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Richard Zeier

Irydia Velsari — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:28:48 +0000

Composer — Chief Designer, Rock It Science Audio
| ZO Founder and Music CURATOR — Owner at Pearl Music Studio in Hollywood, CA

Richard is an original founder of ZO and has been instrumental in guiding it through its many incarnations. You will find his compositions throughout our website, and we are very grateful that he has generously allowed us total access to his broad instrumental library.

www.richardzeier.com

Rock It Science Audio is the CITY Sponsor for ChristChurch, New Zealand

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Marcia Parker

Irydia Velsari — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:32:08 +0000

Poet — Writer — Entrepreneur
| ZO Affiliate|CURATOR — Owner-operator at Marcia Parker Productions and Event Coordinator at The Original Melodic Mondays

Marcia has coordinated, judged, and helped us manage a few ZO Expos. She is also a gifted chef, speaker, actress, and unique Spoken Word Artist known as Motha Nature.

We’d like to thank her for her work with ZO and Artitude in this joint promotional video.

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Design by Satya

SatyaG — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:18:40 +0000

Designer — Graphic Artist
| ZO Creative Team Member

Satya is located in Los Angeles. Her passion for designing for a purpose and admiring art as a vital essence of the human being led her to contribute as a creative for ZO.

You may see some of her design work here: DesignbySatya

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Illya Lykhinin

Illya Lykhinin — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 04:59:51 +0000

Artist — Writer — Musician— Film Maker
| ZO Creative Team Member

Illya Lykhinin was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine but has spent most of his life growing up in Virginia. Currently located in Los Angeles, he has a golden retriever waiting for him back on the east coast that his mother sends pictures of almost daily. Illya has curated several art shows and has a background as a digital artist himself. His passions include exploring the role of the computer as an artist, as well as dreams and the subconscious. He keeps a dream journal and hopes to one day be able to fully render his dreams in the virtual space. His involvement with ZO has included graphic design for their magazine, website development, and most importantly helping to promote peace through the arts.

Some of his notable past works include belonging to an eclectic collection of individuals (and some of his closest friends) hailing from all over the world who came together to make sounds. They call themselves “Lyscuro” and have an almost “Assemblage” take on music production. You can enjoy their debut album here; https://lyscuro.bandcamp.com/releases

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Bryce

ZO International — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:16:30 +0000

Artist — Writer
| ZO Creative Team Member

Bryce lives in southern California, where he has spent his whole life. He enjoys drawing, specifically cartoons. Writing is a strong area of interest for him as well, be it creative writing or screenwriting. His involvement with ZO has included graphic design and helping build this very website.

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Joan Theresa Freilinger Zeier

Irydia Velsari — Sat, 23 May 2020 00:38:50 +0000

Artist — Writer — Cloud Witness
| ZO Advisor

Joan Zeier is now watching and guiding us from Heaven, hence the title “Cloud Witness.” ZO has always believed that we are surrounded by a Cloud of Witnesses that have paved the way for us — Our existence has been so greatly influenced by the many creative souls met along our path, who have graciously added to our mission of promoting peace through the arts.

Joan was a Wisconsin native who put aside her dreams of writing books while she and her husband, Gerald, raised their five sons and four daughters. However, those hectic years paid off with a wealth of insights to be used later in her writing. In addition to the titles of wife, mother of 9, author, poet, and artist, she served as organist for the 7:00 am Mass at St. Dennis Catholic Church for over 45 years. She advised ZO Magazine since its inception . . .

Books:

Stick Boy

Joan T. Zeier, Author Atheneum
For sixth-grader Eric Bonner, school is a minefield. Each day he tiptoes around classmates, ducks confrontations and desperately tries to blend into his surroundings. While dealing with his parents’ divorce and his peers’ reactions to his seven-inch growth spurt, Eric feels awkward, lonely and powerless. He finds comfort only in the music of his idol, Quatre Cinq–“He could make you believe that any day now you’d be able to rock right out of your bottomless pit and hit the stars.” At a new school, nothing seems to change–until he meets Cynthia, a strong, independent disabled girl; Jeremiah, a foster child yearning for a true friend; and Tyler, an intimidating bully who is actually a coward. As Eric learns more about his classmates, he discovers that he himself, not a musician’s magic, has the power to change his life. Through detailed narrative, naturalistic dialogue and absorbing personalities Zeier powerfully elucidates the subtleties of peer relationships. Readers will identify with the many facets of each character and hopefully begin to develop a sense of understanding and respect for their own peers. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)

The Elderberry Thicket

by Joan T. Zeier [Atheneum]

In 1938 Wisconsin, when twelve-year-old Franny Parson’s father loses his job as a hired hand and has to go looking for work, the family members doubt their self-reliance as they face again the hard times they had hoped were gone for good.

Franny had always liked the Cooper family until they fired her father who worked as their hired man. How could they give his job to some nephew that they barely knew! Now her father must leave home to look for work and nothing is the same. Franny is determined not to like “Smokey” Manning, the Coopers’ nephew…

Joan Zeier penned a wealth of poetry and a summer visit to her home in Wisconsin before the launch party of our Magazine connected us with a timely piece by her, that we brought to Los Angeles and included in our first streamed event.

The poem “Reunion” was especially synchronous with the photo muse by Luis José Estremadoyro that we were using for the Expo that was running at the time of our launch event. So glad that Joan thought of it and allowed us to have it interpreted. Jenny Savage’s whole presentation of it was a tribute to the links between people that we are trying to bridge through art . . .

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I. Claudia Lucas Pirms-Laika

Irydia Velsari — Sat, 23 May 2020 00:13:07 +0000

Creatress — Writer — Cloud Witness
| ZO Sponsor|Curator Banff, Canada

I. Claudia is one of ZO’s “Cloud Witness” — among those who have tremendously contributed to our mission and project, but who have passed from this life to the next, and we believe help us from there.

Claudia Fabrics procures unique fabrics from throughout time. The year was 12945 BC . . . The earth is nearing the end of a surface ice age that has prepared a climate that will take 6000 more years before being ready for its new inhabitants. It is during this year that we fashioned the first idea of time having or being a “fabric.”

Fragments from a comet measuring over 60 miles wide kindled the global firestorm that would seal the perfect color red in my mind forever. The swirling dust clouds mixed with ash were as extraordinary as any kaleidoscope you may ever see, as ice and water crystallized into a brilliant explosion of diamonds and lace. It was this year that I coined the term “fabric of time.” I. Claudia Lucas Pirms-Laika

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Vivienne MacLeod

Irydia Velsari — Thu, 02 May 2019 22:08:56 +0000

Consultant — Entrepreneur
| Operations Director — ZO Magazine

Country SPONSOR | Scotland

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Kendra Beltran

Irydia Velsari — Thu, 02 May 2019 21:59:45 +0000

Freelance Writer
| ZO Music Editor

Country SPONSOR | Canada

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River Alexander

Irydia Velsari — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:07:38 +0000

Concept Director — ZO Magazine
Founder — Artitude | ReCreating Paradise

River Alexander has been developing the concept for ZO for many years and it has gone through more than several incarnations. Starting from All Dressed Up, a small southern California entertainment event listing, to the International Arts Consortium and Worldwide Arts Consortium (as ZO was once named), the objective to use the arts as a podium for peace and better communications has always been at the core of ZO’s development concept.

River is a writer, artist, and inventor of games. The unique link between ZO’s developing film, The O.D.D. Room, and the magazine has provided quite a vibrant artistic development platform and conglomeration of the disciplines of art, poetry, fashion, philosophy, metaphysics, and storytelling . . .

Country SPONSOR | for Timor-Leste

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