Hi Nicole, thanks for joining and welcome to the Social Arts Network. I would love to see you share more of the work that you do for viewing in the network. I also hope that you connect with many members here. Our primary goal is to help artists around the world to inspire each other and encourage everyone to keep creating their good works.
As you may already know, the network is managed by Escape Artists’ and is open to everyone. The next step is for you to simply invite any friends you may have in the arts, and any others that you may know who would have a participatory interest to join the Social Arts Network. Make sure to use the "Advanced Search" option when searching the network for other members in your field.
The Social Arts Network uses, and is built on, a platform similar to other well-known social networks such as MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. The network supports both still images and video and has been designed to easily scale and allow us to grow into an extensive global network of active artists.
Please feel free to share in here samples of your works by uploading your events, photos, videos, music, training materials and research papers; and/or also start your own forum or group. If you have any questions about how to upload or edit anything, please just send me a message and ask.
Many thanks,
James Mickelson
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Arts Forms I'm Interested in:
Visual Arts, Literature
Contact me if you're looking for:
A freelance arts practitioner, Project management, Arts mentoring services, Fundraising services, Development services, A speaker
More details about the services I/my company offer:
Shangwe: www.shangwe.com was launched in 2004 and promotes the development of new and diverse creative writing providing a range of services, e.g. writing workshops, book readings, seminars, presentations and mentoring sessions to individuals, personal development sessions to community groups, businesses and academic institutions. Shangwe produces 'Shangwe News' a quarterly on-line newsletter. Shangwe has produced, edited and independently published two anthologies of black and mixed-race women's creative writing - Brown Eyes (2005) and Sexual Attraction Revealed (2007).
Sectors that I/my company work in:
Community arts, Schools, Ethnic communities, Mainstream arts
More details about the sectors I/my company work in:
In August 2009, I was successful with a Grants for the Arts funding bid from the Arts Council England, London to produce a third anthology of creative writing i.e. poems and personal essays, combining the themes of hair and skin. The first deadline for contributions is 30th August. For more info on how to submit email: nicole@shangwe.com
Shangwe's website www.shangwe.com was created and launched in 2005 with the main purpose of contributing to the development of new Black British literature by promoting writing by and for UK Black and Mixed-Race women. In this context, Shangwe aims to inform, inspire and empower these women writers, build their confidence and encourage their participation in the arts, and ensure that UK Black and Mixed-Race women's writing makes a historical literary contribution to Black British writing.
This is one of my blogs (linked to my website), where I share a selection of my poems, publish selected author's poems, share reviews of books I've read this year, comment on selected arts events I've attended and post creative writing tips and anything else that takes my fancy!
This blog was established in October 2008 as part of Black History Month, where I advertised for, collected and edited Black women's Africentric natural hair stories, which are posted on the blog. The aim was to provide an interactive dialogue of visual and written expressions to share our journeys to natural hair styles.
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SANe, the Social Arts Network, exists to facilitate communication between people who are interested in the development of socially inclusive arts practice, services, exhibitions and productions. The network is managed by
Escape Artists but it is open to everyone. Please feel free to upload your photos, videos, music and research papers, or to start your own forum or group.
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As you may already know, the network is managed by Escape Artists’ and is open to everyone. The next step is for you to simply invite any friends you may have in the arts, and any others that you may know who would have a participatory interest to join the Social Arts Network. Make sure to use the "Advanced Search" option when searching the network for other members in your field.
The Social Arts Network uses, and is built on, a platform similar to other well-known social networks such as MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. The network supports both still images and video and has been designed to easily scale and allow us to grow into an extensive global network of active artists.
Please feel free to share in here samples of your works by uploading your events, photos, videos, music, training materials and research papers; and/or also start your own forum or group. If you have any questions about how to upload or edit anything, please just send me a message and ask.
Many thanks,
James Mickelson