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Hello,

2009 was a difficult year for a lot of people. In response to the lost jobs, lost homes, major and minor tragedies, personal frustrations, heartbreak, etc., I am working on a project that called "2009 Was A Rough Year" and I am hoping that you would be willing to help me.

I would need you to:

1. Take a picture that represents the worst, most heartbreaking, or most frustrating moment you experienced in 2009.

2. E-mail it to me at lilly.mcelroy@gmail.com

3. Include as much or as little additional information as you would like.

I'm planning on turning this into a slide show and making a website. If you want to remain anonymous you can.

Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested.

Thank you for your help.

Lilly McElroy

from LA Culture Net

Application Deadline: Friday, February 19, 2010 by 5:00pm (Not a postmark deadline)

REDCAT is accepting proposals for original performance works for the 2010 New Original Works Festival. The Festival is designed to support the development and presentation of contemporary performance in Los Angeles through a three-week interdisciplinary program of dance, theater, music and multi-disciplinary works. Entering its seventh year, the Festival features a flexible schedule to accommodate a variety of short works and some longer projects in Los Angeles premieres, and provides development support through technical assistance, access to the theater and its sound and lighting inventory and an honorarium.

Filmmakers from the Gulf Arab countries, Iraq and Yemen are invited to submit their works to the Gulf Film Festival 2010 which will be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from April 8 to 14. Deadline to submit entries is February 15.

The competition consists of two parts: one for professional filmmakers and the second for students studying filmmaking. The film categories include: feature and short films and documentaries.

The competition is open to applicants from UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq and Yemen.

Winners will receive financial prizes up to AED 50,000 (US$13,613).

To apply, click here:
http://www.gulffilmfest.com/ar/Submissions-2.html

from Art4Development

A poster contest under the theme "Somos latinos" ("We are Latinos") is open to design students, professors and professionals in Latin America. Deadline: May 7, 2010.

The contest, which aims to promote the perspective of Latin American designers, is organized by Foro de Escuelas de Diseño, a group that includes 300 academic representatives of design schools in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal.

Posters will be evaluated according to image treatment, resources, personal style and innovation. The best poster will receive US$2,000.

Contestants must send works that are 29.7 cm x 42 cm vertical, in digital format, JPG, resolution150dpi and up to 5 mega pixels.

An international film festival in Greece is seeking documentaries, shorts and features with environmental and ecology themes, encouraging conservation issues and issues related to the natural, the human and the built environment. Deadline: March 1, 2010.

At the festival, called Rodos International Films + Visual Arts Festival Ecofilms, prizes will be awarded to high quality films that take an innovative approach to conservation issues and that explore "daring" subject matter. Films should have been produced after January 1, 2009. The festival will take place June 22 to 27, 2010.

The competition has four categories: Feature Length Films, Medium Length Films, Short Length Films and Audience Films.

For more information, click here.:
http://www.ecofilms.gr/01.1.ecofilms_call_en.htm

LarkGallery Online announces Reaching Inside an online international art competition.
http://www.larkgalleryonline.com
http://www.larkgalleryonline.com/submissions.php

We are all experiencing the increasing frequency and often immediate impact of global events in our lives. How do creative people deal with it? From where do they derive their inspiration?

Our answer is that artists reach within themselves to find and tap into their creative process even as they are depicting external objects and events. The inner filter through which each artist looks at the world makes each piece of their art unique and irreplaceable.

The Baseball Reliquary Presents
LASORDAPALOOZA
An Art Exhibition & Literary Contest

OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS & WRITERS:
In September 2009, a life-sized portrait of Dodger legend Tommy Lasorda was unveiled at the Smithsonian Institution´s National Portrait Gallery to commemorate his legacy as one of baseball´s greatest goodwill ambassadors. On the occasion of his portrait being placed under the same roof as those of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Lasorda remarked, "I just can´t believe something like this is happening to me." When a reporter asked Tommy what was next for him, his reply was, "Heaven." Little did Tommy know at the time that the next major honor in his storied career would be LASORDAPALOOZA.

Application Deadline: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
by 5:00pm

REDCAT is seeking original performance works for
the next edition of Studio, REDCAT's quarterly series of new works and works in
progress in dance, theater, music, performance art or multidisciplinary. If you
have a project under 15 minutes and would like to be considered-apply now.

Help us spread the word by forwarding this email
to friends and fellow artists.

Showings: Saturday, March 6, 2010

Performance dates: Sunday & Monday, April 11
and 12, 2010 | 8:30pm

*Applications are available online at: http://www.redcat.org/artist-opportunities

Questions? Email studio.redcat@calarts.edu

from LA Culture Net

Call for Mail Art Submissions
Postmarked 2010 6th Annual International Mail Art Exhibition
and Silent Auction Fundraiser
Exhibit: March 5-14, 2010

Requesting your original mail art for display and sale to raise funds for The Claremont Forum's Prison Library Project, which sends thousands of books free to inmates throughout the country. Hundreds of volunteers package books (donated to the Project by our local community), which are then mailed in response to inmate letters requesting reading material while incarcerated. For many years, The Claremont Forum received these requests in hand-illustrated envelopes created by the prisoners who sent them. It is in this tradition that we present POSTMARKED as our very appropriate fundraiser. Please join us for this international event!

Professional and amateur Arab filmmakers are invited to participate in a Al-Mutawasit Film Festival for Short Films. Deadline to apply: January 31, 2010.

The festival aims to discover and shed light on Arab talent. Participants can submit short films that were shot on equipment ranging from a professional to a cell phone camera.

For more information and to apply, click here.
http://www.shamshoontv.com/ar/news/view/id/9/

from Art4Development