AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Do you like playing music for fun?

Are you learning to play a new instrument or a new piece of music?

Not afraid to practice music in an outdoor public space?

Then PUBLIC PRACTICE is for you!

Practice, practice, practice.

Experience the process of practice – not performance – in
unexpected outdoor public spaces at the Music Center.

Learn more! http://www.musiccenter.org/events/aa_practice.html

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

Open to non-professional INSTRUMENTAL musicians and music hobbyists of
all skill levels and cultural musical traditions. Choose to participate
as a solo musician or as a duo.

HOW DO I APPLY?

It's EASY – apply online, takes as little as 15 minutes! Sign up

Free Concerts Program Applications now Available

With funding support from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the Arts Commission administers the sponsorship of free concerts at community venues throughout Los Angeles County to provide access to quality music programming representing the diversity of County residents. The program provides funding to cover the payment of musicians at community concerts offered free to the public. Applications for the Los Angeles County Arts Commission's 2010 Free Concerts in Public Sites Program are now available on www.lacountyarts.org/free.html. Applications are due on Wednesday, March 10.

I moved to LA in August, and am putting together a visual arts job fair and gallery networking event on Saturday, March 13th. We're looking to put this together as a large community event and we're still looking for an appropriate venue. At this point, more non-traditional spaces are interested than traditional galleries. I'm looking for resources/contacts from the AMP community as well as people interested in participating or helping! I'd love your contributions for locations and galleries... This may evolve into a semi-monthly networking event as well if there's enough interest.

I do have the event on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=267223982577&ref=mf

feel free to contact me here or at morgan@morgangehris.com- let's talk, time's short!

Art Recycle by Day de Dada in 2010. Recycle - resuse - reimagine art at a Day de Dada event. Audience members are encouraged to interact and change found and donated art to create new images and new ideas.

Venues include Second Saturday Staten Island, Chateau Dada, Art at Bay and Art by the Ferry.

More info at http://www.DaydeDada.com/schedule.htm

10 days left to apply for new $2,500 Santa Monica Artist Fellowship grants. Deadline Feb. 18. Details and applications at arts.smgov.net/programs/GrantPrograms.html, or contact Nathan Birnbaum at 310.458.8350 or nathan.birnbaum@smgov.net.

The Fellowship program serves visual arts, including new media and performance art, creative literature, writing/performance, choreography, musical composition and/or sound composition. To be eligible, artists must have lived or maintained a studio in Santa Monica for a minimum of one year.

from LA Culture Net

Design Culture – Design research at the interface of science and society

Design2context – Institute for Design Research
Hafnerstrasse 39
P.O. Box, CH-8031 Zürich 5
Switzerland
Phone: +41 43 446 62 08
Fax: +41 43 446 45 39
markus.leuthold@zhdk.ch
http://designculture.zhdk.ch/

MAS Design Culture 2010 - final deadline 28th February

The part-time post-graduate program within the institute Design2context at the Zurich University of the Arts offers a unique trans-disciplinary context for research and study. (ECTS certificate, MAS degree)

Design Culture – Design research at the interface of science and society.

Call for Entries: The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, March 12 & 13

The West Virginia University Department of Art, in association with the Appalshop organization, is pleased to announce a call for entries to the West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival. Screening works under 20 minutes, programming categories include: documentary, narrative, animation/experimental, young filmmakers (under 18) and works that focus on Appalachian culture and themes. There are no rules governing content or artistic approach. There are no entry fees for submission. We only seek well crafted, compelling or conceptually challenging works in video, film and multimedia.

Deadline: March 1, 2010