OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
A Call for Native Artists
1st Annual Native Art Exhibition
Native Arts Cultural Collective
Entry Deadline: December 31, 2007
A call for Native artists to participate the Native Arts Cultural Collective’s
1st Annual Native Art Exhibition in Redding, California, on February
8-29, 2008. The theme of this year’s exhibition is Land:
The Life of the People / Our Story: A Visual Discussion of Native Relationship
to Place – For thousands of years, the land took care of us. Now
we stand together to take care of the land, the sacred places of our
creation. We are the land.
For a full prospectus, send inquires to Miki’ala Catalfano via
email or Radley Davis via email.
Call for Artists!
World Festival of Sacred Music—Los Angeles
Application Deadline—January 4, 2008
The fourth World Festival of Sacred Music will be hosted in Los Angeles
on September 20 – October 4, 2008. WFSM-LA is one of the
largest and most diverse festivals in LA with 40 events of music and
movement in venues all across the city. The fifteen-day festival
will share music and movement in places large and small, sacred and secular,
public and private – crossing neighborhood, cultural, religious,
and ideological boundaries.
For more information, visit
the World Festival of Sacred Music – Los Angeles’ website.
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Building Cultural Bridges: Share your Story
Newcomer Arts and Culture Directory
Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Submission Deadline – January 10, 2008
As part of its Building Cultural Bridges project, the Institute
for Cultural Partnerships (ICP) invites submissions for its Newcomer
Arts and Culture Directory, a web-based collection of project profiles
to be posted on the ICP website in spring 2008.
In conjunction with the release of The Art of Community;
Creativity at the Crossroads of Immigrant Cultures and Social Services and the re-issue
of Newcomer Arts; a Strategy for Successful Integration, ICP is gathering
stories about newcomer arts and culture projects to share as a usable
online resource. Arts and heritage can be a key ingredient for
successful resettlement, cultural integration, or intercultural communication
and understanding. By presenting replicable project models, we
hope to provide inspiration for others to think creatively about working
with diverse partners towards common goals in their own communities. The
Directory will compile information from artists, arts and cultural organizations,
social service agencies, funders, educational programs, museums, and
others.
If you have a story to share about a project or program that incorporates
refugee or immigrant traditional arts and heritage, and/or such crossover
genres as drama, writing, photography, painting, poetry, please consider
submitting an entry for the Directory.
The Newcomer Arts and Culture Directory will be posted on the ICP website
in spring 2008 and will be distributed as part of ICP’s ongoing
educational projects featuring newcomer arts and cultures.
Building Cultural Bridges is a national, interdisciplinary project bridging
the arts and social services to build support for cultural continuity
and artistic growth among refugees and immigrants in the United States. The
Institute for Cultural Partnerships gratefully acknowledges support for
Building Cultural Bridges from the National Endowment for the Arts, the
Ford Foundation, and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees.
For more information, including a submission form and guidelines, please
contact Laura Marcus, Building Cultural Bridges Project Director via
email or at (505) 989.1856.
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Request for 2009/2010 Artistic Project Proposals
California Presenters Tour Support Program
Application Deadline—January 28, 2007
California Presenters is seeking proposals for exceptional new performing
arts projects for touring in California in the 2009/2010 season. Representatives
of top ranked projects will be invited to make California Presenters
New Work presentations to share the artistic visions of their new performance
pieces with California Presenters’ membership on May 29, 2008,
at the Artist Information Exchange (AIE) conference to be held in San
Diego, California.
Following the conference, California Presenters will select one, or
possibly two, projects for block booked touring. The selected project(s)
will be eligible to receive substantial financial support through California
Presenters’ Tour Support Program of grants to California presenters
presenting the work(s) during the period July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010.
Both California-based and non-California artists are encouraged to apply.
For more information, including guidelines and application forms, visit
California Presenters’ website.
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Online Training Course to Master Proposal Writing
The Foundation Center hosts several online training
courses in proposal writing. The Statement of Need helps
novice or inexperienced grantseekers master a critical component of
proposal writing – preparing a statement of need. The
Project Description is an in-depth look into the preparation and
writing of the project description section of a proposal. The
Budget demystifies the preparation of the project budget included
in funding proposals. The Comprehensive Course is a
thorough, step-by-step guide to preparing an effective proposal for
foundation support, covering every section of the proposal. The
courses include interactive exercises and assignments, case studies,
a final exam, and a printable certificate of completion. Lessons
can be taken at any pace, and can be reviewed often. For more
information visit
the Foundation Center’s website.
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