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Call for Art:

Let’s Play Barbies!

The Ten Women Venice Gallery, 1237 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice 90291,
invites you to participate in our upcoming tribute in honor of
Barbie’s 50th anniversary. This is a juried one day show, Friday
August 7th, in conjunction with Venice Beach Abbot Kinney’s monthly
First Friday event and gallery member Patricia Ander’s Barbie Redux
opening reception. All media, excluding performance art and video,
will be considered. You may submit up to 5 pieces, no larger than 40”
on any side. There is no fee to submit- there will be a $20 jury fee
for accepted artists plus a 20% commission to the gallery on sold
works. Please send jpegs (no larger than 1800px X 1800px) to Turkeyred1@aol.com

ArtCorps offers unique and exciting opportunities for your friends, colleagues and students. Please share the notice below:

Attention actors, painters, musicians, sculptors, dancers and all types of creative artists!
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Join ArtCorps and volunteer your creative talents to strengthen sustainable development in Central America in 2010. Through community arts projects, artists educate and inspire people to participate actively in improving the environmental, health, and social conditions in their communities. Every ArtCorps artist works directly with a local non-governmental organization that is an expert in its field. Artists strengthen dialogue between community members and the organization, improve community education and empower local leadership.

ZZ Baggins Reading at Loveland Museum, Loveland, Colorado 2009 (Taken by Dan Wilcox and altered by J.A. Spahr-Summers)

http://www.poetryvictims.com/id18.html

So two weeks ago our computer crashed at work, it has taken this long to get a new one installed. While I was rather daunted (in my own unique paranoid way) by the idea of probably losing 8 months or one year's worth of art and manuscripts, Amy was strangely calm and cool and collected.

"We'll make more!" She said.

I have to admit, her attitude calmed me to a certain extent, but I continued to fret until last night. My boss (formerly our techie until it was out-sourced) managed to transfer everything (amounting to hundreds of images) to his computer. In a day or two I'll transfer everything to discs (like I told Amy I needed to do about three weeks ago).

All hail to Satan (my boss)!

YourPR has posted another episode titled CraigPR...

Practical and Subtle Life Skills

We all need hope in these times of seemingly endless suffering, pain, greed, and so much needless health problems.

Welcome to Practical Ways to Higher Health, a path walked by many, but misunderstood by most.

My story was like many. I bottomed out as a young man after a car crash left me with a broken neck. It was my fault, driving like a stunt man, and thinking I could do almost anything. I was arrogant and wreckless.

But as I recovered, I learned about true healing, and what our bodies are capable of. Over the past 20 years, I have seen so many “miracles,” they all seem normal and natural for each of us…

YourPR has posted another episode titled CraigPR...

Practical and Subtle Life Skills

We all need hope in these times of seemingly endless suffering, pain, greed, and so much needless health problems.

Welcome to Practical Ways to Higher Health, a path walked by many, but misunderstood by most.

My story was like many. I bottomed out as a young man after a car crash left me with a broken neck. It was my fault, driving like a stunt man, and thinking I could do almost anything. I was arrogant and wreckless.

But as I recovered, I learned about true healing, and what our bodies are capable of. Over the past 20 years, I have seen so many “miracles,” they all seem normal and natural for each of us…

Dear Filmmakers,

I am writing from First Person Arts, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit
organization dedicated to the art of the personal story, to announce First Person America: In These Hard Times, a national competition for filmmakers, writers and photographers. It is a great opportunity for film makers to stretch their creativity and get national recognition.

We are dedicated to making this competition representative of artists from
every region of the country and from all walks of life, and the
collaboration of artists and organizers like yourself is essential to
helping us reach that goal. I hope that you will join us in spreading the
word!

Overview and entry guidelines for First Person: http://www.hardtimes.firstpersonarts.org/?page_id=11

Jordanian documentarians can take part in short-film competition
Posted by: "French Embassy /Amman" French Embassy /Amman art4development
Fri Jun 5, 2009 9:50 am (PDT)

Jordanian documentary filmmakers are invited to participate in the Jordanian short-film competition, which will award 1000 JD (US$1,412) to the first place winner and a video camera to the second place winner at the 15th Franco-Arab Film Festival in Amman, Jordan from July 1 to 9. Deadline: June 7.