Harvardwood is looking for pro-bono casting help for our August Showcase of Harvardwood Writers and Actors. We will draw from a dedicated pool of Harvardwood Actors, "Friends of Harvardwood," and outside recommendations - and we need help making the selections. There will 5-9 pilots (12-20 pages each) presented in the showcase, casting will take place over 2-3 sessions during the last week of June and the first week of July. Please lend us your expertise! Contact Allison Kiessling at: [email protected]

Hello SF/Bay Area Harvardwood Members,

Have ideas for events? Want to get involved? We would love to have you on board to make this summer and fall an active one for our club!

Join us for an SF/Bay Area Harvardwood Activities Committee meeting on Thursday, June 25 at 7pm in North Beach. Come meet other members, enjoy snacks, and share your ideas with us! Please RSVP by Tuesday, June 23 to Chapter Head Julia Ogrydziak at [email protected] and we will follow up with details.

If you cannot make it on Thursday but are still interested in being a part of this Committee, please email Julia at [email protected].

Calling all Georgia residents working (or strongly interested) in the arts, media, and entertainment! Harvardwood is starting up a Georgia Chapter, and we are in the process of planning an exciting series of events and activities in and around Atlanta, Georgia that will be informative, fun, and great for networking. If you are in Georgia, please join the Georgia Chapter through the Harvardwood website (instructions below), or feel free to send an email with any questions, concerns, or ideas to Chapter Head Ashley Filip: [email protected]

Harvardwood is starting an informal advisory committee to beef up (or tofu up :)) our services for Harvardwood actors. Help us help you! What do you need to: find work, showcase your talent, and raise your brand as a Harvardwood actor? The first meeting will be a brainstorming session to find out what you really need to succeed. We will be looking for great ideas and volunteers to help lead the charge! If you would like to help develop better services, workshops, panel discussions, and website features, please drop us a line: [email protected]

We are seeking Harvardwood members and/or friends involved in the Visual Arts (dealers, curators, collectors, and artists) who might be interested in participating in a panel event in Los Angeles. If you fit this description or know someone who does, please contact George Melrod to express your interest: [email protected]

AUTHORS WANTED. Harvardwood Books is seeking manuscripts for publication!

This collaboration between Harvardwood and Unlimited Publishing LLC offers writers the chance to get their non-fiction or fiction books into print - and there is no charge. Harvardwood Books offers national distribution of hardcover and paperback books and the chance for authors to earn royalties. Unpublished and previously published books are eligible for consideration.

Attention Harvard writers! We will soon be launching a Harvardwood Writers Program module for fiction writers (novels, short stories, poetry, and the like) in Los Angeles. The group will meet on a regular basis to workshop manuscripts as well as to host guest speakers.

If you are an interested writer (literary only, please), please email the following information to:
[email protected]

The Harvard Clubs in Connecticut would be interested in organizing events for their members in conjunction with local performances by Harvardwood members and Harvard alumni. Successful past events have included post-performance receptions with musicians, cast members, and playwrights; gallery openings and film premières. Meet-and-greets with notable alumni filming in CT are also of interest to the clubs. If you are aware of upcoming performances in CT with direct Harvard tie-ins please contact Roger Cole the Harvard Alumni Association Regional Director for CT. His e-mail address is [email protected]

Dear Harvardwood NYC Members:

We are in search of a location to host upcoming panel events, either a room in a members club or a corporate auditorium that would seat at least 50.

For next month, we are seeking a space to hold a panel featuring alumni editors from top glossy magazines on a Saturday afternoon in November.

Of course the host organization will be credited for its donation of space. We can also work with you to invite members of your organization to attend.

If you can provide space for either our November event or future events, please contact [email protected]

Thanks!

Interested in earning a Harvardwood byline and a place in our hearts? We are looking for people interested in writing profiles of intriguing members of the Harvard community in the arts, entertainment and media fields. Student writers welcome. These profiles appear monthly in Harvardwood Highlights and run in the range of 1,000 to 1,500 words, though we are flexible.

If you are interested in coming aboard, please contact us.

The Board is pleased to announce what we believe will be a useful and innovative way for the Harvardwood community to bring our creative work to the attention of fellow members and the general public—and to explore new ideas by watching archived (and, eventually, live) interviews of people in the arts, media and entertainment worlds.

To learn more about The Harvardwood Channel—and how you can use it to share your work, and explore others'—click on The Harvardwood Channel item on the main menu of our home page, www.harvardwood.org

Do any Harvardwood folks out there own (or have access to) an HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface) computer cable and/or HDMI-level editing suite? We are in the process of adding video content to the Harvardwood website and have access to an HD camera (Sony Handycam HDR-HC7) but need some way to post-produce the HD video. Please let us know if you have any leads: [email protected]
Thanks!