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Ventura Fringe Gallery Crawl

It’s been a while since I’ve made any updates, and for that I apologize. With my time off over the holidays and my subsequent return to work, my updates had to take a backseat for a couple of days. Not that I haven’t had plenty to write about, but I’ve been relaxing. Amelia painted a backdrop for me the other night, which is huge news, but I will have to report on that later.

While distributing post cards for Alex’s Jan. 12, I visited a few places and talked to a few friends. I found out today that there is going to be an International Film Festival here in Fillmore that no one seems to know about. The film festival will be at Fillmore’s Historic Downtown Theater on Jan. 18 - 20. Dubbed the “Gone with the Film Festival”, it being hosted by Iris International Film and will feature small, independent films from all over the world. Why it is that this festival has not been promoted and advertised county-wide is a complete mystery to me. Something this special to be presented here in the town of Fillmore deserves a lot more attention that it has received already. I’ve spoken to some folks around town and nobody seems to know about it. I hope that in the coming weeks that there will at least be some posters in some of the store windows around town. In fact, I hope to get some post cards from them to have for the show on the 12th. For more info, check out their website at: http://www.irisfilmintl.com/index0907gwtf.htm

On another note, I spent a bit of time in Santa Paula at John Nichols Gallery today talking with John himself. Let me start that John Nichols Gallery has been one of my favorite galleries in Ventura County since before I moved here from Oakland last year. Having both a frame shop and a printing service on location, John has a huge collection of photos ranging from old snapshots that sell for under a hundred bucks to George Hurrell prints that go for many thousands of dollars. Interspersed throughout are many excellent pieces from local artists and from the proprietor himself.

Nichols has been hosting about one opening a year at the gallery, and has expressed a desire to orient his space to have more art events there sometime in the future. On a slightly similar note, we lightly discussed the possibility of jointly opening our spaces in a effort to bring more people out into the area to see art. I for one think that this is a capital suggestion, and I hope to pursue this idea that John thought of as a “Fringe Festival” as the year progresses. In the meantime, I hope that anyone looking to see some good photos head to Santa Paula and check out John Nichols Gallery.

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