AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Çudamani Music & Dance
Summer Institute. Bali, Indonesia 2010
Three week program JUNE 28 - JULY 17, 2010

Application due Feb 15, 2010 or until enrollment fulfilled!

Apply Online www.cudamani.org

Artistic Team: I Dewa Putu Berata & Emiko Saraswati Susilo
Youtube Photo Gallery

For the fourth time, internationally acclaimed Gamelan Çudamani ensemble inviites you participate in the study of Balinese music & dance in Bali, Indonesia.

MiMoDa resident choreographer Alexandria Yalj, is now offering a 2 part
advanced repertory dance class designed for professional dancers.

Part I - Foundation
Basis focusing on alignment, core strength, breathe, and exploration of
gravity.Alexandria has succesfull incorperated ideas from her own training
of Limon, Horton, Cunningham, Graham, and Simonson techniques and culminated
them with her own fresh energetic flavor and musicality to create exciting
warm up. These "dances" promote physicality, stamina and agility enhancing
performance quality awareness and execution.

Part II- Research
Combining improvisation and the dynamic choreography of Alexandria Yalj,
this improvisational lab has been specifically developed for investigation

The School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
announces its new MFA program in Art and Technology. The new director of
the Art and Technology Program is Tom Leeser, currently Director of the
Center for Integrated Media, CalArts' interdisciplinary media concentration.
Tom is also a faculty member of the School of Art.

Art and Technology will be a two-year MFA program and will begin accepting
students for the fall 2010 semester. The new program is designed to enable
artists to pursue the critical and creative issues that arise in practices
that employ the use of new technologies and digital media. The students
will be encouraged to pursue work that crosses traditional mediums, enabling

The Centre for Development Communication of DHAN Foundation is pleased to invite filmmakers to take part in the
5th Development Film Festival on `Fight Poverty: Connect and Commit for MDGs' to be held in Chennai, India in September 25-27, 2009.

The film makers are invited to showcase their documentaries, short films and animation films made on any of the following themes:
•Women and Children
•Livelihoods and Food security
•Education
•Health
•Environment

The entries can include the success stories, grassroots initiatives, community efforts, issues and solutions.

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

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

THE NY ART BOOK FAIR presents
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS BOOKS CONFERENCE
New York City | October 2-3 2009

http://nyartbookfair.com

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

In collaboration with Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair, the Art Libraries Society of New York (ARLIS/NY) announces a conference on contemporary artists' books. The program will include speakers, panels, artists' presentations, and receptions. The conference focuses on recent developments in artists' books. Sessions this year focus on zines, data-oriented artists' books, reprints, print on demand, and criticism. These and other themes are intended to encourage dialog amongst scholars, collectors, artists, and librarians.

The Women's Affairs Center in Gaza is preparing to launch its first festival for women's films before the end of 2009, reported Menassat.

To be held under the title "Gaza in the eyes of women," the festival aims to shed light on the cinema of women and highlight the creativity existing in ranks of Arab and Palestinian women. It will launch in September 2009 at the Rashad al-Shawa cultural center in Gaza City.

The festival is projected to screen around 50 films, which will include local entries, as well as films from Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco, Sudan and Jordan.

The New York Foundation for the Arts is excited to encourage growth of
artist communities with a new directory focused just for them. Work
Space Classifieds was born, in part with a generous grant from the
Rockefeller Foundation and creative NYFA staffers who felt there was a
great need to find affordable work space and live/work in New York
City.

This pilot program is the only directory focused on New York City
Visual Artists. Special features include images uploads, Google maps
by zip, and advance search “by neighborhood”. Plans have already
been made to broaden this service nationally in the future. For now,
NYFA Offers with this program free postings for visual artists seeking
space, and for landlords, developers, and or others who have this

The Los Angeles County Arts Commission will accept applications for arts education programs to be listed on www.LAArtsEd.org starting July 15, 2009.