Emily Alden Foster wrote, directed, and stars in her new film Gold Diggers of 1829 (23 minutes). The movie uses stopmotion animation, greenscreen, hand-crafted puppets, ridiculous costumes, silent-film dialogue cards, and on-location filming at historic gold rush sites to tell an "inauthentic myth" about the history of California, in which a dog tricks an old prospector out of his gold, with a lengthy Vaudeville interlude. The soundtrack features 1920s jazz songs with new lyrics recorded over them, along with an original folk fiddle score recorded by Helene Grotans of The Okmoniks.

Jacqueline Suskin of Arcata, CA is a member of Poem Store, a performance-poetry-business-art piece. She travels the country crafting on demand personalized poems on a manual typewriter in exchange for donations. She is also the author of a volume of poems based on found photographs. She will be presenting a brand new slideshow performance in addition to setting up the Poem Store.

Noah Gershman is the author of The Enthusiast. The poems within have been described as "a gentle mix of the profound, the profoundly surprising, and the everyday," poems written "entirely from inside the imagination." He currently resides in Los Angeles after completing a two-month book tour earlier this year.