Winter Jazz Band Concert - Jan. 20th - 7:00 pm

TMS Presents Oscar winner, Jeremy Larner - Jan. 26, 2011

Oscar-winning screenwriter, Jeremy Larner, will be our next guest for the TMS Presents series, January 26, 2011 - 7 to 8 pm. Jeremy won an Oscar for "The Candidate", the classic political campaign film starring Robert Redford -- set in California, with a production office based in Mill Valley! Join us for an evening of film clips and conversation with Jeremy, who has been an insider both in Washington DC and Hollywood from the early 1960s, and whose insights are as sharp and relevant as ever. Admission is free of charge, doors open at 6:30 pm - RSVP to kridge@themarinschool.org.

Jeremy was speechwriter for Senator Eugene McCarthy when that campaign knocked LBJ out of the presidential race in 1968. He also was the "life" magazine reporter at the politically-charged Mexico Olympics and an award-winning novelist. He co-wrote, with Jack Nicholson, the screenplay for the only film Nicholson ever directed, "Drive, He Said", based on Jeremy's novel of the same name. As if all that isn't enough, Jeremy is also a published poet.

Jeremy will also appear for an event with our students during the day: "From the Rise of JFK to the Fall of Nixon: An Inside View of American Politics, 1960-75." We'll be exploring not only that key time in history, but the effects is still has today, and the lessons to be learned from those connections.

"Mzansi Citizens of Soul" - January 7, 2011

TMS Alumni, Spencer Ackermann (class of '06) has taken on a new role as CFO of Soul-City Productions, a non-profit created by Spencer and two of his peers. They are kicking off 2011 with a multi-media art exhibition in Sausalito on January 7, 2011 at Studio 333, 6-9 pm.

"Mzansi Citizens of Soul" is a multi-media art exhibition sharing visions of contemporary South African culture, identity and community from the youthful perspectives of one American and two South African artists using photography, Xerox Transfer printmaking, raw artistic documentary film, poetry and writing as the foundation for communication a message of social awareness and cross-cultural understanding.

The exhibition is a celebration of diversity as it works to promote cross-cultural connections through universal languages of artistic expression. Soul city seeks to provide the Bay Area public with a foundation of greater understanding of the South African experience, past and presents; and does so through the notion of soul - a feeling that we recognize as being uniquely human and a catalyst for progressive unity among people of different spaces around the world.

"Mzansi Citizens of Soul"

January 7, 2011 - 6 to 9 pm

Studio 333

333 Caladonia St.

Sausalito, CA

Free Adminission (suggested $5 donation)

Video Conference with filmmaker Robert Greenwald

Students in The Marin School's Politics & Media class spoke with filmmaker Robert Greenwald via Skype on Thursday. Greenwald is the founder and president of Brave New Films, and is the director/producer of several documentaries including "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers" (2006), "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" (2005), and "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" (2004).

You can view a short video clip of the video conference or listen to the entire conversation below:

Robert Greenwald Clip from The Marin School on Vimeo.

Video Conference with Robert Greenwald from The Marin School on Vimeo.

TMS Presents Granta magazine's launch of "Best Young Writers in the Spanish Language" Dec. 6th

On December 6, 2010, TMS Presents is co-sponsoring the Granta authors' tour of the Bay Area in partnership with UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies. Celebrating Granta magazine's launch of "Best Young Writers in the Spanish Language", guests will include Andres Solano (Colombia), Carlos Yushimoto del Valle (Peru), Carlos Labbe (Chile) and Daniel Alarcon (Peru/USA).

Authors will read and discuss their work in an interactive discussion with TMS students. The program will be streamed live at www.ustream.tv/channel/tms-presents.

More information on Granta and the writers can be found at www.granta.com/Magazine/113

Video Conference with Filmmaker Taki Oldham

TMS students in Matt O'Donnell's Politics and Media class participated in a video conference with Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham via Skype today. The students watched Taki Oldham's new film Astro-Turf Wars: How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolution in class last week. You can watch the trailer for Astro-Turf Wars and the video conference below.

Video Conference with Taki Oldham from The Marin School on Vimeo.

Award-winning French film director visits TMS

Eleonore Faucher, award-winning French film director, visited TMS this week to meet with students from the film class taught by Kieran Ridge. The visit was arranged by Kieran and Keith Zwolfer, Education Program Manager for the San Francisco Film Society. Scenes from two of her films, Sequins and Sisters, the latter of which was just released in the US and the former being the winner of the Critics Week Grand Prize at the Cannes film festival, were shown and Ms. Faucher answered questions from the students.

Clips from Sisters can be viewed below.