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Mike de Sousa is a content philanthropist who creates social and environmental publications, music, art, literature, and photography.
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Acts of kindness laid the foundations of Mike's commitment to create and publish work that can be enjoyed freely by as many people as possible.
Mike was taken into care when eight months old, and eventually brought up by his two aunts from the age of three and a half. He was given love, and as a result of a music scholarship, free piano lessons throughout his childhood until he was sixteen. Mike was also given opportunities to have his compositions played in school by an orchestra which he conducted, and was asked to compose and direct musicals when he moved to college at sixteen. By nineteen his college went on to be his first commissioners of both his music and photographic work.
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Mike has worked with dancers and choreographers from New York Ballet, Ballet Rambert, Paris Ballet, and London Contemporary Dance Theatre. He taught music and literature workshops in hundreds of schools, colleges, and art centres in the UK during the 1990s, and directed a major three year long project that culminated in a touring multi-disciplined exhibition in the year 2000.
Mike began publishing his photography, art, music, and writing online in 2000, and has continued to build websites that are characterised by their accessibility and enthusiasm for sharing the importance of love, social justice, creativity, the arts, and the need for enlightened social and environmental policy as vital to humanity's future prosperity.
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Mike has created public art since 1982. He has published online for over twenty five years and has met all the costs associated with the development of his work and its publication.
Mike holds that those things of most value should be beyond the reach of commerce, self interest, and harm.
Art Lover VIP ensures his work continues to be made available without charge or advertising, and that new work is developed, created, and published. Art Lover VIPs share his view that the art, music, and ideas provided here should be free and for all, like the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the love we give.
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