The 11th Annual Holiday Show and Sale begins First Friday December 7th at 7pm. Over 50 artists from KALEID and the greater South Bay area will be offering original works of art and creative gifts affordably priced for the holidays!

Participating Artists:
Murphy Adams
Frank Aguilar
Jaclyn Alderete
Fernando Amaro
Shannon Amidon
Mariana Barnes
Christine Benjamin
Laura Bennett
Sandi Billingsley
Julie Bilyeu
Mike Borja
Lacey Bryant
Keith Bunnell
Nicolas Caesar
Shone Chacko
Mark Damrel
Joe Decker
Charis DeRemer
DonBon
Cari Ferraro
Michael Foley
Kim Gordon
Michele Guieu
Katie Gutierrez
Andre Hart
Jeff Hemming
Leah Jay
Dylan Kelly
Oscar Knutsson
Leeonista
Katrina Marie Loera
Drew McSherry
Joshua Marcotte
Frances Marin
Kimy Martinez
David Mejia
Mariya Milovidova
Yumi Miyagawa
John Paulson
Joe Perea
Anabella Piñon
Al Preciado
Amine Rastgar
Steven Reece
Jen Renzel
John Renzel
Leslie Ann Rice
Blaise Rosenthal
Valerie Runningwolf
Karen Carlo Salinger
Miha Sarani
Matthew Seigel
Steven Suiter
Courtney Thiesen
Kori Thompson
Amanda Triplett
Michelle Waters
Jeanne Yee

KALEID Gallery
88 S. 4th St., San Jose, CA

artist Miguel Machuca

Every third Tuesday of the month is our $2 art sale and creative get together at KALEID. We're always looking for community artists & creatives to share their talents through demos, painting live, performance or music and /or provide $2 art for our patrons (postcard size or smaller.)

It's free to participate and to attend. If you'd like to join us, please email us at info[at]KALEIDGallery[dot]com.

TWO BUCK Tuesday at KALEID
Nov. 20th, 7-10pm

88 S. 4th St.
San Jose, CA
www.KALEIDgallery.com

Featured artists this time include Caitlin Gill on comedy and uppercuts, Wiggy Darlington on music and mystery meat, and David Sullivan on poetry and saving America.

Friday, November 9th, 7:30pm (tix), 8pm (show)
Admission: $5 + a roll of 1 die

RSVP here.

Anno Domini
366 South First St.
San Jose, CA 95112

Two new exhibitions opened last Friday featuring Michele Guieu and Karen Carlo Salinger at KALEID Gallery. Exhibitions are on view through November 30th.

Let’s Fight Till Six and Then Have Dinner by Michele Guieu

This installation of drawings and videos is about childhood and its fleeting moments. Everything passes, hence the title, which also refers to the fact that the show opens just a few days before presidential election day. It puts the urge to argue and the hunger for peace in (a childish) perspective.

The drawings hung on the backdrop of the giant leaf are made from pages of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. I see the world Alice visits – and creates at the same time – as a response to the complicated world we live in. In the series of short videos, I watch my two boys as they grow: the way they see the world, the creatures and the monsters they imagine.

Creature Comforts ­­­­­by Karen Carlo Salinger

Suspended animation, medical curiosities, scientific illustrations and biological specimens. Improbable creatures in impossible situations. These are some of the ideas that I incorporate into my drawings, sculpture, and other artwork. I call them my creatures, because that is what they are – unknown organisms that take shape in my mind, the roots of which come from a lifelong interest in strange biology, microscopic life, the human body, and basically anything else ooey, gooey, creepy, strange or unusual.

88 South Fourth Street (@ San Fernando)
San Jose, CA 95112
info@KALEIDGallery.com
408-947-1785
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, noon -7pm, free admission

Join us at KALEID Gallery for this upcoming TWO BUCK Tuesday, November 20th, 7pm-10pm!

Come enjoy an inspired evening of performances, live painting, $2 art, drop-in sketching table & quirky people get together! It’s open to all ages and free!

Here’s some of the great things to see and do this time:

Michele Guieu, Part of My Dream, mixed media, 6x8”, 2012
 
Michele Guieu will have a demo/hands-on workshop in relation with her current exhibition in the gallery: Let’s Fight Till Six and then Have Dinner. She will show the different steps of the making of the mixed media drawings from the series The Time Has Come. You will have the opportunity to work on a page of Alice in Wonderland and experiment with different tools.

Lara Sophia will host a costumed life drawing session. Bring those pencils and pads and draw the human form with us!

Hand turkey drawings just in time for Thanksgiving! :)

Thanksgiving is just around the corner! You are welcome to bring a dish to share if you would like. We would love to share with you!

Calling all knitters and crocheters! San Jose Yarn Bombers will be hosting a Plot Meeting for activity over the holidays. Bring your needles and swing by!

LIVE ART by:

?Nic Caesar

?Al Preciado and friends!

?Jehoiakim Santos

?David Mejia

?Alexandria Perez

MUSIC will be provided by the fabulous DJ Coco!

?Nour El Ain will join us for some live improvisational belly dance!

TWO BUCK Tuesday is November 20th, 7pm-10pm!? ? 

88 South Fourth Street (@ San Fernando)
San Jose, CA 95112
info@KALEIDGallery.com
408-947-1785
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, noon -7pm, free admission

Heavy Traffic by Christine Rasmussen
"I paint about things I can’t express in words. My paintings are coded emotions with narratives born out of process."

Opening Reception: Saturday December 8th 4-7pm

Exhibition dates: Dec. 1, 2012 - Jan. 31, 2013

www.christinekeenarasmussen.com

Barefoot Coffee Campbell
1819 S. Bascom Ave.
Campbell, CA 95008

Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose (CDM) is preparing for Holidays Unboxed: A Spectacle of Cardboard and Tape partnering with architect Eric Lennartson to design a packing tape installation at CDM. Daily volunteers are needed to help us bring these creations to life beginning on Saturday, December 1st and through Thursday, December 6th.

Our specific volunteer needs and scheduling information are as follows:
We are seeking volunteers for AM and PM SHIFTS on Saturday, December 1st - Wednesday, December 6th. Volunteer on any one day, or for multiple shifts over multiple days. The nature of this work is physical. Volunteers must be comfortable bending and squatting, lifting, and reaching overhead. Standing on ladders may also be a requirement as needed. Volunteers should think of this as a yoga/pilates/gym hybrid experience.

Anyone who is comfortable with these requirements and particularly those in the architectural, design, mechanical engineering, or construction should feel 100% at home with this volunteer gig! College students pursuing design degrees with knowledge of materials and eye for detail… we need you! Craftspeople and makers - you, too! Dancers? Rock climbers? Sure!

Please sign-up to volunteer by adding your company name, first/last name, and checking only the shift(s) for which you are committed to volunteering at CDM. You will receive an email confirmation with detailed information. Sign-up here: http://www.doodle.com/b69sq5yfzn8hi9bt

For questions, please contact:

Lisa Ellsworth
w. (408) 298-5437 ext. 272 | c. (650) 269-3071
ellsworthlis@gmail.com

Something special is going to take place on December 15th in San Francisco, Portland, Sydney, Abu Dhabi and ...perhaps San Jose!

Mercy Beyond Borders is gathering its friends around the world for the first ever simultaneously international fundraiser for girls' education in South Sudan and Haiti. This event will be held in as many hamlets of the globe as possible.

The main party, in the San Francisco area, will feature a silent auction and are seeking art from local artists to help us in our cause. If you would like to donate your art, and help our girls, please contact organizer Mary Hurley, at mhurley11@hotmail.com.

Go to www.mercybeyondborders.org to learn more about this organization

Frida and Friends 5th Annual Blanket and Art Drive

For the past couple of years we have held this drive to collect blankets for our furry friends at the San Jose Animal Pet Shelter. For this years drive we have decided to add a silent art auction along with the collecting blankets.

Friends and local artists have been asked to donate a pet inspired piece of art for this auction. All proceeds from the auction will be donated to an animal shelter in need. All bidding for art pieces will start at $10.

Please come by, bid and see how inspired we are by our four legged friends.

Saturday, December 1st, 7–11pm

Seeing Things Gallery
30 North Third Street
San Jose CA 95112
408-891-7553
seeingthings.jaitanju@yahoo.com

Join us for an afternoon of DJs, Drinks, Records, and Good Vibes!

Some of the best record dealers in the Bay Area will be selling and DJing. Come dig for everything from Funk, Soul, Jazz, Rock, Hip-Hop, Latin, and Afro-Funk!

Drink specials on micro-brews and fine wine, with delicious apps aplenty.

Sellers/DJs:
Jeff Jagged (On the Corner Music)
DJ Fat Headphones
DJ Aware (Oakland)
Timothy Chung (Needle to the Groove)
Manzanita Sound
VAMP Music & Art
DJ Miz Rowdy
Selecta Riddm

Date: Sunday, December 2nd, 2012
Time: 2-6pm
Where: Wine Affairs, 1435 The Alameda, San Jose CA 95126

For more info contact:
On the Corner Music
(408) 871-0305
https://www.facebook.com/groups/131677563515187/

San Jose Made (SJMADE) is a vendor fair for local San Jose makers, labels, brands, small businesses, and artists showcasing and selling current projects and goods.

For the Holiday 2012 installation of SJMADE, we are hosted by San Pedro Square Market in Downtown San Jose. On December 1st, our SJMADE vendors are showcasing goods alongside various San Pedro Square Market merchants.

Saturday, Dec 1st, 11am-6pm, free admission

San Pedro Square Market
87 N. San Pedro St.
San Jose, CA

Works by Rafiq Gulamani at the Usuals November 30th - January 21st

Opening Reception: Friday, November 30th 7p-10p

with music by:
DJ Camouflage
Bert aka International Superbert

The Usuals
1020 The Alameda
San Jose

Please join us for a closing reception as we say goodbye & thank you to our "beta" gallery space & welcome the next step in our journey with fine art bodypaint!

Trina Merry & Alana Dill will be making bodypaint installations. Sandra Moreno & Gina Mello will also be bodypainting. Tahira the Pure Dance Theater will be gracing us with their performances throughout the event.

This will be the last time to see the prints in person unless you set up an appointment or order online for a little while so come check them out & support the arts!

(The gallery is very close to Christmas in the Park so it would be lovely for you to make a night of it!)

Closing Reception: Friday November 30th, 7pm-10pm, free.

Join the Facebook event page here.

Art Alive Gallery hosted by Phantom Galleries
95 S. Market Street (just past San Fernando)
San Jose, CA