AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

HOT OFF THE PRESS! True crime, poetry from prison, gritty literature, dark fantasy, and more! Check out our TOUGH LIT III issue: http://www.ideagems.com/ Just click on the cover page to order print copy or PDF Download. Click on the Amazon Kindle button to order the Kindle version. Your purchase helps us in our mission to promote women writers and artists.

As always, I am looking for submissions of stories, poems, artwork, and photography. I'm proud to say that my little "penny dreadful" publication has become an internationally recognized magazine going on its 7th year. This 'zine--my painstaking labor of love--provides a platform for writers and artists to showcase their work! We have feature AMP artists Linda Kent, Maddy Rosenberg, and others.

Live Version of '14 Steps' from Ancient Future's 'World Without Walls' Reunion Concert at Yoshi's SF, 6/7/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro0VAo7a9BY

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces an "Open" art competition for the month of July 2011. A Group exhibition of the top five finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Art Gallery for the month of August 2011. The theme is Open, you decide, so send us your best art now!

Awards will be for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, honorable mention and special recognition . All winners will be selected, announced and featured on the Light Space & Time website on August 1, 2011. Thereafter, the artworks will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives with links to the artist’s websites.

Deadline to apply is July 29, 2011 - Apply through the website http://www.lightspacetime.com

A retrospective of the works of the world- known performance artist Frank Moore has just been launched on VIMEO. Although Moore started doing art in the late sixties, this retrospective covers his performance, video, and music works from the late seventies to the present, giving an overview of this controversial artist.

Ongoing at:
http://vimeo.com/channels/frankmoore

A truly unique combination of professional training and a wonderful holiday adventure!

Actors, performers, students and teachers of acting, anyone and everyone who is part of the extended theatre “family” – welcome to the International Summer Workshop Series 2011 at the Artistic Centre in Bjørke, Norway!

"REinventing action"
July 7th - 21st 2011

and

"Actor’s identity: the double belonging"
July 25th - August 8th 2011

Why attend?
- Because it will be an experience second to none - equal parts inspired learning, cultural adventure, and breathtaking nature! It’s the kind of place we’re willing to bet you’ll want to return to, again and again.

“One of the country’s most controversial and profound artists.” Kotori Magazine

THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN
experiments in experience/participation performance

The Underground Hit!
CRITIC'S CHOICE: East Bay Express

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, June 25, 2011
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/

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that its June 2011 art exhibition, "Nature" is now posted and ready to view on their website.

The gallery received submissions from 15 different countries from around the world and they also received entries from 29 different states. Overall, there were 498 entries that were judged. Congratulations to the 60 international artists who were designated as this month’s winners.

To view the art exhibition click here: http://www.lightspacetime.com

About Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery

International Directing Lab

International intensive workshop for directors
under the direction of Sergei Ostrenko

July 11 - 16, 2011
Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria

The lab programme is designed for performing arts practitioners with professional stage experience working in various genres, techniques and styles.

PROGRAMME: Intensive practical training, lectures and discussions guided by the Russian theatre director and teacher Sergei Ostrenko. Participants will

become acquainted with Ostrenko Method formed and inspired by the greatest figures of the Russian Theatre Tradition and the newest experiments in performing

A Thematic exhibition “Abstracts” by Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery in a Juried Competition. A Group exhibition of the top five finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Art Gallery for the month of July 2011.

Awards will be for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. All winners will be selected, announced and featured on the Light Space & Time website on July 1, 2011 and remain online in the gallery for the month of July 2011. Thereafter, the artworks will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives with links to the artist’s websites.

Apply through the website http://www.lightspacetime.com and the Deadline is June 28, 2011

Volume 8, Issue 3 of Poetry Victims is now online at http://currentissuepv.blogspot.com/2011/05/volume-8-issue-3.html

Featuring poetry and art by Nicole Turiano!

Enjoy!

Luv ya, zz