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Dear Friends and Kulchur-Barbarians all --
You are invited to a blowout, high-intensity, Detroit-style celebration of the Detroit Artists Workshop 44th Anniversary, headlined by Mr. "Va Tutto Bene / It's All Good" JOHN SINCLAIR himself, backed by PINKEYE, JEFF ODIDLEE and DUENDE & company, recreating the scream'n, rock'n, Grande Ballroom, MC5-style era right before your eyes (and ears)!
Musicians James Semark and Joe Lucido (performing a tribute to legendary Detroit pianist Willie Anderson)
Art / poster/ photo exhibits by Carl Lundgren, Gary Grimshaw, Leni Sinclair and Stephen Ligosky
(poster by Gary Grimshaw attached)
And remember: if anyone asks you how we're doi'n it, tell 'em, "We're doi'n it the DETROIT WAY -- yeah -- the DETROIT WAY!"
Yours, the r/evolution lives on!
James Semark, DAW coordinator
James Semark
member, or not in agreement with the spirit of the official site will be
deleted, and possibly member removed from group).
The Detroit Artists Workshop is an organization which has recieved great
recognition from Mayor and City of Detroit, as well as Governor Granholm. Let's
come together and show the world what Detroit is all about. There's a "New
Energy Rising"!
THE ARTISTS WORKSHOP SOCIETY: A "MANIFESTO
By John Sinclair
1 November 1964
Why a community of artists? One of the most important things to a young,
formative artist is having a group of his peers (in the best sense of the word,
taking into consideration his advanced level of consciousness &c), that he can
be a part of, that he can talk to, work with, work out ideas, &c and can give
him support. Modern society has succeeded to a frightening degree in alienating
artists from each other (and of course from people in general; or at least vice
versa) and atomizing what could be a vital, active community into
a group of lone, defensive, hungup people who are afraid to talk to and/or work
with anyone but themselves and (maybe) three or four friends.
A community of artists means that a group of highly conscious people have
resolved their individual, ego problems and can help each other in very real
ways by giving support, stimulation &c. The artist working alone is cutting
himself off from (tho not consciously Im sure) from sources of inspiration and
influence that can
help him immeasurably in his work. The lone artist has no one to listen to his
work (Leroi Jones: how you sound), no one to offer criticism, ideas &c that
would bring his work into sharper focus with itself. He stumbles along, hung up
in his own ego & his own work, no perspective, he can only listen to the
generations before him & those who are getting exposure now (if he knows where
to find them on his own) to get his inspiration & perspective solitary, at best
an artificial situation. Hard to get as excited, as completely involved in his
work by himself; when he can talk about it with/to others who are trying to do
the same thing as himself (i.e., create some poetry (read:beauty) out of the
garbage of their lives (LeRoi) and communicate it to others) he can achieve and
maintain the state of consciousness Henry James called perception at the pitch
of passion. And who better to communicate to than those few people who are
operating at the same level of awareness and involvement as oneself
PATTI SMITH WITH CAROLYN STRIHO "PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER" @ MICHIGAN THEATRE ANN ARBOR MI 08/02/2007
Len
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