Dog & Pony Show™ Tour Schedule 2008

This year is off to a tremendous start. As you think about the goals and aspirations for your business in 2008, we know that you’ll want to save time to participate in the Propville community events, seminars and educational opportunities.

Below is the schedule outline of events of events.
***Vendors Note: if you have a store, shop or space that you’d like to promote thru the Directory and our event circuit, there are sponsorship opportunities available. This included the wildly popular Dog & Pony Tours. Click here to see some snaps of recent tours.

May 31,2008:

Dog & Pony Show ™ Bus Tour: 5.31.08
We're going on Tour…Get on the bus, Gus!!!! Saturday May 31,2008. San Francisco, CA.

Please join us on the next adventure of the Propville Dog & Pony Show™ Bus Tour.

Visit 9 local production businesses, (like A Costume Shop and San Francisco’s Newest Sound Stage) get a backstage tour, a delicious lunch and the opportunity to master the in's & outs's of acquiring gear, services and supplies to create film, Special Events and visual presentations in the Bay Area.

Get to know the owners and managers at, a local fabricator, a digital tech studio, an equipment rental house, a costume bank and a talent agency; these are the people on your team!

9 stops in all; lunch and expert guest speakers while in transit.

Different. Fun. Educational. Advantageous.

Emerging image-makers and veterans alike will benefit……and did we mention that you'll be riding with 29 peers and mentors from your community. Sweet!

Seating is very limited, advance tickets only for this event.

Register Now for this great opportunity.

Tickets are $55 in advance and included full catered lunch. Propville accepts visa/MC.

(Vendors, would you like to be considered for one of our stops? Please contact us info@propville.com open to registered Propville Vendors only)

June:

Propville Directory at The Italian Street Painting Festival. We're looking for a qualified artist to represent our square. If you'd like to make a submission, please email us. Alli [at] Propville.com. The theme for 2008 is "Youth".

July:

Dog & Pony Show® Bus Tour: North Bay
A day long field trip and team network event on a bio bus, catered lunch and 9 production related business that are active and forward in the production community.

February 27th, 2008

"Thank you so much for putting on a great show...what distinguished panelists. Such a huge amount of information and experience was shared with us ... each panelist was extremely generous with the audience about their past experiences ... there was more than one "breakthrough" as a result of your presentations. I thank you both as an educator and as a film/video maker." -Bonita Wahl, SWA Imaging

On February 27, 2008, the Propville Directory presented "Making Music; Married to Media" a DOG & PONY Showª at Bay Area Sound Studios (BASS) in San Rafael. Our group of esteemed panelists included Leslie Ann Jones of Skywalker Sound (Apocalypse Now, Zodiac, Requiem For a Dream), John Neff (David Lynch), Chris Forrest (Studio Guapo) & Stephen Hart (Werner Herzog, Michel Gondry). Our audience included local sound artists, editors, musicians and voice talent as well as teachers and students from Ex'pressions, Dominican, San Francisco Art Institute and City College. The discussion covered the different facets of sound design, from pre to post, through budgets, recording and mixing and grew lively as the audience began asking questions about their own productions and experiences. During the break, guests chatted with newfound comrades over wine and bites (provided by An Affair to Remember) and took a walking tour of the impressive facilities at BASS exhausting every question BASS director Lynette Daught had to answer. Journalist Roger Rose was there to cover the event for the launch of CineSource (website and magazine) in the Spring. All in all, it was a fantastic evening for everyone involved! Thank you to everyone who attended, we're looking forward to seeing you at the next DOG & PONY Show!