AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California, is an arts center based in the community that provides innovative approaches to creating, exploring and presenting the visual arts to youths of all ages and adults. In addition to providing contemporary art exhibitions and performances, the Armory offers studio art classes and educational outreach programs to more than fifty schools and community sites. Find out more about the Armory at http://www.armoryarts.org

The Armory is currently seeking a ...

Armory Northwest Site Manager (25 hours a week -- must include weekends) The Armory Center for the Arts is seeking a personable and energetic individual to become a site manager for our satellite site in Northwest Pasadena. This individual will be responsible for managing the facility at Armory Northwest, including acting as liaison to all onsite partner organizations as well as acting as Gallery attendant for the Armory

-CALL FOR ENTRIES-

3rd Annual SF Women's Film Festival (April 2007)
San Francisco Women's Film festival is a community for
advancement, celebration and representation of women
filmmakers. Our films and screenings are selected and
hosted by filmmakers, professors, and other notable
figures in the world of film. San Francisco Women's
Film Festival accepts films and video of all lengths
and genres:narrative, documentary, music video,
experimental and animation. Films and videos must be
directed by or co-directed by women.

All Submissions should include an entry form. No entry
fee required.

Bam Bam Slam is a new online ongoing talent video
competition that has "Instrument Solo" and "Rock Band" as two of the categories, as well
as over 40 other different video categories. You don't even have to pay your entrance fee (which is only 5-10 bucks anyway), but you can get a family member, friend, or fan to enter it for you, and both of you split the winnings. It's also an intimate setting, only competing against 4 people at a time, and the participants are the judges. YOU get to choose who moves on to the next level. This could mean great exposure for you, and a chance to get selected to appear on an upcoming reality talent tv show spinoff, based on the winners of the online contest.

Director of Exhibitions
Institute of Contemporary Arts

The Institute of Contemporary Arts is a leading British arts centre with an exhibitions programme dedicated to innovation and excellence in contemporary art and to showcasing new directions in photography, architecture and design.

We are looking for a dynamic curator to lead a world class exhibitions programme. Working with the ICA’s Artistic Director you will create innovative, inspirational exhibitions that ask questions of, and seek to set the agenda for, contemporary art and culture in Britain. You will have a strong international network and a talent for curating authoritative shows that have strong appeal within the art world and with a wider audience. As well as an excellent knowledge of contemporary international art you will also have a good understanding of the current directions in photography, architecture and design. Joining an interdisciplinary arts organisation, you will also be expected to work collaboratively with other departments across the ICA in the development of cross-arts programming.

Managing Director Position at Saint Joseph Ballet

Position Profile - Managing Director
Saint Joseph Ballet
Orange County, CA

Saint Joseph Ballet (SJB) is searching for a new Managing Director to partner with Artistic Director Melanie Rios Glaser and a highly engaged staff and Board of Directors to lead its to its next level of organizational success. It is the search committee's intention to identify and engage a new Managing Director by November 2006.

As a pioneer in employing arts training as a tool to meet pressing community social needs, Beth Burns founded Saint Joseph Ballet in 1983 and the organization has been positively changing young lives ever since. Located in Santa Ana, California, a city that leads the nation in urban hardship, many of the 400 students who attend Saint Joseph Ballet each year live with parents who work two or more jobs, and share a small one or two bedroom apartment with other relatives or families. At its core, Saint Joseph Ballet is committed to fulfilling its mission of helping at-risk youth leave behind a life hindered by poverty's imposing obstacles, and embrace a life filled with hope and opportunity.

Will & Company, a multicultural not-for-profit theatre group is seeking a part-time Production Manager intern. Will & Company is recognized nationally for exciting adaptations of classic works of literature and new works dealing with diversity. For more information visit http://www.willandcompany.com.

The successful candidate will assist with the many responsibilities of running an education based theatre ensemble. Opportunity for future employment possible.

Duties for the Production Manager include:

Assisting the Managing Director and Artistic Director with auditions, callbacks, casting, stage management, rehearsals, performances, curriculum development, grant writing, and

On Oct. 14th Swallow Artspace will be having its first
group exhibition, "the devil is in the details." Swallow is looking for artists. Interested artists should submit cv and jpegs of 1-5 artworks, in some way related to the theme, before monday sept. 18th, at 6pm. all mediums. Send to Randi Hokett at swallowthis1@gmail.com.

Only electronic submissions will be considered.

Swallow
3208 Sunset Blvd.
323 660-0751
Regular Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 12-7pm
Swallow is an art space dedicated to showcasing fine and superfine artwork of all kinds.

Deadline: October 13, 2006

Open Society Institute Seeks Entries for Moving Walls 13 Documentary Photography Exhibition

http://www.soros.org/

The Open Society Institute invites photographers and artists to submit a proposal and completed body of work for consideration in the Moving
Walls 13 group exhibition.

Moving Walls is an annual documentary photography exhibition produced by OSI, a foundation that works to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. The exhibition series is designed as an artistic interpretation of the obstacles such as political oppression, economic instability, and

Poetry and Short Fiction Contests

FIRST ANNUAL ANDERBO POETRY CONTEST
Anderbo.com is accepting submissions for their First Annual Poetry Competition. Submit up 6 unpublished poems, according to Editor-In-Chief Rick Rofihe. The winner receives a $300 cash prize and publication on anderbo.com. Deadline is September 15, 2006. For complete entry rules and publication opportunities visit anderbo.com.

ZOETROPE ALL-STORY SHORT FICTION CONTEST
The 2006 Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest is now accepting submissions. Judge Mary Gaitskill, the National Book Award-finalist and frequent All-Story contributor, will award the $1000 top prize.

SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER JOB POSTING:

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION

The Skirball Cultural Center (SCC) of Los Angeles, one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing cultural institutions in the United States, is seeking an Assistant Director of Education to oversee its offerings for children 0-8 and their families. The Education Department supports SCC's communal mission by providing educational programming of the highest caliber for diverse audiences of all ages. SCC's programs for young people and families will expand significantly with the opening in Summer 2007 of Noah's pArk, a major new indoor/outdoor, participatory destination for children and families.