AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Application Deadline: Friday, February 19, 2010 by 5:00pm (Not a postmark deadline)

REDCAT is accepting proposals for original performance works for the 2010 New Original Works Festival. The Festival is designed to support the development and presentation of contemporary performance in Los Angeles through a three-week interdisciplinary program of dance, theater, music and multi-disciplinary works. Entering its seventh year, the Festival features a flexible schedule to accommodate a variety of short works and some longer projects in Los Angeles premieres, and provides development support through technical assistance, access to the theater and its sound and lighting inventory and an honorarium.

LONG BEACH PLAYHOUSE

VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION PROGRAM

Call to Artists

The Long Beach Playhouse announces a Call for Artists for a six-week
2-dimensional visual art exhibition featuring works by a single artist in
association with the theme of Real Women Have Curves by Josefina Lopez:

LONG BEACH PLAYHOUSE BACKGROUND

Long Beach Playhouse, established in 1929, is the oldest performing arts
organization in the city of Long Beach and the longest continuously
operating playhouse west of the Mississippi River. Sixteen productions are
presented annually in the Playhouse's two theatres - the elegant 200-seat,
non-professional actor Mainstage and 99-seat Equity-waiver Studio Theatre.
Nearly 35,000 people enjoy its productions annually; remarkably, a new

reDiscover needs Artist Volunteers to join us in creating a series of art projects for the center. Volunteers will be asked to join us at the center on Saturdays from 10am-1pm, to create projects that will be used in all facets of our work from samples for student projects to promotional materials and auction items. Volunteers can donate as much or as little time as they can and will have lots of room for personal creativity. (within the bounds that we work with children of course)

More about reDiscover...

Mission
reDiscover is a non-profit organization that promotes creativity in education and the arts while encouraging environmental sustainability. We recycle everyday discards donated by business and give them new life as hands-on learning and artistic materials.

Vision

Contract Faculty: Documentary Photography Projects

Venice Arts is seeking to develop a pool of qualified, professional
documentary photographers and/or photojournalists interested in
working with youth on Independent Contract basis. Selected faculty
will be trained by Venice Arts and given teaching assignments in
either our ongoing programs or special projects. Regarding the latter,
these may be local, regional, statewide, or international.

Qualifications:

Must have experience and strong commitment to documentary photography,
photojournalism, or street photography. Prior experience teaching
youth a strong plus, as is familiarity with participant photography
and visual storytelling. Must be expert working in digital media,

Call for Visual Artist/Muralist MacArthur Park

LA Commons is searching for a Lead Artist to work with a core Youth Arts Team

(Age 15-25) to collect neighborhood
stories at the sites and design and paint portable

Murals that share the
history and current stories of the contribution of Central American

Immigrants to the life,
art and culture of Los Angeles.

Project Partners: LA Commons, CARECEN, Mama’s Hot Tamales, MacArthur
Park Recreation Center, ReDiscover MacArthur Park, Miguel Contreras Learning Center
and the office of LA City Council Member Ed Reyes.

The Role the Lead
Artist/Designer in this project will be:

To participate in story/image gathering
process with the group to inform the designs for the murals.
To mentor the Core Youth Arts team to foster

For visual artists, writers, creators in other disciplines like design, fashion, architecture ... with a project of residency.

artistay works with professional art residencies in France.

All residence programs we work with aim to provide a nice living environment, premises and equipment adapted for the creation, administrative and basic technical support as well as a social, cultural and artistic environment encouraging the exchange and dialogue.

Description:

- Duration of residencies from 2 weeks to 4 months

Filmmakers from the Gulf Arab countries, Iraq and Yemen are invited to submit their works to the Gulf Film Festival 2010 which will be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from April 8 to 14. Deadline to submit entries is February 15.

The competition consists of two parts: one for professional filmmakers and the second for students studying filmmaking. The film categories include: feature and short films and documentaries.

The competition is open to applicants from UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq and Yemen.

Winners will receive financial prizes up to AED 50,000 (US$13,613).

To apply, click here:
http://www.gulffilmfest.com/ar/Submissions-2.html

from Art4Development

A poster contest under the theme "Somos latinos" ("We are Latinos") is open to design students, professors and professionals in Latin America. Deadline: May 7, 2010.

The contest, which aims to promote the perspective of Latin American designers, is organized by Foro de Escuelas de Diseño, a group that includes 300 academic representatives of design schools in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal.

Posters will be evaluated according to image treatment, resources, personal style and innovation. The best poster will receive US$2,000.

Contestants must send works that are 29.7 cm x 42 cm vertical, in digital format, JPG, resolution150dpi and up to 5 mega pixels.

An international film festival in Greece is seeking documentaries, shorts and features with environmental and ecology themes, encouraging conservation issues and issues related to the natural, the human and the built environment. Deadline: March 1, 2010.

At the festival, called Rodos International Films + Visual Arts Festival Ecofilms, prizes will be awarded to high quality films that take an innovative approach to conservation issues and that explore "daring" subject matter. Films should have been produced after January 1, 2009. The festival will take place June 22 to 27, 2010.

The competition has four categories: Feature Length Films, Medium Length Films, Short Length Films and Audience Films.

For more information, click here.:
http://www.ecofilms.gr/01.1.ecofilms_call_en.htm

OPEN CALL FOR LECTURE-PERFORMANCES AT JUST MADRID ART FAIR 2010

Open call for four lecture-performances for the project On the Table, organized by the Lisbon-based curatorial team Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado for the section Curators Desk at Just Madrid Art Fair 2010. Lecture-performance refers to the bringing together of performative and educational traditions within a pedagogical context. Artists can present their work or a specific project through an informal discussion with the audience, devising a discursive platform within the context of an art fair.