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Submissions being accepted for Arab film festival in the U.S.

An Arab Film Festival being held in the U.S. is calling for submissions including shorts, experimental, documentary and feature length films from Arab filmmakers.
The festival, being held by Mizna, a journal of Arab American literature, will take place in October in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This year’s themes are: the Arab world, the Islamic world, and/or the Arab/Muslim immigrant experience in the West.

The deadline for submissions is June 30. Criteria for film selection include artistic merit, technical skills and content. Muslim filmmakers are especially encouraged to submit their work. Submitted will not be returned.

To learn more contact Mizna@Mizna.org or visit http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=187563

Call for Artists
Genesis Project, Los Angeles
A four-week intensive, practice-based, inter-disciplinary artists residency
Hosted by Sea and Space Explorations, Highland Park
August 2008

Genesis facilitates an environment wherein creativity IS the act of investigation rather than
what is produced from it. As a 4-week (non-residential) intensive artist's residency for inter-
disciplinary, body-based artists our mission is to support artists in accessing space in which
to work and fortify a practice and a community from which to act globally. By asking artists to
commit to regular inquiry (2-3 hours a day, 5-6 days a week) without focus on a final
product, Genesis aims to heighten productivity of the collective at work in the project and to

Chicago Cultural Center Presents:
This is Not a Test: The Chicago Sound Experience
Curated by Margaret Noble

Calling all audio and recording artists to retell and reproduce the Chicago experience through place, time and culture in audio recordings. Abstract sound, field recordings, text based/spoken word, and radio pieces alike will be considered.

These works will be presented at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Aug. 11th, 2008 from 6PM -9PM
This is a free event for the public.

About The Jay Pritzker Pavilion:

Foto8 to award and display best photo works

International photographers whose work confronts, interprets and reflects on their surroundings and which offers a true perspective on the present world have the opportunity to have their work displayed in London's prestigious HOST Gallery through the first Foto8 Awards competition.

The deadline for submissions is May 24.

Photographers must submit personal or political work from the past 18 months to be judged.

The competition is open to all photographers:
professional, non-professional and students.

To learn more contact misc@foto8.com or visit
http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/352/191/

WACC Photo Competition 2008

Honours photographs that capture women communicating and women's communication rights in action, or photographs illustrating how women use communication to empower themselves. Organised by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), the theme of this annual photography competition is 'Women's Communication Rights'. The competition is open to men, women, and children, of all ages and from all countries. Each entrant may submit an unlimited number of photographs, but no entrant may win more than one prize in the contest.

Deadline: May 1 2008

http://www.waccglobal.org/index.php/regions/north_america/north_american...

This was posted on the Art4Development Yahoo! Groups listserv.

ART NOW: 3rd global annual contemporary art competition 2008

artoteque.com is pleased to invite y o u to ART NOW
3rd global annual contemporary art competition 2008
ART NOW 3 opens to http://www.artoteque.com
12 month's world wide web exposure
Submit Now!

Guidelines:

All entries go through a two-step selection process. The competition
is judged solely by visuals submitted inline or attachment send to:
submit@artoteque.com. Numbers of entries: 6 -12 works /image files
submitted on-line. We can review your site for this purpose.

1st step selection
The first screening is free and is conducted by review of website for
this purpose or on Jpeg [.JPG] versions of the submitted works inline
or attachment (send to: submit@artoteque.com ).

2nd step selection

SEE BELOW AS TO HOW YOU CAN HAVE YOUR ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, STORIES OR POETRY EXHIBITED MAY 1ST.

MAY 1st - TIBET!
Downtown LA Life Magazine
http://downtownlalife.com

SELECTIONS FOR THE MAY ISSUE!

Photohrapher & Filmmaker Charlie Grosso's photographs:
The People of Tibet.

* Martin Waterman: Local photographer. (AMP Director's note: AND AMP MEMBER. GO MARTIN.)

* James Hill: Sculptor.

* An Interview with Paul Whitehead/Trisha van Cleef.

* George Clements, Artist, (Now Showing @ the Youngman Gallery).

* SPECIAL...Artist Selections from the noted Steven Jansen Gallery,
Palm Springs.

and much, much, more to be announced!

CALL TO ARTISTS, WRITERS,
POETS & PHOTOGRAPHERS!

If you are interested in exhibiting your work(s) at award winning

Sugar Salon: Women Choreographers Stir Things Up!
2008 Applications now available!

Call for Proposals: Sugar Salon 2008/09

The Williamsburg Art neXus (WAX) in partnership with The Barnard College Department of Dance of Columbia University announce a call for proposals for the 2008/09 Sugar Salon residency, mentorship, and performance program. Three participants will be selected through this competitive review process, and will join featured choreographer and peer/mentor, Jane Comfort (AD, Jane Comfort and Company), as participants in the 2008/09 program.

Call to US based artists: a call for 2D and 3D submissions from US
based artists for group exhibition. Receive deadline is May 5, 2008.
One artist from 3 finalists will be awarded a solo show at BECA
gallery in New Orleans to open October 4, 2008.

'Hybrids and Other Sorts'

hy·brid:

- the offspring of two animals or plants of different breeds,
varieties, species, or genera, esp. as produced through human
manipulation for specific genetic characteristics.

- a person or group of persons produced by the interaction or
crossbreeding of two unlike cultures, traditions, etc.

- anything derived from heterogeneous sources, or composed of
elements of different or incongruous kinds

- a word composed of elements originally drawn from different
languages

The purpose of this message is to inform you that we have already begun to work on Optica 2008, the Gijón International Festival of Video Art. Optica' s aim, organized by the cultural collective Interferencias, is the promotion of audiovisual culture. The Festival will take place in the city of Gijon (Asturias, Spain) from November 6th to 8th. For further information consult our web-site: http://www.opticafestival.com.

Optica 2008 is divided into different sections: independent artists, galleries, documentary section, meetings with artists, performances and parties.

Note for galleries: Optica Festival offers the opportunity of presenting new video works by emerging and established artists. The participation is through this invitation.