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{amar}

art + music + activism = revolution

About Me

What is all this craziness? Well, amar is a community of activists, artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, and other funky people from the los angeles area who are down for creating an egalitarian movement involving people from all different sorts of neighborhoods, racial groups, and economic backgrounds. If you're down for the cause, then you'll be treated as an equal in our eyes no matter how society treats you. Most of us are inclined towards raising political awareness through art, be it related to global ills like imperialism, poverty, war, genocide, racism, sexism, religious conflict, environmental destruction and the heinous misuse of resources, etc, or more local issues like the ongoing plight of the south central farmers and the recent ICE immigration raids that have lead to the deportation of hundreds. There is a lot of crazy stuff going on in the world and while it would be easy to respond to with cynicism or defeatism, it would definitely not be as rewarding as resisting in even the smallest way.
But hey, if mixing your politics and and your art aint your bag but you are still into what we're doing, then don't fret beause we still have love for you and you can still definitely get down with us as long as you believe in equality and respect and all of those fun things that they should teach more often in public schools instead of having us memorize all 50 state capitals over and over again. Then again, that's what amar means to me, but what does it mean to you? If you're one of the 400 million spanish speakers in the world, then it may just mean "to love"... and that is, simply put, what we're here to do.
On top of all the events listed in the upcoming shows section, there are some more benefit shows, film festivals, teach-ins, political events, etc. currently in the works, so please... like jb would say: get up, get into it, get involved! At the moment we are in serious need of some dedicated individuals who are willing to collaborate with us in establishing a cultural force in LA that demands equality for all socially or economically subjugated groups and does so primarily through artistic expression and cultural events.
Yes, it's art and it's music and it's dialogue and you may think that those things alone cannot change the course of our society, but history has proven otherwise... all we need to do is look back at the tropicalistas in Brazil in the 60's, Fela Kuti's kalakuta republic in Nigeria in the 70's and 80's, jazz counterculture in the United States in the 20's, the bulk of punk music, revolutionary hip-hop, and let's not get started on folk. Resistance has always been tied to art, because it is an art form in itself. It is our hope to continue the evolution of that art and learn from our past.
One of our short-term goals is to start setting up workshops to educate the community about issues ranging from global to local matters. If you would like to be involved in the process of developing a workshop at one of our shindigs or know someone who you think would be good for the part, please message us or call the number below.
If you're already part of an organization and you'd like to work with us, just let us know! We are all one community and we must resist and create together regardless of the distinctions of race/class/creed that we've been conditioned to think are legitimate reasons to separate ourselves from others. It was reaffirmed to me earlier thismonth at the oaxaca benefit show that these barriers are purely superficial, and the deepest connections between people come not from what sort of life they were born into, but what they choose to spend that life doing. We have chosen to resist, and we are not alone in that choice.
el pueblo unido jamas sera vencido.
paz y justicia,
andres of {amar}
[email protected]
(626)354-1207

"art is not a mirror held up to reality,
but a hammer with which to shape it"
- burtolt brecht

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/11/2007
Band Website: coming soon!
Band Members: right now we're sort of in the process of figuring out who's an actual member or what actual membership consists of... most likely we'll just keep it pretty form in the sense that people will be able to come and go as they please. here's a really incomplete list of some of the people that have worked with us in some way or another or will hopefully be working with us in the near future (or just people we know from around town and we really dig). if you want to get involved, just message us. we don't have any restrictions regarding genre and all that... you just have to be genuine about what you do, which shouldn't be hard. anyway, we'll add more music and art and whatnot as we remember everyone else who has been involved so far in our short existence. for now, just take into account that this list is super incomplete, especially for the visual artists. so yeah, without further ado, check out these people.

music: aaart , aasymm , accrete , alpha mc , a.n.s. kings , ana caravelle , animatronics , ars poetria , ascensore , asymmetrical head , big lovin' panda , bizzart , blue like water , buen estar , dark horse , daughters tremaine , explosions , fairmona , farhad soheili , grei ghost , helix , hour of the shipwreck , jasmine golan , jbts , jeff ramuno , jeff ramuno and farhad soheili , the laundrymat , lowly lisa and the rollie pollies , luna is honey , más paz , meals for children , michael dillahay , michelle macedo , miranda macias , moon vibes , naima earth , nephews , nicanor evangelista , niv bavarsky , notpeople , other people , owl , pachamama , paramedic , [post-foetus] , pow wow , the redd sea , rrm , samantha venture , sasha hsucyzk , sean cahill (aka beer and tacos) , siamese guns , sibling rivalry , son ark , spoken arms , think alike , totara , transoceanix , veronica bianqui , voice , warm air telegraph , when.i.o.d... , winesburg , with leaves , wobble , wolfrobe , zach clancy

art: aaron martinez , alex kirkpatrick , andrew fairweather , che hurley , electron psychopath , harrison chu , josué castro , natasha gorodnitski , nick kirkpatrick , niv bavarsky , tentacle menagerie

other organizations we're into: art from the heart , audioconfusion manifesto , the central second collective , cough syrup society , the council of venues , deaf row recordz , the echospace poetry collective , food not bombs , golden scarabmusic , J.U.I.C.E. , the lost marbles collective , the organic soul movement , school of americas watch (south la chapter) , sounds are active , the talking drum open mic , three heads, one mouth , we. , zombies and pirates collective
Record Label: {amar}
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

11.16.07: the next amar festival, facebook, & other news

nat here, this is a quick update to say that an amar facebook has finally been created, so all of you who are more into that place and/or have friends who don't use myspace at all boogie on over there...
Posted by {amar} on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:49:00 PST

10.19.07: amar happenings this weekend and beyond..

Tonight at the good hurt!!Alfred Howard and the K23 Orchestra with support from Totara, Eleanore Avenue, Motif Cannon, and Ars Poetria. 2239 Venice blvd., Los Angeles, California 90066Cost: $8.21+----...
Posted by {amar} on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:34:00 PST

10.01.07: take part & represent yourself!

hey everyone! (i'm keeping this blog short and sweet)as you should know, the ars poetria ep release date/show is november 2nd at artshare, which is about a month from now. the event will also involve ...
Posted by {amar} on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:02:00 PST

03.17.07: marzo!

here's what's in store for the rest of the month. first we have ars poetria + vostro nome at joe's pizza, for which there is no flyer but you can find it in the shows section. then we have all of this...
Posted by {amar} on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:12:00 PST

03.09.07: oaxaca benefit

we hope that everyone can make it out tonight!!!paz y justicia,{amar}p.s. (saul williams)...
Posted by {amar} on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:43:00 PST

02.21.07: the first post.

hey everyone!I would just like to take a second to dedicate this page to all of the great people in our history who have chosen to cut through superficiality in favor of something real, something cons...
Posted by {amar} on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:12:00 PST