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About Us
Cool Life KY Productions, llc
CLKY is an artists-owned
commercial arts production company dedicated to forging new
collaborative relationships between talented people with
exciting ideas and classic business practices in order to
create exhilarating projects of significant artistic and
commercial value. Our exclusive focus is the promotion of
Lexington-based creative professionals with original and
contemporary approaches to the visual and performing arts
who use their art to deliver spiritual messages of hope,
courage and love.
Cool Life KY Productions is
composed of three distinct entities:
·
Cool Rooster Studios: a 7500 sf,
multi-faceted, visual and performing arts production
facility located at 1151 Manchester Street
· Tuska
Studio: a multi-venue museum and fine arts foundry
· Marketing
KY: an investment, marketing and agency business unit being
developed specifically to fund, promote and manage the
intellectual property and creative portfolio of CLKY
projects
The owner/artists of the new
company are:
·
Charley Baker -
Music Director / Arranger
/ Songwriter / Blues Vocalist
·
Collin Deatherage -
Songwriter / Rock Vocalist
/ Poet
·
Rachel Hannah -
Country Vocalist
·
Andrea Johnson -
Gospel Vocalist
·
Soryeda Benedit-Begley -
Fashion Designer
·
Prof. Chris Begley -
Anthropologist /
Archeologist
·
Sally Evans -
Vocalist / Songwriter /
Arts Activist
·
The Pistol Report -
Musicians
·
Theo Edmonds - Creative
Director / Visual and Performance Artist / Poet
·
Seth Tuska -
CEO
Early Defined Goals of CLKY
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To support and
invest in people with vision who are innovative voices
looking to build reputations
and in
supporting the economic development of Lexington’s
creative industries.
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To develop new and
original culturally significant works and projects
necessary for developing a national reputation in visual
and performing arts production.
Cool Life KY’s
Production criteria for selection will be
commercial potential,
originality of concept and message.
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To be a catalyst
for new creative relationships in which ideas can achieve
their full potential.
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To develop the
projects in a professional and cost-effective manner.
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To maximize
potential revenue by our participation in the early stages
of a project or artist(s) life. This enables
Cool Life KY’s
Productions to fully realize the benefits from the
subsidiary rights (film, television, internet and
merchandising) and other royalty-based commercial
activities.
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To brand and
franchise Cool Life KY’s
Productions by producing - either directly, through
co-production or through licensed productions - projects
and artists which are endorsed by our company.
First
Production Being Developed - THE
SHOW!©
Cool Rooster
Studio’s first commercial production is an original
rock/folk opera called THE
SHOW!. Part Homer's
Odyssey, part
The Stephen Foster Story,
part Cirque du Soleil
and part STOMP! –
THE SHOW! is a theatrical feast for the senses that, in
reality, is a one hour lesson on finding the courage and
freedom to live the life you were meant to live. It is the
story of a young rock star who loses everything, and in the
process awakens to a path of spiritual purpose more
fulfilling than he could have ever imagined. THE SHOW! will
officially debut in Fall 2008 but numerous ‘staged read
through’ performance concerts are being planned throughout
the Spring and Summer in the Kentuckiana Region. In these
sessions audiences will get their first exposure to the
unique concept for THE SHOW! as well as the individual
performers and visual artists that have collaborated to
create this unique theatrical production.
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