((telepath)) January 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 visit us in downtown Phoenix at:
1019 North Central Avenue, our phone number: (602) 254-NEWS
You can visit our website at www.strivedreams.com
To reach us via Telepath(ic) message: telepath@alamut.net

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

Volunteer for ThoughtCrime
January Gallery Events
Anarchist Library Events
News
Future Shows

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

Calling All Active Agents!
Open Call for Thought Crime Volunteers
Thought Crime is seeking volunteers to help organize the gallery and it's events.
If you are interested call Michael at (602) 254-6397 or come visit us at the gallery.
We're open every Friday and Sunday nights and we also have Saturday office hours from 2PM-3PM.
Time commitments are flexible. We're looking for responsible, motivated individuals interested in developing the gallery into a fully functional artist resource. This year we would like to grow our core of active participants to 20-30 people.
Experience is a plus but not necessary. We can work together to figure out what we don't already know.
Below are some areas of focus, but we can try to accomodate all kinds of help.
Friday nights from 6-9 we can always use some extra hands.

Focus Areas
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Promotions
Coffee Shop/Barista
Retail Sales
Artist Liaison / Curator
Press Release Person
Client Liaison
Artlink Representative
Opening Coordinator
Group Show Coordinator
Poetry Night Coordinator
Volunteer Coordinator
Newsletter Coordinator
Music Coordinator
AV / Sound Coordinator
Webmaster
Anarchist Library
Archivist

[~~~~ JANUARY GALLERY EVENTS ~~~~]

Special Tuesday Night Event !!!
Tuesday January 7th
7 PM – 11 PM
Squats in and around Barcelona: A Free Slideshow (donations accepted)
Pictures of and words about some spectacular projects, including squatted farms, bike shops, houses, info shops, bars, libraries, community gardens, neighborhood resource centers, anarchist conference center, kafes, social centers, and a whole village!

Friday January 10th
7 PM – Midnight
Thought Crime Group Show: opening night.
with a featured performance: Current Workings: a discussion of theory and practice with Michael 23

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 January 17th
7 PM – 11 PM
"Organic Poetry"
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 !

Friday January 31th
7 PM – ? Midnight
Opening night of Freshadelics by our very own Douglas Curtis.

[~~~~ 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 January:

[~~~~ NEWS ~~~~]

STEVE First, we must introduce our newest resident artist, Steve Strange. He is a magician and performance artist and founding member of Phoenix's very own fire troupe Cult du Feu. Next time you drop in please introduce yourself to our newest Thought Criminal. Look for the guy with the fire coming out of his mouth. STRANGE

Michael and Joanna recently visited an artspace in San Francisco called CELLspace. www.cellspace.org

"CELLspace offers communal art workshops and learning labs in a variety of artistic mediums: metal, wood, puppetry, sewing, music, digital video, crafts, dance, and theatre. Our 10,000 square foot facility serves as an arts incubator, enabling emerging Bay Area artists to create, develop, exhibit, and perform new work in an affordable, cooperative, and collaborative environment."

It was a Monday night that we visited CELLspace and found Helima out front taking a smoke break. She invited us in and gave us a tour. They were having a "cluster" meeting that night but we were too late to sit in on it. Tony, who coordinates the metals shop, showed us around some more as we waited for the meeting to finish up. After the meeting we met with Jonathon, from the administrative "cluster". Jonathon compiled a stack of CELLspace information and we talked about networking collective art spaces, establishing a new type of designated use for city zoners called "Community Art Center", and discussed their current dilema with the city requiring that their building be brought up to code. It was an exciting visit. I encourage anyone visiting the SanFrancisco to check it out.

www.cellspace.org
2050 Bryant St. San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: 415.648.7562
Fax: 415.970.8710
info@CELLspace.org

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!

First Documentation Project Coming March 1st!!! Initial meeting planned for
February, 23, 2003. 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 particpation 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 Monday, February 10th & Friday, February 28th.
The show is Friday, March 7th thru Sunday, March 9th.
Unsold works need to be collected betweed Monday, March 10th & Thursday, March 13th.

Contact: Michael23@alamut.net to get involved

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