AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

NORCA is our local Community Arts provider for access, resources, and participation in community arts.

www.norcaarts.co.uk.

If you would care to check it out, I am sure you will find something of interest.

Peace to all.

Skip.

WHAT: Globoid Fun: The Art and Music of KRK Ryden. Plus performances by The Fuxedos, Mark Mothersbaugh, and a helluva' lot more!

WHEN: This Friday, October 12. The art opening kicks off at 6 pm; music starts at 8:30. The Fuxedos hit at 9:30.

WHERE: Safari Sam's, 5214 W. Sunset Blvd., LA, 90027. Free parking in their big ol' lot, and half-price food & drinks from 6 to 9 pm. Free treats provided by Archie's Ice Cream. http://safari-sams.com

WHO: Ken the Magic Corner God (aka KRK Ryden) starts off the musical portion of the night, accompanied by special guest Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo (as the infamous Booji Boy). http://myspace.com/krkryden

Old red belly
is napping
sunning himself
sunny side up
a splash on the patio
white and blue
and gray
he is
snoring I think he
lounges in the nude
in the sunshine
his legs splayed
like leaning fence posts
his eyes like saucers
jet black yet
complicatedly
yellow

(Previously published on Poetry Super Highway and in Voices Israel Anthology)

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ppa/ppa463.html#fp1

EUFRICAM : Europe as seen by African photographers and video-artists

I am currently preparing a project that seeks to show Europe through the eyes of its African diaspora. I'm looking for inspired photographers or video-artists from subsaharan African origine that wish to participate in this project by photographing Europe from a personal and African perspective.
Please contact me should you know photographers or video-makers that would wish to take part in this intercultural dialogue, or if you have ideas to further help develop this project.

MonkiBee

I really enjoyed performing in AMPsterdam. It was the first time I've played in Holland and hope to do it again! The venue was beautiful and I was really feeling the performances by Mavis Klaverweide and Synchdub. Victor Chews performance was inspired and reminded me of a scene from Blue Velvet, one of my favourite films.

Now that I'm back in London, I'm working on a haunted and radical audio walk of Wandsworth and some new music.

Hey all,

here's a great project from AMP member Farzad Kohan, made just to connect artists all over the world. It's fun, easy, and creative, and it will be really interesting to see what happens with it! Please send a boat to Farzad and contribute to the River of Life - just have a look at the attachments and start folding!

And look here for bigger and even more readable instructions! :)

http://farzadkohan.com/fk_riveroflife.html

Terri

Hello

You are invited to Join River of Life.

For more information please go to

http://farzadkohan.com/fk_riveroflife.html

The River of Life art project is a community building event in which L.A. based artist Farzad Kohan is collecting paper boats. Farzad plans on building an art installation of paper boats that will flow through the floor of Brand Gallery.

Please join us

Sincerely

Farzad Kohan
www.farzadkohan.com

I'm visiting the west coast from NYC, and giving house concerts in LA (10/2) and SF (10/6) to celebrate my new jazz CD! Drop me a line at elizabeth@elizabethjazz.com to find out more!

http://www.elizabethjazz.com

Q: What happens when you mix a doctor with a writer
A: A book diagnostician.
September 7, 2007

On the plane again, just can’t wait to get on the plane again… After returning from a marvelous month on the sea, on the Northern Coast of Spain, I’m flying again. This time, I’m going to a conference for doctor-writers in Virginia. I’ve been pondering the fusion of these two disciplines lately and this conference is my second one this year with this target audience in mind. The genre of narrative medicine or literary medicine is exploding these days. Dr. Rita Charon of Columbia University, one of the pioneers in the field, describes it as “the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness.” Many medical schools now offer elective courses on lit med. It is believed that health care providers can improve the effectiveness of their care through this type of writing, by developing the capacity for attention, reflection, representation, self-care, and affiliation with patients and colleagues. My favorite narrative medicine writers are: Atul Gawande, Audrey Young, Emily Transue, Manoj Jain, Alok Khorana, Darshak Sanghavi, Rick Boyte, Eliza Lo Chin, and Pauline Chen.

Hi there AMP-peoples !

My name is Pete Moraites (sometimes creating under the moniker Sebastian Process ). I'm a photo-illustr-anima-composer/writer/VJ/DJ/etc all-around creatively impassioned man. To me, Creativity is as synonymous with God as is Love. After years of studying creative process with and participating in workshops by Tomato, Kelly Morgan's Artist's Way courses, Tony Robbins, Richard Bandler, etc, I'm sometimes known as "the Creative Catalyst" for my abilities to spark and foster the creative spirit.

www.petemoraites.com is a collection of some of my visual and musical works and links to some more recent stuff on YouTube, including the Hypnotic Hit Feature Program yourself