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Volume 6, Issue 8 is now online...

http://www.poetryvictims.com/

Jeff

Thanks AMPer Kelly Thompson for passing this on.

http://artbaloney.wordpress.com/

Been listening a lot to Madredeus lately.

Please find below info on the call for application of the Balmoral scholarships for 2010. We would be grateful to you to inform international emerging artists about our scholarships. For artists who are connected to Rhineland-Palatinate we offer especially attractive scholarships abroad. For information and the application form please refer to our homepage www.balmoral.de . The application deadline is the 18th of July 2009.

Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral
Villenpromenade 11 - 56130 Bad Ems
Tel.: +49(0)2603/9419-0
Fax: +49(0)2603/9419-16
E-Mail: info@balmoral.de

from Franklin Furnace

http://front.bc.ca/exhibitions/events/3277

Organization: Western Front Society

Job Title: Executive Director

Contract: Three year contract

Hours: Full-time (35 Hours per Week, plus some evenings and weekends)

Deadline: July 24, 2009

Start Date: ASAP

DESCRIPTION

The Western Front Society is seeking a creative and entrepreneurial individual to fill the full time contract position of Executive Director.

Call for Female artists interested in submitting work to be included for articles for On The Issues Magazine (OTI) for our next edition on Gender, including Intersex issues. Kindly email lo-res images of your art to OTI Art Editor at Linda@LindaStein.com.

OTI was published in hard copy from 1983 -1999 as a premier feminist magazine. In Spring of 2008, it was reissued as an online magazine to cover current issues and now has an international circulation of unique subscribers exceeding 18,000.

Here's the link to the current issue: http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/2009spring/index.php

You can also see the previous online issues by going to the OTI archives.

from Franklin Furnace

Hi Everyone -

The Conflux Festival (the art and technology festival for the creative
exploration of urban public space) is now accepting submissions for
ConfluxCity - a user-generated open format event to be held in NYC on
Sunday September 18th, 2009 from 10am-6pm.

Conflux will be hosted here at NYU - please forward the Call for
Proposals to any interested colleagues and students. See below for more
info.

Warmly,
David Darts
Curatorial Director
Conflux Festival 2009
http://confluxfestival.org

====================Announcing Conflux 2009!
====================FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 26, 2009

Inquiries: Kari Hensley, Communications Director
media ::at:: confluxfestival.org

Glowlab announces the 6th Annual Conflux Festival in partnership with

Filmmakers of short films, documentaries, animation and feature films focusing on water are invited to enter the 4th International Film Festival on Water in Bangalore, India, which will be held from September 4 to 7. Deadline for entries: July 31.

The Festival on Water was established in 2005 and continues to serve as one of the largest, most diverse and dynamic platforms of debate, dialogue and celebration of water. It is sponsored by the Bangalore Film Society and various other organizations.

Entries should include a DVD of the film with English subtitles (if necessary), a completed entry form, three high-resolution stills of the film and a high-resolution photograph of the director.

Filmmakers, writers and students are invited to submit narratives, documentaries, short films, and animation to be featured at the 6th annual ION international film festival, to be held in Lagos, Nigeria in December. Deadline: September 30.

ION International Film Festival is a touring festival dedicated to promoting independent film, animation and narratives. It seeks to encourage new artists that are creating socially relevant art that positively affects the world.

As part of its effort to raise international awareness the festival takes place in a different country each year. Last year it was held in Dubai, UAE and this year the ION International Film Festival is coming to Lagos, Nigeria.