s “Darren Johnston,” and contains many errors

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