((telepath)) February 2003

Happy New Year!

"Telepath, a Thought Crime newsletter for Active Agents"
is a publication via electronic mail, to provide event information for the residents, artists and co-conspirators of Thought Crime
artspace.

Please Check back for regular updates.

Please visit us in downtown Phoenix at:
1019 North Central Avenue, our phone number: (602) 254-NEWS

Regular Gallery Hours:
Friday 7pm - 11pm
Sunday 8pm - midnight

You can visit our website at www.strivedreams.com
To reach us via Telepath(ic) message: telepath@alamut.net

[~~~~ IN THIS ISSUE ~~~~]

Volunteer for Thought Crime
February Gallery Events
Anarchist Library Events
News
Future Shows

[~~~~ VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES! ~~~~]

Calling All Active Agents!
So hello out there... We are going to need help at the gallery on Saturdays and Sundays between Noon and 6pm through the whole month of February... We're building out a new gallery, giving the front a new facelift, constructing a billboard, printing new T-shirts, printing (both screenprint and offset) posters, moving into a new house and building out a new print shop... all in the month of February.
and we need your help!!! Call Michael at (602) 300-7575 if you can lend a hand. We need a truck w/ a lift gate for Feb 8-9. We need someone who is good w/ drywall and taping...

[~~~~ FEBRUARY GALLERY EVENTS ~~~~]


Friday February 7th
7 PM – ? Midnight
First Friday opening of Freshadelics by our very own Douglas Curtis.
Come out this First Friday to see these beautiful paintings. Doug mixes Grafitti with illustration to make aesthetically beautiful images that speak a gambit from constructive optimism to mysterious cosmic increase and even foreboding nuclear doom. Besides paintings, Doug is also showing two beautiful offset REVOLT posters printed here at Thought Crime, as well as some t-shirt designs.
R.E.V.O.L.T.
Realize + Educate + Visualize + Organize + Live + Teach

Friday, February 14th
7 PM – Midnight
Thought Crime Group Show: opening night.
The group show runs through Sunday, February 23rd

The group show is an open call for local artists.
The work is shown for 2 weeks in our front gallery.
While there is a focus on artists showing work to other artists,
the shows are open to the public, and many of the works are for sale.
Each month features a different performance artist.
E-mail pixie@hatemonger.com to get involved

Friday, February 21st
7 PM – 11 PM
"Organic Poetry"    CANCELLED THIS MONTH... Cleo is co-hosting Alwun Houses "Erotic Poetry and Music Festivus"
3rd Friday of each month
Hosted by: Cleopache

"Organic Poetry" is a monthly improv jam by poets & musicians alike that seek
out those creative sessions. It is a co-collaborative forum for those fresh
poets new-to-the-scene, as well as veteran wordsmiths, that have personal
goals to build out their own performance poetry style. This event is
especially for talented musicians that crave opportunities to jam with
performance poets. They are out there !

Saturday, February 22nd - Sunday, March 2nd
We will be receiving works for this year's Art Detour show.
This year's theme is Art/War (Art against War).
Please Visit the www.ARTAGAINSTWAR.net website to get the latest news regarding the show...
We just managed to get a big ad on the back of the art detour brochure for the show.
It's going to be a really big show. We're re-opening the back gallery to show all the work...
We're trying to get more than 40 artists... WE WANT YOUR WORK!!!

[~~~~ ANARCHIST LIBRARY EVENTS ~~~~]

Every Sunday night from 8PM till Midnight,
Thought Crime host's the Anarchist Library.

The Anarchist Library is a weekly political salon with an actual lending library of hundreds of books. There is no fee to participate and books and videos can be checked out for up to a month at a time. The Anarchist Library is the brain child of Joey Grether... you can check him out at http://www.mobaction.com

The library also hosts special events...
here's what's coming up in February:

Stay Tuned: T.B.A.

[~~~~ NEWS ~~~~]

Thought Crime Welcomes these New Resident Artists:

Sahar Afi Mitchell Sahar Afi Mitchell is a performance artist, fire performer and dancer. She is also one of our newest residents at the firehouse. Yea! another girl!!! Sahar is a member of the infamous Culte du Feu fire troupe.

Brannon Lockrem Brannel Lockrem is back among the ranks after a brief trip to Oregon. Brannon is a Collage Artist and political activist.

Coming in March 2003, Docu-crew

Docu-crew is an organization launching in March 2003, made up of individual
volunteers interested in creating locally generated information, media, and
history.

Want to be a camera person? Want to edit video? Want to get your
information out? Want to realize alterative video sources for the valley's
knowledge and history bases?

Cool, so do a lot of other people, let's do something about it!

For online discussions of the nature, shape, roles, and
even name of the group, visit www.strivedreams.com --> Forums --> Docucrew

All projects are to be voluntary, all participation is to be voluntary.
Create because you want to, let the ideas succeed on the weight of the idea.

Pixie - docu-crew member - pixie@hatemonger.com

[~~~~ FUTURE SHOWS ~~~~]

Don't miss these upcoming events:

March 7-9, 2003 for Art Detour,
Thought Crime presents:
Art/War (Art against War)
Art against war presents works that confront and critique America's wars against Iraq and terrorism.
This show is open to all local and network artists. We are seeking one work per artist. Initially there are no size constraints. Works may be in any medium. Pseudonyms are encouraged. We are requesting a $10 donation to participate to help defray the costs of production. This fee is a suggested donation and not required... contribute what you can. We have room in the parking lot for large outdoor works. We will also have an outdoor stage for performances and spoken word. There will be space for local activist groups to distribute information.
America will probably have already declared war against Iraq by the time of the show.
Together, let's make this a significant event.

We can receive work between Saturday, February 22nd & Sunday, March 2nd.
The show has been extended Friday, March 7th thru Sunday, March 23rd.
Unsold works need to be collected betweenMonday, March 24th & Thursday, March 27th.

Contact: Michael23@alamut.net to get involved

Also coming up...

March 28, 2003 / Terri Kass
April 25, 2003 / Graffiti Show
May 23, 2003 / Ben Luna
June 27, 2003 / Victor Vincente of America