Beyond the Horizon: Welcome our 1st GenZ Digital Artist in Residence 🎨 & Celebrate International Zine Month 🖼️
A4R 🎨 Monthly - a GenZ co creation.
Ciao Trailblazers,
How has the sunshine been treating you? Here our summer helpers are fully on board and ready to go. What are they going to be up to I hear you ask? Well… where do we start? Emm, how about the people first.
Nimrit - yes, the same arty person from last summer. I bet you remember her artwork. She created most of the images we have been sharing for the past year.. This summer she is our first GenZ digital artist in residence. This means she will be identifying 3 artists from a refugee background in California. Then she will be using their art as inspiration for the digital artwork she will create with us. Guess what? You will also be able to buy some this refugee inspired art as NFT’s in the autumn. Don’t forget you can wear this artwork as well - yup, there will be merc as well. As usual a share of the profits will support the communities we work with to recover from conflict.
Gaurab - He is with us for 8 weeks supporting us with our user feedback and digital content creation. He is engaging you offline with us and asking 3 simple questions. He is based in California as well and spending his summer building his vocational skills with us. Keep an eye out in your local park for him. Look forward seeing what you think of us.
Aniruddha - yup, she still with us a year on. She is working her way through her Master’s in Strategic Marketing. Keep an eye out for her copy, captions and hastags. She is also working on some fun ideas to engage more of you. Keep an eye out.
Victoria - she is helping us train citizen journalists on the Game Dev. A former teacher in Design and Technology, she is a very handy person to have on your team.
Isabel and Juilette are our micro interns from Oxford this summer. They are training to be Citizen Journalists and are using gaming as medium for journalism. Watch this space for their work.
Our ePub
You can access our ePub without any extra charge, if you are an Amazon Prime member. How cool is that! So, all you have to do is click on the image below and get reading. Don’t forget to tell your friends as well.
Beyond the Ruins is on Kindle here.
Don’t forget to tag us when you share your thoughts on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and BlueSky. We can’t wait to hear from you!
Our Sponsor for the month
TheTezosCommunity (TTC) is all about bringing people together in the Tezos blockchain world. Living by their motto, “Stronger Together”, TTC is a hub for all Tezonians - artists & art collectors, developers, bakers & blockchain enthusiasts - to exchange ideas openly and propel the Tezos ecosystem forward. TTC is a community of volunteers hosting weekly activities at discord to engage the community and give art they collect every month, Spaces and AMAs with different guests at X, and events across the Tezos ecosystem to support artists and builders, and celebrate the community. You can find and submit Tezos Events and keep up with the ecosystem at their Tezos news aggregator.
We have been invited to TTC x #Tezos Artists: Let's Talk Art #13Thu, Jun 26 at 6 PM UTC time. Link here If any of you want to come along - open access.
Podcasts of the month
Take your pick and let us know which one you enjoyed the most!
The Gaming Corner 🎮
Gaming Art NFT’s 🎨
What’s more your NFT will give you exclusive rights to ownership. You can also have merchandise created with you NFT - like Tote bags, Tees, Hoodies & more. So, if you want to buy your friends and family a unique arty gift you can use your NFT for this as well - but only with us!
These NFT’s of you favorite arty refugees are also collectors items as well. Just like comics were in the 1980’s - you can start your collection now. You can also resell them later and gain from the increase in value - if any.
The Giving Corner
Finally, as we move into July we are preparing for International Zine Month. As this is a great special occasion we have to decided to offer 10 members the opportunity to own a Zine based on the Gaming art NFT’s. But, only 10! Just reply to this email and we can discuss this further with you.
You will have unique collectors item -
It’s great to have you with us along this journey. You can support our work by “donating us coffee”. More here.
This is a simple way to keep us going — nothing like a dose of caffeine to boost your day! Till next month — enjoy your coffee along the way 😊
With gratitude,
Zufi, Aniruddha, Nimrit, Michael, & Gerry.
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