Creative City Tucson

For Immediate Release
Tucson Artists Musicians Healthcare Alliance
Contact: David Slutes
Phone: 520-247-4141

“Summer Membership Drive for the Tucson Artist and Musicians Healthcare Alliance”
“Local Arts Venue supports the Health of the Tucson Artists and Musician Community”

Tucson, AZ.
The Tucson Artists and Musicians Healthcare Alliance is inviting the public to celebrate their recent non-profit status with an all local Tucson line up of Musicians for a suggested donation of $ 5 dollars. The event will also launch the organizations first membership drive.

Saturday August 15th 8:00 pm: Golden Boots, The Molehill Orchestra, Tom Walbank + Friends play Plush!

The Tucson Artists and Musicians Healthcare Alliance (TAMHA) is an Alliance of artists and arts advocates dedicated to the sustainability and vitality of our arts and music community their mission: to provide healthcare resources to artists and musicians in Tucson, AZ.

This all volunteer local non-profit was created to celebrate our arts and cultural community while providing an essential resource, LOCAL resources for healthcare, preventative medicine and alternative medicine. The Tucson Artist and Musicians Healthcare Alliance advocates for a healthy arts and music community by partnering with local healthcare providers and agencies in Tucson Arizona as well as an emergency relief fund for it’s artist and musician members.

“My ultimate goal is to hand money to people who need it, to make sure people aren’t sitting there with illnesses and can’t get the health care they need,” said David Slutes, entertainment director at the Hotel Congress and Board President of the Tucson Artists and Musicians Healthcare Alliance. “The one thing we can do is get real information out to people who need it. Here’s what all self employed and uninsured people have access to.” Teya Vitu, “Art Thou Covered?” Tucson Citizen 2008

You won’t want to miss the opportunity to get out and watch a fantastic line up of local talent and learn more about the Tucson Artist and Musicians Healthcare Alliance. For more information about T.A.M.H.A. visit http://www.myspace.com/pulseandpressure or Tucson Artists Musicians Facebook Group. Web site under construction.

Plush Location: Southwest corner of 4th Ave. and 6th St. 340 E. 6th St., Tucson, Arizona.
www.plushtucson.com Phone: 520-798-1298

Next Creative City Meting

Monday July 27, 6 – 8 PM

Parasol Project
299 S Park

They share a patio with Tooley’s in the Los Barrio at 299 S Park.

Agenda: The Art Party will be August 21st at Rialto

- explore possibilities for the event, including interactive art projects, music, video, dance, spoken word, etc.

- assigning responsibilities, creating a master band list, and more… the more the merrier

The purpose will be to celebrate the arts and music scene in Tucson, have a ton of fun, and make enough money to perpetuate these events.

We hope to make enough to at least provide a small amount of cash to all performers.

We expect there to be a merchandise area for all to market their wares.

We will be meeting weekly at the same time (Mondays 6-8), and if possible, continue to meet at Parasol (keep posted to blog for meeting locations).

We hope you all can make it. Feel free to forward this message widely!

In attend:

Bruce Bailey (new)

Vytas Sakalas

Susan Silverman

Rebecca Olsen

Michael Schwartz

Jodi Netzer

(Karen and Lin said they could not attend)

Intros:

Agenda:

Art Party

Legislative Updates

Next Meeting – July 27th 6-8 PM location TBA

Legislative Update:

Stimulus money is here

MS is submitting his requests and other’s right now. Decisions are being made presently.

http://az.gov/recovery/

http://serve.gov/

Serve.gov is a good place for advocacy for artists to list success stories and aligning ourselves with volunteer opportunities.

ACA has announced awards statewide.

MS is meeting with ProNeighborhoods to try and help integrate arts into their projects.

Community Paint days (2) were done in association with Bronx Wash mural project – something coming up in the Weekly about it probably.

Arts Party

8/21 Friday is the date  doors 7, start at 8 – Creative City Tucson Art Party

Teaming with Parasol Project (Tony)

Objectives: Get everyone to next meeting for different primary volunteers

1) Interactive Canvas (Tony will bring canvas)

2) List of materials (drop clothes) Blog page with requests – tony

3) Music and start of Parasol coordination

4) Markers are less messy – no drop clothes necessary – (Rebecca will ask Gibsons) (Vytas – Sarnoff)

5) People could lie down and be drawn around and colored in.

6) Spoken word, little vignettes

7) Jordan Hill can possibly coordinate spoken word (Susan)

Stilters to draw attention 7-8?

9) Vaudevillian intermissions

10) Puppet Uprising – Puppetworks Reunion? (TN-puppetworks)

11) Selling of artists and musicians work?

12) Arts store? (Tony will Lin)

13) Event is dedicated to self-perpetuation

14) Formation of a Association

15) Next meeting at Tom and Leia’s? (Tony)(Nail down location)

16) Graphical projects: logo, spruce up website (c0lors), flyer description of CC, blown up version of that for event, buttons, shirts, (screen on demand?),

17) Rebecca can help with web and graphics, and copy editing

18) Tony and Jodi will work on logo

19) Marketing event… Rochelle Diaz? TuScene? (Susan)

20) Input on future events (easel?)

21) Popcorn? Candy? Waters? (Tony will talk to Curtis) (Hang cut outs on wall?)

22) TUSD Butcher paper? (Vytas) (CheapJoes.com)(dickBlick.com)

23) Paint table (Michael)

Next Creative City Meeting!

(note location change)

Monday, July 20, 2009 at 6pm
Vytas Sakalas studio – 2505 E. 1st St,
Tucson 85716
881-4921

On the northeast corner of !st Street and Tucson Blvd., one block south of Speedway and
directly across the street from Himmel Park.

AGENDA: (bring food and drink to share – see Vytas note below)

1. project updates
2. legislative updates – (see: http://www.azcitizensforthearts.org/ )
3. Art Party planning
4. ___ your agenda item here…