AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Photographers can enter an international competition.

"Click About It" is a series of international photography competitions organized by the European Journalism Centre. The third edition, co-organized with Oxfam and sponsored by the European Commission, offers the first-place winner a trip to an Oxfam project.

The competition focuses on the topic of "aid." In this competition, photographers are asked to capture moments that show how people's lives and communities are being transformed. Whether in Berlin or Bogota, tackling poverty, health, education, gender, environment and agricultural issues -- photographers should use creativity to illustrate the concept.

Artoteque Online Gallery is pleased to invite all artists to submit ART NOW the 4th contemporary art annual competition 12 months on display that takes place online at artoteque.com. All entries go through a selection process judged solely by visuals submitted online or attachment send to: submit@artoteque.com.

The selection
The selection is conducted on Jpeg [.JPG] versions of the submitted works online. Submitters whose entries pass the selection are included in exhibition and are requested to provide the entry fee payment.

Materials to be received
Submit online 6 - 12 works /JPG s image files 72 dpi up to 800 pixels and the works details: title, year, technique, size and sale price.

Entries without a fully completed application form will not be accepted.

Jordanian nationals or residents are invited to submit their projects to the Jordanian Film Fund. Documentary, narrative and short films are eligible.

The Jordan Film Fund or JFF, provides financial assistance for the development and production of independent local film projects.

Narrative and documentary films will be given a grant of JOD5,000 about US$7,000. Any single production will receive a grant that doesn't exceed JOD50,000 about US$70,000. Pre-production grants are JOD10,000 each, about US$14,000. A maximum amount of JOD5,000, about US$7,000 is granted for a film that is between 10 and 20 minutes, and JOD10,000 around US$14,000 for a film that runs between 20 - 59 minutes.

Applications must be submitted by a producer and completed within 120 days.

Foreign View is a photo project depicting social, political, cultural and everyday life of citizens from different countries.

Russian photographers who take pictures abroad and foreigners who photograph life in Russia are eligible. The contest welcomes professional photographers, amateurs and associations of photographers of any age and nationality.

Categories include state power and the information society; people and events; borders and spaces; state symbols; customs and traditions; national memorials.

The competition is organized by the Boris Eltsin Presidential Library.

Photographs submitted to the contest may be of any genre: portrait, reportage, stage photo, landscape, still life, photo collage, etc.

The Aftermath Project offers a US$20,000 grant for conflict photographers to share their experiences and an additional US$5,000 honorarium for a fixer/translator who wants to tell a story about his or her own experience.

This year-long grant is for conflict photographers who want to pursue a project about the aftermath in their own lives of covering conflict. The subject can be approached in any way – portraits, landscapes, reportage, collaboration with a family of someone who has been killed, anything that explores the personal aftermath of covering war, whether that be PTSD, the aftermath of sexual assault, the aftermath of being wounded.

Deadline for submissions is Oct. 1.

The Knight Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have organized this journalism challenge to initiate high-quality cultural coverage, new and innovative ideas and constructive criticism from individuals and organizations.

Any journalist can apply as long as their idea focuses on one of the following communities: Akron, OH, Charlotte, NC, Detroit, MI, Macon, GA, Miami, FL, Philadelphia, PA, St. Paul, MN or San Jose/Silicon Valley, CA.

First-round winners receive up to US$20,000 to develop an action plan, which should clearly describe their project and how it will impact arts journalism in one of the eight communities listed above.

Southern and East African photographers and video makers can participate in a contest.

The contest is organized by the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in partnership with Gwanza Arts.

Photographers and video makers are invited to submit works on the theme of "Pimp My Combi," as a marker of vernacular aesthetics and cultural codes, as well as a vehicle defining both urban landscape and social space throughout Africa.

Bringing together for the first time photography, video and sound installations, Gwanza 2011 proposes to look at the combi (or minibus) as a marker of vernacular aesthetics and cultural codes, as well as a vehicle defining both urban landscape and social space throughout Africa.

For more information, click here.

Art & Dialogue Engagement in art and engagement through art
Building new art audiences and new platforms for art engagement

Elan Interculturel
88 Avenue Ledru Rollin 75012
PARIS
France
t +33 619 41 47 32
vkabov@gmail.com
http://www.elaninterculturel.com

Art & Dialogue is a 5 day long fully EU subsidised course under Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Programme

Eligibility: Curators, Art Educators working with and developing art audiences and related projects

Course Dates & Location:
Paris 16-20 April 2012

Deadline for Applications:
15 September 2011

Art & Dialogue is a 5 day long fully EU subsidised course designed for art and education professionals. In 2012 Art & Dialogue will run in Paris from 16 - 20 April, 2012, with applications closing on 15 September, 2011.

The Others

Application online

The Others
Organizer: Revolution srl
Via Paolo Borsellino, 3
Turin
Italy
t +39011546284
f +390115623094
theothers@theothersfair.com
http://www.theothersfair.com

Opening party:
3 November 2011 h 9:00 pm

Days and opening hours:
4-6 November 2011
h 6:00 pm - 1.00 am

The Others is a new event devoted to emerging contemporary art.

The appointment is in Turin from November 4 to 6, 2011, in the captivating spaces of Le Nuove, the former prison in the heart of the city.

The Others is intended to give space and visibility to those who believe and invest in young contemporary artists and who are rarely present at art fairs.

The Collaborative
Request for Exhibition and Installation Proposals
Extended Deadline: August 12, 2011 (TWO WEEKS LEFT)

The Arts Council for Long Beach (Arts Council) is seeking proposals from artists and curators for temporary exhibitions and site-specific installations for a new visual art gallery in downtown Long Beach. This is an open call to professional artists and curators residing in the Greater Southern California region. Long Beach residents are encouraged to apply.

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