AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

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

Hey Visionaries,

Our Mindful Design is now up online:

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/

Share and Enjoy

Hi everyone,

I am looking forward to playing in Amsterdam later this month.

About the artists
Akrasi are a duo that produce mutations of dub and breakbeat with strong vocals, fierce beats and haunting melodies. Live performances combine digital and analogue instruments.

Akrasi met in Manchester organising jungle nights. They began to work on their own music which was heavily influenced by the eclectic style and D.I.Y attitude of soundsystem culture. German artists - Funkstorung heard this sound and invited them to Munich for their first performance supporting LTJ Bukem. An EP 'Zero1' was licensed through Funkstorung's label Sellwell. The duo performed several times to huge audiences in Germany and France alongside artists such as DJ Blame and Conrad. Encouraged by this Akrasi began to work on an album and set up their own label Zero-k.

It is a great pleasure for me to announce that we continue the artistic promotion of 'The Spirit Lives On - Association for the Non-Professional Arts' through a new Organization; Life is Art.

Life is Art is a non-profit organization which purpose is to give people in a difficult life-situation an arena to be creative together! Our main focus will be on children. We wish to spread creative joy, and bring attention to and understanding for physical and mental health.

We will be arranging workshops and classes in different art-directions, with professional and experienced artists to guide and teach. The participants of these events have to be connected with an institution, organisation or form of treatment. Further on, we want to arrange art exhibitions, where the participants of our previous events will get the opportunity to present the fruits of their creativity. These will exhibit for free. A smaller part of the show will be open for both professional and unprofessional artists for a smaller fee. We hope to be able to welcome to our first show in Stavern, Norway.