Ireland, Derry: July 25-26, 2015 - Release The Pressure - Graffiti and Mural Arts Festival

July 25 - July 26

Ebrington Square, Derry, Ireland

UV Arts host a weekend celebration of Graffiti, Street Art and Mural Arts in a citywide festival, enjoying this unique and visually stimulating art form live and for free.

"Release The Pressure" festival will see 60 graffiti, street artists, and contemporary mural artists take to the streets of Derry in what can only be described as an explosion of colour. Witness an international lineup of artists working together to create art in the streets.

The hub of excitement will be at Ebrington Square and mute meadows with more sites across the city, so follow the sweet smell of spray paint to our various locations across the city. For more information contact our team on Facebook and Twitter for regular updates, or contact info@uv-arts.co

Tickets are available here.

Please pass this along in your networks. July 25 is coming.

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Nicer.TATs paints Roberto Clemente mural in Orlando Florida

By Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel

5:11 p.m. EDT, August 31, 2011

Earl Lugo, a coach in Azalea Park Little League, believes in heroes. He wants the youngsters from his working-class east Orange County neighborhood to believe in them, too.

So Lugo recruited a childhood friend — professional graffiti artist Hector "Nicer" Nazario — to paint a large-scale mural of baseball hero Roberto Clemente at the Azalea Park baseball field. The Puerto Rican Hall of Famer died in a 1972 plane crash while delivering aid to Nicaraguan earthquake victims. His humanitarian efforts earned him a Congressional Gold Medal.

"I think to have his face really big at the entrance of that park will represent his honor and make these kids feel important," said Lugo, 43, who grew up in Bronx, N.Y.

Saturday's mural painting will be a high point in a campaign to clean up the field, which has fallen into disrepair.

During the 1990s, as crack cocaine fueled the murder rate in New York, Nazario and his fellow artists known as the TATs Cru, painted hundreds of such murals.

Nazario, 44, has made a name for himself in his hometown of New York City as a spray-painting mural artist. Though he has worked on movie sets and music-video productions for artists such as Beyonce and John Mayer, he is known on the streets of the Bronx and beyond for painting memorial murals to young victims of violence.

Work such as the Azalea Park mural is important, because it lets him give something to the living, Nazario said.

"I want kids to see things can be achieved," he said. "You can go places."

Helping children in need is even more important to him now: Last year his 22-year-old son, Bleu, was killed in a random shooting in New York.

Read the entire article at Orlando Sentinel 

15th anniversary of the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

https://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/barlow_0296.declaration.txt

Just as inspiring today as it was then.

Thanks, John Perry Barlow!

It Gets Better

- Comedians Bridget McManus and Fortune Feimster

[No matter why your life sucks when you're in school, it gets better - Susan]