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I am looking for submissions of poetry and/or short stories of all genres for the 12th issue of my newsletter, Free Fall, and I would like to invite anyone who is interested to please feel free to submit your work, subscribe, or if you have any inquiries e-mail me at

freefall_lbp@yahoo.com

Also as I am looking to expand my newsletter a bit I am now accepting articles or ideas for articles on various topics as well….Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon.

Jimmetta Carpenter
Editor, Free Fall

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GIBRALTAR POINT INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM
ON TORONTO ISLAND, TORONTO, CANADA

Artscape is currently accepting applications for the Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency Program taking place June 1 – 30, 2007.

Submission Deadline:
February 21, 2007, 4pm EST
2007 Program Dates: June 1 – 30

For further information including the Guidelines for Submissions, Application Form and Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, please visit Artscape’s website at http://www.torontoartscape.on.ca/gpiarp

ABOUT THE GIBRALTAR POINT INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM
The Gibraltar Point Residency transcends political, aesthetic and geographic boundaries, welcomes diversity and provides a spawning ground for unique cultural alliances. The program is open to Canadian and international artists who are engaged in the research, development or creation of work. Emerging, mid-career and established professional artists are invited to apply. Participants in the residency program receive accommodation, a private work studio and all meals at no cost. Travel and material costs are the responsibility of participating artists.

Call for Entries: Member Holiday Show & Membership Drive (Washington DC)

Now accepting entries for Member Holiday Show & Membership Drive, the MOCA DC exhibit for December. Exhibit runs from December 8 to December 30, 2006. Work may be drawings, paintings, sketches, sculpture, mixed media, conte crayon, charcoal, photography. Crafts & Jewelry will also be accepted for this show.

Accepting entries now. Submit to:
MOCA DC
1054 31st St NW
Washington, DC
20007

Entry form may be found at
http://www.MOCADC.org
or contact Dave at
Figuremodel@verizon.net
202.342.6230 – gallery

The Royal Scottish Academy is calling all artists to apply for our annual Hospitalfield Residencies and Alastair Salvesen Travel Scholarship. Application guidelines are provided below and for more information please either contact the RSA Office on 0131 225 6671 or check the scholarships page on our website:

http://www.royalscottishacademy.org

RSA HOSPITALFIELD RESIDENCIES - Deadline 1 December

RSA SALVESEN TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP - Deadline 17 January

RSA ALASTAIR SALVESEN ART SCHOLARSHIP

£10,000 painting & travel award. The largest independent Art Scholarship in Scotland funds up to 6 months travel and research and culminates in a solo exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy. Sponsored by the Alastair Salvesen Trust in association with the RSA, it is a major initiative intended to encourage young Scottish painters who have made the transition from college to a working environment. Deadline - 17 January 2007. Applicants are normally aged between 25 and 35 and must be: Painters who have trained at one of the four Scottish colleges of art; Currently living and working in Scotland; Worked for a minimum of three years outside a college or student environment; Had work accepted for an Annual Exhibition by a recognised art organisation or gallery.

ARTISTS RESIDENCY

The Art Omi International Artists' Residency offers visual artists three-week residencies in the month of July. The Arts Center is located approximately two and a half hours north of New York City in the historic Hudson River Valley. Artists are provided with room and board for the three-weeks. Studio facilities are set among the 300 acres of rolling green hills. The program includes a critic-in-residence who facilitates an ongoing dialogue in studio visits, as well as day visits from dealers, curators, artists and critics from New York City. The residency session concludes with an Open Studios event to which members of the art world from both upstate New York and New York City are invited. Artists pay for travel, materials, and donate a work of art created during the residency to the Art Omi Foundation Collection.

Sonic Arts Network Announce Expo 2007
Call for Commission Proposals, Submissions and Papers

Expo is the hub and playground of the experimental music and sound art scene in the UK and beyond. Free and open, the event mobilises a national network of artists and engages with communities from all backgrounds ­ placing sonic art and the people who make it in direct contact with the public. Expo steps out from traditional venues and into spaces that lie at the heart of the community - inspiring practitioners and the public to reconsider their environments.

After the success of last year¹s highly eclectic event in Manchester the focus for 2007 shifts to Plymouth and the South West of England where Expo will be presented in partnership with the University of Plymouth's i-DAT (Institute of Digital Art and Technology).

The Namasté Women's Choir is a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles. Part of our mission is to perform works by living composers. In order to reach out to and discover more composers, we are launching our first annual choral composition competition.

Requirements:
-Piece must be written for women's choir - up to 4 parts (minimal splits within a part is okay).
-Piece must be unpublished and never performed for a public audience.
-Piece must be under 15 minutes long.
- Piece must be a cappella or accompanied by no more than 2 solo instruments.
-The text must illustrate a sense of awe (about the universe, nature, love, music... anything!) as that is the theme of our spring concert. The text must be universal, not expressing the beliefs of one particular religion. Texts must be cleared by the composer and can be in any language.

From the producers and financers of 'Bend it Like Beckham,' 'Buena VistaSocial Club,' 'Kill Bill 2,' and 'Hero,' comes the Filmaka.com contest! Filmaka.com is a new contest site where filmmakers get to submit their short films for viewing, voting, and selection. The winner of the contest receives a feature film deal with the some of the world's best known independent producers at Filmaka.com.

You may begin uploading your films on December 15th - but you can log on now to find out the theme of the contest. All are invited to submit their short
films based on the contest theme - no longer than 3 minutes - at the Entry Level. The top 15 filmmakers from the Entry Level will win $500 and a chance to move to the Jury Level where you get $1000 to make a new short. The Jury Level films will be viewed and voted on by an industry panel including actors Colin Firth & Bill Pullman and directors Neil LaBute, John Madden, and Paul Schrader. First place at the Jury Level wins $3500 and second place wins $1500. Both move up to the Finals Level, where you're in the running to win a feature film deal!

CALL FOR ENTRIES
2007 DANCE CAMERA WEST FILM FESTIVAL
June 1 - 30, 2007, LOS ANGELES

Early Deadline: December 15, 2006
Late Deadline: January 17, 2007

Celebrating our 6th annual festival, Dance Camera West welcomes dance films with the emphasis on choreography made for the screen, in any dance style or genre. Categories include: screendance, short films, feature, documentary, installation, and interactive dance media.

Dance Camera West's June 2007 festival will feature an international selection of screendance, documentaries and special screening events throughout the month at various Los Angeles venues such as Walt Disney Concert Hall's REDCAT Theatre, the Hammer Museum, and several new venues to be announced.

OneLeaf "Fine" Arts are seeking experimental and progressive artists of all mediums to submit work concerning their current, previous or childhood neighborhood and how it influence/d/s your work today.

Work should be contemporary in style and relect how your 'hood has or continues to directly influence your current body of work.

Please send low resolution JPG images to Jena@OneLeaf.us

NOTE: Include brief description of work you are submitting; Clearly label each image by title; Include dimensions as well as how/with what work is mounted.

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