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AMP:Connect

An arts networking event
Featuring 23HAM

Meridian Gallery
535 Powell St. San Francisco [map]
Saturday, February 27, 2010
8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

The Event

AMP: Connect, will bring together twelve of the best grassroots arts organizations in the bay area for a night of connecting and fun.
23HAM has been selected as one of the participating organizations.

There will be artists and grassroots art organizations from various disciplines—music, dance, expressive arts therapy, film, theater, and more. This is not just another ho-hum gallery show with people blithely sipping wine, staring at walls, and not talking (although there will be fabulous wine and hors d’oeuvres). The evening will include fun interactive games, installations, and mini-workshops, all with the intention to provide a networking opportunity for the Bay Area’s diverse arts community. What better place to connect with creative individuals and artistic communities while tipping some wine and popping hors d’oeuvres. There will also be a live DJ.

$10 donation for 3.5 hours of fun = 10/3.5 = (2.8571428571)$/hr + (.2844497964) = $π/hr. Even cheaper than Indian food.

The Host

AMP – Artist Meeting Place and Resource Collective, a Los Angeles-based, international arts organization, is a thriving online hub for artists, with nearly 4,000 members in 85 countries. AMP’s website empowers members to meet, share their work, post classifieds, and search AMP’s worldwide directories for other artists, as well as artists’ resources. AMP also sponsors networking events, focusing on not only sharing art, but creating community, which is essential to generative, relevant, and interesting art making.

23HAM | House of Art and Multimedia
903 Camelia St Berkeley CA 94710
510 647 8603
23HAM.com

On Tuesday, January 27, 23HAM participated in the Learning for Life after-school program at Fruitvale School in Oakland. We titled our visit ‘Redrawing Borders’ – activities that guided them in thinking about borders and provided artistic outlets to express their own responses. These activities further explored our Navigate/Position theme and politely coincided with the ‘Begin Anywhere’ show, where the artists had to visualize change starting with a map…

23HAM’s Navigate/Position is a collaborative effort of cross-disciplinary programming that investigates the direction and orientation our worlds are taking.

Navigate/Position recognizes the perpetual state of metamorphosis we experience – on the personal, collective and universal levels. In an effort to create connections, we strive for re-integration – individual/community, fine art/new media, art/science, tradition/modernity.