AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Check out our special TOUGH LIT issue of Adventures for the Average Woman (www.adventuresfortheaveragewoman.com) where we cover true crime writing, prison lit, grit lit, and edgy adventure! We're gearing up for TOUGH LIT II due out this winter, so if you have stories, artwork, photography to submit, bring it on! Email ideagems@aol.com

A Slideshow of the photographs I took during my backpacking trip in Europe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC-0TbXhfIM

The Powerhouse of Passion

Hard to like me
Have to love me
Hero

The Isolated Lover,
The Sweet Sharing Antagonist,
The Enthusiastic Slacker Activist

A freight train of raw emotion

The Tenacious Lover-
The Weeping Wanderer,
The Wiley Wayfarer,
The Worn Willing...
- The Smiling and Awkward Vagabond

Last week, I took a break from programming & composing in my studio, and caught up with friends about artistic opportunities, and recent successes and works in progress. A multi media artist friend told me very enthusiastically, about an opportunity to submit photographs for an inclusion into an artistic concept . After my initial enthral, I made a few calls, talked turkey, and started to plough through my own archives of digital pictures, some of which I considered artistic and individualistic enough to enter. I cropped, altered and re-jigged about a dozen or so, to make them entry ready, and uploaded them to the requistie private server space. Later that day, I ended up in a pro photgraphic studio, to catch up with another friend who was snapping a five piece band.

Check out our current issue of Adventures for the Average Woman. We have some terrific artwork featured!

Other news: We have a special issue, TOUGH LIT devoted to crime and mystery writers due out this month. Stay posted to www.ideagems.com

AND I'll soon be teaching an online university course called The Art of Writing Horror. It is my hope to get another publication going on the topic of horror, including horror artwork. Start date: TBA. If you have horror artwork, we'd be happy to include it. Contact me at ideagems@aol.com

Emerging Musicians & Writers: Applications Due September 15

Since it's opening May 2010, The Hill House Residency has provided eight artists the time and space to dedicate to their craft. The Hill House works to support two fields: emerging songwriters and writers at all stages of their career. Emerging musician Marcus Sigh reflected on the Hill House Residency as if he and partner Melissa Sigh were painters who had canvases and brushes at home, but were missing red and yellow paint (space and time). "ISLAND and the Hill House gave us these, our red and our yellow."

A new album was released for artist berekekê: O último tucumaré (The last tucumaré) is other vision about the brazilian music and culture.

As other works, berekekê hold his personal style with classicals instruments but ethnics too.

O último tucumaré is avaialble in https://berekekeartist.jimdo.com/

Posted on Art4Development, originally from The Times - The Australian
Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/european-cost-cutters-target-c...

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ARMIN Rohde is breathless. Not from his fencing lesson -- preparation for a stage performance of Cyrano de Bergerac -- but out of anger.

"What is happening to our cultural landscape?" fumes the 55-year-old, one of Germany's best-known character actors.

"Europe was different . . . exactly because we had theatres in every town, the best art collections, a sense of history and performance. And now what? We're shutting it all down to save the equivalent of a kid's pocket money!"

Join us this Sunday, July 25th from 2-4pm at Avenue 50 Studio for a La Palabra Poetry reading with Mariano Zaro.

Avenue 50 Studio is located at 131 N. Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042.
(323) 258-1435

Fig Tree (excerpt)

Fever
that you cure
with primitive mud
mud from saliva
saliva from words
words from the earth
from the earth to your tongue
from your tongue to my wound.

We must have been
six years old then
I already needed
the antidote
of your mouth

Mariano Zaro was born in Borja, Spain and has lived in Santa Monica, California since 1994. Mariono attended the University at Zaragoza where he earned a master's degree in Spanish Literature. He has published in Spain's literary magazines El signo del gorrion and Luces y sombros.