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Self-Development of People announces
2007 award recipients |
Congratulations to: |
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The Self-Development of People Committee of the Synod of the Trinity is pleased to award monetary grants to this hard working and promising self-development project. The committee is excited to be partners with Stargazers as it progresses towards the goal of becoming self-sustaining. A short synopsis is available below.
| Stargazers |
Pittsburgh, PA |
Stargazers is a group of struggling artists who created their organization because individually they were not able to break into the music business due to lack of money for agents and record deals. Their mutual desire to succeed and excel in business prompted them to collaborate and form Stargazers which:
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shapes and molds creative ideas and works of art into reproducible forms - movies, short stories, documentaries, education& training pieces, PSAs, commercials, infomercial's, etc. |
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affixes artwork to permanent and re-usable media - cds, dds, video, film, etc |
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duplicates and packages products for distribution and sale |
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provides marketing services to the community of need |
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provides marketing services as a work-for-hire for larger community |
Stargazers is intended to help artists manage their own careers without being exploited by other larger entities and as a group, support and assist each other in the business world. Stargazers is the building and the various music and entertainment related projects are the rooms within that building.
Since the submission of their original proposal, Stargazers have packaged and distributed a Christmas album, which includes many of the standard Christmas favorites and one original song. The album is titled December On my Mind.
A decision was made to work on two projects which are near completion:
| (I) Feel It” |
A complete CD/DVD package project which includes a fun, clean, song with an R&B flavor, a fun line-dance with instructions and group dancing on DVD |
| “This Time It’s For Real” (right) |
Compilation of some of Shane’s never-released original songs. This project will be introduced and released complete with photos and music on this website. |
Plans for 2007 include:
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distribute a jazz album featureing Marva Josie |
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record, promote, and sell a new group PWD (Praise, Worship and Deliverance) |
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plan to book studio time to independent artists desiring to record their independent projects |
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establish an on-line radio program where we will play, promote, and distribute our own and other independent artists’ musical works |
This is the second grant that the Synod's SDOP Committee has given to Stargazers.
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