How Do You Bring About An Arts Holiday?
August 8, 2009 – Hollywood: How To Increase Community Art Appreciation Art appreciation means art of all disciplines is being experienced, bought and sold in increasing quantities. Artists and art are valued and defended by a community.
On the main street in Glendale, California, Lafayette Silva walked into a furniture store, said he was with [...]
Art Day 2009 is August 14
July 28, 2009 – Hollywood: International Art Day falls this year on August 14, 2009, the second Friday in August. How will you celebrate artists this year?
For the past three years, the Mayors of Glendale (Home of Art Day) have proclaimed the second Friday in August as “Art Day.” The holiday, similar to Arbor [...]
Art Day 2009 Mail Art Project
July 3, 2009 – Hollywood: Celebrate Artists! International Art Day falls this year on August 14, 2009, the second Friday in August. The theme is “Celebrate Artists!”
As you know, it is the artists who carry and enhance the honor and glory of the society. By elevating and supporting artists, by giving them stability [...]
Beyond Story Rules, by Rebecca Mate
April 9, 2009 – Hollywood: An author brings their own inventiveness to a story or script in their effort to tell the story they want to tell.
For example, it is easy to point out the downside of cigarette smoking in a story about a greedy CEO in the tobacco industry, because the general public knows [...]
The World Needs an Arts Holiday, by Rebecca Mate
January 16, 2009 – Hollywood: The World Needs an Arts Holiday, So, I started one in 1998. Why?
I saw arts education cut from schools. Trash and degradation were being passed off as art in museums. I saw mostly seniors at plays. Poets and writers were struggling to get their voices heard over national in-fighting, celebrity [...]
AFABW Holiday Party
December 13, 2008 – Hollywood: Tonight was our 2008, AFABW, end-of-the-year, Holiday Party and networking event, when our Los Angeles artists can get get together, listen to some music and poetry, eat too much food, and generally just kick back and have some fun.
Traditionally, it’s also the time we go over some of [...]
UPCOMING EVENT: AFABW Holiday Event & Networking Party
November 19, 2008 – Hollywood: Artists For A Better World will be having their end-of-the-year Holiday Event and Networking Party at Celebrity Centre International in Hollywood, CA. All are welcome and attendees will learn more about opportunities to use their talents in upcoming events and projects.
WHEN: Saturday, December 13th, 6:30 [...]
New AFABW Artists Directory Exceeds 200 Members
November 30, 2008 – Hollywood: Today the new AFABW Artists Directory exceeded 200 members. This includes artists relocating from the old Artists Directory to the new Artists Directory, and also includes quite a number of new AFABW artists who were not published in the earlier Artists Directory.
Great feedback has been coming in about [...]
Codes & Symbols of Language, by Rebecca Mate
November 10, 2008 – Hollywood: Isn’t it interesting that an editor can take a look at a manuscript and determine whether a writer is an amateur or not?
Our written language has developed code or symbols to reflect the spoken word. For example, an em dash can show interruption. And ellipsis can mean speech [...]
Damian Perkins On Artists in our World, by Anthea Dennis
November 1, 2008 – Hollywood: This year’s Artists For A World Awards Event and Concert, for me, had several wonderful messages, of which the one I have remembered and retold many times is this:
When the 2008 AFABW “Outstanding Contribution As An Artist” Award was presented to Damian Perkins, he asked the audience to close [...]
