1. SAVAC (SOUTH ASIAN VISUAL ARTS COLLECTIVE), Toronto:
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR,
Deadline, November 14
Detailed listings:
Events:
1. FIFTH ANNUAL IAAC FILM FESTIVAL: Indian Independent & Diaspora Films
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New York City, November 2-6, 2005
All screenings November 3-6 will be held at the Anthology Film Archives,
32 Second Ave at 2nd Street, NYC.
Tickets:
General admission: $10
Students & Seniors: $ 8 (with ID)
Same day tickets will be available at the Anthology Film Archive Box Office one hour before the first screening.
All other tickets may be purchased from SMARTTIX AT 212 868 4444 or
www.smarttix.com effective October 10, 2005
For further information, please contact 212 529 2347 or www.iaac.us
schedule (PDF)
2. 3rd i's annual San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival
(SFISAFF) arrives this year on November 11, 12 and 13
, giving Bay Area
moviegoers a sample of classic Indian cinema, hard hitting social
documentaries, innovative features and the latest in Bollywood sizzle.
SFISAFF features a number of premiere screenings with appearances by
filmmakers and stars at a reception at the Castro theatre.
For more information Here are some links to the festival site:
Link to home page:
http://thirdi.org/festival/index.htm
Link to film schedule: http://thirdi.org/festival/film/index.htm
Link to the press release:http://thirdi.org/festival/press/release091505.htm
3. Breakthrough's our first gala benefit dinner on November 10th, New York City
For 5 years Breakthrough has been at the forefront of human rights
awareness building- working with media, education and pop culture to promote
values of dignity, equality and justice. We are now celebrating our
achievements and raising resources for our upcoming campaigns on women and
HIV/AIDS in India and immigrant rights in the US.
Come and enjoy:
-A Live auction conducted by Christie's;
-A presentation by Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll;
-Performances by the fabulous and edgy Comedian Vidur Kapur as well as
acclaimed Rock Musician Salman Ahmad of Junoon accompanied by Dave
Sharma on tabla and dhol;
-And of course, dancing with NYC's legendary DJ Rekha (Founder of the
Famous Basement Bhangra nights).
We can't wait to share this exciting evening with you!
EVENT INFORMATION:
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All events below at Northwestern University's Law School campus, 357
E. Chicago Avenue.
I will perform on Saturday, November 12th, from 6 - 6.30pm.
I will also speak on the following panels:
Friday, November 11, 2005, 3 - 3.50pm
Queer Issues in South Asian Literature
Panelists: Nilofer Ahsan, Abha Dawesar, Shailja Patel, Leah Lakshmi
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ligy Pullappally
Saturday November 12th, 10 -11.20am
Is Poetry Accessible Today?
Panelists: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Shailja Patel, Ravi
Shankar, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Marian Yalini Thambynayagam
Saturday November 12th, 2.30 -3.50pm
Politics and Writing
Panelists: Nilofer Ahsan, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Sapna Gupta, Shailja
Patel
Saturday November 12th, 4 - 5.20pm
Page to Stage
Shailja Patel, Ligy Pullappally, Ravi Shankar, Pireeni Sundaralingam,
Marian Yalini Thambynayagam
Sunday, November 13, 2005, 1:00 - 1:50pm
Sex and the Word
Neela Banerjee, Abha Dawesar, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Shailja Patel,
Marian Yalini Thambynayagam
5. Yoni Ki Baat, San Fransisco
South Asian Sisters proudly presents...
~~~~ YONI KI BAAT ~~~~
An all-new, completely original
performance of South Asian Sisters' acclaimed 'Yoni ki Baat' (Talks of
the Vagina) will feature all-new titillating monologues, drink
specials, and a late-night after-party.
Saturday, November 19th, 2005 @ 8 PM
The Canvas Gallery, 1200 9th Ave (at Lincoln),
San Francisco, California
(Bart to the N Muni line, get off at 9th)
Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door
A portion of the proceeds will
be donated to Asian Women's Shelter, a shelter program for battered
Asian women and their children.
ALL NEW YKB. ALL NEW FORMAT. ALL NEW LOCATION. EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED.
Calls for Submissions:
1. Grounding Moves: Landscapes for Dance
DEADLINE: November 15, 2005
[Note:
This is not only a call for papers: they also encourage submissions of
movement workshops, lecture-demonstrations, collaborative
presentations, and other formats!]
June 15-18 2006
The Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta Canada
The
Society of Dance History Scholars invites submissions for its
twenty-ninth annual conference, hosted by the Banff Centre for the Arts
in Alberta, Canada, a unique centre known for its dedication to the
arts and to creative process, and for its breathtaking location in the
heart of the Rocky Mountains.
In recognition of this stunning site and the vibrant role the
Banff Centre has played in Canada for decades, the 2006 conference will
engage with dance projects fostered in this location. These include the
unique and internationally-renowned "Aboriginal Dance Project,"
inaugurated in 1996; the many cutting edge media and visual arts
programs of the Banff New Media Institute, which include
numerous projects that integrate dance and technology; and the
Centre's renowned ballet program, which has trained dancers in Canada
since the 1940s. The program committee hopes to stimulate proposals
that will look at Aboriginal dance, dance and
new media, ballet training, and issues of state and institutional
support that may be raised by the success of the Banff Centre itself.
Although
the conference proposes and promotes this focus on the Banff Centre, we
welcome proposals outside that realm. The conference is open to any
new research in dance studies, and we imagine that the issues raised
will be applicable
to dance practices, institutional structures and histories in locations the world over.
Questions include:
*What is dance's relation to institutional structures?
*How
do issues of self-determination, ownership, state control, intellectual
and artistic property, sovereignty, and of European-imposed definitions
about these, intersect with the histories of institutional support?
*How
have -- and haven't -- Aboriginal dance practices flourished in
relation to these structures and in the face of institutional
constraints?
*What is ballet's relationship to institutional structures, such as
those provided by governments or schools (universities, conservatories,
arts centers, neighborhood studios); by cities (New York, Winnipeg,
Seoul, Beijing...); and by ideologies of, for example, gender,
nationalism and globalization?
*What possibilities do the realms of new media hold in addressing
these histories and issues? In contributing to the extension and
evolution of dance practice and performance?
*How does dance ground practitioners across geographic, institutional, and ideological divides?
Submissions encouraged for individual papers and panels, as
well as for roundtable discussions, movement workshops,
lecture-demonstrations, collaborative presentations, and other formats
that will enable the active engagement of conference participants.
More info on the Banff Centre can be found at:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/about/
Submission guidelines and forms can be found at <
http://www.sdhs.org/confpropinst.html >.
Submissions should be emailed or postmarked by November 15, 2005.
If submitting by email, please download form and send to
sd...@primemanagement.net
If submitting by mail, please send six copies of the proposal along with the submission form to:
Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Department of Dance
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
Queries may be addressed by email to:
js...@ucr.edu <mailto: js...@ucr.edu>.
No submissions accepted by fax.
Other
members of the committee include: Susan C. Cook (School of Music,
University of Wisconsin, Madison); Susan Kozel (School of Interactive
Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University); Allana Lindgren (SSHRC
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Victoria); Jens Richard Giersdorf
(Department of Dance Studies, University of Surrey); and Nadine
George-Graves (Department of Theatre and Dance,
University of California, San Diego).
2. OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
RECIEVE DEADLINE : November 20, 2005
Imagining Ourselves: A Global Generation of Women
Online Exhibit and Global Gatherings
Imagining
Ourselves will launch on International Women's Day, March 8, 2006. It
reaches out to a new generation of women—the one billion women between
the ages of 20 and 40—answering the question, "What defines your
generation?" Through an online exhibit,
a series of global gatherings, and a new book, Imagining
Ourselves provides resources and opportunities for women to create
change in their lives, in their communities, and in their world.
Imagining Ourselves is a project of the International Museum of Women.
We are looking for submissions from young women in every corner
of the globe, in any language and in almost any format. If you have a
story to tell, images to share, a voice that wants to be heard, we
welcome your submission. Join a growing community of thousands of women
from over 105 countries, including Ukrainian Olympic Gold Medallist
Oksana Baiul; best-selling novelist Zadie Smith; author Karenna Gore
Schiff; Queen Rania of Jordan; and many more.
About the Online Exhibit and Global Gatherings: It is
estimated that well over one hundred million young women (over 10
percent of the one billion women between the ages of 20 and 40 living
in the world today) have ready access to the Internet. Our online
exhibit is designed to utilize the web's global reach to impact
the widest audience possible while using sound and multimedia work to
bring added life to the perspectives shared by young women around the
world. The exhibit utilizes beautiful imagery and evocative written
work to engage young women in an exploration of their own lives, and
the world around them -- inspiring them to get involved and to make a
difference for themselves and for others.
The Imagining Ourselves online exhibit will include a
complete calendar of live and virtual events drawing young women into
dialogue with their peers around the world. We are specifically looking
for work that can be included in our monthly discussion themes for the
Online Exhibit and Global Gatherings
March-Love and Relationships in a Changing World
(Sample topics: courtship and dating, family, friendships, childbearing and motherhood, sensuality and sexuality)
April-Young Women in Today's Economy
(Sample topics: work, money and finances, balancing jobs and personal life, overcoming poverty)
May-Culture and Conflict: Uniting Women Across Boundaries
(Sample
topics: race, ethnicity, immigration, intergenerational conversations,
globalization, travel, Internet, religious identity)
June-The Future: Taking Action and Charting a Path for Young Women
(Sample
topics: visions and goals for the future, spotlighting young women's
success stories, suggestions for new projects and collaborative
actions)
Action Opportunities:
For each month of the online
exhibit, we will offer young women opportunities to take action on
important issues related to the theme of that month's discussion. We
are also, therefore, searching for creative visual and literary content
that elaborates on the following specific issues, allowing us to think
about them in new ways, and inspiring us to come up with new solutions:
-March: Intimate Violence/Domestic Violence
-April: Financial Literacy for Women/Entrepreneurship
-May: Overcoming Ethnic, Religious and/or Racial conflict
-June: (1) Young Women and Politics; (2) Special Initiative on HIV/AIDS
Submission Guidelines and Requirements:
We invite
submissions from women in their twenties and thirties. We welcome
submissions in any language andin any media that meet the following
criteria:
Literary Submissions: A broad range of styles will be
accepted, including poetry, short stories, essays, interviews, lyrics,
and dictated verbal accounts. Submissions in any language will be
accepted. Whenever possible, we encourage the author to also include an
English translation. Entries will be accepted in digital or print form and should not exceed (2000) two thousand words.
Visual
Art: A broad range of mediums will be accepted, including paintings and
drawings, documentary photographs, experimental photographs, computer
and digital images, calligraphy, comics, textiles, sculpture,
architectural drawings and mixed medium. All visual artwork must be
two-dimensional. If your work is an oversize painting, sculpture, or
other three-dimensional format, please submit a photo of the work.
Entries will be accepted in GIF or JPG format only. GIFs must be web safe palette. Maximum resolution of 1024 x 768 @ 72 DPI.
Music/Spoken
Word/Recorded Accounts: Musical, spoken word, and recorded accounts
submissions should be submitted in MP3 variable bit rate format.
Submissions should be 3-4 minutes in length and should not exceed 5
minutes. Music must be encoded at least 70kbps (128kbps preferred).
128 kbps maximum encoding rate on all audio submissions. Please supply
a transcript of the recording, with English translation if applicable
and/or possible.
Film and Animation: Films and animation should be submitted
in digital media format, such as Apple Quicktime or Microsoft AVI
format only. We cannot accept submissions that are compressed using
codecs that require a commercial license. Submissions should
be 2-3 minutes in length and should not exceed 3 minutes. While
artists may submit longer works, an edited 3-minute-maximum version
must also be included. Include 10-20 stills and a written narrative
account of the piece in 200-500 words.
All submission must also include:
i. Applicant Information Sheet
ii. Personal Photo (this should measure 5x7 inches (12x18 cm) at resolution 300 dpi)
iii. Signed Legal Release
All submissions must be received on or before November 20,2005
Early submissions highly preferred. There are three methods by
which to submit your work: (1) via our online application (available in
early October), (2) by email, or (3) by post. To avoid processing
errors, please submit all components of your application together at
one time. We cannot guarantee processing for incomplete applications,
or for participants who send different pieces of their application at
different times. Due to the high level of submissions anticipated, we
are unable return submission materials to participants.
If your work is submitted by email, the size of the email
cannot exceed 5MB. If you need to send larger files, please make the
digital files available on CD/DVD and send by regular post to the
address below.
Email submissions:
iosubm...@imow.org
Mail submissions:
Emily Ingebricson, Creative Coordinator
Imagining Ourselves
International Museum of Women
PO BOX 190038
San Francisco CA 94119
USA
Fax:
+1 415 543 4668
Be Inspired. Get Involved. Take Action! Visit
www.imow.org.
Legal
Notice: Unpublished work is preferred. If submitting previously
published work, please be sure that you own all rights to the material.
Please also indicate where and when the work was published. Submission
of a work constitutes a grant of a royalty-free license to the
International Museum of Women. Thus, we will be able to reproduce,
publish,translate, distribute and display your work, in whole
or in part.
3. 2006 NOW FESTIVAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS
REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, is accepting
proposals for original contemporary performance works to be featured
in the New Original Works Festival (NOW), three weeks of
interdisciplinary theater, dance and music by artists from the Los
Angeles area. The annual festival features a flexible schedule to
include a variety of short, low-tech performances and well as a limited
number of longer projects. The festival will take place in late July
2006 at REDCAT's performance space in the Walt Disney Concert Hall
complex in downtown Los Angeles.
REDCAT presents and promotes the NOW Festival, assisting artists in
developing innovative new performances by providing the theater and its
existing light and sound equipment, staff support and an honorarium.
The limited funding available is not intended to cover all of the
creation costs of the new work, but it can offset production costs.
Festival participants are chosen through a panel process, and artists will be notified in late February of 2006.
2006 NOW FESTIVAL PROPOSAL GUIDELINES
Please include a contact name and phone number on ALL ITEMS submitted.
APPLICATION — Provide TEN SETS of the following three, single-page information sheets. These TEN SETS must be COLLATED
and STAPLED:
Page 1: Completed application form (ONE sheet)
Page 2: Description of the proposed project and if the project is being considered for other performances (ONE sheet).
Page
3: General outline of anticipated expenses involved in producing the
work, as well as any predetermined sources of income (grants or
sponsorships received, etc.) This does not need to be a detailed
budget, but is intended to give a sense of the scale of the project.
(ONE sheet)
WORK SAMPLES — Provide no more than ONE work sample per collaborating artist. Multiple submissions will not be viewed:
3–5 minute sample of primary artists' work on VHS, CD or DVD (cued to section you would like viewed), or for collaborating
visual artists and designers, slides, photographs or drawings.
Information sheet about the work sample(s), including a brief description and identifying artist's role and any additional
collaborators, venue and creation date.
NOTE : Work samples need not show the proposed project, but should clearly demonstrate the collaborating artists' work as
it relates to the proposal. Do not submit original artworks.
NOTE: Work samples will only be returned if you include a self-addressed envelope with adequate postage. Alternately,
materials will be available for pick-up after March 30, 2005. Materials not claimed by July 31, 2005 will be recycled.
SUPPORT MATERIALS — Provide ONE COPY of the following:
Biographical information about the applicant(s), such as resumes, bios, press clippings, etc.
A
list of technical requirements, such as live, amplified sound, special
lighting or set needs. (Extensive special requirements may not be
feasible within the framework of the Festival.)
A list of major schedule commitments or conflicts between June 1 and August 8, 2005.
SUBMISSION — Mail to REDCAT, ATTN: NOW Festival, 631 W. 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012-2599. All materials must be
RECEIVED by 5:00pm on Tuesday, November 29, 2005. You can deliver materials in person to REDCAT on November 29, 10am–5pm.
DEADLINE: Tuesday, November 29, 2005
INFORMATION: Lindsay Hendrickson, 213-237-2816
Application Form:
Contact Information
Lead Artist or Main Contact Person:
Address:
City: State: Zip:
Phone:
Alternate Phone:
Email:
Names and phone numbers of key collaborators:
Project Information
Genre(s), circle all that apply.
DANCE THEATER PERFORMANCE ART MUSIC OTHER:
Title of Work:
Name of Group or Ensemble (if applicable):
Estimated length of performance:
Has this work been performed before, or is it under consideration for other performances? Where?
On a separate, single sheet, provide a clear description of the proposed project. You are encouraged to help
the review panel visualize the finished work.
2006 NOW FESTIVAL APPLICATION
Deadline: Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Enclosed (indicate number)
___ video/DVD ___ audio tape/CD ___ slides/CD
___ manuscript ___ sketches/other ___ SASE
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