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OPEN CALL TO ALL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARTISTS - OUT THERE

Los Angeles Art Association & the City of West Hollywood are proud to announce Out There, a very special exhibition celebrating the LGBT experience during West Hollywood's Pride Month festivities. Out There is made possible by the City of West Hollywood Arts Grant Program and the Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission. Out There runs June 11-17 at Gallery 825.

Juried by Hillary Metz, Blythe Projects.
PLEASE READ ALL GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION FORM CAREFULLY

Eligibility: Competition is open to all artists living in Southern California. Entries must be recent work, created within the last three years.

Rolling deadline
Through grant making, Freedom to Create offers funding to projects that use the arts to create transformational change in the developing world. The organisation invites applications for funding to support projects that use art forms to educate, build, heal, and inspire people - from educating communities on a particular issue, to inspiring people to change the status quo, to building arts capacity.

http://www.comminit.com/en/node/311744

from Art4Development

Interested individuals from around the world are invited to participate in a Kazakh photo competition aimed at creating awareness about people with disabilities and opportunities to contribute to the development of society. Deadline: June 1.

The competition, "Equal Access and Equal Life," will select 40 photos for the exhibition which will take place in Almaty, Kazakhstan in June. Three winners will be awarded prizes, including cameras.

The selection committee includes film producer Timur Bekmambetov, photographers and representatives of NGOs. A short description of the photograph should be included in a submission.

Entries must be sent to equalaccess2010@gmail.com

from Art4Development

Documentary filmmakers interested in human rights and social change around the world are encouraged to submit entries to an international documentary film festival in Budapest. Deadline for submission: August 31.

The 7th Verzio International Film Festival will run from November 2 to 7.

The festival is seeking high quality, creative documentaries dedicated to the ideals of open society, democracy, rule-of-law, tolerance, and political and cultural pluralism in a global context, according to organizers. Works should also seek to expose abuse and human rights' violations throughout the world.

To apply, click here:
http://www.verzio.ceu.hu/
For more information, e-mail verziofilmfest@ceu.hu.

from Art4Development

Call for artists – residence opportunities in France 2010

For visual artists, writers, creators in other disciplines like design, fashion, architecture ... with a project of residency.

artistay works with professional art residencies in France.

All residence programs we work with aim to provide a nice living environment, premises and equipment adapted for the creation, administrative and basic technical support as well as a social, cultural and artistic environment encouraging the exchange and dialogue.

Description:
- Duration of residencies from 2 weeks to 4 months

SHY RABBIT Contemporary Arts
Gallery, Studio & Workshops
Pagosa Springs, Colorado
http://www.shyrabbit.com
shyrabbit01@aol.com
970.731.2766

Call for Entries:

"SHY RABBIT Print National 2"
A National Juried Exhibition
September 4 - October 31, 2010

Submission Deadline: June 21, 2010 (Postmarked)
June 21, 2009 12:00pm, MDT (Online)

Submit Entries by Mail or Online @:
http://www.shyrabbit.com/CallsOnline.html

JUROR: Yuji Hiratsuka
Professor of Art, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

ELIGIBILITY
This exhibition is open to any artist 18 years of age or older.

'FestArte VideoArt Festival' Competition
Federculture // Associazione Culturale FestArte
www.festarte.it

Ass. Cult. FestArte
Via dei Lincei, 101
00147 Roma
Phone: mob. +39 06 32697511
Fax: +39 06 32120269
videoart.contest@festarte.it
http://www.festarte.it

FestArte VideoArt Festival is based on a theme - INVISIBLE VIOLENCE in private, public, social contexts -, comprises monetary prizes and an international jury composed of leading experts. The Awards ceremony will take place in Rome, on 15 September 2010, at the new cultural space La pelanda, managed by Museum MACRO. Award-winning videos and finalist videos will be displayed in a group exhibition (15-18 September, 2010) that will be also touring across some Italian museums.

4th Cairo Video Festival
Medrar for Contemporary Art
medrar.org/4thvf.html

Medrar for Contemporary Art
22 Khairat st., Sayeda Zainab
Cairo
Egypt
Phone: (+202) 279 259 14
info@medrar.org
http://medrar.org/4thvf.html

Deadline for submissions:
15th of June 2010

Call for Submissions

4th Cairo Video Festival
Video Art & Experimental films

Deadline for submissions: 15th of June 2010

Medrar for Contemporary Art is sending out an open Call for Submissions to the Forth Video Festival hosted in Goethe institute Cairo-Downtown.

NEU/NOW Festival
ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts)
Beulingstraat 8
1017 BA Amsterdam
Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)20 626 5467
Fax: +31 (0)20 626 7751
ute.kohlmann@elia-artschools.org
http://www.neunow.eu

International platform for graduating artists
26 - 30 October 2010, Nantes

Deadline for nominations:
1 June

What is the NEU/NOW Festival?