AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

1st World Festival of Youth Theatre (July 2009, Vienna)

Dear friends,

Here is a final opportunity to participate in this fascinating festival:

1st World Festival of Youth-Theatre

17th to 26th July 2009
Vienna / Austria

http://www.wienxtra.at/jugendinfo/engl.asp?er=2

"WienXtra", one of the biggest NGOs for children and youth in Vienna in co-operation with OEBV (Austrian National Centre of AITA/IATA) and AITA/IATA organises the 1st World Festival of Youth-Theatre together with the City of Vienna.

Dear colleagues and friends,

for the following international Training Course about theatre in Youth Work in Bosnia-Herzegowina our project partners are ugently looking for two participants coming from:

ROMANIA

For all further information please contact our partner via mostarmmp@yahoo.com immediatley.

Facing Religious & Cultural Clashes - Encouraging Dialogue in Europe! Creating, sharing & learning of theatre drama methods for intercultural youth projects, February 6th - February 14th 2009, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

NightHawksLA is now taking submissions for our Friday, February 13th show, 'Red Rover, Red Rover'

If your work explores the darker sides of human nature: exploitation, (self-)obsession, manipulation, transformations, or any other form of horror or deviancy, please send us an email with your info, samples, and links to your work to nighthawksla@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is Friday, January 30th.

RED ROVER, RED ROVER
NIGHTHAWKSLA WANTS YOU OVER . . .

NightHawksLA is taking submissions for our Friday, February 13th show. We are looking for musicians, bands, and performance artists who would like to come and play a little Red Rover, Red Rover with us...

All you crazy, wild, theatrical risk-takers, please send us an email with your info, links, etc...

nighthawksla@gmail.com

The National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago is searching for Women Artists
of Mexican Descent to participate in the Women of Juaréz / Mujeres de Juárez
Exhibition planned for September 2009 - March 2010.

Proposals must arrive to the museum by March 17, 2009. Proposals will be
reviews and art work will be selected the last week of March.

Please contact Dolores Mercado at dolores@nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org for
information and submission details. Please forward this information to
other interested Mexicana and Chicana women artists.

Best regards,

Linda Vallejo

www.lindavallejo.com

From LA Culture Net.

CALL FOR ENTRIES:

Los Angeles Filmforum invites film and videomakers to take part in the
2009 FESTIVAL OF (IN)APPROPRIATION.

WHO: All film and videomakers
WHAT: Call for entries for the Festival of (In)appropriation
WHEN: Entries must be received by April 1, 2009.
WHERE: Send submissions to Jaimie Baron, 10480 National Blvd. #308,
Los Angeles, CA 90034
PRESENTED BY: Los Angeles Filmforum

Whether you call it collage, compilation, found footage, detournement,
or recycled cinema, the incorporation of previously shot materials
into new artworks is a practice that has generated novel
juxtapositions of elements which have produced new meanings and ideas
that may not have been intended by the original makers, that are, in

YourPR has posted a new item, 'GenevaPR'

Welcome to YourPR this week, I am Benjamin Bottorff based out of Geneva, Switzerland. Today’s show explores the theme of time and its influence on the human creative process.

· How are the Gorillas in the Congo? Interview with Pierre Peron, an administrator of Verunga National Park. Pierre is a trained zoologist and has worked at the BBC as a journalist. Now he applies his skills in Goma, DR Congo. Follow the blog and watch the videos at www.gorilla.cd.

· What is the word on the streets of Washington DC? Interview with GenevaPRs political correspondent based in Washington DC. Erica Frantz is on the ground following the inauguration.

· Speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama.

mobile exhibits

The Arts Council for Long Beach and the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency
announce a Request for Proposals (RFP) to select artists for temporary
public artwork for vacant storefronts in redevelopment areas within the City
of Long Beach.

Historical / Cultural Background
The City of Long Beach is one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse
cities in the nation. As the fifth largest city in California, Long Beach
plays an important role in shaping the identity of the state. Long Beach is
an attractive and accessible coastal gateway that serves as an important
tourist attraction and is home to the Queen Mary, Boeing Aerospace, the Long
Beach Aquarium, an expansive beach front and one of the largest ports in the
world.

Project Overview

ATTIC THEATRE SEEKING CO-PRODUCTIONS FOR OUR THEATER

The ATTIC Theatre & Film Center is accepting proposals for co-productions at their Culver City theater. There is no up front rental fee, however certain theatre running costs will be deducted from box office revenue. After those fees are paid at box office will be split 50/50. The ATTIC will provide box office and house management at each performance. All other staffing will be provided by the producing company. Productions will be able to run from 2 weeks to 6 weeks depending on the project.

**** All types of Productions are encouraged to apply. *****

Theater Specs:
-- 49 seats
-- Stage dimensions are 25' wide x 19' deep x 10' tall
-- Raise stage - wood floor
-- We have 30 dimmers and about 35 to 40 lighting instruments.

Metal A Capella Battle of the Bands.

As part of the Sound IN Space Festival (Feb. 5-28) at the Sea and
Space Explorations Gallery. http://www.soundinspace.org

Judges :
Howie Pyro (Danzig and D Generation)
Susie Allen (Theorist and Harp Performance California Institute of the
Arts)
Hillary Kapan (Philosopher)

Metal Singers of any sub-genre are invited to sing, unaccompanied - no
bands no backing tracks - original music or covers from the Metal
Repertoire at Sound IN Space on Feb. 6th. Each singer will be given
3-7 minutes, a microphone and a load of amplification.

Free beer for participants.

There will be prizes.

Please forward this to anyone that you think can effectively 'bring
it' and melt my brains out of my ears.