SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA Summer 2012

Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/72909

Contents of this Issue

Navigation

Page 57 of 72

LABOR LEADERS GATHER O a reception for labor leaders from the entertainment community on April 23. The gathering brought together about 140 people to discuss labor issues and celebrate the SAG-AFTRA merger. SAG- AFTRA national officers and staff attended the bash, including Co-Presidents Ken Howard and Roberta Reardon, Executive Vice President Ned Vaughn, Co-Secretary-Treasurer Amy Aquino, and National Executive Director David White. Pictured, from leſt, SAG-AFTRA New York Local officers and staff, Co-1st Vice President Rebecca Damon, Co-President Holter Graham, Executive Directors Jae Je Simmons and Stephen Burrow, Co-President Mike Hodge and Co-1st Vice President Anne Gartlan. New York NEW YORK SOLIDARITY PICKET the New York Local picketed in front of the New York office of Miami-based producer Machado Garcia-Serra on April 17 and again on May 8. Machado Garcia-Serra is one of a group of producers targeted for the ongoing Area Standards Campaign. The campaign, which has been active since October in both St. Louis and Miami, is asking producers to pay area standard wages to performers hired to do work on their behalf. I n an act of solidarity with the SAG- AFTRA Miami Local, members of YOUNG PERFORMERS FIND THEIR VOICE actors who create voiceover characters, and nearly 50 young performers of SAG- AFTRA's New York Local learned how to find that inspiration at an event on March 10. The Voice (Over T Performer), a seminar sponsored by the N.Y. Young Performers Committee's SAG- Producers Industry Advancement and Cooperative Fund, was the second in a popular series focused on the art and business of voiceover work. The event he 8 million inhabitants of New York City offer a lot of inspiration for Castillo, Jim Conroy, YPC Co-Chair Lee Bryant, and National Board member and YPC member Monica Trombetta. The young participants also had the rganized by SAG-AFTRA's New York Host Committee, the union's New York Local hosted featured a panel of committee members and union member mentors talking about the ins and outs of voiceover. Young Performers Committee Co- Chair Alan Simon moderated the panel, which consisted of YPC Chair Elizabeth McLaughlin, YPC Co-Chair Diane Jones and four volunteer mentors: Oscar opportunity to perform for each other, their parents and two invited agents, Barbara Coleman of Innovative Artists and Natasha Matallana of Take 3 Talent. Both gave young participants feedback on their performances and were quite impressed with the level of talent of the young performers. SAGAFTRA.org | Summer 2012 | SAG-AFTRA 49

Articles in this issue

Links on this page

Archives of this issue

view archives of SAG-AFTRA - SAG-AFTRA Summer 2012