AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

One of the most popular ongoing projects that WCAD has been involved
in has been THE PAPERBOATS.

MAKE A PAPERBOAT WITH A MESSAGE OF HOPE IN IT

http://www.communiversity.org.uk/WCADpaperboats2009.htm
Our modern twist on this ancient craft has continued to develop and last year saw an exhibition at The Three Harbours Arts Festival, where a further 2000 paperboats were produced.
We now now have a small touring exhibition of this growing project which is at present at Castleview Primary School, Craigmillar for this years WCAD.

Here are some great examples of PAPERBOATS

http://www.flickr.com/groups/622771@N24/
http://www.communiversity.org.uk/irena.htm
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gGrhOARv2Ww
http://www.communiversity.org.uk/rocca.htm

Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.),
an activist group of artists, art workers, performers and independent curators fighting to get paid for our labor, announces our next meeting:

Thursday, Jan 22, 2009, 7 pm
Judson Church Assembly Hall
239 Thompson St. , NYC

free & open to the public,
wheelchair accessible
http://www.wageforwork.com

W.A.G.E. works to draw attention to economic inequalities that exist in the arts, and to resolve them.

W.A.G.E. has been formed because we, as visual + performance artists and independent curators, provide a work force.

Documentaries on millenium development goals to be awarded

A compeition will award the best documentaries on one of the Millennium
Development Goals and its relation to Arab women. Deadline: March 31,
2009.

The Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR) and the
International Planned Parenthood Federation, Regional Office for the
Arab world, launched the competition, which is open to Arab
documentarians.

Submissions should be sent in digital format and be between 11 and 27
minutes long. First and second place winners will receive US$2,500 and
US$2,000, respectively, in May 2009.

To apply or to get more information about the competition (in Arabic),
click on the attached word documents below. For more information,

Another in a series of the cards I drew for myself on 3x5 index cards and now photosh'ing. My originals were based on the Ryder deck, but as I'm unschooled in art, they were quite crude, which I liked, but wanted to jazz them up. Some originals were better than the new version.
There's something in this one I like...reminds of Chas. Addams..as if it needs an wierd gag caption...

Another in a series of the cards I drew for myself on 3x5 index cards and now photosh'ing. My originals were based on the Ryder deck, but as I'm unschooled in art, they were quite crude, which I liked, but wanted to jazz them up. Some originals were better than the new version; some, like this one, aren't much changed.

Re-replaced w/ new version. Another in a series of the cards I drew for myself on 3x5 index cards and now photosh'ing. My originals were based on the Ryder deck, but as I'm unschooled in art, they werequitecrude, which I liked, but wanted to jazz them up. Some originals were betterthan the new version, some, like this one, worse.

Another of the deck I drew for myself on 3x5index cards and am now photoshop'g --
trying to get through the pentacles as I don't like my originals so much... This not too diff' from original except horse looks more horse- and less bull-terrier-like...

Metal A Capella Battle of the Bands.

As part of the Sound IN Space Festival (Feb. 5-28) at the Sea and
Space Explorations Gallery. http://www.soundinspace.org

Judges :
Howie Pyro (Danzig and D Generation)
Susie Allen (Theorist and Harp Performance California Institute of the
Arts)
Hillary Kapan (Philosopher)

Metal Singers of any sub-genre are invited to sing, unaccompanied - no
bands no backing tracks - original music or covers from the Metal
Repertoire at Sound IN Space on Feb. 6th. Each singer will be given
3-7 minutes, a microphone and a load of amplification.

Free beer for participants.

There will be prizes.

Please forward this to anyone that you think can effectively 'bring
it' and melt my brains out of my ears.