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OUR
FIRST PUBLIC STATEMENT
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We are demanding to be a part of future development
and planning when it involves the arts and funding of art programs
in the Watts community.
We are not going to sit by any longer and not be active
participants in the arts community of Watts.
If you wish to learn more about The Concerned Artists
Action Group, come out to our meetings. Support us when you can, or
contribute your skills/donations to our cause.
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| GOALS
DEFINED |
We will be the umbrella for 10 specific components:
1) Counseling for those with drug, alcohol, mental,
and domestic problems.
2) Financial aid will be available, interest free,
to artists of proven ability, on a short term basis.
3) Many artists frequently have legal problems concerning
their art that would be resolved, hopefully pro bono, by community
oriented attorneys.
4) A talent agency (broken down into sub-components)
writers/poets/actors/actress/ visual artists/computer artists/dancers/filmmakers
and others, that would strive to connect the artist to employment
in his/her line of art.
5) African to African-American outreach. This component
will be responsible for establishing relationships with artistic entities
in Africa, focusing on the west coast of Africa. The Secretary General
of the Pan-African Writers Association, Mr. Atukwer Okai, in Accra,
Ghana, has expressed great interest in having inter-cultural exchanges
with our group, as well as Mr.Thabo Mbeki, the Vice President of South
Africa.
6) We will utilize our grants/funds research component
to seek out the funding sources to help us help ourselves.
7) Special projects will be mostly concerned with
using our talents and energies for the benefit of our community; fund
raising events, events with heritage themes.
8) Our inter-cultural component is responsible for
networking with other groups who have similar interest, problems and,
we hope, solutions.
9) The Concerned Artists Actions Group will be focusing
strongly on the unique problems that elder artists, women and youth
are faced with.
10) Finally, we will establish a Concerned Artists
Action Group Complex, a fine arts center that will be user friendly,
offering venues for performances, space for artists to gather, exchange
ideas, work,and establish an identity that will promote greater self
esteem.
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