Eric and Len talk between films and their panel HIGH TECH TRAILS & MUSIC OF THE SIXTIES COUNTER CULTURE IN SILICON VALLEY SEE COMMENTS           Tweet Len at twitter.com/birdsongpic

Out youth filmmakers film Erin discussing her father's pioneering work.

 

Nicholas Meriwether is the Grateful Dead archivist at the Univ. of Santa Cruz, with a masters in library science with a specialization in archives from the Univ. of South Carolina.  His background experience includes work as an educational, research, and rare-book consultant.  Nicholas holds a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University.    Meriwether is also the editor of "All Graceful Instruments: The Contexts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon" and "Dead Letters: Essays on the Grateful Dead Phenomenon."  He has written widely on popular culture and its influence on history and society.  Before coming to Santa Cruz he had lived in San Francisco for 12 years.  As the Grateful Dead archivist at the University of Cal., Santa Cruz, Nicholas hopes his adoption of Web 2.0 principles to create a Dead bibliography and discography will show Web 2.0 developers how to collaborate with traditional scholarship.

 

Jerry Garcia Band Documentary Director/Producer Len Dell'Amico Greatful Dead's "Video Guy" attending

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Meriwether talks some about the Archives and New Media More to be posted soon on the Dead And Silicon Valley

 

Sparkey Harlan, Ex. Director/CEO of  Bill Wilson Center chats with Yau Gene Chan and Cedrick Chan of the International Technological

The festival will be dedicated to help bring attention to the historic plight of homeless and runaway children and youth, in the Silicon Valley, California and the world.  Attending the festival, where we will be making a challenge to Silicon Valley programmers, engineers, and technology companies to design and create new ideas to help The Bill Wilson Center, that serves over 10,000 youth and their family members every year in the Silicon Valley, will be Sparky Harlan Executive Director of the Center.  Just last month she returned from Washington DC, where the President honored Ms. Harlan and fifteen other people in the Nation as leaders in this effort to help homeless children in the United States.  Sparky and some of the kids from the Center will be part of the Festival each year.  In April actress Dyan Cannon will screen her new documentary on runaways that live in the streets of Hollywood, California.

Max Gail chats with Brian Gee from International Technology University

Max Gail  His acting debut came in 1970 in San Francisco, California, playing the Chief in the original stage production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.   He is best known for his tv role as Det. Stan "Wojo" Wojeciehowicz from the sitcom Barney Miller (1975). Gail's best known feature film role is iD.C. Cab (1983) as Harold, Gail runs Full Circle, a production company which has done documentaries on such subjects as Agent Orange, Native Americans, and nuclear issues.  His bio has countless performances in TV series, specials, movies, music performances, and stage performances.  Max directs an organization called LAP, a organizing concept for communities to develop a useful on-line/interactive venue in a way that can facilitate the creation of content for as well as access to the information age.  Max has not only a long history in television and film, but has been involved in technology discussions, conferences and think tanks in Hollywood and Nationally for many years. page 2 home page 4 page 5

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