Details: If you are planning to produce apparel or sewn products, this session is for you! In an interactive and supportive environment, you’ll learn how to set-up and manage your own manufacturing operation or use contract manufacturers.

We will cover key considerations including:

• Assessing your needs and what makes the most sense for your particular business
• Information and referrals to local factories and manufacturing resources
• Acquiring facilities and where to look
• Zoning and Permitting Issues
• Obtaining financing
• Addressing legal issues and documentation requirements
• Overcoming specific roadblocks and challenges
• Making valuable connections with your local manufacturing community

Presenters: Janet Lee, Director of Programs and Communications, SFMade

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Details: Become a HubMaster!

Join fellow Hub members and improve your public speaking skills for presentations, social events and in everyday conversation!

Meet like-minded people
Get valuable feedback 
Boost skills and self-confidence
Local – weekly club right in the Hub
Join a supportive community of fellow speakers

HubMasters is a weekly professional development program focused on public speaking, communications and leadership. It is based on the proven ToastMasters International format, but with an entrepreneurial angle.
Everyone is welcome to visit the club anytime as a guest.

Dates and Times:
Every Tuesday 6:30p – 8p

Investment:
$75 per 6 month term + 1 time fee of $25 covering the New Member Kit.

We will only be accepting 30 initial members, so apply today!

For more info, please contact: info@hubmasters.org

Details: This class introduces students to the craft of video editing and the basics of the movie editing software, Final Cut Pro 7. Students learn core editing techniques and workflow, as well as, the Final Cut Pro interface and basic tool set. This class includes hands-on practice with the software.

All HUB Workbench classes offered in partnership with the HUB Media Lab incorporate a lecture and workshop element, including discussions, sharing of ideas, and hands-on practice depending upon the area of study.

All classes are taught by professionals working in the field of study. Please see the SF Film School’s list of accomplished faculty – http://sfdigifilm.com/faculty

About HUB Media Lab

The HUB Media Lab is a partnership between the HUB Bay Area and the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking (SFSDF). By providing HUB members with access to the equipment, classes, and resources of SFSDF, the HUB Media Lab seeks to amplify the stories that will move people, and change the world.

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Details: Presidio Graduate School is proud to offer a Master Class by Bob Willard. This Master Class is open to the public. 

How would we recognize a truly sustainable company if we saw one? How would a company and its stakeholders know when it has become a truly sustainable enterprise? Bob will share his latest thinking on the convergence of sustainability indicators, and his synthesis of a 21-Criteria Gold Standard for recognizing a truly sustainable enterprise. He will share his thoughts on why such a unified standard is ripe, and lead discussion about potential concerns that might arise.

ABOUT PRESIDIO’S MASTER CLASSES:

Offered through the Presidio Center for Professional Development, or PresidioPRO, our Master Classes are interactive university-styled lectures by respected global field builders and thought leaders. They often include pre-readings and always incorporate practical application exercises using the methods and tools presented by these leaders. Participants who register for the Master Class will receive instructions on how to prepare for the session.

ABOUT BOB WILLARD, PHD:

Bob is a leading expert on quantifying and selling the business value of corporate sustainability strategies and has given hundreds of keynote presentations to corporate, government, university, and NGO audiences. Bob applies his business and leadership experience from his 34-year career at IBM Canada to engage the business community in proactively avoiding risks and capturing opportunities associated with environmental and social issues.
He has authored four books: The Sustainability Advantage(2002), The Next Sustainability Wave (2005), The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook (2009), and The New Sustainability Advantage (2012). In addition, his two DVDs, business case simulator Dashboard and Worksheets, and extensive master slide set provide capacity-building resources for sustainability champions.

Bob serves on the advisory boards of The Natural Step Canada, and Forum for the Future US. He is on ad hoc advisory committees for sustainable business certificate programs at Seneca College, Algonquin College, and Ryerson University, and is on the core faculty of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP). He is a citizen member of the Durham Region Roundtable on Climate Change(DRRCC). Currently, he is helping develop a Gold Standard for truly sustainable enterprises through his work on the Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GISR) Technical Advisory Committee and the B Lab Large Company Sustainability Working Group.

In 2011, Bob was inducted into the International Society of Sustainability Professionals’ Hall of Fame, and in 2012 was honored to be named to B Corp’s “Best for the World” Overall Impact list of the top 10% of worldwide B Corps with fewer than 10 employees.
He has a BSc from McGill University (1964), and an MEd (2000) and PhD (2005) from the University of Toronto. Residents of Ontario, Bob and his wife are the proud parents of three adult children and the proud grandparents of three grandsons.

More information about Bob and his resources for sustainability champions can be found at www.sustainabilityadvantage.com.

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Details: Hello Me: Mid-Month Creative Booster-shot
Did you once fall in love with an Argentinean on a backpacking trip over the Great Wall of China?  When you went to Grandma’s house for the summer, who was that sweet little girl on the next farm over?  Remember Manny; you were interns together that first summer out of college?  Do you wish you were closer to your cousins on your mother’s side? How many times this year have you thought about _____?

When is the last time you wrote a letter?

Indulge in a delicious dose of personhood with some snail-mail therapy. Letter Lounge is a moment to revel in your glorious past, tunnel out of your work-fiefdom and to love-up someone far from your twitter feed but close to your heart.

We will start with story time! I will read you an inspiring and thought provoking letter out loud to get started, followed perhaps by a brief memory exercise, your pencil will be burning the paper before you know it.

There will be two letter-readings and two verbal memory exercises to fit your schedule first at 12:35 pm then at 1:05 pm.

Come as you are, Letter Lounge provides everything you need:
Helpful but mild prompts, examples, & memory games
Envelopes
Paper
Pens
Stamps
Earplugs
Music

Look up addresses in advance!

Inside Letter Lounge, we will be trying our best to break our creative bindings for a little while so do your part by:
-       Entering and exiting Letter Lounge softly
-       Refrain from use of or perfectly conceal all evidence of Your Phone.

Bring cash!
Participation Costs: Letter Lounge will be free, except for international letters, which cost $1.10/stamp. International letter writers will pay for their stamps.

Wow – its going to feel so good!

Details: You are invited to join the Hub SoMa community for a Food Meetup!

We will gather, drink coffee and talk about food. This will be the first of many unstructured weekly discussions.

Just bring your love for food and desire to make the Hub a happier, healthier and tastier place.

More info at https://cosemble.com/timnotchris/food-meetup-at-hub-soma

Details: Ben Goldberg – clarinet; Rob Sudduth – tenor saxophone; David Ewell – bass; Scott Amendola – drums

The Ben Goldberg Quartet performs compositions from Ben’s recent projects, including songs from his recently released and highly acclaimed records Subatomic Particle Homesick Blues and Unfold Ordinary Mind.

“A feeling of joyous research into the basics of polyphony and collective improvising.” –Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

Acclaimed clarinetist/composer Ben Goldberg grew up in Denver, CO, and received his undergraduate music degree from UC Santa Cruz and a Master of Arts in Composition from Mills College. He was a pupil of the eminent clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo, and studied with Steve Lacy and Joe Lovano. In addition to composing for and playing in the Ben Goldberg Quintet, he currently performs in the following groups: Tin Hat; plays monk, a trio with Scott Amendola and Devin Hoff; Myra Melford’s Be Bread; Nels Cline’s New Monastery; Go Home with Charlie Hunter, Ron Miles, and Scott Amendola. The 11- piece Ben Goldberg’s Brainchild performs Ben’s on-the-spot compositions. His group New Klezmer Trio“kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music” (San Francisco Chronicle). Their CD Masks and Faces was listed as one of the ten best recordings of 1992 by Cadence Magazine, which called it “great free improvisation.” The group made two more CDs, Melt Zonk Rewire and Short for Something (all on Tzadik). Other recent recordings include the door, the hat, the chair, the fact(Cryptogramophone), a record of compositions dedicated to Steve Lacy; The Sad Machinery of Spring(Rykodisc) with Tin Hat; Plays Monk (Long Song) with Amendola and Hoff; Nels Cline’s New Monastery: a view into the music of Andrew Hill (Cryptogramophone); Light at the Crossroads (Songlines) with Marty Ehrlich; two records by Junk Genius (with John Schott, Trevor Dunn, and Wollesen): Junk Genius(Knitting Factory Works), an examination of bebop, and Ghost of Electricity (Songlines), dealing with American folk music; and What Comes Before (Tzadik), reflections on post-tonal harmonic structures with John Schott and Michael Sarin.

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Founded by Intersection for the Arts and local award-winning composer and bassist Marcus Shelby in 1999, Jazz at Intersection provides local Jazz artists and audiences with consistent and ongoing opportunities to celebrate the diverse and powerful Jazz traditions that are unique to the San Francisco Bay Area, while encouraging experimentation and creativity with new forms and styles.  Since establishing the program, we have presented over 170 performances featuring over 400 musicians and vocalists (many of whom have performed multiple times in our series) to thousands of audience members.  Dozens of new Jazz compositions have been commissioned and premiered through our series.  We aim to nurture an audience not for specific artists or traditions, but rather for a broad and inclusive definition of the Jazz idiom.

“Jazz At Intersection is notable not only for the breadth of its musical content, but for bridging communities across all lines: age, race, gender, cultural affiliation, and even class…” – Sam Prestianni, SF Weekly

We continue a series in our new home at 5th and Mission Streets that highlights an array of contemporary and historical musical styles within the Jazz idiom; provides insight into what influences new music and musicians; and also shows direct connections between well-known songs and composers and the new music being created today. Our approach to presenting Jazz is based on an intimate and direct connection between the musician, the music, and the audience. The 2013 series will include 8 indoor performances at Intersection’s new location with the 5M Project (a flexible performance space that can seat up to 100) and a dozen free outdoor performances in partnership with Off The Grid, a local organization that produces pop-up food markets featuring independent mobile food trucks.

Photo credit of Ben Goldberg above: Scott Chernis

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Details: "Unlock your negotiation skills" -- Almost every business has to deal with at least a few contracts, and some businesses run almost entirely on contract-based relationships. Getting a better deal for your business is dependent on two things: knowing how contracts work, and knowing how to negotiate. Change-makers often operate with a limited staff that have to wear many hats, including that of the contracts manager. At the same time, they have to deal with larger institutions that have dedicated staff for contracts.

This course focuses on the terms that are found in most services contracts and independent contractor agreements: the description of work, intellectual property assignments and licenses, payments, warranties, indemnity, limitation of liability, nondisclosure provisions, term and termination, and the dreaded “miscellaneous” boilerplate. It will cover how to negotiate — determining your BATNA, being willing to walk away, choosing your battles, anchoring, and compromising — and how those tactics pertain to the contract document.

One of the things about negotiations courses is that they help with life in general as well as business, because everyone is negotiating all the time: with friends and family members as well as with business counterparties. It helps to be aware of what the processes are so you can improve how the process works.

About Joseph Morris

Prior to law school, Joe spent three years writing bioformatics software for Berkeley-    based startup Neomorphic.  During this time he worked in collaboration with Celera and  The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) including genome-browsing software that was eventually licensed under the GPL.  Neomorphic was acquired by Affymetrix, Inc., in 2002, where he then wrote microarray analysis software for a year.  The startup experience at Neomorphic stayed with Joe and led him to co-found mod4 llp, to focus his practice on assisting entrepreneurs achieve success for their companies.  Joe has practiced in diverse areas of law:  software licensing (including open source and proprietary), contract negotiations, trademark and copyright counseling, entity formation, and varied operational issues that affect small and medium sized businesses.  When he’s not helping you, he loves bike touring, sailing, rock climbing, and cooking.

Details: Please join us for a Hub Ventures Wine Down and meet our exciting new class of entrepreneurs!

HUB Ventures is a start up accelerator for entrepreneurs building a better world.

Located in the new Collaboration Café near the 1^st Floor Kitchen.

Details: Through a series of case studies highlighting SFMade member companies, we will illustrate what kinds of spaces are available for light industrial production, where they are, and what you need to do to secure them. Whether you are a new company, in the process of expanding, or looking for a temporary pop-up location, this workshop will help you navigate your options and point you in the right direction. We will cover:

• Which San Francisco neighborhoods are zoned for light industrial production and specific allowable uses
• Enterprise Zone tax credits and incentives
• Lease negotiations
• Permits and how to work with the City
• Manufacturing clusters and hubs
• Creative uses of space, including co-locating with compatible companies
• How to engage with SFMade’s Places to Make Program

Presenters: Kate Sofis, SFMade Executive Director and Noah Snyder, SFMade Places to Make Manager

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