{"id":5447,"date":"2013-10-30T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drewbrophy.com\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2013-10-30T08:40:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:40:24","slug":"thrive-artist-talk-porter-college-ucsc-friday-november-1-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drewbrophy.com\/thrive-artist-talk-porter-college-ucsc-friday-november-1-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO THRIVE AS AN ARTIST – Talk at Porter College UCSC – Friday November 1, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n On Friday, November 1st, 2013, at 1:00 p.m. , I will be giving a talk in the George Hitchcock lounge entitled, “How to Thrive as an Artist.”<\/p>\n This talk is geared toward aspiring artists, students, and creative entrepreneurs, as I will be explaining how to make following your dreams a viable career path with concrete steps based off of of my own life and business experiences, having gone from an unknown surfer to the top-selling surf artist in the world.<\/p>\n Following my talk, Tom Pohaku Stone, renowned native Hawaiian surfer and shaper, will be performing an alaia surfboard shaping demonstration out of a beautiful redwood plank that has been generously donated by Big Creek Lumber.<\/em><\/p>\n On the evening of November 1st, as part of the Salt of the Earth event<\/a> at UC Santa Cruz, there is a screening of the new film titled\u00a0Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau<\/a>\u00a0, plus live music from\u00a0The Shapes. This will be held at\u00a0Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, \u00a0at 6:45 pm.<\/em><\/p>\n