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Arts Writers Grant Program Announces 2008 Cycle

Deadline for Book LOIs:
May 5, 2008

General Application Phase Opens:
August 4, 2008

Deadline for Applications:
September 22, 2008

http://www.artswriters.org

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program supports writing on contemporary visual art through project-based grants issued directly to individual authors. The Arts Writers Grant Program funds in four categories: books; short-form writing; articles; and blogs/new and alternative media projects.

Arab filmmakers invited to take part in film festival in U.S.

Arab filmmakers have the chance to take part in the 12th Annual Arab Film Festival (AFF), to be held October 9 to 19 in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. The last day to submit works is April 15.
According to organizers, the AFF provides “a unique venue for Arab filmmakers to screen their work, meet other filmmakers and make connections for future projects.” Submissions can be features, documentaries, experimental works, short films and animations.

Call for submissions for the 5th International Artist's Book Triennial

Vilnius, Lithuania

Deadline: 15 November 2008

http://culture-asef.org/english/txt/2008/artists_book_triennial

DC SHORTS
FILM FESTIVAL
Washington, D.C. - USA
September 11 to 18, 2008

Now in its fifth year, the DC SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL is a festive, week-
long celebration of fine short films and screenplays, in the heart of
downtown Washington D.C. Impressively, the Festival has recently been
recognized by MovieMaker Magazine as "one of the country's leading
short film festivals."

Well-programmed and smoothly run, DC Shorts attracts representatives
from distribution companies and numerous leading film festivals.
After screening at DC Shorts, a number of films have received
international distribution with companies the likes of iTunes, Logo,
Showtime, and HBO.

Accepted filmmakers receive lodging, meals, transportation, and an

Harmony Channel invites the Visual Music community to submit fulldome VM art pieces to this year's DomeFest being held in Chicago, Illinois as part of the International Planetarium Society's 2008 conference. The juried show will be screened on the big dome at Adler Planetarium, and includes a special Harmony Channel "Domie" award for best mood-elevating visual music piece.

Are you up to rendering your work in spherical "fisheye" format at 3600x3600 pixels? It's really a unique experience to be totally immersed in your art. The full day event also includes a Future of Fulldome Summit including papers, panels and a standards roundtable.

See preliminary announcement below:

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We¹re thrilled to announce DF08 will be held at and in partnership with

Calling All Photographers!

Create:Fixate is calling for submissions for the upcoming 2008
All-Photography Show to take place this July.

We hope to build upon the great success and phenomenal artists we had in
last year's show.

So if you or anyone you know has work that might be appropriate for the
show, we encourage you to either submit or forward this email on to them!

Submission Deadline is 5/2/08

Click here for more information:
http://www.createfixate.com/photosubmit08.html

Calling All Political Artists!

If your art explores the topics of politics, freedom, religion, power,
money, human rights, war, etc.... then we want to hear from you!

Please include the word political in the subject line of your email!

ArtWallah 2008
Call For Works
Please Start Sending your Submissions
Deadline for Submission: April 15th, 2008

The ArtWallah Festival, a multi-disciplinary arts festival of the South Asian diaspora, is seeking innovative and original work from artists and artist-activists that address political, personal, or cultural celebrations / struggles, for its seventh annual event.

We are very pleased to announce that this year¢s festival will take place from June 28 - 29, at a new venue. We¢ll start off the festival Saturday afternoon at National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, located in Downtown Los Angeles. Please join us this June, 2008 for a powerful weekend of community building through dance, film, music, literature, theatre, and spoken word.

CALL FOR ENTRIES - BIG BANG FILM FESTIVAL - OCTOBER 1 - 5, 2008

The call for submissions is now open for the 2008 Big Bang Film
Festival (BBFF). BBFF is a celebration of exciting and inventive
films in the Action, Adventure, Suspense and Asian Action Cinema
genres. BBFF also welcomes documentary submissions featuring extreme
sports and athletic events, activities and competitions which have
contributed some of the most entertaining video of death defying
speed, skill and daring. Each year Big Bang Film Festival showcases
amazing films, some classics, some classics in the making. Every
submission is posted on the BBFF Submissions Page so that all of our
filmmakers can link to their listing.

We are now calling for submissions. Visit our website for more

A Call for works / Appel d’oeuvres - Canadian
60x60 (31 March postmarked)

(Une version française ci-dessous)

Vox Novus, in collaboration with the Canadian Electroacoustic Community
(CEC), is inviting composers to submit recorded works 60 seconds or less
in duration to be included in the first Canadian version of the annual
60x60 project. 60 compositions will be selected to be played
continuously in a one-hour concert.

The international 60x60 project has been running annually since 2003 and
produced close to a 100 concerts and installations – some with dance,
multimedia, video, or sculptures – regular radio broadcasts, and 5 CDs.
In five years it presented the works of a large number of composers in
all career stages, including Laurie Spiegel, Allen Strange, Annea

CASTING: ART RACE

Gallery HD and Illuminations Media are looking for two
Fearless, Charismatic, Passionate & Informed ARTISTS to take the definitive chutzpah road trip.

Two Artist/Art Racers must cross the US in 40 days, surviving only on Art. Armed with art materials, cameras and a $1 dollar budget, the Artist/Art Racers must "trade" Art for food, shelter and other art-works.

Starting on opposite coasts (one in NYC and one in LA), the Art Racers' odyssey culminates in a home-city exhibition of all the works they have created and collected along the way. The winner is the Artist/Art Racer who sells/trades the most artwork. Or at least the one who survives.