Community 2008
The San Francisco LoveFest event is a true community effort. As an all volunteer non-profit, we depend on dance and music lovers throughout the city, state and country, to help us pull off America's biggest free electronic music party.
Below please meet the Board of Directors and key volunteers who make the
event happen. Without them, and you, we couldn't bring the love. Props!
San Francisco LoveFest Board of Directors
 | Joshua SmithPresident joshua.smith@sflovefest.org |
| Joshua Smith, a founding member of LoveParade San
Francisco, was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He brings to the board over
a decade of large scale event organizing. Joshua has also given over a dozen years of
service to the Queer community as a board member of the SF LGBT Pride Celebration
Committee. When Joshua is not giving back to community he can be found out on the dance
floor following his bliss! |
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 | David CutlerVice President david.cutler@sflovefest.org |
| David is a well esteemed music/entertainment attorney with over 15 years of experience with clients in all aspect of the entertainment industry, including music, film, television, entertainment venues and event production, including Burning Man, Loveparade, The Estate of Jerry Garcia, the Dead Kennedy’s, Ruby Skye, the Bubble Lounge and Om Records. David also has a special expertise in legal issues pertaining to large event/festival production. Two years ago, David founded his side project, BeatSync, a successful music Licensing company that licenses music for use in television, film, games and multimedia entertainment. David writes numerous articles on the entertainment industry, speaks on numerous panels regarding entertainment issues and serves on numerous boards including and the San Francisco Late Night Coalition and Test Press Thursday, an industry monthly aimed at stimulating electronic music in the Bay Area. David is the Vice President of the San Francisco Lovefest and head of the Loveweek team. | |
 | John WoodEvent Manager & Government Relations john.wood@sflovefest.org |
| John Wood is Event Manager and Government Relations Chair for San Francisco Lovefest. A longtime member of the San Francisco electronic dance music scene, he has produced many dance celebrations, including the Tantra events at SomArts Cultural Center and other venues, as well as stages at the SF Pride celebration, Pink Saturday, Castro Halloween and the How Weird Street Faire. John is also the Political Director of the San Francisco Late Night Coalition, an entertainment industry focused political action committee that advocates with local government for pro-nightlife public policy. | |
 | Dr. Syd GrisPromotions & Marketing / Floats & Entertainment syd (dot) gris (at) sflovefest (dot) org |
| Dr. Syd Gris: Psychologist, promoter, activist, writer, and DJ. Syd has been throwing parties since 2001 when he started throwing underground parties with his Burning Man friends as well as benefit events for different charities with Spundae, before starting his own production company under the name Opel, intended to be parties with purpose showcasing a range of forward thinking underground dance music. He since founded one of the premiere sound dance camps at Burning Man, the Opulent Temple, showcasing world class talent at the unique desert festival. As a DJ, his sound is as broad as the worlds he moves in between club land and the San Francisco underground. Depending on the setting you’ll hear him playing a range of tech funk breaks & electro, to West Coast progressive and progressive trance. He has worked on the board since 2003, and works in his day job at a community mental health clinic. | |
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Terrance AlanBeverage Manager terrance@sflnc.com |
| Terrance has been the Chairman of the San Francisco Late Night Coalition for the past 8 years where, together with the visionary then Supervisor Mark Leno and the entertainment community, he led the change from a police based permitting system to the first in the nation civilian Entertainment Commission, where he was the founding President. He began throwing parties in the 1990's and after a legendary 1995 New Year's Eve Ball decided San Francisco needed an Ambassador of Fun and has been working hard to get appointed to that post ever since. | |
Key Volunteers
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Alain OctavoCo-Lead, Promotions & Marketing alain@spundae.com |
| Spundae's resident DJ and Marketing Director has been an integral part of San Francisco's dance culture since 1995. His experience as an event producer and talent as a DJ has brought him all over the world in countries such as Europe, South East Asia and Australia. A jack of all trades he is often told Alain co handles marketing responsibilities for Banana Republic, oversees Spundae's San Francisco market, freelances his artistic flair to businesses throughout the west coast, manages to attend school full time and somewhere along the line he still has the time volunteer his efforts for The San Francisco LoveFest. When he sleeps is what his friends always wonder, because he's always out and about in motion around the city; always working on a project, he somehow continues to do it with a smile. "People often ask me what it is that I do and really when it comes down to it, I express and communicate everything I love about electronic music and its dance culture" | |
 | Mark RahmaniWebmaster / Official photographer mark@mygooz.com |
| Mark is a software consultant by day, photographer and webmaster by night. He is the founder and main photographer for MV Galleries, a San Francisco based photography site which encourages like-minded photographers to share their works. He manages several San Francisco based dance culture websites including Opel Productions, Opulent Temple, as well as this site, San Francisco Love Fest. | |
 | Alex MaceVIP Coordinator alexmace@gmail.com |
| This is Mace's second year working with Lovefest and he couldn't be more excited about being a part of such an outstanding event. Mace moved to SF about 9 years ago from the East Coast having never been here before and in search of something new and exciting - score! Software Project Manager by day and DJ/Dancing Freak by night, he loves getting involved. Whether assisting Peter Hudson with one of his playa masterworks (Homouroborus, Tantalus) or just sticking around to clean up after a party, count on sweat, a big smile and funky-ass beats as we rock out while makin' it happen! | |
 | Mariell RahmaniVolunteer Coordinator volunteer@sflovefest.org |
| Being a wedding planner as her day job, Mariell is used to juggling many balls. | |
Production Partners
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Get Connected Summitwww.getconnectedsummit.com |
| The Get Connected Summit (GCS) brings together leaders and enthusiasts in electronic music, media and technology, developing innovative opportunities across increasingly converging sectors. Participate in discussions & instructional workshops covering an array of topics including audio & video production, politics of entertainment, event production, digital distribution and marketing while connecting with industry professionals. Play with your Summit Pass, which entitles attendees to special benefits at numerous clubs throughout San Francisco. | |
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Joseph PredMedical Coordinator medical [at] sflovefest [dot] org |
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Green Marygreen- mary.com |
| Green Mary's efforts create a waste diversion of up to 90% from the landfill! Feelings of accomplishment abound, and a reversal of "it can't be done," vanquishes the naysayers. Clear (biodegradable!) EcoStations enable festival attendees to easily sort their own garbage. From mission to carrythrough, set-up through clean-up, the Green-Mary team focusses on compostables, the new "gold" in festival maintenance. | |
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The San Francisco Late Night Coalitionwww.sflnc.com |
| The San Francisco Late Night Coalition is a broad-based group composed of promoters, activists, dj's, musicians, artists, community members and club owners. Our goal is to protect, preserve and promote San Francisco's late-night culture. We work to encourage understanding and awareness of the regulations and issues surrounding after-hours entertainment in San Francisco, and to provide a voice for the rights and the passions of this diverse community. We are an integral part of the cultural fabric of San Francisco, and make significant contributions to the economy and artistic diversity of this city. | |
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San Francisco Bike Coalitionwww.sfbike.org |
| The mission of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is to transform San Francisco's streets and neighborhoods into more livable and safe places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation. | |
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Sauce Restaurantwww.saucesf.com |
| Sauce has been feeding the dance community in San Francisco for the last 4 years. From Chef Ben treats on the playa to birthdays, weddings and all of the other reasons San Franciscans get together, when it’s time to refuel Sauce is the place with late night eats 7 nights a week. We are so happy to be able to (literally) nourish our dance community and celebrate with the people who keep the beats alive. Walk on over after the festival, we are only a couple blocks away @131 Gough Street and the dining room is always open until midnight! | |
