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Cinema Project seeks new office and screening space

Recently, the lease on Cinema Project's donated office and screening space was abruptly canceled. We initially need a replacement office immediately with a minimum of 200 square feet to house our organizational records and work station for administrative staff.

A shared or dedicated screening space is also on our wish list. Our spring season begins in late February and we need to find a space that can hold at least 50 audience members with storage for projection and sound equipment. As in the past, we are seeking property owners or lessees generous enough to donate screening and/or office space or steeply discount our lease rate.

Please contact Autumn at [email protected] to suggest any potential leads.

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CINEMA PROJECT NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!

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Donate through PayPal, online here.

Cinema Project is fortunate to be able to carry out programs with an all-volunteer staff, but your financial support can help cover basic administrative and outreach costs and help to ensure that the memorable and engaging events Cinema Project is known for can continue to happen. Making a donation of any size—$25, $50, $100, $500—can have a significant impact.

In 2009 Cinema Project was awarded grants from the Oregon Arts Council, Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, and most recently from the Meyer Memorial Trust to put toward new equipment and technical development helping us through 2010 and beyond. But in order for us to bridge the gap between business and foundation support and our total funding needs, we rely on gifts from individual supporters like you.  

All donations made to Cinema Project are fully tax-deductible and can be made in somebody's name as a meaningful gift (when filling out donation information on PayPal be sure to use the "Notes" field to let us know who we should be sending a thank you to). Donating now is simple through PayPal, just click the link above or go to our website, www.cinemaproject.org. You can also send a check payable to Cinema Project to the address listed below.

2009 has definitely been an awesome year. Our hit event of fall saw our cinema space at capacity with curator Zoe Beloff's wonderful presentation of "The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society." Some of our international guests as part of the "Beyond Borders" series included Japanese photographer Hitoshi Toyoda, Canadian artist Daniel Barrow, and UK filmmaker Ben Rivers. And of course no year would be complete without showing some of the classic avant-garde fare that Cinema Project is known for, like the charming 16mm Jonas Mekas film Walden and an outstanding selection of the late Bruce Conner's work (a co-presentation with PDX Fest).

What's in store for 2010? We're continuing our international visiting artist series, "Beyond Borders", with a focus on dynamic film and video from the Pan Asian region including artists from Russia, Indonesia, Palestine, and Japan. With both filmmaker Naomi Uman and curator Stephanie Schulte also among our invited guests, we think 2010 will be one of our most diverse years ever.

Thanks again to those who have already contributed. Your support is essential to the life and programming of this organization.

Thank you,
Cinema Project
Autumn Campbell, Jeremy Rossen, Heather Lane, Mia Ferm

Cinema Project
P.O. Box 5991
Portland, Oregon 97228

MISSION

A collectively run non-profit organization founded in Portland, Oregon, in 2003, Cinema Project works to promote public awareness of avant-garde cinema from the past and present. Featuring artists and professionals from around the world, our annual series of screenings, lectures, and discussions seeks to broaden public engagement with, and deepen critical understanding of, innovative experimental film and video art.

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