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- SUMMER EVENTS, June 2010
June 14 Panel: Director Laura J. Lukitsch will participate in the
‘Far Flung Films: On Location Around the World’
panel at the San Francisco Film Society’s Film Arts Forum.
Location: Mezzanine in San Francisco. 7 pm.
July 15 Screening: Bring your friends, a blanket, and watch the latest work-in-progress screening of Beard Club under the stars at
the outdoor Temescal Street Cinema. Free.
Location: Telegraph and 49th Street in Oakland, CA.
Starts at 8 pm.
- SCREENING IN SEATTLE - FOR THE KIDS, February 2010
Clips of Beard Club will be screened as part of the Seattle
Beard and Stache Fest
on February 21, 7 pm, at
Central Cinema.
Tickets are $8 and support a great cause, the foster kids of King County.
- BEARD MUSIC, October 2009
Listen to 'Ode to Beard' a wonderful beard song by Sophie Madeleine and Hannah Rei.
Video
- BEARD BOOK EVENT, June 2009
On June 30, World Beard Champion Jack Passion will be launching "The Facial Hair Handbook" at Pegasus Bookstore in Berkeley.
Beard Club will be screening a trailer at the event. Come out and celebrate facial hair and pick
up a copy of Jack's book. More info.
- NEWS ON THE MAKING OF, July 2008
The San Francisco Film Society online journal published an article about the making of Beard Club in their new column which features films
that are in production. See the article at SF360.org.
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BEARD CLUB RECEIVES GRANT FROM PACIFIC PIONEER FUND, June 2008
Beard Club was recently awarded a grant from the Pacific Pioneer Fund to help pay for offline editing costs. We are still seeking funds to help pay for music, archival footage rights and online editing costs. If you would like to make a contribution, please visit the Support the Film
page for more information, or contact me directly at laura@beardclub.com.
- BILLY GIBBONS AND HIS BEARD, May 2008
On May 9th we filmed Billy Gibbons and ZZ Top, as they were on tour in California. We discussed the origins and history of Billy's legendary long red beard and attended their sold out show - they had a great performance!
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BEARD CLUB RECEIVES A FLEISHHACKER FOUNDATION GRANT, May 2008
Beard Club was just awarded a $5,000 grant from the Fleishhacker Foundation in San Francisco, to help fund the animation segments. And we are
seeking donations to help us receive a matching gift of $700. If you would like to make a contribution, please visit the Support the Film
page for more information, or contact me directly at laura@beardclub.com. We are seeking funds to help us pay for music, archival footage rights, and editing.
- UPDATE, April 2008
In February I interviewed Toufic El Rassi, a teacher, artist, and writer living in Chicago, IL, about the complex history of his beard. We discussed the pressures from family and friends to assimilate (shave his beard), and his path to finding pride in his ethnicity, and beard, after sifting through his feelings and experiences after 9-11. His first graphic novel,
Arab in America, was released in March.
Also, Beard Club just received a matching donation of $700. If you would like to make a contribution
to help us receive the matching donation, please visit the Support the Film page for more information, or contact me directly at
laura@beardclub.com.
- NEW YEAR UPDATE, January 2008
Thanks to everyone who donated to Beard Club at our last fundraiser! We now have a goal to raise over $40,000 for editing, animation, and post-production. Every bit helps!
Just after New Year we took a ferry to Vashon Island, just outside of Seattle, to film at a Russian Orthodox Monastery.
We spoke to Father Tryphon
and filmed a colorful Orthodox service in the little monastery church.
Later this month we will be filming the Sikh community in the farming community of Yuba City, CA, about their beard traditions.
- FUNDRAISER NOVEMBER 10TH IN BERKELEY, CA, 2007
We are entering the final stages of production and as an independently funded film are reaching out to the community to help us
move to the next step.
Generously donated food and auction items include: Peet's Coffee, Trumer Pils Beer,
a signed storyboard from the new Beard Club animation, an autographed copy of Pulitzer
nominated Maximum City Bombay by Suketu Mehta, an autographed DVD copy of
Academy Award nominated Genghis Blues, massage from Awakening Presence, jewelry from Amy K. Faust, a pair of FlowMaster Mufflers, a gift basket from Wine.com, Pacific Film Archives membership, tickets to CounterPULSE, Intersection for the Arts, The Marsh, Theatre of Yugen, Jess Curtis/Gravity, 3rdI South Asian Film Festival, Pocket Opera, The W Kamau Bell Curve, and books from Last Gasp Comics.
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RITES OF PASSAGE, September 2007
In September we filmed a San Francisco Bay Area family and spoke to them about the impact of the son's facial hair growth on family dynamics - looking at how quickly the personal becomes the inter-personal.
- THE INDIAN MUSTACHE, September 2007
The vast nation of India has many languages, foods, and many facial hair customs. Coming to American, some Indians will wear their traditional mustache even if that means not blending in to the clean shaven norm. But shaving for some parts of India is a sign of mourning. Others follow current fashion. We interviewed a father, son an uncle trio to find out what motivated their growth of a new family tradition - the goatee.
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THE SACRED BEARD, August 2007
Beards have been a tradition in many religions across the
globe. We recently filmed at a mosque in Santa Rosa and have
plans to film at a synagogue in NYC to learn more about the
origins of these sacred beards.
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MUSTACHE PARTY, August 2007
On August 8 we filmed at the San Francisco Mission bar, Pops.
Mustaches took center stage at the Pops Mustache Party. Later
this month we will be filming Pops owner Malia as she gets
a mustache tattoo. That's dedication!
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ANIMATION UNDER WAY, July 2007
Storyboard artist Dave Bohn recently completed the first set
of storyboards for our animation!
Also, Denise Minter has come on board in an advisory role
for the animated segments.
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FLOWER POWER, July 2007
In July we interviewed comic book publisher Ron Turner of
Last Gasp Comics about the 60s and the difference between
the activist beard and the hippie beard.
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MOST WANTED - BEARDS AND TERRORISM,, June
2007
Iranian visual artist, Taraneh Hermami, saw a tiny picture
on a government website depicting the most wanted terrorist
suspects. No specific facial features could be recognized,
but you could see outlines of beards. Hemami responded with
a beautiful and proactive exhibit called 'Most Wanted' which
we filmed at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco.
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DRAWING A BEARD, June 2007
Artist James Gobel drew a fabulous curly beard for Beard Club.
See the beard on the Subjects page and check out the link
to examples of James' other fabulous beard felt work!
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RECIEVED FISCAL SPONSORSHIP FROM FILM ARTS FOUNDATION, April 2007
Beard Club received Fiscal Sponsorship from Film Arts Foundation,
a 501(c)3 film organization based in San Francisco, CA.
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MUSTACHES AND DRAG, August 2006
Performance artist Audrey Hannah, has a great mustache collection. We filmed her don a stache as she
discussed her personal experiences of gender biases.
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Beard Club FUNDRAISING EVENT AND BEARD AND
MUSTACHE COMPETITION! , March 2006
Thank you to all who donated and congratulations to our competition
winners!
Food generously donated by Thinkers
Cafe, Goat
Hill Pizza, Cafe
Gratitude, and other local businesses.
Prizes generously donated by Sports
Basement, Four
Star Video, Beardsley
& Company, Oregon
Wild Hair Mustache Wax, Skippy's
Mustache Wax, and Father's
Mustache Wax.
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LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS, February 2006
International Bear Rendezvous draws hundreds of Bears to San
Francisco for fun, fundraising, and fur. We visited this year
to film the furry Bears and their competition.
- FILMED AT THE NO GREASE BARBER SHOP, CHARLOTTE, NC, November 2005
There we met Damian Johnson, the owner, and a wonderful group of customers who shared their
stories.
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PRIDE, June 2005
Our film crew marched along with the Bears at Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco. It was a festive
occasion to find out why these men take pride in their facial hair, something many gay men spend
hundreds of dollars to remove.
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WORLD BEARD COMPETITIONS, August - October 2004
Our first entry into the world of beards and mustaches and
it was a big one! Filming first in Washington at a local fair
and then traveling to London, Germany, and Italy to learn
more about the world of World Beard and Mustache competitors
and travel with the Berlin team to see if they had what it
took to win at the European competition held in Grotalie,
Italy.
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