AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

URGENT CALL TO ACTION

Dear Supporter & AMP members

The arts in Los Angeles are in crisis and they need your voice.
The City of Los Angeles Budget and Finance Committee has put forward a motion to eliminate the Department of Cultural Affairs' dedicated source of revenue.

Voice your support to maintain the only dedicated revenue source for neighborhood art and culture in the City of Los Angeles.

Take two minutes and send your city council member an email. Remind your Council Member that the arts:

Make money
Attract tourists
Attract businesses
Arts, like parks, are for everyone

This is our time, right now. I can feel it when I read a great book or manage to write something I think is good.

Tonight as I peruse "What A Long Strange Trip It's Been (Twenty Years of Rolling Stone)", after having just finished Murakami's KAFKA ON THE SHORE, I am moved by the weight of recent history, reading interviews with John Lennon from 1971, Pete Townshend as he is creating Tommy, Michael Jackson in 1983. This is what I feel. The time is now.

This moment is a fulcrum, tipping what was/has been into what will be. As I sign off here I am going to sit and stretch out in the now. Within this space I will strive to create a drawing
or two.

The Underground Hit!

CRITIC'S CHOICE: East Bay Express

REALITY PLAYINGS:
experiments in experience/participation performance

Frank Moore, world-known shaman performance artist, will conduct improvised passions of musicians, actors, dancers, and audience members in a laboratory setting to create altered realities of fusion beyond taboos. Bring your passions and musical instruments and your senses of adventure and humor. Other than that, ADMISSION IS FREE! (But donations will be accepted.)

Saturday, January 30th
8pm

TEMESCAL ARTS CENTER
511 48th Street
Oakland, CA 94609-2058
For more information
Call: 510-526-7858
email: fmoore@eroplay.com
http://www.eroplay.com/events.html
http://www.temescalartscenter.org/

Hey, I'm looking to do a fundraiser at the end of January or early February for the play i'm producing. Does anybody know of any spaces that would be free or cheap?

Deborah Martin Gallery

SYNAPSES New Sculptures by Kim Ye

January 14-February 6, 2010

Artist Reception & Live Interactive Installation
Saturday, January 16th, 2010
6:30-9:30pm

Interactive Installation:

With their bodies connected by shared organs and appendages, live models wear Ye’s latex sculptures in the Deborah Martin Gallery. An experiment in compromise and confrontation, this interactive performance makes literal the relationships that bind humans together.

it means:
I who was bored even with the angles breath,endure the whole world's bother only for you.

The Underground Hit!

CRITIC'S CHOICE: East Bay Express

REALITY PLAYINGS:
experiments in experience/participation performance

Frank Moore, world-known shaman performance artist, will conduct improvised passions of musicians, actors, dancers, and audience members in a laboratory setting to create altered realities of fusion beyond taboos. Bring your passions and musical instruments and your senses of adventure and humor. Other than that, ADMISSION IS FREE! (But donations will be accepted.)

Friday, December 18th
8pm

TEMESCAL ARTS CENTER
511 48th Street
Oakland, CA 94609-2058
For more information
Call: 510-526-7858
email: fmoore@eroplay.com
http://www.eroplay.com/events.html
http://www.temescalartscenter.org/

Manifest
von Fusionismus

Amy Kohut and Jeffrey Spahr-Summers are featured and interviewed in Linchpin.

http://www.thelinchpin.org/2009/11/it-takes-two/

Curated by Raoul De la Sota

Yrneh Brown, Martin Charlot, Mita Cuaron, Ruth De Nicola, Diane Gamboa, Pat Gomez, Yolanda Gonzalez, Mark Steven Greenfield, Lucy Hagopian, Cidne Hart, Wayne Healy, Heriberto Luna, Dorothy Magallon, Rafael Matias, Susanna Meiers/Peter Liashkov, Andrés E. Montoya, Suzanne Siegel, Richard Turner

Artists’ reception -- Saturday evening, December 12, 2009 from 7 to 10 p.m.

The Avenue 50 Studio is proud to present Testimonies Two – Contemporary Ex Votos. Curator Raoul De la Sota has assembled a group of artists for a special exhibit focusing on the Mexican-rooted art form of the ex-voto.