Help us build StarRise Studios for movement music!

Hi, I’m Adam Gottlieb, musician, poet, and community organizer. I have a band, Adam Gottlieb & OneLove, that for about ten years now has been making and sharing music reflecting the rising movements for peace, social justice, and sustainability that define our times. Along the way we’ve been building community, organizing events, making critical connections, plugging into existing struggles, and strengthening cultural bonds between struggles through our work in Chicago and beyond.

I am now starting a new chapter in my journey: building a music studio that can serve not only my own needs, but also a core artist collective and a broader network of socially engaged recording artists. My partner Diana and I plan to build and run this studio here on the basement floor of our home, immensely elevating our capacity to produce music, poetry, videos, and other media that we believe the revolution urgently needs: art with clear messages, sharp analysis of the real world, compelling storytelling, rooted spiritual power, and contagious, danceable rhythms.

We are putting the pieces in place to run a studio using a business model that keeps our prices affordable and our services accessible to folks who are doing community-based cultural work. This is a way to amplify artists whose voices need to be heard and to build community as we grow, out of which even greater projects and collaborations can and will emerge. We are guided by our lifelong mission to contribute to the revolutionary transformation of society toward freedom, justice, and abundance for all. With this great vision in mind, we have named the venture StarRise Studios.

StarRise Studios will provide space and resources for artists who are using their creative work to communicate visions of social justice, build resilient communities, heal collective trauma, and transform the world in the direction of sustainable abundance, justice, and peace for all. We aim to empower such socially engaged artists to hone their work and to produce and distribute art at an ever-higher quality and quantity. Your contribution helps make possible this vision of a thriving studio enlivened by a core artistic collective that is regularly recording and producing high-quality music and other works (across many genres and forms) in ways that serve and strengthen individuals and communities working for social transformation.

You can follow my band at @adamgottliebandonelove on social media, and you can support us as well as this project through our patreon at www.patreon.com/adamgottliebandonelove (You'll also get access to a VAST treasure trove of content for any subscription amount starting at $1/month!)

THANK YOU!