San Francisco Bay Area News
Though many of us feel that San Francisco Bay is the best location for the 2017nAmerica’s Cup races, ORACLE TEAM USA announced last week that they were moving the March 1 deadline for announcing the 2017 venue to early summer. Negotiations with San Francisco are not going as well as they’d like, so they are looking at five other venues, including Hawaii and San Diego. Read more from SFGate.com
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According to a Feb. 3 declaration, the America’s Cup website announced that Jimmy Spithill will seek his third America’s Cup win with ORACLE TEAM USA.
The team confirmed Spithill will return to the American team where he won the America’s Cup in 2010 before defending it in San Francisco this past September.
“Being a part of the team when we first won in 2010 and then to be able to get back to back wins and now to have an opportunity at a third, it’s been an amazing ride,” Spithill says. “I feel fortunate to have been a part of it since day one and I’m looking forward to going at it again.”
ORACLE TEAM USA’s Russell Coutts has been told by Larry Ellison that his budget for the next America’s Cup will be restricted to US$80m. Photo / ACEA/Oracle
Smaller boats (but still lightening-fast foilers), only 7-9 crew, more common design elements, only four challengers from the World Series (ACWS) races in 2015-16 face off in SF during the Louis Vuitton and other ideas to cut costs and increase participation. Read more from Russell Coutts, Oracle TEAM USA member and AC’s most successful skipper, in the New Zealand Herald.
On exhibit this year: “a mile in his shoes”, Yvette Buigues, multimedia, 34”x64”x1.5”, 2013
As you enter the 7500 sq. ft. space at 5699 Bay Street you will be immersed in the color, texture and artistic energy of the 27th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition. Fountains of creativity are spilling over the Bay Street space, which is a natural gathering place for the community to celebrate its vibrant art culture. The 27th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition is a “uniquely Emeryville community event,” featuring works of eighty established and emerging artists who live or work in Emeryville and is produced by Emeryville residents and businesses.
A jury of art professionals selected the collection of artwork for the 27th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition through artist studio visits. According to Kathleen Hanna, curator and juror, “My third consecutive year of studio visits was amazing. New artists, great new work from artists I had met the previous years and an overall feeling of community involvement and anticipation of this wonderful event that brings together the entire town to celebrate art.” The other jurors are René de Guzman, Senior Curator of Art, Oakland Museum of California, and Sandy Simon, potter, owner of TRAX Gallery, Berkeley.
Sharon WIlchar has produced the Art Exhibition for 25 years with a team of dedicated volunteers. “Volunteers and artists make the Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition happen. I am grateful. Our volunteers have been so generous year after year. Ellen Hope Rosenberg, proprietress of the Townhouse Bar & Grill, hosts the volunteer Kick-Off party each year and our Board of Directors host the Volunteer Thank You Party when the exhibition closes. Albert Repola, Ruby*s Cafe and Jean Goldman, SunPower Corp., are our over-the-top Opening Night reception coordinators. And Mayor Kurt Brinkman, headed up the no-host bar on Opening Night to raise funds for the Emeryville Youth Art Program, which has been bringing artists into the Emery Unified School District now for three decades.”
Mayor Brinkman adds,”The Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition is about creating a sense of community for the residents of this amazing city. For twenty years, I have seen how art stimulates and develops community through an environment of creativity, conversation and appreciation for the talent of the Emeryville artists. So, please visit the annual Celebration of the Arts event at Bay Street and become part of the Emeryville community.”
Madison Marquette generously donated this year’s exciting Bay Street location. Additional sponsors include the City of Emeryville through a substantial grant, the non-profit Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, City Center Realty Partners, LLC, Wareham Development, Pixar, Kava Massih Architects, Thomson|Dorfman Partners, LLC, AAA Northern CA, NV & UT and Ruby*s Cafe.
The Exhibition is on display Oct. 5 through Oct. 27, 2013, and the show is open daily from 11am to 6pm. Admission is free and works on exhibit are for sale. Public Transportation: MacArthur BART station, Emery-Go-Round Shellmound-Powell Route; AC Transit bus #26, and Transbay commuter route Z from San Francisco. For directions, log on to: www.emeryarts.org or call 510/652-6122.
5699 Bay Street is right across from The GAP on the far northwest corner of Bay Street. See you there!
ORACLE TEAM USA wins Race 19 and retains the Cup! In the most tense of races, both teams showcased everything they had and ORACLE had the faster boat. What a thrilling race and a great Summer of Racing. America’s Cup will stay in America!
