AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

The application period for 2012 scholarships begins on the 2nd of May and runs until the 4th of July 2011 (date of postmark).

Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral
Villenpromenade 11
56130 Bad Ems
Germany
info@balmoral.de
http://www.balmoral.de/english/balmoralscholarships/index.html

Preconditions

The conditions for all scholarships with the exception of the curator scholarship are a completed course of study in art (M.F.A. or comparable degree) and two or three years (depending on the respective scholarship) of continuous artistic work after the conclusion of the studies. Applications are also possible for autodidacts distinguished by special artistic achievements, as documented by exhibitions and prizes.

Calling all artists: The prospectus is available for the Plein Air Juried Competition Exhibit at the Brea Gallery. The deadline is Monday, May 23! Don't miss this opportunity!

Click on the link below for the prospectus:

http://www.cityofbrea.net/images/default/citydocs/CommSvc/CulturalArts/P...

Photojournalists working for social change can apply for a grant.

The Open Society Documentary Photography Project, sponsored by the Open Society Foundations, offers grants to encourage new ways of presenting documentary photography to the public.

Photographers will take an existing body of work on a social justice or human rights issue and devise an innovative way of using that work to create social change.

Projects should include a partnership between a photographer and an organization that combines expertise in documentary photography with experience working on the topic. Five to eight grants of US$5,000 to US$30,000 will be awarded.

For more information, click here.

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/photography/news/call-for-proposals-aud...

Academics, journalists, writers and artists will gather in São Paulo, Brazil at the third International Congress on Cultural Journalism on May 17 to 20 in Sao Paulo.

Organized by the Social Service of Commerce, SESC, the event's goal is to reflect on the current state of culture journalism across various media platforms.

The program features international experts such as critical theorists Camille Paglia and Slavoj Zizek, film director Werner Herzog and novelist Enrique Vila-Matas.

Topics include artistic genres and journalism, press responsibility, the role of TV in culture, cultural journalism training and the importance of digital media, among others.

Registration costs between R$100 and R$400 (about US$65 and US$255) and can be done online at the SESC site.

A new joint media project provides funds for documentary makers.

Until January 2012, The Economist and PBS NewsHour are funding short documentaries from Abu Dhabi to Albuquerque on a range of topics from astronomy to agriculture.

The aim of The Economist Film Project is to showcase the selected segments, films and filmmakers as broadly as possible.

The project seeks submissions of completed documentary films on a rolling basis continuing monthly through January 2012.

Both documentary shorts and feature-length films may be submitted. The Economist will provide filmmakers whose films are chosen with a grant of US$4,000 to produce six to eight minutes of footage from the film to air on PBS NewsHour.

Filmmakers from around the world who focus on social issues can enter a contest.

The Media That Matters Film Festival highlights short films on the most important topics of the day for local, global, and online communities with the goal of engaging audiences and inspiring them to take action.

Now in its 11th edition, any and all issues will be considered. This year, however, organizers are particularly interested in films focusing on disability rights, interfaith dialogue and religious tolerance, bias-based bullying, gender equality and youth activism. The contest is open to documentaries, narratives, animations, music videos, public service announcements, dramas, comedies and other hybrid types of films. You can watch last year's winners here.

A National Geographic film project funds projects by or about indigenous and underrepresented minority cultures around the world.

The All Roads Film Project, sponsored by National Geographic, funds film projects year-round. The grants are open to both minority-culture filmmakers and those who can demonstrate that they have been designated by a minority community to tell their story.

Grants range from US$1,000 to US$10,000. Submission deadlines are the fifteenth of March, June, September and December.

Filmmakers who have completed a film related to this theme, either with or without the grant, can submit their entries to the All Roads Film Festival, held September 14 to 18, 2011.

Open Call: International Residency Program

The Darling Foundry, Visuals Arts Center
http://www.fonderiedarling.org/encourager_e/residences_int.html

The Darling Foundry
745 Ottawa Street
H3C 1R8, Montreal
Canada
Phone: +1 514 392-1554
Fax: +1 514 392-0579
residence@fonderiedarling.org
http://www.fonderiedarling.org/encourager_e/residences_int.html

Application deadline of June 1st, 2011
Download application form from web site link

INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM AT THE DARLING FOUNDRY

Application deadline of June 1st, 2011