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Thu Mar 20

Pacific Art Collective's

PAC Session 5 Year Anniversary

"Art always tastes better when its brought to you live!"


Tel. 408.946.4688
Website
$10

Location
Date and Time
Voodoo Lounge
14 S. Second St
San Jose, CA 95113
district: San Jose

Thu Mar 20 (8pm - 2pm)

Description
ABOUT PACIFIC ART COLLECTIVE

Pacific Art Collective (PAC) is recognized for catapulting a collaborative art movement and is North Americas largest art collective featuring over 550 multi-disciplinary artists that have performed live.

PAC started in San Jose in late 2002 having since produced over 100 collaborative art events throughout the West Coast, creating awareness for International artists, art districts, venues &
organizations through cross-cultural education and live performance.

PAC's motto has always been "Art always tastes better when its brought to you live!"

PAC has inspired individuals & groups to promote a collaborative vision resulting in a cross-cultural uprising. These days it is common to see events throughout San Jose, the Bay Area and West Coast, showcasing live painters, poets, dj's, bands, performance art and exhibits. Thats the collaborative art movement in effect.

WHO:
Shitkickers - The Maids of Honor f/ members of Skashmouth & LEX f/ the first season of Survivor - Rivals - I am Empire

Other Details:
Live Collaborative Mural Art
T-Shirt Giveaways
Must be 21+ w/ ID

THE LEGENDARY PAC SESSION

PAC SESSION was the visionary collaborative effort created originally as an exposure event for San Jose artists. PAC SESSION took place throughout several cultural venues offering a consistent community stage giving every day street artists, bands, poets and others, with or without commercial success, the inspiration and opportunity to express themselves in front of sizable audiences.
Before PAC SESSION there were little to no opportunities available for those without long histories and/or connections within the scene. During this time, both the venues and the artists gained immeasurable exposure and new demographic. Most artists also gained economic stimulation through art, cd, merchandise sales and future bookings while venues benefited from memberships, goods, services, concessions, bars and other residuals.

PAC SESSION EXPOSURE EVENT FUND
Initially all profits raised from PAC SESSION were to be used to take select artists, based on community votes, to New York to do an event showcasing the scene and talents of San Jose & the Silicon Valley. After the first year, PAC realized New York was a long shot. Distance, high expense and the overwhelming influx of artists reaching out was far to much realistically to fly, house and promote everyone. Therefore PAC focused on the West Coast, traveling with and showcasing 100's of artists throughout Portland, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Phoenix.

Here is a small list of some of the more notable artists that have performed on PAC's stage.

Visual Artists: Sue Averell, David Choong Lee, Amy Sol, Damon Soule, Bates, David Choe, Ewok, Pursue, Paco Excel, Ferris Plock, Kelly Tunstall

Musical: Digital Underground, Fishbone, J.Boogie, Phenomenauts, Crown City Rockers, Day One Symphony, Delta Activity, Firme, Monkey, Rick Preston, Oakland Faders, Kung Fu Vampire, Maids of Honor

Stand Up Poetry: Mike McGee (World Slam Champion), NerCity, Scorpio Blues, IN-Q, Jason Bayani, San Jose Slam Team, Palo Alto Slam Team

Dance/Performance: San Jose Ballet, Tiffany Glenn, Tezkatlipoka

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS & RECOGNITIONS

PAC created programming for the San Jose Museum of Art for two years presenting collaborative art events known as Cultural Xposure, a name derived from PAC's original tag line "Cultural Xposure Through Unity of Art". Eight events featuring hundreds of artists with all levels and backgrounds help draw thousands of people of all ages and cultures to the Museum. Over 250 memberships had been sold.

PAC has been present the past two years for San Francisco Magazines Best of the Bay.

MARIBEL ALVAREZ, Ph.D wrote in her book CULTURAL INITIATIVES SILICON VALLEY - There's Nothing Informal About It; Participatory Arts Within The Cultural Ecology of Silicon Valley:

"In addition to crafting one of the most sophisticated local public stages for individual informal artists through the idioms of urban, hip, and alternative aesthetics, Pacific Art Collective also makes the audience’s participation interactive and, hence, informally and spontaneously creative in its own right."

KQED wrote:

"Like a well-oiled artistic machine, Pacific Art Collective caters to the wavering attention spans inherent in youth culture and offers support to artists who need it most. PAC is like a good date who pays attention to your needs, gives you a little bit of everything you like and calls you the next day."

METRO NEWSPAPERS wrote:

"...when it comes to eras like Paris in the 1920s, Berlin in the 1930s and Greenwich Village in the 1940s, you saw scenarios where composers boozed it up with painters, dancers traded ideas with poets and everyone was familiar with each other's work. Sadly, those types of interdisciplinary creative exchanges don't really exist anymore. The Pacific Art Collective is accomplishing the equivalent in underground urban youth circles; in fact they've even taken it on the road to promote Silicon Valley, but you don't see it in the art-music circles at all..." Gary Singh/Metro
Newspapers

"If you've been sleeping on the San Jose and South Bay art scene and/or Pacific Art Collective, it's time to wake up."