AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Women around the world are invited to submit non-fiction essays on the topic of "holding hands," for publication in the upcoming issue of World Pulse, a magazine that tells of global issues through the eys of women. Works will also be published online, and the top three stories will receive US$100. Deadline: June 4.

World Pulse invites writers to tell a story about "holding hands," which might explore themes of mentorship, connection, taboo, solidarity, violence, relationships, sensuality, family, love, friendship, healing, bridging difference, or anything in between. Full guidelines are available on the Web site.

Submissions are now being accepted for the CL!CK About It worldwide photo competition, which aims to create a mosaic of images from all corners of the globe to showcase how local communities are developing. Deadline: June 28.

The contest aims to display signs of economic, social, cultural or climactic shifts in neighborhoods around the world.

The top winner will receive a Canon Digital Rebel camera, and second and third place winners will receive FLIP Mino HD cameras. The contest is sponsored by the European Journalism Center.

For more information, click here:

http://clickaboutit.net/

from Art4Development

Armory Center for the Arts Teaching Artist Fellowship

The Armory Center for the Arts is seeking visual artists to participate in nine-month Teaching Artist training and teaching program.

Learn to teach children ages 6-17 through gallery tours and hands-on art making workshops dealing with interactive educational techniques in a contemporary art context.

The Fellows participate in a series of training sessions throughout the first three months, which emphasize interactive methods and idea-based teaching processes. Fellows also receive one-on-one guidance and mentoring by experienced artists as they learn about and assist in other Armory programs.

Award:

- $5000 per Fellowship

Requirements:

Street Beat, a Producer of California's Best Drum & Dance Shows seeks a Company Manager for a 19 day run at the California State Fair this July.

Duties:
The Company manager will engage in following 3 activities: Advancing, Stage Management and On-the-Road.

Advancing:
Advancing with the venue to ensure the entire artist's technical and hospitality demands will be met. Check contact names and addresses, arrival times, equipment load-in times, sound check and performance times, any supporting/opening acts and live music curfews. This information will be collated in a 'tour book' which will be issued to all the travelling cast and crew.

Stage Management:

Part-time SF Valley Job Listing:

LA's BEST currently accepting resumes for a vacant Traveling Arts Program Supervisor position for the
ASAP department. Candidates must be able to work in the San Fernando Valley from 2pm to 6pm M-F.

Please read the attached Position Description for more information. Candidates that are interested
must e-mail their resume to HR@lasbest.lausd.net by Monday, May 31, 2010.

Due to the numerous emails we receive, please use e-mail subject line: TPS Candidate (ASAP Dept.).

Thank you,
HR
HR@LASBEST.LAUSD.NET
213-745-1900 ext. 52945

from LA Culture Net

This year as part of Sonic Vigil V the annual sound art event held in Cork Ireland and curated by The Quiet Club we are issuing an OPEN CALL for sound works in all its various forms. All works submitted will be presented in four especially designed “Sound Stations” and available to be heard for the duration of the festival. The “Sound Stations” have been designed by students of Cork School of Architecture and fabricated by the National Sculpture Factory. The exhibition will take place in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral one of Ireland’s architectural treasures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Finbarre's_Cathedral

Please send your works before July 10th to sonicvigil@ireland.com

Or by post to

Sonic Vigil, Cork Artists Collective,

Dean Street, Cork

Ireland

Sound Stations

Master of Advanced Studies in Curating MAS / Certificate in Curating CAS

Zurich University of the Arts / Further Education
Limmatstrasse 47
8005 Zurich
Switzerland
Phone: +41 43 446 40 20
dorothee.richter@zhdk.ch
http://www.curating.org

Application deadline 30th June 2010 (Date of postage)

Postgraduate Program in Curating
Curating Contemporary Art, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK), Switzerland

Master of Advanced Studies in Curating MAS / Certificate in Curating CAS

The Postgraduate Program in Curating (MAS/ CAS) is a discursive platform designed to impart specialist knowledge of contemporary curating practices through practice-oriented projects.

Arte Fiera Art First 2011
Deadline for applications:
10 June 2010

www.artefiera.bolognafiere.it

The 35th edition of Arte Fiera Art First 2011 will be held in Bologna from January 28th to January 31st at the Bologna Exhibition Center.

Galleries interested in exhibiting at Arte Fiera Art First are invited to send their admission request before June 10th.

Please note that eventual participation is by invitation only.

Admission will be selected by an Advisory Committee of Italian and international gallery owners and museum directors.

SECTORS
Modern and contemporary art
Young galleries (in the market not more than 5 years)
Magazines and Art Publishers

For information about the application/selection process please contact the Show office.

Tallinn Print Triennial
Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1
Tallinn 10127
Estonia
Phone: +37253832034
tallinn@triennial.ee
http://www.triennial.ee

APPLICATION DEADLINE:
30th of MAY 2010!

FOR LOVE NOT MONEY
15TH TALLINN PRINT TRIENNIAL
JANUARY – APRIL 2011

Application deadline is 30th of May 2010!

The history of Tallinn Print Triennials goes back to 1968 and has reached for today its 15th anniversary. The theme of the triennial is „FOR LOVE NOT MONEY'; the exhibition will take place from January – April 2011 in Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia.

WOOLOO TO PARTICIPATE IN MANIFESTA 8

We are happy to announce that Wooloo will be participating in Manifesta 8,
the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, that will take place this fall in
the Region of Murcia, Spain. During Manifesta, Wooloo will run the world's
first non-visual residency program for artists and you are invited to apply.

Five artists will be selected to live and work in a dark, visually distorted
exhibition space
for one week each. To develop their work for the biennial audience, the
artist will collaborate with a local Murcian assistant who is blind.

To read more and apply:
http://www.wooloo.org/residency

from Franklin Furnace