The Spirit of Love Art & Poetry Jam (Dec 11 - Jan 3)

[Doreen Peri]

"And in the end, the love we take is equal to the love we make." –Lennon/ McCartney

In celebration of the Spirit of Love throughout the holiday season

You Are Invited
to "The Spirit of Love Art & Poetry Jam"

Whether you celebrate the winter Solstice,
Yule, Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza, or another
winter holiday or even none at all –
If you celebrate Life & Love, you are invited.

When?
For three weeks!
Saturday, December 11, 2010
until - Monday, January 3, 2011

Where?
at Studio Eight Poets & Artists Community
http://studioeight.tv/phpbb
at the top of the page throughout the Jam.

What is It?
This is a collaborative internet event for poets,
visual artists, photographers, and others who love interpretations
of the same topics artistically. This creative collaboration celebrates
the warmth and love of the season and our love for artistry
in many forms. Plus, we'll ring in the New Year with Love..... together!

How Will it Work?
We will have multiple threads being posted.

1) START A THREAD BY POSTING A PHOTO of someone
or something or some place you love at the top of the thread.

2) Others will view your photo and DRAW, PAINT, or WRITE A POEM
as a RESPONSE to your photo on the thread.

3) You can respond to the photographs others have posted by posting a
POEM, PAINTING, or DRAWING prompted by the photo.

Who?
All poets, writers, visual artists & photographers.

Why?
Because the reason for the season is Love above all.
Because you have been called to share your art,
photography, poetry and pen, to spin creative phrases
to amaze, daze and enlighten! And especially because
you need to BE there so we can light the world together!

What?
Never been to a Word or Image Jam? Word & Image Jams
are a series of ongoing spontaneous collaborative
artistic events hosted by Studio Eight dot TV
http://studioeight.tv/phpbb

BYOM
Bring Your Own Muse
or get inspired by the muse of others

Please Note
Please upload your images directly to the thread
via the upload link below the posting window after you've
logged in. You can also use the img tags to post your images
if they're stored on another site like Flickr or Photobucket.

Hope to see you there!

- Doreen Peri
Studio Eight dot TV
Uniting the Arts
http://studioeight.tv
http://studioeight.tv/phpbb

Read about winter holidays throughout history
all around the world at Candlegrove.
This is an interesting and delightful site!
http://www.candlegrove.com/home.html
"Five thousand years of human history –
maybe more – have enfolded this season in rich garb –
many layers of celebration, folklore and tradition.

[Steve Plonk]

Doreen, I don't know how to imprint photos or avatars. Is it okay to post a poem and have someone else post a photo they think fits it? Otherwise, I'll just post on other people's photos/submissions, if I feel the muse.

[Doreen Peri]

Steve, we'd like the initial posts to be photos since we're using photos of things, people, or places we love as the prompts. We'd like it to be a Jam inspired by images.

You don't have any digital photos? Go here.... http://morguefile.com ... and search for free photos which are of something or some place you love to post as the initial post. You can download them for free and use them here. Just download and save it to your desktop where you can find it.

Then to upload the photo, there's an upload link at the bottom of the posting window. If you need help, send me a private message and I'll help walk you through it.

And please, YES, participate by replying with poetry!

I hope this helps!

(If you want to start the thread with a poem, that would be OK, I guess, I mean... I won't delete it or anything.. LOL... but I thought it would be cool to have an image at the top of every thread as the prompt for inspiration... a different type of combination photography/art/poetry jam rather than our regular word jams.)

Thank you!