AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Call for performance artists

OPEN CALL to NYC performance artists looking for exposure at GRACE
Performance Space located in Bushwick. Seeking FUNNY performance pieces of
approx. 10 minutes in an evening showcase of humorous performance art to be
held on Friday, October 1st. To be curated by Larry Walczak & Lisa Levy,
please contact Larry at larryeyewash@gmail.com & include any links that will
be helpful.

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Call for entry:
We invite you to apply to
Making the Leap: Crossing Borders
The deadline for the juried exhibition Making the Leap: Crossing
Borders applications is September 19, 2010
Show dates:
December 1, 2010 January 2, 2011
at
A.I.R. Gallery, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY

The curators seek works by Asian women artists who have immigrated to the
United States. As an international center for art, New York City attracts
artists from all over the world, many of whom deal with dual cultural,
racial and national identities, and issues of separation from families and
loved ones. In the city, one may experience culture shock due to peculiar
living situations, and to different gender role expectations than those

Opportunities at apexart

a. "Commercial" Art: Video Call
Open call for video submissions with an opportunity to win $2,000.
Accepting submissions through October 31, 2010.

Commercials may or may not be the most creative thing on TV or the Internet,
but we know you can make them better. Take any broadcast commercial, cut it,
dub it, repeat it, or flip it and make it art for an upcoming apexart
exhibition that will be on view from November 10 - December 22, 2010. For
more info visit us at: http://apexart.org/videocall.htm

and

b. The Franchise Program: F 2011
Let us finance your exhibition anywhere in the world.
Accepting submissions from July 14 - October 1, 2010.

Mount your own group exhibition anywhere in the world. For the past two

Call for participation for DIAGONAL install-action project.

In our environment the vertical and horizontal lines are pulsating in a
continuous and stable rhythm. The diagonal body is an attempt to brake this
monotony, to create tension, to be between start and stop.

Project's website: www.diagonal.vancsa.com

Who can participate?
Anybody

How to make it?
Search a place where your diagonal fits well. Lean forward till your body
shape will look like a diagonal and make a photo with the help of a remote
control, timer or with help of somebody. Other way of making this temporal
diagonal posture can be ok.

Terms
I will publish only those images, which are not off topic, doesn’t contain
pornographic material.

Deadline: Wednesday, September 1st by 6pm

Eligibility: The call is open to all emerging artists working in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Ventura and San Bernardino counties. All forms of painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, digital and installation art are eligible. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older to apply. All submitted art pieces should fall under the theme of "Our Urban Ocean," so pieces having to do with our ports, human uses of the ocean (i.e. scuba diving, water sports, beach activities), marine life affected by the urban ocean, and/or ocean pollution. The theme of your work should be how you see the urbanized coast and ocean and what it means to you.

WORLD FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC - LOS ANGELES
OCT 1-16, 2011

CALL FOR APPLICANTS!

For 16 days and nights in October 2011, the fifth World Festival of Sacred Music will fill L.A.'s major theaters, churches, synagogues, temples and outdoor venues with more than 25 performances by artists representing the sacred music and dance traditions of our city.

Applications for artists, venues, and producers available online. Deadline January 10, 2011.

For more information, visit:
www.festivalofsacredmusic.org

The Arts Council for Long Beach (Arts Council) is seeking proposals for
temporary exhibitions and
site-specific installations for a new visual art gallery in downtown Long
Beach. Artists, curators, directors,
as well as gallery, museum and public art professionals are invited to
apply. In addition, non-profit,
visual arts organizations may explore the use of the gallery as a satellite,
or primary exhibition space.

Established in 1981, the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency¹s Percent for
Public Art Policy requires developers to contribute
a percentage of project costs to the creation of public art. In fulfillment
of their obligation, Lyon Communities has elected to
create a visual art gallery for their new development: gallery421 in
downtown Long Beach.

The Los Angeles Bi Task Force (LABTF) has a CALL-OUT for any bi/fluid/pansexual men and women with creative talent! We are organizing a mini Bi Arts Fest on Thursday, September 23rd at 7:30pm for Celebrate Bisexuality Day Weekend. This will be at the Village @ Ed Gould Plaza at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center.

We want:
Singers
Musicians
Performance artists
Dancers
Stand-up comedians
Spoken word artists
Storytellers
Fiction writers
Videographers
Filmmakers
...other creative types!

Each performer/group will have a 10-15 minute set. Or if you know of anyone, please forward this request.

Please contact us at labitaskforce@yahoo.com with a sample of your work by Wednesday, September 1st.

Best,
Mimi Hoang
Chair, Steering Committee
Los Angeles Bi Task Force (LABTF)

India's Jaipur International Film Festival seeks film submissions in feature, short, documentary and animation categories. Deadline: October 31.

In 2010, JIFF screened 87 movies (out of 350 submissions) and presented 12 awards. The festival includes a red carpet film festival award ceremony, galas, fashion shows and screenings. A workshop on cinema in Jaipur will run in advance of the festival, from October 12 to 16.

For more information, click here.
http://www.jiffindia.org/festival_2011.html

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