artful

"What we do in life is determined by the dash between being born and our death (every one will have one on their headstone). We should be living life to the fullest - so we can make a difference to others lives whilst in the dash of the moment - don't wallow in the past or wish for what could be your future, live for the power of now....oh yeah!" Greg Dodge
Hi
My name is Greg "artful" Dodge (friends call me "dodgey" - by name - not by nature) and I live in sunny Brisbane, Queensland and love being alive. I have a wife, Julie and my three young adults, Oriel, Chale and Anaya.
Yes i am passionate and pumped with boundless amounts of energy to continue my vision for developing people to the music making world and helping them to consider new ways to navigate their journey in this exciting ...and ever changing music industry. Whether for recreational, or for creative development (Intellectual Property creation and protection), I believe that everyone should have an opportunity to express themselves through music making (or any art for that matter) and I enjoy providing the infrastructure, leadership and support for this to happen.
Along the way on my travels I enjoy being an "agent for change" - creating new things or being part of a team to build new ways forward that make a difference to people's lives, particularly music and the arts.
I have started businesses from zero, created industry bodies, taught music business at colleges, played, recorded and toured as a music maker.
Oxygen 4 2 was created to develop new ideas for my clients. These include the Brisbane City Council, Brisbane Powerhouse - Centre for Live Arts, Ellaways Music and a host of bands and projects.. too many to name here
My body of work is in my actions, successes and failures (ups and downs) over the last 30 years in the music industry."
Here are some of my achievements so far (all with a team of great people around me btw)
Played bass in a touring band - JoJo and Big T Express in the late '70's
Became the national guitar and instrument buyer for Palings Music in the '80's
Founding Director of Music Worx Pty Ltd (now Billy Hydes Music Worx in the Fortitude Valley)
Advised and lobbied to develop the South Bank Music Course in the early '90's. Guest lecturing on music business to delivering Diploma of Music Business subjects.
Created the vision and became the first President of QMusic Inc, a network for business and artists to develop the Queensland music industry (1993 - 95. Still operating in Q.
Developed for Ellaways Music, the USA designed recreation programme, Weekend Warriors. Developed it all over Australia and trained over forty stores how to run it for the Australian Music Association (AMA)
Currently developing a range of youth based songwriting and creational programmes, Amp'd Up, The Band Thing and more recently, creACTiVEâ„¢ (based at the Brisbane Powerhouse with Q'ld University of Technology - QUT)
Developed the music making Corporate rock program, Boardroom Blitz, for Cerebral Palsy League, run annually at Brisbane Entertainment Centre, rasing over $200k for charity.
Developed and produced events for Griffith University, Jammin' - at South Bank.
I give advice and run projects for many bands - these include; Sunk Loto, Miles From Nowhere, Troy 'N Trevyln, Small Mercies, The Rocketsmiths and many more.
I also develop and produce events for the Brisbane City Council. These include, Brizband School Challenge, Come Together (both current), Artists in the mall and Talkin' Jazz (2006 only).
I am currently working on some great projects. example - Fretfest.com is a singer-songwriting opportunity with QPAC. This is in it's tenth year.
GuitarFest@Logan 2007 is a new project being planned at Logan. With Ellaways opeing a new store at Underwood, and working on the development of the market with them, I have recognised a huge opportunity to develop the longest guitar festival at Logan on an annual basis. It is early days - but it is starting to gather some momentum now.
Alos we have for new emerging artists and bands we have the new Bass One project between Greenbank RSL and Ellaways Music - check it out
I love "making a difference" to peoples lives which helps the local and global community in just a small way to be a better place.
Check out www.oxygen42.com
www.myspace.com/guitarfest_logan
www.myspace.com/cometogether42
www.myspace.com/brizband
www.myspace.com/creactive
www.myspace.com/fretfest
"The problem of creativity is beset with mysticism, confused definitions, value judgments, psychoanalytic admonitions, and the crushing weight of philosophical speculation dating from ancient times." Albert Rothenberg
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