I’m excited and freaked out at the same time…I’m actually going to be showing my photography at an art show this Saturday!  Giselle Anguizola, founder of GirlJam California, is hosting an entire weekend that celebrates the role of women and their contribution to early American dance, specifically roots jazz culture.  To compliment this event, she is hosting an evening presentation of the arts at the Sister Lodge in North Park, immediately following Ray at Night (an art festival held every second Saturday of the month in North Park, San Diego).

Giselle has kindly asked me, as a local female photographer, to show some of my photographs.  And I am so proud to do so!  If you happen to be coming out for Ray at Night this Saturday, please stop by and say hi!  Or just come out to the show anyway to see my work, a few other local female artists, and learn lots about women in dance history! Here is the info:

We also heard from Matt Diaz and his spoken word.  I’m usually not a fan of spoken word, but Matt really found a way to engage and connect with the audience.  His voice, his body language, and his words were piercing and moving.  I’ve heard him speak before this, but tonight it felt like he wasn’t holding back anything!

The night finished off with the extremely talented Joseph Wiggan, rhythm tap dancer from Los Angeles.  He did his thing acapella and mesmerized us all!  Seeing an amazing performance like this, and getting to be within a few feet of the artist, was intense!  I love dance, especially tap, so this was such a treat for me!

Today was a day of appreciation of art in all its forms, I finally got to see Coraline today!  Coraline is a stop motion animated film by Henry Selick, story originally written by Neil Gaiman.  This movie was awesome in every aspect! I’m a huge fan of Neil Gaiman, he wrote the Sandman comic series and many other sci-fi and fantasy books. I’m also a huge fan of the director, Henry Selick.  He also directed the Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, one of my all-time favorites!  Coraline was such a fantastic work of handmade wonders and imagination gone wild!  I also spent some time on the Coraline website, super cool. Here’s a flower I made:

Now, off to do some packing, we leave for Las Vegas tomorrow morning! We are attending the WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Photographers International) convention and tradeshow and I can’t wait!