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OTHER OPPORTUNITIESBuilding Cultural Bridges: Share your Story Newcomer Arts and Culture Directory 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. Request for 2009/2010 Artistic Project Proposals
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