Patterned after the Royal Academy of the Arts, ASoIA is a vehicle for attaining fame in one's chosen field. Artists/Sculptors, Poets/Writers and Architects need a venue for displaying their works, and this is it. Only those devoted to their craft, the few with the energy required to attain the pinnacle of success are invited to join. "Not easy, not cheap, not attainable without hard work" is the group's motto, as is "the Best Art, always, no compromise."

The Tucson Writers Workshop & Meetup group is a community that supports and encourages its members by sharing knowledge, information and feedback about the writing life and the business of writing. Our evolution as a group and the success of both the workshops and the regular meetups is based on a pro-author/writer ethos, and is a strongly motivating and intensely rewarding experience from any standpoint. The art and craft of writing can be learned in many ways, but is often a lonely pursuit. Ho …

Do you dig "the dharma" in all its strange and curious manifestations? The Beats-Jazz-Zen monks writing frustrating koans-Crazy Wisdom adepts from Tibet- American dharma Punks- American Buddhist nuns that teach Vajrayana- Crazy Tibetan art-Shoalin martial arts- Buddhist based psychology-Jam bands-Poetry slams-to the Dalai Lama and so forth.... The purpose of group is to meet like-minded people who are seeking to create community around the interest in the Buddhist "dharma" and the art, film, mus …