This Week in the Mercury
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Film Cinema Project Could Use Some Help
Posted by Erik Henriksen on Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:14 AM
The non-profit Cinema Project is one of the things that makes Portland such a good spot for film: In bringing experimental and avant-garde cinema to town, they fill a void no one else in town does. (Hell—they fill a void most towns don't even know exists.) While avant-garde film isn't usually my thing, I'm still glad it's around, and I'm glad Cinema Project gets it to Portlanders for whom it is their thing.
However! Like seemingly everyone else in a creative field in these shitty times, Cinema Project's just launched a Kickstarter:
The majority of our financial support has come from local and national grant funding organizations, like the Regional Arts & Culture Council, the Oregon Cultural Trust, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which we have recently completed. However, these funds are restricted to specific program-related fees, leaving things like operating and administrative costs and even basic expenses for our regular programs underfunded. With the end of the Warhol and the beginning of a new season, Cinema Project needs your help.
Check it out here.
Most Commented on Blogtown, PDX
-
KATU Poll Brings Bad News for Fluoridation Campaign by Denis C. Theriault
-
Slate: What's the Matter with Portland? by Dirk VanderHart
-
Everything Is Terrible and I Want a New Job. by Alison Hallett
-
Mike Daisey "Drank Some NyQuil" Before Commenting on Blogtown by Alison Hallett
-
This Week in Sex by Rose Finn
-
PTERODACTYL MONSTER ALERT by Erik Henriksen
-
Film Critics: Nervously Boarding a Star Trek into Obsolescence by Bobby Roberts
-
Unsurprising: Kerns Neighbors Might Fight a New Apartment Building by Dirk VanderHart
-
Obama Has "No Apologies" for Spying on Reporters by Dominic Holden
-
Arts Tax Deadline Delayed. Again. Because of Procrastinators. And the City's Balky Website. by Denis C. Theriault
Our Friends
- UrbanHonking
- Culture Shock
- Portland Roundball Society
- Steph Cassano
- Cort and Fatboy
- Street Roots
- Powell's Books Blog
- Portland Transport
- Portland Afoot
- Bike Portland
- Eater: PDX
- Portland Food and Drink
- Mr. Movie
- Sunday Softball
- BlueOregon
- Sightline Institute
- Ultra: Arts Portland
- Bitch Magazine
- Blazer's Edge
- Reading Local: Portland
- Portland Food Carts
- Stumptown Vegans
Our Enemies
RSSGoing to Seattle?
