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Post Natyam Collective - November Newsletter


Dear friends,


October was an exciting month with performances all over the country- Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Kansas City and Los  Angeles! One of the highlights was WAC is BACK!, a large-scale event that marked the re-opening of the building in which Anjali, Sandra and Shyamala met. Shyamala and Sandra were privileged to perform as part of WAC is BACK, and missed Anjali tremendously.

Post Natyam Performances:

Friday--Sunday, November 4 - 6, 2005, Los Angeles
Sandra, along with many South Asian artist friends here in LA, for example Ashwini Srikantiah,  D'Lo, Keshni Kashyap, Anurag Mehta, Shalini Rehil, Naureen Meyer, as well as their mentees, Amberine, Fayzan, Gita, Meena, Nayani, Nipa, Rupy and Sabina will present their work, as the culmination of the summer mentorship art program YouthWallah:

DESI FACTOR
A bold and brazen showcase of dance, music, film, literature, stand-up comedy, and visual art by young South Asian artists who deal with themes of politics, racism, migration, and the dismantling of cultural myths.
Friday + Saturday, November 4, 5 8:30 pm
Sunday, November 6, 2:30 pm $16
At Highways Performance Space
1651 18th Street

Santa Monica, CA 90404
24 Hour Reservations Line
, (310) 315-1459
Volunteer line , (310) 828-5614
www.highwaysperformance.org , www.artwallah.org


Saturday November 5, 2005, Kansas
Anjali will perform at
:
KU India Association's Culture Night
Woodruff Hall, KU Campus
Lawrence, KS 

Sunday November 6, 2005, Kansas
Anjali's Annual Student Recital celebrating Vijaydashmi & Diwali
Chief Guest:  Viji Prakash
Guest Performers:  Viji Prakash & Patrick Suzeau
Hindu Temple Cultural Hall
6330 Lackman Rd.
Shawnee, KS  66217

Saturday November 12, 2005, Kansas
Anjali will perform

IAKC presents India Nite, 6-9pm
Blue Valley NW Auditorium (133rd & Switzer)
Overland Park, KS
For tickets visit www.iakc.org

Tuesday, November 22, Los Angeles
Sandra will present an excerpt of her dissertation work
as part of the CHEW ON THIS!
World Arts and Cultures Noontime Brown Bag Lecture Series, 12 noon-1 pm
The Phoenix Conference Room, 160 Glorya Kaufman Hall, UCLA

Post Natyam Pointers:

Summary:

Events:

1. IAAC Film Festival, NYC
2. Thirdi Film Festival, San Francisco
3. Breakthrough's benefit dinner, NYC
4. Kriti, Chicago (watch out for our friend Shailja there!)
5. Yoni Ki Baat, San Francisco

Calls for Submissions:
1. Grounding Moves: Landscapes for Dance, Deadline November 15
2. Imagining Ourselves:  A Global Generation of Women,  Online Exhibit and Global Gatherings, Deadline November 20
3. Red Cat Now Festival, Los Angeles, Deadline November 29
4. Naked Stages Residency, Minneapolis, Deadline November 30
5.
NAATA: OPEN DOOR COMPLETION FUND 2005, Deadline December 1, 2005

Jobs:
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 -
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:
------------------------------
------------------------------
Breakthrough¹s First Benefit Gala
http://www.breakthrough.tv/event_details.asp?eventid=68&id=4
http://www.breakthrough.tv/event_ticket.asp
Tickets are $300 each

Celebrating Human Rights!
Thursday, 6:30 pm EST
November 10th, 2005

The Puck Building:
295 Lafayette Street,
New York, NY 10012

4. Kriti Festival, Chicago, November 9th-13th
First ever national festival of writers from the South Asian
Diaspora. Keynote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Full details at www.desilit.org/kriti.html< http://www.desilit.org/kriti.html>
 

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
Visit http://sasisters.org/YKB.htm , or email y...@sasisters.org for more info!
 
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


4.
2006 NAKED STAGES PROGRAM

Naked Stages provides a nine month mentorship program starting in January 2006 with workshop opportunities in performance, production and critical response with a three-night work in progress production in either October or November, 2006. The program is directed by Eleanor Savage with performance workshops by Lois Weaver.

The Naked Stages program, sponsored by Intermedia Arts with support from the Jerome Foundation, in celebration of the Jerome Hill Centennial, seeks emerging artists in Minnesota working with the performance art form. This program is designed to give artists a supportive environment for building their performance and production skills while creating a new performance art piece. Naked Stages is an intensive performance research program for those artists ready to delve into creative process. The program is most suited to emerging artists with experience creating their own work.

Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2005

Informational meeting for Naked Stages applicants: October 24, 2005; 7:00 pm at Intermedia Arts

Artist Guidelines for application to the 2006 Naked Stages program are now available for download here or by calling (612) 871-4444.


5.
NAATA:
OPEN DOOR COMPLETION FUND

2005 deadline: December 1, 2005
2006 deadlines: February 24 and August 26 2006

  • works intended for public television broadcast in the final stages of post-production
  • a rough cut must be submitted with application

* Only one proposal per applicant
* Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and be citizens and legal residents of the U.S.
* All awarded projects must have a Fiscal Sponsor, a non-profit 501(c)(3) IRS tax-exempt entity

Application, additional eligibility and review criteria can be found at the following URL:
http://www.naatanet.org/community/filmmaker/mediafund/index.html

Questions? Visit the NAATA web site or email medi...@naatanet.org .




Jobs:

SAVAC (SOUTH ASIAN VISUAL ARTS COLLECTIVE) CAREER OPPORTUNITIES:
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR

Deadline for both positions: postmarked Monday, November 14, 2005.

Please submit cover letter and CV to: 401 Richmond St. W, #450 Toronto, ON M5V 3A8

SAVAC is a unique artist-run centre in Canada dedicated to the development and presentation of new works in contemporary visual art by artists of South Asian* origin. We are currently engaged in the exciting process of expansion and seek two dynamic individuals to fulfill the positions of Executive Director and Programming Coordinator. *South Asians are people who can trace their ancestry back to countries of the Indian subcontinent: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - JOB DESCRIPTION

The mandate of SAVAC is to encourage artistic excellence and cultural diversity by integrating contemporary visual artists of South Asian origin in the art sector through innovative collaborative programs with museums, artist-run centres galleries and community organizations. The Executive Director (ED) reports to the Board of Directors and works closely with the Programming Coordinator, contract staff and committees. The ED is responsible for the overall leadership, management and public representation of the organization in keeping with the vision and mandate of SAVAC.

The ideal candidate will be personable and goal-oriented, will have background in or knowledge of contemporary art in Canada, South Asia, and internationally; possess excellent organizational and communication skills; and have experience in curatorial research practices, public relations, budget management and grant writing.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Executive and curatorial direction
- Financial budgeting and administration
- Strategic Planning and Policy Development
- Grant/proposal writing
- Project assessment and management
- Personnel management and evaluation

The position requires 35 hours per week (5 days per week). Annual salary is commensurate with experience. Some benefits are available. The position is for one year and renewable based on performance, which is reviewed annually. There is an initial probationary period of 3 months.

Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. All applicants selected for an interview will be required to submit one writing sample of a grant application, curatorial writing or proposal in advance of the interview.

Relocation Assistance may be available on a case by case basis.



PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR - JOB DESCRIPTION

The Programming Coordinator is responsible for coordinating SAVAC's programs in keeping with the vision and mandate of SAVAC. The Programming Coordinator works with the Executive Director and Programming Committee to establish the overall direction of programming with the approval of the Board.

The ideal candidate will be personable and goal-oriented, will have background in or knowledge of the contemporary art in Canada, South Asia, and internationally; possess excellent organizational and communication skills; and have experience in curatorial research practices, public relations, budget management and grant writing.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Research, solicit and select concepts, themes, artists and collaborators for programming
- Write curatorial statements, program descriptions, call for submissions and descriptions of individual works;
- Work with programming committee, guest curators, writers, designers and/or organizations on specific programs and projects, including catalogues and commissioning projects, where required;
- Manage the coordination of exhibitions, including the negotiation and management of all contracts, budgets, and preparing exhibition installation, opening, closing and talks etc.
- Communicate with exhibiting artists in the development of exhibitions, including coordinating shipping, travel, hospitality, accommodation, insurance and equipment needs, and overseeing exhibition installation
- Manage publication coordination including brochures and catalogues
  - Assist with all publicity including writing press releases, preparing press packages, liaising with the media, i.e. conducting interviews with print, television and radio press; managing the press and mailing databases and actively raising the profile of SAVAC locally and internationally
- Maintain the records/documentation of programs and the archive
- Conduct the evaluation process for each program
- Organize Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance recommendation grants

The position requires 24 hours per week (3 days per week). Annual salary is commensurate with experience. The position is for one year and renewable based on performance, which is reviewed annually. There is an initial probationary period of 3 months.

Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. All applicants selected for an interview will be required to submit one writing sample of a grant application, curatorial writing or proposal in advance of the interview.

Relocation Assistance may be available on a case by case basis.
_____________________________________
SAVAC [South Asian Visual Arts Collective]
Telephone: 416.542.1661
Email:   in...@savac.net
Website: www.savac.net
Mail: 401 Richmond St. West, Suite #450
       Toronto, ON Canada M5V 3A8

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