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The Echo Lounge will premiere on TheEchoLounge.com and syndicated nationally on college and community radio stations in the fall 2008. Each one hour show features one author, actor, or musician and consists of an interview that examines not only the featured guest's life and work, but also the artists and art that influenced him or her.
We can't announce a schedule yet, but Pulitzer Prize winning authors, Grammy Award winning musicians, and Oscar and Emmy Award winning actors are scheduled to appear.
For more information, visit The Echo Lounge
The Interludes Café features artists you may not be familiar with, but each doing such incredibly exciting work that we wanted to create a place where we could showcase them.
Each month, we'll feature different musical and visual artists. Each artist will be given a page to display their work and provide information about themselves and their art. There will also be links to their websites where you see and hear more of their work.
Artists who want to be featured on The Interludes Cafe should send an email to artists@CrabQueenProductions.com
Visual artists interested in being featured on The Interludes Café should email us a link to your website.
Please do not send us attachments with emails because we will not open them.
We prefer hard copies of everything, but given the nature of visual art, we will accept links to websites. With musical artists, we ask for a CD and any promotional material be sent to:
Crab Queen Productions
Interludes Café
P.O. Box 97
Essex Fells, NJ 07021
We look and listen to everything sent to us. There is no "criteria" for being featured on the show, but we do ask that any music or art that appears on The Interlude Café not be available anywhere else on the internet during the time it is featured with us (there is no point of showing the same work on multiple sites).
Artists interested in being featured on The Interludes Cafe should send an email to The Interludes Cafe Artists@CrabQueenProductions.com
We created a discussion board because we want to create a place where artists and people who love art can get together.
Most artists belong to boards, but those boards are usually specialized. Art echoes art, and musicians are influenced by movies; film makers by songs, and painters by everything they see and hear, so we've limited the number of forums to give artists a place to gather and chat.
Honestly, the board is new and there isn't much happening there, but this is a chance to create the kind of board you want. It is a work in progress, and if people want more forums, we'll add them. If people want areas where they can get feedback on their work, we'll create those areas.
There is a special section for teachers. Because teaching art and poetry is challenging, most teachers look for new ways to engage students, and we thought it would be interesting to give teachers a place to exchange ideas, not just with other teachers, but with artists and writers who can bring their own unique perspectives on craft and the creative process.
The artists featured on The Echo Lounge will be invited to visit the discussion board, and we're hoping to eventually entice them to hold workshops there.
Our goal is to create a community of artists and we're open to any suggestions. You can email us at Discussion Board
Visit the Discussion Board
Everything interests me. As a former Professor said, I have "boundless curiosity," and though he probably meant my papers lacked focus, or I have ADD, working on The Echo Lounge keeps me challenged.
As a writer, I am completely void of talent, but at least I know it. I've written three feature length screenplays, a few dozen essays, some short stories, but nothing is for sale.
I have a Master of Science in Teaching from the New School and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Goddard College. I studied screenwriting at Goddard because I wanted to learn how to write a screenplay and to explore my creative process. I spent two years working on one script and from that I learned discipline and the devotion required to begin and complete a project.
With every artist I interview, I know somewhere there is an avid fan who knows "everything" about him/her, and my goal is for that fan to learn something new, or to get a different perspective. I also know somewhere there is a person who knows little about the featured guest, and my goal is to provide that person with a solid introduction to the artist and his/her work.
The focus of The Echo Lounge is the process by which each artist creates his/her work and to explore how art echoes art. Being a fiercely private person myself, the show does not delve into the personal lives of the featured artists, though the life of each artist is explored.
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