ChatterBox Presents:

The 7th Annual San Francisco Altered Barbie Exhibit 

Happy 50th Birthday Barbie!  Cougars Rule and that goes for Ken too! 

Julie Andersen

alteredbarbie 09

www.alteredbarbie.com

415-240-2202

 9/10/09-10/04/09

Tuesday – Saturday 1-7, Sunday 1-5

Shotwell 50 Studios

50 Shotwell

San Francisco, Ca. 94103-3626

www.shotwell50.com

9/12/09: 1-4 PM - Scrap Altered Barbie Workshop:  

Attend the Happy 50th Birthday Barbie Workshop at SCRAP! 

Alter and recycle your own Barbie and or Ken, build an environment or embellish found items, with materials donated by SCRAP.

To sign up for classes: http://www.scrap-sf.org/workshops.htm,  Links to the site can also be found through www.alteredbarbie.com

9/17/09: 5-10 PM - Happy 50th Birthday Barbie ARTISTS RECEPTION!! 

Come dressed as your favorite Birthday Barbie or Ken and meet the artists who have resurrected and reinvented Ken and Barbie into art and performance. 

MC John Hell of FCCFreeRadio,  Barbie Haiku, Velocity Circus’s award winning American Icon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7V0vsJqX9k&feature=channel_page

Barbie Films include and not limited to:

The Tribe-Tiffany Shlain, Barbie Nation-Susan Stern, Documentary-Michel Fraser, interactive Barbie puppetry by little blue moon theater

live Music by Dogs Playing Poker; http://www.myspace.com/dogsplayingpoker4, & DJ Doty.

9/18/09: 6-9 PM - Barbie Haiku and book reading night, hosted by Jennifer Hasegawa

9/23/09: Altered Barbie Wine Tasting 

9/24/09: 5-9pm - Fundraiser for SF State The Safe Place:

Dolls from Students will be on display as well as a Barbie Panel Discussion with SF State Safe place, Roadawgz, and scholars:

Topic: Issues of body image and the use of recreating Barbie to promote a positive body image.  Love your Body! 

10/01/09 7:30 PM - $20.00 - The Barbie Diaries: Barbie Puppet Theater:. 

Little Blue Moon Theater: An intimate view from a dolls perspective, humorous, yet with more depth than you might expect from a blond, plastic, fashion icon. www.magicalmoonshine.org/bluemoon.htm

10/03/09: 6-10 PM - A Barbarella Happy 50th Birthday Ball Closing Artists Reception: 

A Fantabulous futuristic night of Altered Everything with Evolution Control Committee, velocity circus, & the Devil-Ettes, Mistress of Ceremonies Donna Davis.

Donations encouraged!