Peter's thoughts (Artist Cafe)

I would like to steer a debate to see what people think/feel about what is going on around the issues of our own particular life form. As artists/makers etc, we share a common inner drive, but one which is compromised, stressed and disempowered through accreted values of our global cultural system. Did creative arts thoughout history, evolve dynamically as a culture manifest? Or only  because someone paid them. Personally we can't do much about the human dilemma, but resigned ignorance is no defense to its woundings. Awareness does not mitigate, and spread as salve of connection. Artists are innately more sensitive than 'the norm', and can lead/create silent movements of intent. Good intentions pave the road to heaven as well as hell. For me it is about the global genocide of culture, community and species. The greedy agenda of a few preying upon the magnificent but poorly developed abilities of the human collective. What an amazing resource to tap into this present boiling social mirror, to comment, to create and facilitate appreciation. We need that as a species, or we will all be turning into grey accountants, bankers and lawyers. So what I am saying is that I would like to encourage an appetite for artists to commune about what turns them on, off, or become comatose. We have the chance with this cafe, outside the usual system, to manifest and share enthusiasm for what we and each other do, in order to help make things happen. Hopefully it will enable us all to feel a little encouragement in order to share ourselves in a deeper way in what we create with the world.