Yes, the show is now over, so if you didn’t have a chance to see the Fire Sale Exhibition at the Grand Galleries, here’s the next best thing.
Artist’s take on housing crisis stirs controversy
Please share your thoughts!
Thanks so much to everyone who made it out to the film premiere and gallery exhibition opening on Saturday. It was great to reconnect with so many of the project participants! I hope you were able to see the film in the context of the gallery exhibition as well, as both are only parts of the entire Voices of Tracy project.
My hope for this project was to foster a local, regional and even national conversation about the effects of the housing and banking meltdown on real people and real communities. Numbers and statistics don’t tell the whole story. If you saw the film and exhibition, please share your thoughts below. And if you have been affected by the housing crisis and recession, feel free to tell me your story below or contact me directly by email.
Rhinohead Productions
Project opens June 8th! Please join us!
Doors open at 5:30 and show starts at 6! It’s free and open to the public – please bring your friends and family! Gallery reception continues from 7-9pm.
Artist captures human tragedy behind crisis
Read this great article in the Stockton Record!
Follow the project in the Tracy Press
Feel free to leave your own comments for the Tracy Press! Read more here.
Gallery exhibition is shaping up!
Still lots to do, but the work is really coming together. I am so looking forward to the opening on June 8th. Hope you will join me from 6-9pm at the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts for the opening of the project, Inhabit Your City: Voices of Tracy. We will premiere the short documentary HOME at 6pm and follow that with an opening for the related gallery exhibition, Fire Sale (Everything Must Go).
See you there!
Saturday, June 8th, 6-9pm
Grand Theatre Center for the Arts
715 Central Avenue
Tracy, CA 95376
All events are free and open to the public. Join us!
Watch the teaser!
I know it has been awhile – I’ve been working hard to get the documentary finished and while not quite done, we are getting really close! In the meantime, I have the teaser to share with you. Hope this will give you a taste of what’s to come.
Home – Teaser from Anné M. Klint on Vimeo.
Mark your calendars! The project opens June 8, 6-9pm at the Grand Theatre in downtown Tracy. Join us for an evening screening and gallery opening, replete with live music, gourmet treats, and libations in celebration of our collaborative effort to capture the Voices of Tracy.
Orange season in California
A few more faces and Voices of Tracy!
It’s a New Year!
Time for hope? At least San Joaquin County no longer suffers the highest rates of foreclosure in the nation. [SWRNN]
Time for rebuilding? Modesto Bee tells us, since 2006, more than 35,500 San Joaquin County homes have been foreclosed.
Time for outrage?
Since Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980, the top one percent of Americans have seen their incomes increase by 275 percent. But after accounting for inflation, the typical hourly wage for a worker has increased just $1.23 cents.
Just hours before the fiscal cliff deal’s higher individual tax rates kicked in, Goldman Sachs handed Lloyd Blankfein and his top lieutenants “a total of $65 million in restricted stock,” bonuses awarded a month earlier than usual so they could all beat the coming tax hike from which they have been spared for more than 10 lucrative years. It will not surprise you, I am sure, to learn that “corporations announced more special dividends last month than in any other December since at least 1955.” Doing everything they can to avoid helping pay off the debt their CEOs have been urging Congress to cut.
As for working people, tough luck. Because the fiscal cliff deal ends the cut in payroll taxes, the average worker this year will take home about a thousand dollars less.
Read Bill Moyers’ full essay, The ‘Crony Capitalist Blowout’ here.
Happy Holidays!
Wishing all a very happy holiday season!
Thanks for visiting the site.
There’s much more to come after the holidays, so please stay tuned.
Photos by others
These photos are of Voices of Tracy participants.
Dani Gentry, by Juan Sanchez
Juan Sanchez, by Dani Gentry
Marc Schneider, by Kim Ruiz
Juan Sanchez lived here with his family
What they didn’t know was that their landlord wasn’t paying the mortgage. They came home one day to find a foreclosure notice on the front door. They were forced to move in a hurry. All this shortly after losing their family home in Bakersfield.
Karenna Costa and Ravi
Karenna bought and now lives in her parents’ home of 30 years.
Winter skies
Stephen and Anita Ridolfi have roots here
Marc Schneider is a first time home buyer
Choo ‘Jaime’ Carmichael talks about the market
Bill Pollard and Mia
Bill Pollard’s office has processed about 1000 foreclosures/short sales in the last several years. Fortunately, everyone agrees that the situation is improving, but we still have a ways to go.
Making home “home”
Don and Char Bisbee with guest pup Brody
Stephanie Feinstein
Richard Beebe ignores me at the Grand
Steve Abercrombie at the Grand
Harish Patel talks economy and community
Something To Do!
Thanks to all who came out to support our local artists and who donated food to Tracy Interfaith!
And very special thanks to Matt Wells, Dani Gentry, The Yells, Medicine Cabinet and Armed and Dangerous for participating in this project!!
Duffermen in Carrels talk and perform for me
David Condra, Guillermo Colondres and Sergio Galvan played some of their original music for me.
Andrea Juarez tells me her story
Sheryl Madison and Dennis Lancaster
Dani Gentry talks and sings
Check her out performing Fleet Foxes White Winter Hymnal here
Lauren Carter at the Grand
Mike and Marietta McLellan with Duncan
Matthew Morgan and Eric Farias
Pat Sanchez talks to me about moving to Tracy
Dan Schack and Rio
Jeffrey and Susan Haskett
June and Julia Yasemsky with Rex
The Yasemskys believe little Rex was abandoned when his former family left their foreclosed home nearby.
Brian Pekari tells me what prompted him to make a difference
Cristina Hashimoto talks about farming in Tracy
Day of the Dead at Southside Community Center
Free Portraits – West Valley Mall
Stockton Record reports on the project
Thanks goes to Lori Gilbert of the Stockton Record for her great article on the Voices of Tracy project.
Read it here: www.recordnet.com
Lost House
Mary, Brian and Regina Carr
Eleazar Lopez talks about Nana Olie’s
Dante Ridolfi talks about Tracy
James Cardenas talks about changes he’s seen
Gabriel, Rose and Taylor
Ffjorren Zolfaghar at the Grand
Diana Ramsey talks to me about Tracy
Archival photos from Tracy’s railroad era
Day of the Dead Altar at the Grand
Ken Cefalo at Main Street Music
Juana Dement with Rhodesia Ransom
Kathleen Bergthold and Daisy at the Halloween Parade
Gruesome Foursome!
Ashlee Villela + Dani Gentry + Jason Costa + Juan Sanchez talk to me about Tracy.
Alma Thompson talks about Tracy
Out and about around town with Nicole
Elizabeth Fountain
Will the old Monument Car Parts building really be torn down to build a McDonalds? Elizabeth shows me the oldest tree in Tracy.