AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

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• A conversation with Erin Shea about her episode NedPeRin (http://www.nedpr.org/2008/nedperin)
• William Faulkner’s Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Background sound from Jimbob Peltaire
• A Special episode of Morning Becomes Epileptic w/Ned Hardcore has Nick Carpenter interviewing AKRON/FAMILY w/their songs East Coast and I’ll Be On The Water -
• Visit: http://www.myspace.com/akak
• Coming soon website: http://www.akronfamily.com/
• More from Molly Benson’s AIDS Marathon journey -

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Picking up where I left off last time...

After the best show of the tour and a late Sunday night at Struik in Amsterdam we woke up early Monday morning for English Breakfast Radio - an 8:30 AM radio show for English speaking beings. Mark, the host, was great. A funny guy who kinda reminds me of Simon Pegg. More handsome of course, Mark. We did a couple of live songs with just acoustic guitar (no piano carrying in the morning), joked around, took an on-air quiz and drank coffee and tea in tiny paper cups. Thank you Kim, Sarah, Mark and the rest of the crew. The rest of the day was spent being reacquainted with Amsterdam, on foot.

Graffiti Artist Banksy has turned a South London Tunnel into a Half-Mile Long Exhibition

LONDON.- Graffiti artist Banksy has turned a south London tunnel into a half-mile long exhibition space, but the elusive artist kept its location secret until the last minute, reported the BBC. Banksy marshaled more than three dozen international artists for what he's calling the "Cans Festival" — and is encouraging visitors to contribute their own graffiti starting Saturday.

Members of the public are being invited to take part in Banksy's latest project in London, as an army of graffiti writers turn a whole street into an art exhibition. The organizers' Web site - http://www.thecansfestival.com - makes the "rules of engagement" clear:

STOLEN IMAGES

On occasion other peoples’ images invade our inventory
Capturing some essence we adopt as though home grown;
Over time their stories becoming our stories:
A family’s ritual stroll after dinner although alone,
Reaching separate hilltops at five sequestered points,
Each in plain view yet clearly quite apart,
Knowing that something was somehow out of joint,
Positioned there like extremities of a solitary star,
Able to relate at ease only at a distance.
This tableau from a dear friend’s childhood lore
Has somehow wedged itself into my own expanse
It seems this scene does not want to disappear –
Like dreams that haunt your sleep from year to year.

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Please visit and add comments!
--Robin Locke Monda

“Taboo Topics” an Open Juried Show June 14th - July 20th 2008

Artists Union Gallery, California Street at the Promenade, Ventura
Drop-off dates for Artwork:
Monday, June 9, 4-7 pm
Tuesday, June 10, 9-noon.

As social mores become more restrictive, expression becomes less free. In our increasingly polarized society, deep divisions allow for less freedom of expression. We, as Americans, are divided more and more by politics (liberals vs. conservatives), social values (traditionalists vs. modernists), religion (fundamentalists vs. everyone else), race, ethnicity, gender, and age.

Reviving a creative nation
Cate Blanchett and Julianne Schultz
April 16, 2008

To flourish, society depends on a strong cultural heritage as well as
innovation. The challenge is to breathe new life into the arts.

CREATIVITY is at the heart of every successful nation. It finds
expression in great visual art, wonderful music, fabulous
performances, stunning writing, gritty new productions and countless
other media. Giving form to our innate human creativity is what
defines us to ourselves and the world.

This is what the arts have always done. Think back to any significant
time in the past and the chances are that it is the creative output
of the time that comes to mind — from rock art in remote caves to the

Listen to NedPR and then submit your own art or produce your own episode!!!

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AN EPISODE OF NEDPR PRODUCED IN FULL BY ERIN SHEA

NedPeRin: just kidding, just kidding
(this one's for the children)

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IN THIS EPISODE:

::::: Music by Blue Sky Divide ::::::

Blue Sky Divide is Matt & Paul, two Minnesota boys who met in Los Angeles and began writing & recording music together.

Songs In This Episode:

"Start of Things"
"Snake Charmer"
"Gone"
"Charmed Life"

http://www.myspace.com/blueskyd
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:::::: A Look at Van Cougar ::::::

I'm playing a show on Sunday at Charlie O's in Los Angeles, CA.

I'm opening for Dos (Watt & Kira), Binary Field and Motoko Honda. Live artists, food, sponsored by Amoeba Records and KXLU.

Should be a blast.