AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Coco De Mer is proud to Present:

Velvet Hammer Burlesque Salon

Book Reading and Costume Exhibition
Thursday, March 27th. From 7.00- 9pm FREE!
cocktails and refreshments will be served.

The book comes to life!
Link to book promo video directed by John Gulager:
http://www.youtube.com/v/3X7ECWfT3v8&rel=1&border=1

The Velvet Hammer was founded in 1995 in Los Angeles,
by Michelle Carr and her vision kick started the
current era of Neo-Burlesque and caused a furor on
stages worldwide.

Michelle Carr, Pleasant Gehman and Kristian Hoffman
will be reading the hilarious unedited text from the brand new
book 'Velvet Hammer Burlesque' and signing books after
wards. On display will be 10 of the most elaborately
designed and intricately constructed handmade costumes

I'm getting ready for the Body Of Art Show at the jFerrari gallery tonight. Very exciting!! I hope to meet some members there.

Please take a moment to send an email in support of “The Artist Deduction Bill” S. 548 and HR 1524.

The Bill would give artists the right to deduct the fair market value of their work when donated to museums and other non-profit organizations.

This legislation could allow artists to ensure that some of their best work will end up in a museum collection to serve the public.

CLICK HERE to support this bill. Americans for the Arts has created a user-friendly format for you to contact your representatives - it will only take two minutes!

Stop by our weekly Salon of art and fashion. This week we celebrate our featured designer Greg Smith. Pick up one of his animal print throws, a Mr.Mrs. exclusive. His womens wear (for Orthodox) was shown on the runway last Sunday, and featured on KTLA's Morning News the next morning.

4634 Hollywood Blvd, 90027 3/16 Noon to 4pm

Check out some of Greg's work for orthodox here:
http://www.mbfashionweek.com/losangeles/fall2008/designers/orthodox/

We still have Cindy's sos pieces available for a $50 tax deductible donation.

Mr.Mrs. gets it's very first press on the easywriter blog:
http://easy-writer.blogspot.com/2008/03/day-one-real-scene.html

visit the pingg webpage for the event:
http://MrMrs.pingg.com/Sunday3-16

time for a
tune up,
to tune in,
and tune out
the outside noise
and be in
the brilliant music of the life inside yourself ...
experience the lasting benefits
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contact the studio today
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thank you

gandharva
www.devora-lillian.com

Dear friends
I want to invite you to participate in the project “Pockets of Memory” a collective artwork made out of pockets crafted by many women from different countries and traditions. The final result will be a dress that will be shown on August 2nd at The “Qoricancha Temple” in Cuzco, Peru as part of my next art show Dresses Memory of the Earth.

Welcome to our Imagine Nation!
Emerging Visions visionary art ezine #11

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com

share and enjoy!!!

for those of you who wanted to read the poems etc, that I perfomed last month at W13, here they are in reverse order of the performance:

The wikipedia on Stages of Courtly Love
• Attraction to the lady, usually via eyes/glance
• Worship of the lady from afar
• Declaration of passionate devotion
• Virtuous rejection by the lady
• Renewed wooing with oaths of virtue and eternal fealty
• Moans of approaching death from unsatisfied desire (and other physical manifestations of lovesickness)
• Heroic deeds of valor which win the lady's heart
• Consummation of the secret love
• Endless adventures and subterfuges avoiding detection
= the inspiration for this poem:

The Lovers Ritual
By Nance Broderzen ©2008

I am knee-deep in disallusionment (once again) with the American political system. I watch the candidates for The Presidency and I am dismayed by the animosity between each other, such venom.

What lies they promise!

And what lies we have already been told; before, now, again and again!

Campaigning, a dog eat dog soapbox opera, is not for the feint of heart (especially during times of a trumped-up war).

We suffer the embarrassment of the world.

(Please join me at ... http://liarmagazine.blogspot.com/)

Jeff

I showed a Buddhist friend over for breakast recently some work by a California buddhist artist - Michele Benzamin-Miki (coming from a mixed Japanese, N. African and Euro-American background). In an interview she stated "I feel that art is about revolution. Tolstoy once said that art inspires non-violence. With art you can get away with more to inspire non-violence. You can really push the envelope with the images you put out. My art is like getting to express in a transcendent language which circumvents belief systems. Art can bring people to a deeper place of spirituality, of activism, of anything." (www.artmbm.net)