Updated 01/10/11 Hello wine enthusiasts and thanks for your interest in our group! This particular meetup was originally started by French wine importer and educator Raphael Knapp.  While Raphael is still a member here, he now has a different group called "Return to Terroir," that you may also wish to join.  I originally joined this group to mingle and collaborate with other people in the bay area who appreciate continued education about wine. I did not immediately adjust the summary for SF Wine …

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

The Bay Area Film and TV Connection is a group connecting producers, directors, writers, actors, DP's, and others involved with film and TV industries. It is an offshoot of the Film and TV Connection in Los Angeles, which was started about 2 years ago and has about 1000 members. We feature networking at various events, such as parties, picnics, and mixers in local clubs. In addition, we are putting together a team of people to work on short projects. Initially, we'll be starting with low cost an …

THERE ARE A RESERVOIR OF GIFTED TALENTS WHO WOULD LIKE TO BE ON TELEVISION,MOVIES,IN SHOW BUSINESS,WANT REPRESENTATION, BUT DO NOT KNOW HOW TO GO ABOUT IT, WHERE TO START FROM, THINK THEY NEED A LOT OF MONEY TO PAY,TO GET REPRESENTATION. SOME THINK THEY HAVE TO LOOK A CERTAIN WAY, HAVE PREVIOUS EXPERIANCE IN THE BUSINESS ETC... IN LIGHT OF THE ABOVE, TALENT MANAGEMENT MEET-UP WAS FORMED TO ENGAGE PEOPLE IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY OR WANNABE, TO HELP FELLOW MEMBERS, PROSPECTIVE (TALENTS) A …

Aloha and welcome to the Bay Area Hula Dancing Meetup Group! As a lifelong hula dancer, I have a passion for sharing my Hawaiian culture and the joy of hula with those who want to learn. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! This Meetup group will provide you with the opportunity to learn hula in a FUN and inviting atmosphere, enjoy the company of other fun-loving folks and make new friends. While we now have a "permanent home" I'd love to meet at different locations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area so …

If you like food and wine, dinner and dining, chocolate and other great things, and also love food television, this group is for you. Regular events combine great food and wine events that are filmed for television broadcast, with you as the stars!

Today we're inundated with junk science from infomercials, politicians, television and radio shows. Remember when you loved science and you knew what it was? Or maybe science has left you in the dust since you finished school. Whatever the case may be, please join us and renew your relationship with science. This group is dedicated to the principals of the Science Cafe movement. Its purpose is to expose everyone to interesting new science, to get those burning questions answered, and to bring …

The purpose of this group is to provide a meetup for fans of movies, sci-fi, comic books, new media, gadgets, anime, manga, star wars, lord the rings, toys, board games and all things geeky. A place where you can geek out away from the rolling eyes of spouses, family, and non-geek friends.

Are you a fan of My Little Ponies: Friendship is Magic? Do you live in Northern California? Are you looking for some friendship near you?

This Groups Is for RED Digital Cinema users and those interested in RED products.

The San Francisco Project Reboot Group is a group of production companies and production services vendors working together to revitalize the Bay Area Film, Television and Digital Media production community. Upcoming event on Thursday June 13, 2013 from 2:00pm-9:30pm.  See our Meetup page for more details. The Second Annual Project Reboot extravaganza “reboots” the San Francisco film production community on June 13th, bringing together industry professionals and clients to venture out and network …

Are you a SuperWhoLockian, SuperWhoAvengeTorchLockian, or both? Then this is the group for you! We're here to celebrate a combination of awesome fandoms into something super spectacular mega foxy awesome hot! also to meet fellow nerds and tumblrians.

This friendly group welcomes you to Japan's rich world of artistic animation. Our focus is limited series, an institution in Japanese late-night television. These are not like American TV shows that just add more episodes until the ratings drop. They are planned as complete stories in 12-26 half-hour episodes, sometimes with just one writer and one director. Like movies, most suck, but some are brilliant. We will be watching the brilliant ones. Japanese TV has four seasons corresponding to the q …

This is a group for anyone interested in learning and making videos for fun and profit. The main function is to bring together everyone interested in the video revolution taking place today. Now, virtually anyone can be involved in the creation of quality, entertaining programs by linking experienced and inexperienced individuals with a common goal. There is a great wealth of resources available in the San Francisco bay area available to everyone ranging meetup groups like this, to community tel …

The Heart Link Network is a true value for a spectacular networking event for women. Newspaper and magazine advertising can cost thousands of dollars. Television can cost millions of dollars. At the Heart Link Network you can advertise your products, services and yourself to a target market that is paying attention, have a wonderful light meal, meet extraordinary women, and have a fabulous time!

Emotions WITHOUT Labels Using The ART OF DIALOGUE Announces: Whole -Hearted Women Seeking a Deeper Connections Are you a woman seeking greater meaning, inner peace and harmony in your life? Are you wondering when will it be my turn? What about me?  Are you tired of playing the game of “perfectionism” and “keeping up with the Jones?” If could take a seat in the living room of your inner dialogue, what would I hear? I feel so alone.    I feel odd or even “crazy”?     Why did I do THAT? What are pe …

The East Bay Documentary Filmmaking Support Group (analogous to a writing group) consists of a select group of East Bay documentary filmmakers that meet once or twice a month to review, discuss, and provide critical feedback of members' works-in-progress. The documentaries can be in any phase of the production (conceptualization, brainstorms, reviews of treatments, research, scripts, proposals, assemblies, rough cuts, fine cuts etc). The purpose of this group is to support, motivate, and see our …

Let's be honest: writing is hard, and sometimes scary. Whether you're tackling a novel, a script, a memoir, or a short story, encouragement and positive feedback from other writers not only help you improve your work, but give you an incentive to keep going. You'll also learn a great deal from reading the work of other writers. I've been a writer for forty years, and have worked professionally as a journalist (the Contra Costa Times, and freelance for dozens of other publications), television co …

Time to Bring It!!  This group has been created for people in the Bay Area to meet up to enjoy live and televised WWE and other local wrestling events. Like watching RAW and Smackdown? Want to watch these and WWE PPV events with a bunch of other jabronis? Don't want to pay expensive PPV fees all by yourself? This is the group for you.  Enjoy great company, drinks, specials and awesome (sometimes hilarious) action.

Join us on a fun film project! Its a party we serve free food and drinks at every meet up! Our way of saying thanks for your interest in our project. As a response to challenged books listed in the Huffington Post, like Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, along with Twilight, Captain Underpants, Harry Potter and many others, we have decided to produce a documentary/drama on HD video to address banned books in U.S. This film project will demonstrate how books become challenged and eventually banned …

The Scriptwriters Salon is a place where twenty something to thirty something screenwriters/plawrights can critique and socialize. The rules are simple. Bring 10 pages of your feature screenplay, television script or play and be prepared to workshop the shit out of your baby. The goal of this meetup is to foster community and have fucking good time. See you there.