AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Listen to this episode of YourPR, called GenaPR, produced by Gena Lindsay, and get inspired to produce your own episode...

Here's a few words from Gena introducing her episode:

"I am in India, I could say a thousand things but I’m going to stick to two:
India is literally making me crazy and don’t believe anything anyone not from India says about India.
Foreigners are usually here to make money, take advantage or have some sort of manufactured enlightenment.
Don’t listen to me either.
Indians defy generalization, I am equally happy and pissed off most of the time.
This podcast is just a tiny sliver of what life is like here.

Gena Lindsay"

You may view the latest post at http://yourpr.org/2008/genapr

If you want to produce your own episode, contact me now.

friends, is there an answer to the question, "What is art?" Is it even a valid question? Is the definition a universal, or are there many individual definitions that have a smaller overlapping commonality?

as you can see, I'm working on some basic stuff and never studied (or gave much thought to) the theoretical aspect of just exactly what makes something art.

thanks for clueing me in,
michael

This Is My Condition and Dan Kozak release a new full-length CD: Anatomy of Livers. 33 minutes of pure now-ness and non-existence. Recorded by the excellent Joe Post at Daybreak Studio in Lawrence, KS as part of a session for a split 7" on Golgonooza Records with the
rad G.I. Joe from Bologna, Italy.

http://www.myspace.com/thisismycondition

http://www.myspace.com/golgonoozarecords
http://www.myspace.com/GIJOESUCKS

To celebrate TIMC+DKZK will play a live in-store at Love Garden Sounds on Monday Nov. 10th at 8pm sharp. Neg-Fi from Brooklyn NY will perform first as our special guest.

I stand in support of equality. Basic rights are ours to express as equals. Access to our own expression is mandatory. If it doesn't exist, it must be created! If it exists, it must be utilized! If it is ignorantly withheld, noise needs to be made! If the noise isn't clear, spell it out! If no one can read it, do it anyway! What is right is your right! What doesn't serve us, needs removal! Community functions in unity, and unity is the reciprocity of elements. Love is a gift, and respect is earned. Love is earned, but respect and honor precede it, or at least part of its' ingredients. Am I my sybling's keeper? Yes I am. Yes you can.

Take the permission to be from inside, and share that with whoever you like. Shine!

Raising our glasses in celebration!

Opening fluid connections, ~sharing(secret)water~
Emerging Visions visionary art ezine issue #13 has emerged.

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com

Drink deeply.

share and enjoy!

My faith in the American spirit is restored!

A major street in Boulder is blocked off to traffic. People are screaming and dancing in the streets.

http://zzbaggins.blogspot.com

INVITATION 3rd World Community Arts Day 2009 17 Feb Please pass on

World Community Arts Day 17/02/09

"ART AS A CATALYST FOR CARING AND SHARING"
http://www.communiversity.org.uk/worldcommunityartsday.htm

"We can either react in fear or anger to the state of our world thus
becoming part of the problem or respond creatively and become part of the
solution."

To create a World Festival Society for a day.

Or join one of the social networking groups on Myspace, Flickr, Facebook,
YouTube, etc.

PLEASE GO TO WEBPAGE TO SEE EXAMPLES OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN PREVIOUS YEARS
http://www.communiversity.org.uk/worldcommunityartsday.htm

PLEASE PASS ON.

http://www.3harbours.com/

DEADLINE FOR COMPLETION AND RETURN OF THIS FORM IS NOVEMBER 30TH 2008.

PLEASE DOWNLOAD FROM WEBSITE

3 HARBOURS ARTS FESTIVAL
Art in Unusual Places
Prestonpans, Cockenzie and Port Seton
Friday 5th to 14th June 2009

The 3 Harbours Arts Festival heads into its 4th year in 2009. The last three years have seen the festival grow and change as we try new ideas, perfect the areas that are working well and try to improve on those that are not. In 2008 we saw the introduction of the John Muir Art Trail, the Boatie Blest

MONDAY OCT. 27

Today, we made our raindrop palliets. After Tawny finalized the shape and size of the drops, I cut out cardboard templates. Then we used a sharpie to trace the patterns on to the pre taped car visor and tablecloth.

Then we cut them out with junk scissors, and added ANOTHER LAYER OF TAPE, and trimmed the edges.

In all, today we make 3 large, 18 medium, and 20 small raindrops; and picked up some "EXTRA STRENGTH" antiperspirent for our actress. Will it be enough?

Howie and Tawny will check in every few days as they create a costume for Ms. January in this year's 99cent musical at Bootleg.

More info on this years R&B 99cent Beauty Pagent at www.orpheancircus.com

Dear AMP Members:

The courts in Colorado have just struck down a scheme to disenfranchise over 10,000 overseas voters, disproportionately Democrats. Unfortunately, most, like myself, will not receive ballots in time.

If you know someone, please let them know they can cast a provisional ballot which can be found on line.

Here is the letter I sent to friends and family. I honestly (cliché alert) never believed this could happen to me.
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Dear Everyone,

My voter registration, legally signed and reconfirmed about a month and a half ago, was one of over 10,000 stuck from the rolls in Colorado. The State Courts has renewed our right to vote with provisional ballots, which luckily I'd already done a few day ago, thinking it was merely lost in the mail.

DON'T BE NAIVE.