AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Moroccan photographers and photojournalists are invited to participate in a UNESCO-organized competition that aims to promote environmental preservation. Deadline to apply: February 15, 2010.

The competition seeks to promote awareness surrounding the preservation of natural resources and to support continuous sustainable development.

For more information (in Arabic), click here
http://www.map.ma/mapar/culture/64564362a628-62764464a64864664a633643648...

or email rabat@unesco.org

from Art4Development

A Kenyan film festival is seeking fictional, animated, drama, documentaries, experimental films and creatively packaged video games and music videos that provide strong role models to children and youth. The deadline is April 15, 2010.

The festival, called Lola Kenya Screen, showcases and awards films but also aims to place the audiovisual media tools in the hands of children and youth through trainings and workshops. The annual event will take place in August 2010.

For additional information, visit here: http://lolakenyascreen.org/index.php/news/103-lola-kenya-screen-2010-cal...

from Art4Development

Filmmakers from around the world are invited to submit works to a film festival in Australia. The early bird deadline is January 29, 2010 and late entry is on March 12, 2010.

Films should be have been produced in 2009 and should have English subtitles if in another language.

The Melbourne International Film Festival is divided into two categories: short and feature films. Short films should be no longer than 30 minutes. Films longer than 30 minutes will be considered feature films. The film festival will be held July 23 to August 8, 2010 in Melbourne.

Entry fees varyfrom US$50 to $64.

For further information, click here:
http://www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/entry_regulations_

from Art4Development

Infrequency Editions is currently accepting submissions of new audio works
dealing with the outer fringes and extremes of research into field recording,
sound phenomenon, and acoustic ecology. We are specifically interested in work
which stretches the boundaries of these and similar themes.

Work for consideration should be made available for download as high quality MP3
(do not email attached files) and be accompanied by an artist CV and written
introduction to the work submitted. Please email us with a link to your work at
info (at) infrequency (dot) org

Thank you,
Jamie Drouin

INFREQUENCY EDITIONS
http://www.infrequency.org

from soundasart

NON STOP MEDIА V
FESTIVAL OF YOUTH PROJECTS

Kharkiv Municipal Art Gallery opens the competition for the V Festival of
Youth Projects NON STOP MEDIA.
Dates of the Festival first weeks of April 2010.

We announce an open preliminary competition the winners of which will be
pronounced by the competent jury, and will have the right to display their
works during Festival’s competition program. 25 projects will be selected
and will make up the base of the program.

The main goal of the Festival is to provoke and motivate young authors to
project-based art creation. Therefore, the project-oriented thinking,
professionalism in implementing project idea, innovation, taboo overcoming
(art, social…) and “contemporary language” will be the key priority in

Open Call for Entries for All Photographers

Theme: Landscapes • Unfeigned or Illusory

A Landscape, as defined by this Call for Entry, can be representational or non-representational, urban, suburban or rural.

Juror: Todd Brandow, Founding Director of the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography.

Entry Fee: $35 up to 5 images; $10 each additional (no limit on number that may be submitted)
Prizes: $300 for 1st; $200 for 2nd; $100 for 3rd
Entries Due: March 8, 2010
Notice of Acceptance: March 18, 2010
Exhibition Dates: April 23, 2010 – June 13, 2010 at the Mpls Photo Center
Reception: April 23, 2010, 6:30 - 9:00 pm at the Mpls Photo Center

About the Juror

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.

Sound, Sight, Space and Play 2010

Postgraduate Conference for the Creative Sonic Arts
Wednesday 2nd – Friday 4th June 2010
Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre,
De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom

Exploring the Future of the Sonic Arts

We would like to invite you to take part in Sound, Sight, Space and Play
(SSSP) 2010, a conference for postgraduate students working in the creative
sonic arts, organised by postgraduate students of the Music Technology and
Innovation Research Centre (MTIRC), De Montfort University. The ideals of
this event are to stimulate co-operation and inspiration between
postgraduate students, across institutional boundaries, leading to new
perspectives on current works and research. We encourage submission of

FINAL DEADLINE FOR DANCE CAMERA WEST

January 15 (post mark) is the final deadline for the 2010 DCW
festival. Accepting dance media entries from around the globe
including a special call this year for LOCAL MAKERS. For details see

www.dancecamerawest.org/submit.htm

Questions: festival@dancecamerawest.org or 213-480-8633

Looking forward in seeing your new work!

from LA Culture Net

The $500 Drift @ 7 Music Video Competition has now officially begun! Media, film and art students can submit for class project credit and gain a chance to win prize money. See www.driftat7.com for rules and conditions. Good luck should you join us!

from Awesome Artists