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EarthRise Arts was founded in 2001 by Derek Beres and Craig Anthony Miller as a way of exploring art, music, and movement in a global context. Their next gathering is Infusion 8 on Friday, November 6, 2009, at Manhattan yoga studio the Fierce Club. More info will be posted soon. EarthRise Arts Center The EarthRise Arts Center is a multi-disciplinary, multi-usage space to be based in Brooklyn, which focuses on a broad range of arts, consisting of five areas: movement space, performance space, art gallery, café, and writer’s community. Each area serves both to allow experts in each field to work and showcase their talents, as well as doubling as an educational area, where people interested in yoga, dance, art (painting, photography), writing, and cooking can begin or continue their education, or new learn about new, global-minded aspects of their arts. The theme of the EarthRise Arts Center is community building, locally as well as globally—an idea that needs to be understood and integrated in a real, tactile way, not only via lip service. The Arts are entry points to foreign cultures, beyond political and social ideologies, and should be celebrated on their own terms. It is a non-discriminatory space where people feel safe to go in order to be educated and share in world cultures. It will be sustained through its diverse variety of offerings, as well as grants, which will all be handled by each area’s experts, who will form the board of the EarthRise Arts Center.
The duo is hard at work on their debut recording, The Yoga Sessions, an electrorganic blend of music, designed for Derek's intense EarthRise Yoga classes. The album features an amazing array of musicians, including Morley, Lucy Woodward, Basya Schechter, Lital Gabai, Rachel Golub, Daniel Dworkin, MC Samurai, Dave Sharma, and Eccodek. For more information check out their label, Yoga Organix. Out Now EarthRise Arts Founders
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Derek Beres is one of the leading figures in international music in America, working in numerous facets of the industry, from journalist and DJ to producer and presenter. He has published five books to date, and has contributed to dozens of magazines and websites regarding the traditional and digital realms of global music. He has toured internationally, playing alongside some of the most important figures in the scene today. Well versed in international music, he is equally adamant about world cultures, devoting his life to the path of yoga, Eastern philosophies, and world mythology. His books include Mysterious Distance, a novel; Sound Against Flame: The Process of Yoga and Atheism in America; and Global Beat Fusion: The History of the Future of Music. He is one-half of music production/live team EarthRise SoundSystem, whose first album, The Yoga Sessions, will be released in September 2009. For more information visit 
Craig Anthony Miller, "CAM," born in Brooklyn, New York started painting live at a venue in the Lower East Side of NYC. Surrendering in 1996 into a rebirth of art from childhood and truly emoting on canvas versus his trained background of computerizing his creative images. Since then, CAM has showcased briefly on the streets of NYC in addition to collective group and solo showings. In 2001, Miller co-founded EarthRise Arts Inc., an urban conglomerate formed to unite various arts in an underground subculture of New York City. Miller uses this forum to constantly grow in the public eye with personal exhibitions at Infusion, an Art & Music event sponsored by EarthRise Arts. The company reaches out to other up and coming artists of all creative backgrounds, giving them an opportunity to showcase in public. CAM's art was selected and featured on a 2003 Samuel Adams billboard advertisement in SoHo, NYC and in the 2004 Pepsi Black History Commemorative Calendar. For more information visit 
Dax-Devlon Ross, Esq. is a true man of letters. He writes non-fiction, fiction and poetry. He is a thoughtful commentator on popular culture, a student of African-American history, and a skilled journalist with an eye for detail and an ear for an intriguing story. Dax has been formally trained in jurisprudence, philosophy, American literature and secondary education. His interests also include music (particularly Jazz and Hip-Hop), sports (particularly as they relate to and impact culture), politics, economics, and education. In addition to being the author four books, Dax is the co-publisher of Outside the Box Publishing, LLC, and the editor of the HNIC Report, a daily blog covering political issues. Mr. Ross is a sought after speaker and consultant who teaches workshops on a range of subjects pertaining to inner-city youth. His books include The Nightmare and The Dream: Nas, Jay-Z, and the History of Conflict and Beat of a Different Drum. For more information visit