You can't wait for inspiration to strike, you have to drag it to the table! Why pay for an expensive workshop when the message is always the same: to be a writer you have to write! Come write with me once a week on Wednesday nights. Two hours of intense writing will be followed by an hour of sharing and feedback. All are welcome! Stay as long or as little as you like. Meetings will rotate around different Santa Cruz bookshops.

Spend an evening with like minded cartoonists, caricturists, graphic artists, comic strip amateurs or professionals, illustrators or gag writers to learn, teach and enjoy from each other.

A Collaborative Environment for Actors/Filmmakers will consist of: Actors, Writers, Editors, Cinematographers, Sound Techs, Producers, Directors, Film Lovers, and whoever wants to have fun! Lets get together, find/write scripts....film them....make a demo reel. Everyone will walk away (hopefully come back) with something they can use. Finding gigs can be stressful. Here we will make it happens ourselves and create something from nothing AS A TEAM. Are you in?

KCAT TV 15 is the community television serving Los Gatos and Monte Sereno. KCAT TV 15 does have an agenda - we're after original content for our station. We offer free video production training, and for those that are developing content that we can use at KCAT TV 15 we'll offer access to our studio, our HD field equipment, and our FCP edit stations - also at no cost! take care, Tom Bryan Executive Director KCAT TV 15

This is a group for anyone interested in erotic artistic expression. My background is photography and I have a studio in Santa Cruz, CA. I love collaborating with other artists and exploring all aspects of erotica in a non-judgemental way. My personal interests include photo and video production, glamour and boudoir art, fine art nudes, reading and writing erotica, shibari, and artistic study of the kink community. All posts will be kept private. Join me in celebrating erotic art in all of it's …

Come and meet other creative locals. We have writing practice every month, in the manner of Natalie Goldberg's book, Writing Down the Bones. It's called writing practice because it's like singers doing the scales or Buddhists meditating. This is a regular, down-home, garden-variety way to practice your writing and keep the words and juices flowing. NO experience is necessary! The group originally started as an Artist's Way group for followers of The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron. I (Meredith), …

This is a group for anyone who wants to make short funny clips for YouTube and make some money from it. I am looking for following skills, storytelling, writing, lighting, editing, acting, promoting, directing, sound , etc... If you love movie and want to learn and help out, this would be the group for you. We meet few-times a month come up with creative funny ideas and makes some short clips. After making these clips we would upload them to YouTube and see some profit from it.  I have learned t …

Emerging media has redefined how people consume videos and new technology has even changed the devices we use to watch our videos. No longer are we parked on a couch in front of a tv watching shows and commercials, we are on our smart phone waiting at the bank watching a video someone posted on Facebook or re-posting a really funny Old Spice commercial we just saw. What makes videos go viral and what can we do to increase the odds of our content breaking that 1 million-view mark? In this group w …

Internet, web, inbound and content marketing encompasses a broad, diverse set of processes: search, content networks, email marketing, affiliate networks, video ads, social media, viral marketing, and more. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. We meet regularly to discuss how …

You should join this group if you love and involve yourself with standup comedy.  An ideal member is someone who writes, produces, and performs comedy in the Bay Area, Southern California, and onward.  We are looking to network with other comics, producers, and writers.  Though we respect mime, poetry slam, puppet, and magic show art forms, this group is focused strictly on standup comedy only.  We love the Jeff Dunhams and Carrot tops, just not in our showrooms. Hello! We are a group of comedi …

Have you had a spiritual experience? Eckankar is an ancient spiritual teaching that helps people today face every day challenges and achieve spiritual goals. Join us and meet other people who have had experiences like you. Discuss out-of-body experiences, dreams, karma, angels, reincarnation, déjà vu, near-death experiences, visions, miracles, auras, Masters, spiritual guides, and learn how to go beyond meditation and experience a knowingness that you are loved by God  Eckankar is a  path that t …

This is a group devoted to increasing both visibility and leads for small businesses via inbound and content marketing. Outbound or internet marketing is expensive, generally making it beyond the reach of small businesses, which is exactly who needs it most. In this meetup we look at real-world, recent and relevant case studies on how to inbound marketing correctly on a modest budget. Traditionally, businesses have leveraged print coupons, newspaper ads, and direct mail to advertise their produc …

Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Ursula Le Guin +++ ... join a group that celebrates the feminine voice and seeks to explore & magnify it. If you are a reader, a writer, or a philosopher...please join this group. Men welcome as well, though you will be thoroughly vetted for your contributive potential. :) This is a safe haven for those who seek to nurture and grow the many faces of femininity. Please bring yourself and your inspiration, unbridled. I look fo …

We are musicians who are in search of chamber-music partners for rollicking good fun.

New - Founded May 2, 2013... We pair musicians and music with venues and food that embrace natural beauty like a sunset or a moon lit evening or a venue. Think of us as a home concert group focused on promoting memorable social events with a good vibe for musicians and guests. Later we are adding flash events where you are the first to know and each event delivers an experience to remember. Along the way we are Earth friendly by increasing usage of recycled and reusable materials. For example, w …

Explore your natural ability to find love, wisdom, and freedom in your life. We will explore a contemplative method of "Spiritual Exercises" to unlock and begin to understand our true nature as Soul. A lighter form of going within than meditation, it uses the ancient name of God, HU, as a Spiritual Key to better understand our daily lives. In this group, we will learn how to: * Recall and resolve past-life lessons to help you today. * Interpret your dreams with help of a "Dream Master" your p …

Business is ever-evolving, especially with global business expansion in Asia and the advent of social media bringing innovative ideas faster and more interactively. The next big idea can come from anyone and everywhere, and with the right thinking and right people, taking a big idea to the business level can lead to rewarding success. The SV Global Innovators Meetup group is a community of like-minded entrepreneurs, business professionals, professors, writers, social media junkies, inventors and …

This group is for those who love to draw, doodle, illustrate or generally be creative! There is no level of drawing expertise that you specifically need to have to participate. Stick figures are most welcome, and in fact, can be quite hilarious and awesome! Its challenging to find time to do art when you are busy living life, and if you love art and wish you did more then these meetups will be a solution for you. There will be time for free drawing at each meetup, but mostly there are themes fo …

This group is all about spending time WRITING in one another's company. Whether you write on your laptop or in your journal; whether you are working on a book, article, poems, journaling, or other project; whether you are published or not or don't even care to be; you are all welcome here! We may sit in silence for periods of time as we write; we may pause and share with one another what we are working on and read out loud to each other; we may ask for any kind of feedback we want; we may go of …

Calling all improvisors and those who would like to join in on some fearless fun! We will be working together on a different topic/theme each week playing improv games, doing scene work, and of course some fantastic warm-ups! I want this group to be accessible to those who have never done improv before and those seasoned members of the improv community. Come with your muse and desire to create as you go! We will be meeting Wednesdays from 7:30-9pm at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Los Gatos unt …

Whether you're young or old, we have a story. Telling your story or  reading a play aloud together can be lots of fun and a great way to meet new characters. Our goal is to bring people of different backgrounds together to experience the fun, drama and the joy of story-telling. Whether you want to tell a story, read a play, take on a big role or you want to listen along, you're welcome here!

Word play games like dictionary, headlines, composite stories, alliteration slams, and finish-the-sentence... just for fun; and thematic story-sharing for meaning-making and reflection. Limericks and haiku, iambic pentameter, and invention of new words!