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Tracy Alexander Rigg - A short biography 

Tracy Alexander Rigg has been making sculpture, design, poetry, film and live events since 1982. These have taken a number of forms and been shown in several different countries. If there is a common thread to the style and content of these events then it must be a strong need to push boundaries around, to set foot on unknown soil and generally to play with our concepts of art outside its accepted form. He trained as an archaeological illustrator, drystone dyker, blacksmith, fine-artist, dancer and writer, timber-framer and costume maker/designer. His performance work, has been shown in many different countries and to many different kinds of people. His approach is off-beat and he has! worked with, for and alongside many leading creative artists and companies in Scotland and internationally. He runs a collaborative performance company called Oceanallover whose main preoccupation is to take imaginative and poetic work into unusual places. His performance style borrows from many influences and genres, making reference to film,! literature and popular culture. The subject matter of the work is often linked to global and! philosophical concerns and encourages its audience to look harder at who and what they are. The physical reality of the performances are based on a reaction to the given location and the viewing public. The audience are often as surprised as the performers to find themselves in the middle of something odd, and this element of surprise certainly helps to give the work an edge. The size of the cast and the complexity of the presentation, varying from one to one hundred, and is also governed by the location. Design forms a major part of the work and one in which Fine Art and performance meet most closely. The costume is complex and innovative, drawing on influences from historical and cultural icons to architectural or geological forms. The work is constantly evolving and made to a high standard.

Some examples of Recent Events and collaborations: “Ecdysis” 2022 Collaboration with Mr Pearl; “TAWA “for Cie Gratte Ciel, costume collaboration for the launch of Galway 2020 and Coventry year of Culture 2021; 2019 Staging Places Exhibition at the V&A in London with the British Society of Theatre Designers; Unexpected Exeter 2016 “On Tenterhooks” - site specific event; Jorvik Viking Festival 2018 - Howling Wolf sculpture; Not To Scale - collaborative project supported by Creative Scotland and Crawick Artland Trust (Charles Jenks); Christchurch Arts Festival, New Zealand - site specific performances; Mirabilia Festival, Italy - site specific performance.

Web-sites:!

www.oceanallover.co.uk

https://vimeo.com/user7177099

https://www.instagram.com/oceanallover/

 https://oceanallover.bandcamp.com/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/160378281@N07/

Uma alma morta que ensina Yoga e escreve sobre as vidas.

Gratidão!
Dan

Andy cut his entrepreneurial teeth at the age of 16 by becoming Burton Snowboard’s first Aspen distributor. After his college years, he discovered a culture of independent animators in Portland, Oregon, and moved there, working at Teknifilm, the local 35mm film processing lab while connecting with the local artists and studios. He freelanced for Will Vinton Studios (Claymation, California Raisins, The PJs), Blashfield Studio (photo cut-out, MTV music videos), and mentored with Tom Arndt of Merlin’s Hammer.

Andy met Amy Blumenstein while producing It’s About Peace, a collaborative short film that Amy and many other local artists contributed animated scenes to. Andy and Amy soon married (at the Portland Zoo) and started their boutique studio, Happy Trails Animation. Ever the innovator, after several “nose to the grindstone” years of producing and directing commercial animation for ad agencies, Andy developed a distinct, low-cost, high-production value approach to generating Motion Comics and Motion Posters. This creative venture resulted in a stretch of work for Disney (Tron, The Muppets), Starz Entertainment (Spartacus, The Crazies), and BBC Worldwide (Doctor Who, Torchwood).

Andy continues to explore and innovate through digital storytelling. He finds writing truthful tales about his childhood, perspective, and work to be a total blast.

Gary Van Haas is a graduate of Journalism at UCLA and has spent the last twenty years writing articles after touring the world's most intriguing travel destinations at the same time researching their indigenous cultures, various customs, mythology and archaeological sites. He has work as a freelance feature travel writer for the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, Time, Athens News and Travel Magazine.

After THE IKON book was published he completed two more sequel thrillers for his ‘Garth Hanson’ adventure series called, MALABAR RUN, set in popular Goa, India, and HEAVEN’S RAGE an adventure thriller set in Thailand. His latest academic book just completed is called, IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT GREECE, which is said to be one of the most comprehensive and compelling travel-historical works completed to date.

Gary has been involved for 25 years in the Film Industry as a producer and screenwriter and has 6 movies in development with various movie production companies worldwide. You can find his film writing credits on IMDb here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3572940/

Some of his published books are:

LATIN QUARTER -- about young Picasso’s wild early years in Paris in 1902.

MY MTV! -- The unabridged true story about the beginnings of MTV.

BLOOD ON THE BORDER – a tense police thriller about the DEA vs. Drug Cartels

THE DEVIL'S BANKER -- an incredible murder thriller involving the Mafia & Vatican

I wrote the feature film, Buds for Life, which was distributed to video in 2008, I also wrote, co-produced and starred in the short films Wedding (Selection – Stories by the River Film Festival), The Two Professors (Finalist for Best Picture – Azure Lorica Fan Film Awards), Star Wars: The Mission, Guns in the Posters, The Date, The Forum and my proof-of-concept short, Orpheus Star. My articles and blogs have been published on The Huffington Post (huffingtonpost.com/author/donn-swaby) and donnswaby.wordpress.com. My feature length articles, restaurant and music reviews have been published in meltmagazineforwomen.com and entertainmentvoice.com. My self-published picture book, You're Everything Everywhere All the Time, debuted in 2014. My traditionally published picture book, It’ll be Irie, published by Cardinal Rule Press, debuted in July of 2023.

Barbara Ann Briggs is a poet, podcaster, and the author of two books. She is also a certified Consciousness Advisor. She has over twenty years’ experience as a freelance journalist and has had numerous articles and essays published in both print and online media. A practitioner and teacher of Transcendental Meditation for over thirty years, Barbara hosts a bi-monthly podcast called Essence of Life (https://essenceoflife.buzzsprout.com) which has a rapidly growing audience. She also has a YouTube channel called: LivingWisdom-Barbara Briggs. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy from New York University and a Master’s Degree in curriculum development from Maharishi International University. She was on the faculty of Maharishi University of Natural Law in England where she developed courses on poetry as well as on art, creativity, and consciousness. The Facebook page for her debut novel Pilgrimage on the Path of Love has garnered 2,500 likes. Barbara was born in Manhattan, New York. Her mother came from Vienna, Austria, and her father from New Orleans. Needless to say, she loves music! Barbara, who currently lives in India, has travelled widely and considers herself a “citizen of the universe.” 

I’m a fairly new author I’ve only been doing this for about 3 years. I have an 11 year old daughter and I’m 35. I am in the process of getting a couple books published and would like any reviews you are willing to share.

Will Gibson lives in Newcastle with wife, Victoria, and their two children, Elijah and Xanthe.

Gibson is a successful executive in the retail and telecoms space. He has visited over 75 countries and has lived in the UK, Moscow, Singapore, Miami and Athens during his lifetime. An avid traveller and a lover of science fiction from Arthur C. Clarke to namesake William Gibson, it’s long been on his bucket list to write a novel. He started in 2018 writing on an iPhone while on yet another international flight.

Christina Weigand’s a writer, wife, and mother of four grown children. She is also Nana to five grandchildren. She lives with her husband  in Pennsylvania after a short sabbatical in the lovely state of Washington. She has three published YA Christian Fantasy novels; Palace of the Twelve Pillars: Book One, Palace of the Three Crosses: Book Two and Sanctuary of Nine Dragons: Book Three. She also has a woman’s Bible study Women of the Bible: A Study published. Through her writing she strives to share the Word of God and help people young and old to realize the love and mercy He has for everyone.

When she’s not writing she’s active in her local Church as a Proclaimer. She also guides young people in developing a love for reading and writing. Jesus fills her home with love as she shares Him through her writing.