6th-8th of December, AD 2019
a Celebration of Creativity
For Immediate Release
Celebrate the arts in Second Life® and the 6th anniversary of
The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community with
Join the celebration of the arts brought to the grid at the annual Carnival of Arts 6 brought by The Dirty Grind Independent Artists Community and Radio Grind from December 6th through 8th.
This year will feature a new installation, "Eloise's dream" from the newest member of The Dirty Grind family, Bryn-Oh. The main stage will feature the diverse family of musical performing artists and poets will be sharing a wide variety of original and reimagined works, while many of the community's visual artists are displayed at the Artists’ Row Galleries.
At The Dirty Grind, artists and patrons are family and when one visits, one is a welcomed guest in their home. Everything from the décor, landscape and building design is intentionally planned to enhance visitors' experience. While visiting when live shows are not going, be sure to listen to the commercial-free independent radio station, Radio Grind, featuring the musicians of The Dirty Grind family. Spend some time strolling through The Hollow and enjoy the whimsically eclectic mix of Adirondack and Steampunk design and style.
Make sure to come back and visit often as the world is always evolving with new artists, architecture and experiences.
The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community has been awarded Best Unique Venue and Top 10 Live Music Venues by Showtime Magazine. We’ve also been nominated for multiple Avi Choice Awards.
Bushels of love and appreciation to those who are able to help us promote
this event is very special to us.
presented by
family of artists
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Bryn Oh
Featured Visual Artist
In 2007, an artist conceived with the intention of seeing whether a digital character could be accepted and succeed outside its virtual world and in the land of flesh and blood artists. Would people scoff at the idea or would it capture their imagination?
An anonymous virtual artist named Bryn Oh was created. Since that time Bryn's work has been shown at Nuit Blanche, the World Expo in Shanghai (Madrid Pavilion), with IBM, in movies such as "My avatar and me" and in projects with people such as Cannes winning director Peter Greenaway (Big Bang) and artist Stelarc. Bryn was also a Web3D Conference presenter in Paris, France as well as profiled on RAI TV in Italy and Art21. Bryn has had the good fortune to exhibit in various Universities worldwide and has also been added to the syllabus of others. Bryn has been the subject of various thesis works and received several New Media grants from the Canadian government. The government grant is to produce a 30-minute machinima (Bryn Oh is actually even mentioned in this Wikipedia definition under 'sound in machinima') and to create an exhibit in a museum or gallery which would then incorporate Second Life. In September, Bryn was written about in Vogue magazine (Italy) while also exhibiting Second Life artwork at a museum in Rome (Museo in Commune).
The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community is proud and overjoyed to present Bryn Oh as the newest member of our family. Bryn will be joining Carnival of the Arts 6 with "Eloise's dream."
Live Songwriters and Poets
Something For Everyone
From rock to folk, jazz to medieval ballads. the auditory gifts of our recording artists and songwriters span genres, generations, and countries to create the tossed salad of songwriters in Second Life® whose passion is creating and sharing.
Friday
6 december 2019
1 Lexus Melodie
2 Naga Flow
3 Capos Calderwood
4 Raspbury Rearwin
5 Grace McDunnough
6 Jed Luckless
7 Jamba Losangeles
8 Gypsy Dhrua
Saturday
7 december 2019
1Wald Schridde
2Rosedrop Rust
3Shannon Oherlihy
4Suzen JueL
5Etherian Kamaboko
6Dimivan Ludwig
7Senjata Witt
8David Csiszer
Sunday
8 december 2019
3 Ren Enberg
4 The Matthew Show
5 Effinjay
6 Twostep Spiritweaver
7 The Vinnie Show
Our blogger- and machinimist-friendly sim is always open to the public.
Bloggers and press are invited for a preview of Carnival of the Arts 6 on tuesday, december 3th and wednesday, december 4th.
Live Events for Carnival of the Arts 6 are Friday, the 6th of december, ad 2019 through Sunday, the 8th of december, ad 2019.
Our regular schedule continues wednesday, the 11th of december.
Dates
Who We Are
Our Story
The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community™ is constantly evolving our shared dream of a not-for-profit artist community in Second Life©. We constantly work with our artists, their management teams and our guests to expand and improve upon the already groundbreaking personalized w support we offer.
Our goal...our passion has always been to provide a haven for artists in which creativity and community flourishes. We are here for our artists and wish to extend our reach as a service organization.
The members of The Dirty Grind Family put their heart, soul, time and much more into their art. We give them our resources and experience so they can better concentrate on creating. Lisa and Ian share a background in music, business and non-profit
management.
Lisa's background includes innovation and leadership in the international, nonprofit sector, communication, creative writing and art knowledge. She is the founder and former president of a multi-national 501(c)3 and an independent mixed media artist.
Ian brings his experience with corporate administration, as well as management history with a brick and mortar theater and live music venue.
The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community is a not-for-profit artist cooperative. Our mission is to promote and celebrate our family of artists and introduce residents to the bountiful amount of art on the grid.
The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community™ hosts 100% live music shows on our home sim every Wednesday and Sunday. When you aren't here for our live music, you may always enjoy our 24/7 radio station Radio Grind.
Be sure to check out our beautiful Adirondack steampunk sim when we aren't having shows as well! Artists' Row™ features some of the grid's best artists with items available to purchase.
Radio Grind presents... listening and discovery booths are a great way to learn more about each of our artists and buy their work. We also host satellite locations of Radio Grind presents... on sims we feel are optimal to introduce to the residents of SL™ to what a wonderfully vibrant community of artists we have.
After all, every prim and pixel on the grid is art. If you would like to keep up to date with our artists' show, or what we like to call field trips, and our in-house shows and festivals, be sure to join The Dirty Grind group. You may also subscribe to our daily blog for up to date information.
What is SL™ without Artists?
The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community Mission
The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community Family of Artists
as of November 2019
RECORDING ARTISTS
Zorch Boomhauser
Winston Ackland
Wald Schridde
Twostep Spiritweaver
Thunderfoot Lorefield
The Vinnie Show
the matthew show
Suzen JueL
Strum Diesel
Shannon Oherlihy
Senjata Witt
Rosedrop Rust
Ren Enberg
Phemie Alcott
Naga Flow
Marcell Xenga
Lexus Melodie
Lexi Luan
Kinagree-Smith
Kiesta Aljon
Jed Luckless
JAMBA Losangeles
Gypsy Dhrua
Gweeb
Effinjay
Djoni TB
David Csiszer
Cosmic Haystack
Capos Calderwood
Billy Thunders
Beth Odets
Benski Korhonen
Bearsheart
THEATRICAL ARTISTS
Gish Guardian-Birdsong
LITERARY ARTISTS
Anna Bardin
Mathew Perrault
Naga Flow
Rosedrop Rust
VISUAL ARTISTS
Winston Ackland
Trista Morris (Kala)
Toysoldier Thor
Tallulah Winterwolf
Suzen Juel
Sina Souza
Silas Merlin
Paula Cloudpainter
Maghda
Kiesta Aljon
JudiLynn India
Johannes1977 Resdent
Enola Vaher
Eliannah Zenovka
Bryn Oh
Bloo Ansar
Artie Birman
A Selection of Honors
The greatest honours we receive are from our artists, our
artists' teams, our volunteers and supporter, our patrons
and our guests! Knowing we are making a positive impact
on the individuals constantly warms!
Winner of Showtime Magazine's Live Music Award for Best
Unique Venue
Winner of Showtime Magazine's Live Top Ten Venue
Nominated for three Avi Choice Awards,.2015
Favorite Live Music Venue
Favorite Venue, Sr
Favorite SL Radio Station
Nominated for seven Avi Choice Awards, 2016
Favorite Rock/Pop Venue
Favorite Live Music Venue
Favorite Venue, Sr
Favorite SL Radio Station
Favorite Art Gallery
Favorite Entertainment/Arts SL Blog or Website
Favorite Entertainment/Arts SL Blogger
Nominated for one Avi Choice Award, Winter 2016
Favorite Live Music Venue
Featured in the Sim Street Journal #16: Visual Music
Featured in Windlight Magazine January 2016 Edition
Featured in many blogs.
Sansar©
Visit us
Radio Grind presents...The Experience
Visit The Dirty Grind family of artists' five-experience journey of creativity in Sansar!
Radio Grind presents...The Experience introduces you to the mission and philosophy of The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community with an introduction video and walk-through experience.
You are then taken to Radio Grind presents...The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community, Sansar's first radio presence and its first artist listening and discovery booths.
Note: The final experience, our stage is currently down due to unknown issues.
Contact Us
Lisa Buttmonkey (Jasmine0Alaya)
Co-Founder/Right Brain (and a bit of the Left)/Madness
Ian Witt (Ian McConach)
Co-Founder/Left Brain (it's somewhere, really!)/Bat Shit/Artist Manager
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Copyright © 2019 The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community™, Lisa-Anne MG Furgal & Brian Witt All rights reserved.
Second Life® and SL™ are trademarks of Linden Research, Inc. Jasmine's Hollow™, The Dirty Grind™, The Rebakery™ and Radio Grind™ are not affiliated with or sponsored by Linden Research.
Jasmine's Hollow™, The Dirty Grind™, The Rebakery™ and Radio Grind™ are trademarks of Lisa & Brian Witt. Linden Research, Inc. and Second Life® are not affiliated with or sponsored by Lisa Furgal & Brian Witt.
