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Hope in Art by [dlpdanny] in [music]

 

www.artfromthestreets.com

ART FROM THE STREETS – A Blueprint
How to Build One in Your Own Community and Keep It Going Year After Year
 
WHAT IT IS – A volunteer-driven arts program working with homeless individuals. AFTS is mid-way through its fifteenth year as a community-based, volunteer-driven arts program that gives homeless individuals the opportunity to explore their painting and drawing skills in free, weekly art classes, and to earn money through sales of the resulting work at an annual show. The weekly classes have attracted more than 800 homeless men and women as participants, and fourteen annual shows have produced more than $500,000 in art sales, over 90% of which has gone directly to the artists.
 
STRUCTURE – On-going classes and an Annual Show – A no-lose proposition. At the very least, people get the chance to sit someplace and interact in a non-competitive, supportive way with other people, and possibly also the chance to create something that pleases them. At first, you just make art together. Then, after awhile, maybe as much as a year, you think about having a show of the work that’s been produced. The public is invited. They come. The homeless people who’ve been coming to class become artists for the day. They stand beside work they created. People like it. Maybe they buy some. The money goes to the artists.
 
CLASSES FIRST – this is the key to success. How you set this up influences everything that follows. What we did was never a “class.” And we never emphasized the “art” part, either. We created a sort of endangered species sanctuary where the endangered species were feeling connected to other people, a sense of safety and security, encouragement, play, and maybe, finally, artistic expression. The important thing produced in the classes was relationships, not art. It was a friendly, respectful, relatively quiet place to sit for awhile, away from the usual activity of the shelter, away from the daily grind and boredom that being homeless entails.


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BlackHawk Riot Nov 11th ATX by [zonabi] in [music]

Check out BlackHawk Riot this coming wednesday Nov 11th at Trophy's

 

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 10:00pm
   
 
Trophy's 2008 S. Congress Ave. Austin, Tx 78704
MSTRKRFT Oct 30th @ Republic Live in ATX by [zonabi] in [music]

 

Friday October 30th

MSTRKRFT Live @ Republic Live

301 W 5th St. Austin, Tx

Tickets available at GrooveTickets: http://bit.ly/3T3E8S

Fellow MIMMer Migz was fortunate enough to catch MSTRKRFT last week in El Paso, rocking the f'in house! Don't miss it.


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