AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

CALL FOR ENTRIES

DANCE CAMERA WEST JUNE 2010 FILM FESTIVAL LOS ANGELES

Early Deadline: December 16, 2009 ($50 fee; $40 for members)
Late Deadline: January 15, 2010 ($60 fee; $50 for members)

Dance media made for the screen with an emphasis on choreography in any dance style or genre. Categories: screendance, short films, feature, documentary, installation, and interactive dance media. The 2010 June festival will feature LA based artists as part of the special outdoor screening event, Local Makers.

Info: www.dancecamerawest.org/submit.htm, Questions: festival@dancecamerawest.org

Special Project Volunteer/Intern – Inside Out Community Arts

Inside Out Community Arts is a nationally award-winning non-profit
organization that utilizes theater, movement, music, writing, and visual arts
to explore the imagination in a positive manner in order to build self-esteem,
conflict resolution and socialization skills. The Neighborhood Arts Project (NAP) serves middle school
youth from 10 different Westside middle schools. The program includes weekly theatre and arts workshops,
monthly family workshops, theater and nature field trips and culminating
performance events highlighting original work by students.

Inside Out is offering the Neighborhood Arts Project (NAP) after-school
at Mark Twain Middle School in Venice, CA. The program includes 17

Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival
A Multicultural Festival of Solo Artists is accepting SUBMISSIONS for it’s Seventeenth Annual Festival March 25-28, 2010

LAWTF is seeking female solo performers of all ethnicities and ages with original performance pieces: actors, performance artists, dancers, comedians, storytellers, singers and performance poets… from throughout the world.

Send LAWTF your DVD or videotape depicting the exact program under consideration for the Festival (cued to 10 minute viewing segment of your entire piece). Your submission must be clear and audible for viewing. Please do not send audition tapes with only a collage of your performances. We must see a real time excerpt of your work. Up to 30 minutes of solo works will be performed in the Festival.

Artists' Television Access celebrates original, independent and underground film & video with the 4th ATA Film & Video Festival on October 21, 22 & 23, 2009.

On Wednesday, October 21, the ATA Film Festival begins with a free workshop on experimental film exhibition and distribution, hosted by local experimental filmmakers and distributors.
Visit http://festival.atasite.org/2009 to sign-up for this unique event.

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE for TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION'S 2009 EMERGING EROTIC ARTIST CONTEST HAS BEEN EXTENDED.

Tom of Finland Foundation (ToFF) completed its 14th Annual West Hollywood - Los Angeles Erotic Art Fair Weekend (WHLA EAFW) in March. It was a resounding success. There were 60 artists (a full house!), over 800 patrons attending and over $35,000 of artwork was sold. All of these figures ring out that it worked - it paid off – the business of erotic art is alive and well.

ToFF is now focusing on its Emerging Erotic Artist Contest (EEAC). In order for more artists to have an opportunity to participate in this singular competition the closing date for submissions has been extended to November 30, 2009.

CALIFORNIA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS IS PLEASED TO PRESENT...

COPYRIGHT & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

FOR ARTISTS

With Peter Afrasiabi, Esq.

September 9, 2009, 7:00-8:30 p.m.

DESCRIPTION: The presentation will provide an overview of copyright
law for artists and address common misconceptions about copyright law.
We will discuss common mistakes artists make by not protecting their
works, as well as mistakes artists make by infringing the works of
others.

SPEAKER: Peter Afrasiabi, Esq. received his J.D. from the University of
Southern California where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and
articles editor for the law review. He graduated magna cum laude from
UCLA with a B.A. in Economics. As a lawyer, Peter primarily handles

Call for submissions – REDCAT's Fall Studio 2009

Application Deadline: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 by 5:00pm

REDCAT is seeking original performance works for the next edition of Studio, REDCAT's quarterly series of new works and works in progress in dance, theater, music, performance art or multidisciplinary. If you have a project under 15 minutes and would like to be considered—apply now. Or help us spread the word by forwarding this email to friends and fellow artists.

Auditions: Saturday, October 3, 2009
Performance dates: Sunday & Monday, November 1 - 2, 2009 8:30pm

*Applications are available online at: http://www.redcat.org/artist-opportunities

Questions? Email studio.REDCAT@calarts.edu

from LA Culture Net

FREE ARTS ADVICE FOR INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS AND
ARTS ORGANIZATIONS AT "ARTS TUNE-UP"
OCTOBER 24 IN GLENDALE

Individual artists and small budget organizations can benefit from free expert advice and information on various aspects of arts management on
Saturday, October 24 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at an "Arts Tune-Up" at the Glendale Civic Auditorium in Glendale. Even though the event is free, it is recommended that participants register via SurveyMonkey:

Go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/atuglendale.

The fast -paced "arts tune-up" format works like this: There will be several tables set up with an arts expert/consultant addressing a specific subject

Nice article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wallace-shawn/life-as-an-artist_b_279558.html