Showing posts with label Silver Phoenix Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silver Phoenix Award. Show all posts

Saturday, January 3, 2015

The Creative Nexus™ NWCU and Silver Phoenix Award News






 Saturday, January 3, 2015 

Metro-Detroit, Michigan (Global) - It's 2015 y'all, and as the new year opens, it looks like it's going to be a very busy and auspicious one.

• The New World Creative Union (NWCU) continues with a full complement of over 250 members. As I am sure you are aware the premise of the NWCU is for artists to present their laudable creative work, and share it with others, and to also have others share their work too; look for some new features to come along as we move in to 2015.

• In 2015, The Creative Nexus™ continues its cooperative venture with the Indie Media Weekly (IMW), Indie Media Weekly Radio (IMWR) and Kim Williams with its Winds of Change series of triplets. The triplet is a creative article that includes an image, written component, and video/music selection to complement one another. It also carries the theme of the written portion throughout the article. Click on the above 'triplet' link to see the latest offering, "Winds of Change: Arcanum XVI (The Tower)," which has its origins in Arcanum XVI of the Tarot.

• Upcoming features for the Indie Media Weekly and Indie Media Weekly Radio are audio-bios of musicians and composers that The Creative Nexus™ has featured in several of its Blue Sky Highway™ (BSH™) radio shows, as well as new artists, and episodes of the BSH!


• Look for a return of The Creative Nexus Café...the café is calling!


Blue Highway ©Frank Webster
• The Creative Nexus is pleased to announce that Season One of the BSH™ was very well received, so much so, that a Season Two is now in Phase 1 of preparation. The overall STATS indicate that listeners are still tuning in to Season One on SoundCloud (SC) and Blog Talk Radio (BTR). The contemplative nature of the BSH seems to be calling listeners back for more drives along the highway. Season Two will also be featured on IMW and IMWR.




STATS for Season One are as follows:

BSH STATS
(SC & BTR Listens per episode as of 01.02.2015)
Links should take you to the designated episodes.


*"Calliope's Tears" [Ep010]: 561
(air date: 09.07.2014)


"A Kaleidoscope" [Ep009]: 969
(air date: 08.03.2014)


*"Through the Broken Doorway" [Ep008]: 1,354
(air date: 06.07.
2014)

"Thoughts from Waking Dreams" [Ep007]: 1,214
(air date: 05.04.2014)

*"The Imperfect Nest" [Ep006]: 1065
(air date: 04.05/2014)

*"Air Castles" [Ep005]: 1,519
(air date: 03.02.2014)

"A Journey" [Ep004 fea Alan Watts]: 1,499
(air date: 01.12.2014)

"Fortes - Fortuna - Adiuvat" [Ep003 fea John Anstie]: 1,884
(air date 11.17.2013)

"Ride Life" [Ep002 fea Bono]: 2,129
(air date: 10.06.2013)

"A Dream within a Dream" [Ep001]: 1,938
(air date: 08.22.2013)

Total listens to all BSH episodes: 14,132

* Episode 005, 006, 008 and 010 were
co-produced and hosted by Michael Ash Sharbaugh


Special thanks are in order:





for their ongoing and support to art, artists, musicians, poets and the spoken word!








The Silver Phoenix Award for Merit 2015




The New World Creative Union (NWCU) Silver Phoenix Award was established in the Autumn of 2012, and is awarded for the following reasons:

1. To designate someone who has won in any of the NWCU 'special events,' such as the NWCU Autumn Kick-Off' event, et cetera.

2. To someone who has demonstrated a high level of 'liking,' 'sharing,' or promoting' of the NWCU and Creative Nexus, as well as sharing others artists, artisans, musicians, and writer's commendable creative endeavors.

3. Provided exceptional assistance, and/or service to the NWCU in General.

4. This award, for numbers 2 and 3, will be made at the discretion of an active founder, and administrator of the NWCU.


Silver Phoenix Award for Merit 2015

Kim Williams

Kim Williams, proprietor of the Indie Medial Weekly (IMW) and Indie Media Weekly Radio (IMWR) has been acquainted with The Creative Nexus, New World Creative Union, Blue Sky Highway, and Creative Nexus Café. She  has appeared on the Creative Nexus Café and Blue Sky Highway, and has always been willing to lend a hand, provide input, and share the good work of The Creative Nexus and artists associated with it.


She is also a veteran of the United States Air Force, serving in the first Gulf War, and began her 25 year career in healthcare in the military, as a paramedic. However, she left the financial rewards of the corporate healthcare world behind, as she witnessed it evolve into a soul sucking profit, before people model.

She says, "I sold the big house and all the toys, and bought a cabin on 5 acres, on the top of a mountain in Tennessee. It was there I began an awakening to the fact, that the 1% were robbing people blind, via our own government, which led me to start a "new fangled" thing called a blog, that developed over several years into what I have now at the IMW and IWMR."

Kim is also an advocate for human rights, freedom of speech and expression, and a clean planetary environment. She is one of the few people, I have met, that was practicing the main core of the NWCU principles, in sharing and promoting the laudable work of others.

It is with a great amount of pleasure, to me, for Kim Williams to be named a recipient of The Silver Phoenix Award for Merit, for 2015.

If you like, you can tune in to Kim on Fridays during the daytime on Kim's Juke Box, and Turn Up The Night with Kenny Pick, every Friday, alternating all 3 hours, and hour 3 where Kim features indie artists in her "Indie Media Moment' segment.



Saturday, October 4, 2014

Beth Winter named Silver Phoenix Award w/Star recipient




The Silver Phoenix Award for Merit


The New World Creative Union (NWCU) Silver Phoenix Award was established in the Autumn of 2012, and is awarded for the following reasons.

1. To designate anyone who has won in 'any' of our 'special events' categories, such as the NWCU Autumn Kick-Off event.

2. To anyone who has 'demonstrated' a high level of 'liking,' 'sharing,' or 'promoting' of the NWCU, as well as sharing other artist's, artisan's, and writer's commendable creative endeavors.

3. Provided exceptional assistance/service to the NWCU, in general.

4. This award, for numbers 2 and 3, will be made at the discretion of an active founder and admin of the NWCU.


Silver Phoenix Award w/Star for 2014




Beth Winter, a coordinator and admin of the NWCU, became the first recipient of the Silver Phoenix Award in the Autumn of 2012, in our NWCU Autumn Kick-Off event for September 22 and 23, for her winning composition, entitled, Peek-at-Beth.

Since then, Beth has gone on to:

1. Demonstrate a high level of 'sharing,' and 'promoting' of the NWCU.
2. Lead our NWCU Sunday Book Talk events, presenting a fascinating series of books from Zen and the Art of Archery, by Eugen Hegel, to Phoenix Rising, by Mary Summer Rain.
3. Provided commendable assistance/service to the NWCU, and members, as well as overall maintenance of the group.
4. Demonstrate exceptional skill in her field of poetry and photography.


Please join me in congratulating Beth on being designated a recipient of the first Silver Phoenix Award w/Star. This award/badge may be added to any of her sites as recognition of her achievements.


Roger Allen Baut, co-founder and admin of the NWCU

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Silver Phoenix Award recipients 2012-2013



The Silver Phoenix Award


The NWCU Silver Phoenix Award was established in the Autumn of 2012, and is awarded for the following reasons.

1. To designate anyone who has won in 'any' of our 'special events' categories, such as the NWCU Autumn Kick-Off event.

2. To anyone who has 'demonstrated' a high level of 'liking,' 'sharing,' or 'promoting' of the NWCU, as well as other artist's, artisan's, and writer's creative work.

3. Provided commendable assistance/service to the NWCU, in general.

4. This award, for numbers 2 and 3, will be made at the discretion of the founders of the NWCU Natasha Lynn Head and Roger Allen Baut.



2012 -2013 Recipients of the Silver Phoenix Award


Joanne Young Elliott,
aka @soulsprite

Joanne, a coordinator of the NWCU, has been selected as a 2013 recipient for the Silver Phoenix Award by founders Natasha Lynn Head and Roger Allen Baut for her meritorious service to the NWCU. She has exemplified the standards of the NWCU in: 

1. Demonstrating a high level of 'sharing,' and 'promoting' of the NWCU.
2. House moderator of the 'chat room' for the Creative Nexus and Nexus Café internet radio shows.
3. Editor of The Creative Nexus newspaper of the NWCU.
4. Provided commendable assistance/service to the NWCU, in general.


Susie Clevenger,
aka @wingsobutterfly

Susie, a coordinator of the NWCU, has been selected as a 2013 recipient for the Silver Phoenix Award by founders Natasha Lynn Head and Roger Allen Baut for her meritorious service to the NWCU. She has exemplified the standards of the NWCU in:

1. Demonstrating a high level of 'sharing,' and 'promoting' of the NWCU.
2. Admin for the facebook NWCU community page.
3. Assistant house moderator of the 'chatroom' for the Creative Nexus and Nexus Café.
4. Provided commendable assistance/service to the NWCU, in general.


Beth Winter
aka @Beth_Winter

Beth, a coordinator of the NWCU, became the first 
recipient of the Silver Phoenix Award in the Autumn of 2012, in our NWCU Autumn Kick-Off event of September 22 and 23, for her winning composition, entitled, Peek-at-Beth.

Since then, Beth has gone on to:

1. Demonstrate a high level of 'sharing,' and 'promoting' of the NWCU.
2. Lead our NWCU Sunday Book Talk events, presenting a fascinating series of books from Zen and the Art of Archery, by Eugen Hegel, to Phoenix Rising, by Mary Summer Rain.
3. Provided commendable assistance/service to the NWCU, in general.


Please join with Natasha and I, as we congratulate Joanne, Susie, and Beth on being designated recipients of the Silver Phoenix Award, and adding on adding this award to their blogs. More on Joanne's, Susie's and Beth's  background may be found by clicking on their links.

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Phoenix Rising: A Guide to the NWCU Phoenixes




As we are all aware, the phoenix is a mystical creature that has been a part of many civilization's mythology. Many of the stories from these different cultures speak of the phoenix as a symbol for 'rebirth,' and that it rises from the ashes of its own demise. It is also known as the fire bird in some lands.

The phoenix, that you see depicted by the NWCU, is an ancient artistic representation of a Japanese phoenix called the Hō-ō.

According to legend, originally from China, the Hō-ō appears very rarely, and then only to mark the beginning of the dawn of a new era, or the birth of a virtuous ruler. In other traditions, the Hō-ō appears only in peaceful and prosperous times, and hides itself during times of trouble and conflict. As the herald of a new age, the Hō-ō decends from heaven   to Earth, to do good deeds.

This is how the NWCU envisions its phoenix, as the herald of a new age of peace and cooperation. Where humankind works together for the betterment of all, as well as the planet. A new age is dawning as the phoenix rises. Join with us in this great adventure!

Below are the current images of the NWCU phoenix, and what each represents:


NWCU badge for a site.
Please replace your old badge with this new one.


*NWCU WWUC badge for an "Award for Creativity" designate.


*NWCU WWUC badge w/Star for a multiple an "Award for Creativity" designate.


NWCU "Silver Phoenix Award of Merit" for those who have won
in one of our "Special Events" categories, or been designated by one
of our Founder-Coordinators, as such. Please click on the link for all criteria.

*Current NWCU WWUC designates are encouraged to replaced their old badges with the new ones.


Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Silver Phoenix Award for Merit



Silver Phoenix Award


The NWCU has developed a new award called the Silver Phoenix Award.

1. This will be awarded to designates who have won in 'any' of our 'special events' categories, such as, the NWCU Autumn Kick-Off event.

2. To anyone who has 'demonstrated' a high level of 'liking,' 'sharing,' or 'promoting' another artist's, artisan's, or writer's creative work.

3. Provided exceptional assistance to the NWCU, in general.

4. This award, for numbers 2 and 3, will be made at the discretion of the founders of the NWCU Natasha Head and Roger Allen Baut.


Silver Phoenix Award recipient: Beth Winter





New World Creative Union's
First Silver Phoenix Award recipient:

Beth Winter
(aka @Beth_Winter )


Beth Winter,
Silver Phoenix Award recipient

Beth Winter takes home the very first NWCU Silver Phoenix Award, for her 'winning' composition in our NWCU Autumn Kick-Off event held September 22nd and 23rd, Peek-at-Beth.

She is a prolific and gifted writer with a great love for the written word and though she specializes in poetry and prose, who also enjoys photography.

Ae a writer, Beth has a huge body of growing work, and has authored over 600 poems, equaled only by as many journals, that express her unique thoughts with clarity and sincerity, as her muse strives to attain the full potential of the possibilities all around her.

Her poetry, prose and journals can be viewed on her blog, Eclipsing Winter.

Please join with Natasha and I in congratulating Beth as our first Silver Phoenix Award recipient.

Beth Winter on Twitter