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Post Natyam Collective - April 2007 Newsletter
Dear Friends,
The Spring finds most Post Natyam members busy teaching! Anjali is teaching ongoing Bharata Natyam and Yoga classes in Kansas City as well as preparing for her students' annual recital and a residency in NY for David Rousseve's project Saudade., Shyamala is teaching dance technique (Ballet, Improvisation, AND contemporary Indian dance) and a lecture class on Wolrd Dance at Cal Poly Pomona, Sandra is teaching World Dance Histories and a seminar on Investigating Mixed Heritage in Theory and Artistic Practice at UCLA, and Sangita is presenting separate aspects of her current PhD research at at the annual PCA/ACA and MIT5 Media in Transition conferences, both in Boston, MA. In addition, Dancing Kathmandu continues it's journey through the regions of the Czech Republic as part of the post festival tour of One World / Jeden Svet.
Post Natyam
Post Natyam Events:
Boston, MA
April 4-7, 2007
Sangita presents her research at
PCA/ACA Conference
Boston, MA
http://www.popularculture.org
Los Angeles, CA
Friday- Saturday, April 13-14
8pm, Kaufman Hall, Amber Studio (208)
$15 general admission, $5 students with ID
Bodies, words, and cultures collide and connect in playing between , an evening of intercultural dance work by Cynthia Lee. Drawing on Kathak (North Indian classical dance), postmodern dance, and her bicultural upbringing as a Taiwanese American, Lee investigates the space between dance forms, cultural histories, and artistic collaborators. The choreography of playing between was created with its vibrant and diverse cast of performers – Anusha Kedhar, José Reynoso, Shyamala Moorty, and Sheetal Gandhi. Original music was composed by Gregory Acker, Rob Levit, Ravindra Deo, and Derrick Spiva, Jr.
Kansas, KS
Sunday, April 22nd
Anjali's Annual Student Spring Recital
Westridge Middle School, KS
3-5pm
Visit www.anjalitata.com for more info
Pomona, CA
Tuesday, April 24, 2007,
6-9 pm, Cal Poly Pomona,
Ursa Major C,
Bronco Student Center.
Daniel Takeshi Krause and Shyamala Moorty are the featured contributors from the series, with special guest Giovanni Ortega. Animator Jeff Chiba Stearns's short film What Are You Anyways? will also be screened and be available for purchase.
"All Mixed Up" will be on sale for $12. "All Mixed Up" is a limited-run chapbook collection, and each copy is handcrafted. Proceeds go toward an anthology of the complete works of the "Mixed Up" series, in addition to new works, entitled Completely Mixed Up: An Anthology of Mixed Race Asian North American Writing and Art, forthcoming in Fall 2007. For submission guidelines, email
mixedu...@gmail.com . Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2007.
For more information on the chapbooks, anthology, and related events, email
mixedu...@gmail.com or visit http://www.myspace.com/mixtuppress .
Cambridge, MA
April 27-29, 2007
Sangita presents her research at
MIT5 Media in Transition Conference
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit5/index.html
Prague, Czech Republic
Ongoing in April 2007
Sangita's film Dancing Kathmandu at
Post Festival Tour of Jeden Svet / One World Film Festival
www.oneworld.cz
Post Natyam Pointers:
Summary:
Events:
1. Toronto, Canada: 27 March- 22 April 2007. Exhibition: A Day in the Life:
Dear Friends,
The Spring finds most Post Natyam members busy teaching! Anjali is teaching ongoing Bharata Natyam and Yoga classes in Kansas City as well as preparing for her students' annual recital and a residency in NY for David Rousseve's project Saudade., Shyamala is teaching dance technique (Ballet, Improvisation, AND contemporary Indian dance) and a lecture class on Wolrd Dance at Cal Poly Pomona, Sandra is teaching World Dance Histories and a seminar on Investigating Mixed Heritage in Theory and Artistic Practice at UCLA, and Sangita is presenting separate aspects of her current PhD research at at the annual PCA/ACA and MIT5 Media in Transition conferences, both in Boston, MA. In addition, Dancing Kathmandu continues it's journey through the regions of the Czech Republic as part of the post festival tour of One World / Jeden Svet.
Post Natyam would also like to congratulate Cynthia Lee on her upcoming MFA Concert at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures.
Shyamala has been greatly enjoying working with Cynthia Lee and Sheetal Gandhi on one of her concert items where live music creates a meeting ground between the fluid arm movements and intricate rhythms of Kathak, and the spatial expansiveness, interactive touch, and full-throttle physicality of western dance.
We highly recommend the show, and advise getting tickets early (information is below) as seating is limited.
Best, Post Natyam
Post Natyam Events:
Boston, MA
April 4-7, 2007
Sangita presents her research at
PCA/ACA Conference
Boston, MA
http://www.popularculture.org
Los Angeles, CA
Friday- Saturday, April 13-14
8pm, Kaufman Hall, Amber Studio (208)
Shyamala participates in
playing between
an evening of intercultural choreography by Cynthia Lee
$15 general admission, $5 students with ID
Tickets : 310.825.2101, www.tickets.ucla.edu
Information : 310.825.3951, www.wac.ucla.edu
Parking : $8; enter campus at Sunset Boulevard and Westwood Plaza; park in in Lot 4.Bodies, words, and cultures collide and connect in playing between , an evening of intercultural dance work by Cynthia Lee. Drawing on Kathak (North Indian classical dance), postmodern dance, and her bicultural upbringing as a Taiwanese American, Lee investigates the space between dance forms, cultural histories, and artistic collaborators. The choreography of playing between was created with its vibrant and diverse cast of performers – Anusha Kedhar, José Reynoso, Shyamala Moorty, and Sheetal Gandhi. Original music was composed by Gregory Acker, Rob Levit, Ravindra Deo, and Derrick Spiva, Jr.
Dancer, writer, and musician, Cynthia Lee's commitment to using dance to engage cultural difference was forged through years of studying dance forms of other cultures, most notably while studying religious dance in Thailand (Thai classical dance), Brazil (Candomblé), and India (Kathak) under a 2002-3 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Simone Forti's Logomotion (text-movement improvisation) and contact improvisation deeply influence Lee's approach to western dance, while her style of Kathak reflects her studies with Kumudini Lakhia and Bandana Sen in India and Anjani and Amrapali Ambegaokar in Los Angeles. Lee was a participating artist in the 2006 Asia Pacific Performing Arts Exchange (APPEX), which brought together performing artists from Asia and the USA to collaborate across cultures, and has performed for international choreographers Pallabi Chakravorty (India/USA), Jacek Luminski (Poland), Rosangela Silvestre (Brazil/USA), Syed Mustapha Syed ( Malaysia), and Cheng-Chieh Yu (Taiwan/USA).
Kansas, KS
Sunday, April 22nd
Anjali's Annual Student Spring Recital
Westridge Middle School, KS
3-5pm
Visit www.anjalitata.com for more info
Pomona, CA
Tuesday, April 24, 2007,
6-9 pm, Cal Poly Pomona,
Ursa Major C,
Bronco Student Center.
Daniel Takeshi Krause and Shyamala Moorty are the featured contributors from the series, with special guest Giovanni Ortega. Animator Jeff Chiba Stearns's short film What Are You Anyways? will also be screened and be available for purchase.
"All Mixed Up" will be on sale for $12. "All Mixed Up" is a limited-run chapbook collection, and each copy is handcrafted. Proceeds go toward an anthology of the complete works of the "Mixed Up" series, in addition to new works, entitled Completely Mixed Up: An Anthology of Mixed Race Asian North American Writing and Art, forthcoming in Fall 2007. For submission guidelines, email
mixedu...@gmail.com . Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2007.
For more information on the chapbooks, anthology, and related events, email
mixedu...@gmail.com or visit http://www.myspace.com/mixtuppress .
Cambridge, MA
April 27-29, 2007
Sangita presents her research at
MIT5 Media in Transition Conference
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit5/index.html
Prague, Czech Republic
Ongoing in April 2007
Sangita's film Dancing Kathmandu at
Post Festival Tour of Jeden Svet / One World Film Festival
www.oneworld.cz
Post Natyam Pointers:
Summary:
Events:
1. Toronto, Canada: 27 March- 22 April 2007. Exhibition: A Day in the Life:
New and recent photo and video installation projects
2. Montreal, Canada: April 5-7, 2007: Dance: Antachara
3. Mumbai, India: April 6, 2007 : Reading, Screening and Discussion: presented by
2. Montreal, Canada: April 5-7, 2007: Dance: Antachara
3. Mumbai, India: April 6, 2007 : Reading, Screening and Discussion: presented by
LABIA and Goethe Institute
4. London, UK: April 7, 2007: Spoken Word: La Langustine est Morte
5. New Delhi, India : April 12, 2007: Discussion : PROSTITUTES AND POLITICS: THE
4. London, UK: April 7, 2007: Spoken Word: La Langustine est Morte
5. New Delhi, India : April 12, 2007: Discussion : PROSTITUTES AND POLITICS: THE
TOLERATED BROTHELS DEBATE IN COLONIAL INDIA
6. Los Angeles, USA: April 13-15, 2007: Dance Forum: Dance/USA On Tour
7. Los Angeles, USA: April 15, 2007: Music: Girls Gone World
8. Los Angeles, USA: April 17, 2007 : Reading: Hapa Mixed Race Book Events
9. Toronto, CA: April 19,2007: Performance: Unheard Voices: a night of poetry,
6. Los Angeles, USA: April 13-15, 2007: Dance Forum: Dance/USA On Tour
7. Los Angeles, USA: April 15, 2007: Music: Girls Gone World
8. Los Angeles, USA: April 17, 2007 : Reading: Hapa Mixed Race Book Events
9. Toronto, CA: April 19,2007: Performance: Unheard Voices: a night of poetry,
theatre and music by and for Sri Lankan women
10. Chicago, USA: April 26-29, 2007: Literature: 2007 Kriti Festival
Workshops
1. New York, USA: The Women Writers Workshop, Mondays, April 9- May 7, 2007
2. Bangalore, India: Film Appreciation & Theatre Workshop for Children, May 21st
10. Chicago, USA: April 26-29, 2007: Literature: 2007 Kriti Festival
Workshops
1. New York, USA: The Women Writers Workshop, Mondays, April 9- May 7, 2007
2. Bangalore, India: Film Appreciation & Theatre Workshop for Children, May 21st
– 28th
Opportunities (note: the first four calls do not list a deadline)
1. Ulm, Germany : Call for dancer: handsdancefeet musicdance project
2. New Delhi, India: Call for Photography: Autoportraits: Photography at the Nigah
Opportunities (note: the first four calls do not list a deadline)
1. Ulm, Germany : Call for dancer: handsdancefeet musicdance project
2. New Delhi, India: Call for Photography: Autoportraits: Photography at the Nigah
QueerFest '07
3. New York City, USA: Casting Call
4. San Francisco, USA: Call for film submissions: 3rd I
5. Chicago, USA: Call for Writing : MAKE Magazine. Deadline: 6 April 2007
6. New York City, USA: AUDITION: Open Calls for Asian American Actors and
3. New York City, USA: Casting Call
4. San Francisco, USA: Call for film submissions: 3rd I
5. Chicago, USA: Call for Writing : MAKE Magazine. Deadline: 6 April 2007
6. New York City, USA: AUDITION: Open Calls for Asian American Actors and
Actresses: 6-10 April
2007
7. New York, USA: Retreat: Call for submissionvoice & vision call for scripts by
7. New York, USA: Retreat: Call for submissionvoice & vision call for scripts by
women. Deadline: 9 April 2007
8. Davis, USA: Call for Papers, graduate conference : In Tangible Bodies. Deadline:
8. Davis, USA: Call for Papers, graduate conference : In Tangible Bodies. Deadline:
10 April 2007
9. London, UK: JOB: women's library seeks poet to deliver project with young
9. London, UK: JOB: women's library seeks poet to deliver project with young
women. Deadline: 13 April 2007
10. Jordan: Artist Residency: Call for Applications. Deadline 13 April 2007
11. Bangalore, India: Call for Film Entries : VOICES FROM THE WATERS 2007 2ND
10. Jordan: Artist Residency: Call for Applications. Deadline 13 April 2007
11. Bangalore, India: Call for Film Entries : VOICES FROM THE WATERS 2007 2ND
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ON WATER. Deadline: 15 April 2007
12. Melbourne, Australia: Call for Papers: (Un)Making Queer Worlds:
12. Melbourne, Australia: Call for Papers: (Un)Making Queer Worlds:
Transformations in Asia-Pacific Queer Cultures. Proposal deadline: 27 April
2007
13. Canada: Call for Writing: mixed-race youth in canada anthology. Deadline: 30
13. Canada: Call for Writing: mixed-race youth in canada anthology. Deadline: 30
April 2007
14. New York, USA: Call to Artists: Soundfest. Deadline: 30 April 2007
15. Los Angeles, USA: Call for submissions to ITCH #5: fiction and fictions.
14. New York, USA: Call to Artists: Soundfest. Deadline: 30 April 2007
15. Los Angeles, USA: Call for submissions to ITCH #5: fiction and fictions.
Deadline: 1 May 2007
16. Queens, NY, USA: CALL FOR LGBT PERFORMERS & FILMMAKERS . QUEERIN'
16. Queens, NY, USA: CALL FOR LGBT PERFORMERS & FILMMAKERS . QUEERIN'
QUEENS. Deadline: MAY 1, 2007
17. New York, USA: Call for artists: SAWCC Tenth Anniversary Annual Viisual Arts
17. New York, USA: Call for artists: SAWCC Tenth Anniversary Annual Viisual Arts
Exhibition. Deadline: 1 May 2007
18. Washington, USA: IAHHE Call for papers and Exhibits on Hip Hop. Deadline 31
18. Washington, USA: IAHHE Call for papers and Exhibits on Hip Hop. Deadline 31
May 2007
Detailed Listings:
Events
1. Toronto, Canada: 27 March- 22 April 2007 . Exhibition: A Day in the Life: New and recent photo and video installation projects
LEE Ka-sing Gallery
50 Gladstone Avenue, Toronto, M6J 3K6, ON, Canada
Gallery Hours: 1-6 pm (Tuesday to Sunday)
416.535.6957, www.leekasing.ca
3/27/2007 - 4/22/2007
ARTIST RECEPTION: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 7-10 pm
LEE Ka-sing gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Shelly Bahl
in Canada, and to debut her most recent photographic work "A Day in the
Life" this Spring.
"A Day in the Life" is a series of "constructed" photography taken in the
now closed Terminal 2 at Pearson Airport. These images are surreal
explorations of the desire for personal transformation, contrasted with the
realities of mass tourism, immigration and border controls. This project
also explores the workings of the airport microcosm, and the many invisible
people within this world who keep things moving.
Another part of the exhibition is the mixed media video installation "Pink
is the Navy Blue of India" (2003-07) and the related series of digital
photographs. This project is inspired by a quote from fashion guru, Diane
Vreeland (Vogue magazine). Bahl has been observing the current public
fascination with 'Indian/ Bollywood Chic' and has developed a group of works
that are humorous and satirical critiques of the phenomena.
Shelly Bahl is a visual and media artist based in Toronto and New York City.
Her interdisciplinary works play with issues of cultural dislocation, and
the cultural schizophrenia that can occur in the translation/transmutation
of time and space. Bahl is particularly interested in the contemporary
transmission of visual culture, and the experiences of individuals who lead
trans-cultural lives.
Shelly Bahl's recent and upcoming projects include group exhibitions at the
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton; Design Exchange Museum, Toronto; Rush Arts
Gallery, NYC; Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburg; Modern Fuel Gallery,
Kingston; Jersey City Museum, NJ; and the Jamaica Center For Arts and
Learning, NYC. Over the past few years solo exhibitions have also been held
at Gallery 198, London, UK; Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver; Gallery 44,
Toronto; M.Y. Art Prospects, New York City; and Khyber Centre For the Arts,
Halifax.
Current exhibiton review in NOW Magazine:
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-03-29/art_reviews.php
Detailed Listings:
Events
1. Toronto, Canada: 27 March- 22 April 2007 . Exhibition: A Day in the Life: New and recent photo and video installation projects
LEE Ka-sing Gallery
50 Gladstone Avenue, Toronto, M6J 3K6, ON, Canada
Gallery Hours: 1-6 pm (Tuesday to Sunday)
416.535.6957, www.leekasing.ca
3/27/2007 - 4/22/2007
ARTIST RECEPTION: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 7-10 pm
LEE Ka-sing gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Shelly Bahl
in Canada, and to debut her most recent photographic work "A Day in the
Life" this Spring.
"A Day in the Life" is a series of "constructed" photography taken in the
now closed Terminal 2 at Pearson Airport. These images are surreal
explorations of the desire for personal transformation, contrasted with the
realities of mass tourism, immigration and border controls. This project
also explores the workings of the airport microcosm, and the many invisible
people within this world who keep things moving.
Another part of the exhibition is the mixed media video installation "Pink
is the Navy Blue of India" (2003-07) and the related series of digital
photographs. This project is inspired by a quote from fashion guru, Diane
Vreeland (Vogue magazine). Bahl has been observing the current public
fascination with 'Indian/ Bollywood Chic' and has developed a group of works
that are humorous and satirical critiques of the phenomena.
Shelly Bahl is a visual and media artist based in Toronto and New York City.
Her interdisciplinary works play with issues of cultural dislocation, and
the cultural schizophrenia that can occur in the translation/transmutation
of time and space. Bahl is particularly interested in the contemporary
transmission of visual culture, and the experiences of individuals who lead
trans-cultural lives.
Shelly Bahl's recent and upcoming projects include group exhibitions at the
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton; Design Exchange Museum, Toronto; Rush Arts
Gallery, NYC; Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburg; Modern Fuel Gallery,
Kingston; Jersey City Museum, NJ; and the Jamaica Center For Arts and
Learning, NYC. Over the past few years solo exhibitions have also been held
at Gallery 198, London, UK; Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver; Gallery 44,
Toronto; M.Y. Art Prospects, New York City; and Khyber Centre For the Arts,
Halifax.
Current exhibiton review in NOW Magazine:
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-03-29/art_reviews.php
2. Montreal, Canada : April 5-7, 2007
: Dance: Antachara
Antachara
Come walk about the frontiers of dance
Antachara, a dance performance by Manijeh Ali, Reena Almoneda Chang, and Ulka Simone Mohanty, is a collection of pieces representing diverse forms of Asian and Afro-Asian aesthetics. A joint-production of Silken Dance, Chameleon Dance, and Kinalaya, Antachara will be presented at:
April 5, 6, and 7 at 8PM
Centre Culturel Calixa-Lavallée
3819 rue Calixa Lavallée
(Parc Lafontaine/access from Rachel)
Metro Sherbrooke
Free parking at the site
Admission: $15
Tickets (cash only) available at the door 45 minutes prior to show
Info: 514.883.4358
http://www.kinalaya.net/antachara/
3. Mumbai, India: April 6, 2007: Reading, Screening and Discussion, presented by LABIA and Goethe Institute
Lesbians and
Bisexuals in Action
&
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan
invite you to
The release of the 10th issue of
SCRIPTS, the Queer Zine published
by LABIA
Selected readings from
this issue of
SCRIPTS
followed by discussion
Screening of
IF THESE WALLS
COULD TALK 2
Directed by: Jane Anderson / Martha Coolidge / Anne Heche
A film about 3 lesbian couples, 3 different decades, 3 different
socio-political climates, all relevant to us today.
on 6th April, 2007
at 06:30 p.m.
K. Dubash Marg,
Kala Ghoda,
Mumbai 400 001
Tel.: +91 (22) 22 02 77 10
4. London, UK: April 7, 2007: Spoken Word: La Langustine est Morte
La Langoustine est Morte
07 Apr 2007, 19:30
22 Betterton St, London, WC2H 9BX
Cost : 4
LA LANGOUSTINE EST MORTE, THE 6TH, Saturday April 07 2007 7.30pm The Poetry Café 22 Betterton St. Covent Garden London WC2H 9BX Adm.£4 La Langoustine est morte Saturday 7 April 2007 7.30pm The Poetry Café 22 Betterton St. Covent Garden London WC2H 9BX Adm. £4/£5 For more info: www.myspace.com/langoustine Email: lalang...@gmail.com La langoustine est morte, The only literary event in London dedicated to experimental and innovative poetry, fiction and performance returns to the Poetry Café in Covent Garden for the 6th instalment of the series. Continuing in the Langoustine tradition of multi-medium, genre straddling work, this month we feature: Sophie Woolley – writer and performer who specialises in razored monologues Alex Walker – reads from Licentia and other works with Alex Thomas, noisician Adrian Owusu/Son Blues - primal 21st century London Delta blues Aime Hansen - Experimental performance poet from Estonia Josie Collins – abstract and experimental prose stylist Hosts: Sascha Akhtar and Anthony Joseph The last event was completely sold out so arrive early to get a seat!
5. New Delhi, India : April 12, 2007: Discussion: PROSTITUTES AND POLITICS: THE TOLERATED BROTHELS DEBATE IN COLONIAL INDIA
The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality is hosting a discussion on
12 April 2007 (Thursday), 3:00 - 4:30 pm
TARSHI, 11, Mathura Road, First Floor, Jangpura B, New Delhi
In 19th century colonial India the reaction to the threat (both social and biological) of the prostitute was to forcibly confine infected women in "lock hospitals". An international backlash against these measures left the government in need of a method of regulating prostitutes without seeming to impinge upon their liberty.
Steve Legg, PhD will make a presentation for 45 minutes, tracing the 20th century evolution of the legislative machinery that allowed the state to exert some authority over female prostitutes.
This involved a shift from initial policies of segregating women into certain quarters of a town, to the later targeting of brothels under
the Suppression of Immoral Traffic Acts, both of which the prostitutes resisted and challenged in various ways.
Steve attained BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge and spent three following years as a Research Fellow. He is now a Lecturer in cultural and historical geography at the University of Nottingham and has a book out in March/April entitled Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities to be published
by Blackwells (in the UK, America and Australia) and Rawat Publishers (in India). He is currently expanding this work on urban politics to look at the regulatory policies applied to prostitutes in
20th century colonial India. This entails situating the local history of Delhi's prostitutes in the national politics of the Suppression of Immoral Traffic Acts and the international politics of social hygiene campaigners and the League of Nations.
The presentation will be followed by an open discussion.
Please stay for tea /coffee and biscuits from 4:30 - 5:00pm.
RSVP:
Sumit Baudh
Senior Programme Associate
The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality
TARSHI, 11 Mathura Road, 1st Floor, Jangpura B, New Delhi-110014
tel: +91 11 2437 9070, +91 11 2437 9071
fax: +91 11 2437 4022
eml: su...@tarshi.net
6. Los Angeles, USA: April,13-15 2007: Dance Forum: Dance/USA On Tour
For Immediate Release
March 23, 2007
Press Contact:
Ann Norris, (202) 833-1717
ano...@danceusa.org
Los Angeles Dance Community Toasts a New Collectivity
Dance/USA On Tour brings professional development programs to
support and advance the dance community in Los Angeles
Washington, DC – Dance/USA, the national service organization for professional dance, in collaboration with The Music Center, the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center and the Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles brings Dance/USA On Tour to Los Angeles April 13-15, 2007. This final presentation of On Tour aims to provide the Los Angeles Dance community with professional development seminars, panel discussions and workshops led by top-level professionals in the dance and performing arts field (please see attachment for full bio information). The On Tour sessions planned for next month are intende to create a sense of self-determination by helping artists and administrators join together as a community to take their future into their own hands.
Development Specialist, David Bury, will be on hand Friday and Saturday to provide one-on-one consultations with artists and administrators. Bury willcoffer hands-on concepts, knowledge and skills needed to design and implementceffective fundraising programs.
The LA community gets into the action on Saturday with the panel "Resource Development: New Ways to Develop Your Reach at Home and On the Road." Participants will hear from managers, presenters and arts advocates about how artists can promote relationships to expand presentations and audiences at home, as well as on tour. They will tackle the issue of touring and discuss how companies can know if they are ready to hit the road. The community will be
invited to share their experiences with touring and resource development following the panel presentation. This session grew directly out of feedback provided at earlier On Tour seminars. The moderator, Danielle Brazell will be joined by five extraordinary LA presenters, administrators and advocates: Linda Chiavaroli, Director of Communications Los Angeles County Arts; Leo Garcia, Executive/Artistic Director of Highways Performance Space; Laurel Kishi, Manager of Performing Arts for the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa I n Malibu; Gayle Leonard-Hooks, President of Lucas LaFrance Associates; and Peter Lesnik, Executive Director at Carpenter Center, CSULB.
The three days of professional development will conclude on Sunday with a day-long community dance forum at the Japanese American Cultural Community Center. The dance forum is open to dancers, choreographers, managers, educators, funders, and all other dance enthusiasts. Plenary speaker, Joe Goode of Joe Goode Performance Group in San Francisco, will talk about creating community and the positive growth that occurred when the widely diverse Bay Area dance community joined forces towards common goals. The forum will allow time and space for members of the LA community to discuss common aspirations, create a unified vision and set priorities and strategies for the Los Angeles dance community. The day will end with a celebratory toast to the Los Angeles Dance Community.
Dance/USA is proud to have been part of the Los Angeles Dance Community through Dance/USA On Tour, which is kindly supported by the James Irvine Foundation. The Irvine foundation has enabled Dance/USA On Tour to return to Los Angeles four times over the last two years in order to ensure the best possible training and
support for the Los Angeles dance community so that it may continue to grow and thrive.
For more detailed information about Dance/USA On Tour including workshop topics, speaker bios and agendas, please visit
www.danceusa.org/meetings/ontour.htm . The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Arts generously support Dance/USA On Tour.
Dance/USA is the national service organization for the professional dance field. We believe that dance is essential to a healthy society, demonstrating the infinite possibilities for human expression and potential, and facilitating communication within and across cultures. Dance/USA sustains and advances professional dance by addressing the needs, concerns, and interests of artists, administrators and organizations. By providing services and national leadership, Dance/USA enhances the infrastructure for dance creation, education and dissemination.
Established in 1982, Dance/USA is a membership organization serving a broad cross-section of professional dance (currently over 400 ballet, modern, ethnic, jazz and tap companies, dance service and presenting organizations, individuals, and related organizations). With an informed understanding of local dance
communities and an eagle-eye view of dance nationally, we occupy a unique position in the field. By working primarily in the interests of our membership, Dance/USA strengthens the dance field as a whole and the performing arts field in general. Dance/USA's priorities include advocating for dance, providing information & research on the field, convening & networking, and building
leadership among dance professionals. Learn more about Dance/USA and our branch offices by visiting our website, www.danceusa.org.
www.drc-la.org
7. Los Angeles, USA : April 15, 2007: Music: Girls Gone World
Three Indian singers of planet Earth bring you ambient soulful sounds
April 15, 2007
9:00pm
Temple Bar
1026 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, 310-393 6611
http://www.templebarlive.com
$10 at the door
$7 in advance
For pre-sale tickets, call 800-594 TIXX (8499)
Artists:
Manisha Shahane (los angeles via southern Virginia)
Micropixie (san francisco via the UK)
Sumitra (los angeles via Vienna, Austria)
Here is a website with event and ticket details, plus artist bios, reviews, and sounds:
http://www.myspace.com/thegirlsgoneworld
The link above also directs the viewer to each artist's website and myspace page for more sounds and sights.
Additionally, please view this poster designed by Micropixie featuring all three artists:
http://manishamusic.com/performances/girlsgoneworld.htm
About Girls Gone World
For girls gone world and all our fellow planetary singers
by Manisha Shahane
Welcome to the world of
Girls gone world,
Or, rather, welcome to our music-
Music of this universe.
When home is everywhere and, yet, no place,
Beats and grooves that know no race
Give us life, make us smile.
We pen our words Earthling style.
These words around the world we sing,
Yet, at the same time, round the ring
Of roses red and daffodils
We all fall down.
We wake to smell the jasmine past.
No time, the future calls us fast-
Hurry, blurry, flurry, fly
Into the light.
The worldly lies we leave behind.
When home is everywhere and, yet, no place,
Beats and grooves that know no race
Give us life.
Thanks for your consideration!
With best wishes -
Girls Gone World
Manisha Shahane, Micropixie, Sumitra, Temple Bar
8. Los Angeles, USA : April 17, 2007: Hapa Mixed Race Book Events
The editors of "All Mixed Up," a collection of works dedicated to the writing,
art, photography, and social commentary by and about mixed race Asian North
Americans, announce two events in southern California.
Authors will read, perform, and sign chapbooks. Editors Brandy Liên Worrall
and James Lawrence Ardeña will answer questions about the "Mixed Up" chapbook series and talk about the forthcoming anthology, Completely Mixed Up.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007,
7:15 pm, Tuesday Night Project,
Lost Souls Cafe, 124 W. 4th St.
(Harlem Place Alley), Los Angeles.
Alison De La Cruz, Daniel Takeshi Krause and Sumi Braun are the featured contributors from all three chapbooks.
"All Mixed Up" will be on sale for $12. "All Mixed Up" is a limited-run chapbook collection, and each copy is handcrafted. Proceeds go toward an anthology of the complete works of the "Mixed Up" series, in addition to new works, entitled Completely Mixed Up: An Anthology of Mixed Race Asian North American Writing and Art, forthcoming in Fall 2007. For submission guidelines, email
mixedu...@gmail.com . Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2007.
Next event-- Tuesday, April 24, 2007,
6-9 pm, Cal Poly Pomona (see Post Natyam Pointers for details- Shyamala is in it!)
For more information on the chapbooks, anthology, and related events, email
mixedu...@gmail.com or visit http://www.myspace.com/mixtuppress .
9. Toronto, Canada: April, 19, 2007: Unheard Voices: a night of poetry, theatre and music by and for Sri Lankan women
The Canadian Sri Lankan Women's Action Network present
Unheard Voices: a night of poetry, theatre and music by and for Sri Lankan women
THURSDAY APRIL 19, 7pm 7pm @ TWB
admission by donation
all welcome. partially wheelchair accessible.
This unforgettable evening of poetry, theatre and music presented by the Canadian Sri Lankan Women's Action Network features the extraordinary Sathya Thillainathan, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Rosina Kazi and others. (TBA)
Plus a report back about how the renewed civil war and suspension of civil rights in Sri Lanka affects women, and Sri Lankan feminist
organizin
10. Chicago, USA: April 26-29, 2007: Literature: 2007 Kriti Festival
We're delighted to announce that the 2007 Kriti Festival will be held in Chicago April 26-29th, 2007. Please mark your calendars!
Kriti will be a four-day event celebrating South Asian and diaspora literature, with panel discussions, performances, readings, music and song, storytelling for kids, and much more! At our 2005 festival we had 30 visiting writers, editors and agents, and huge fun -- for more info on that festival, take a look at our archive here: http://www.desilit.org/kriti2005.html
Workshops
1. New York, USA : The Women Writers Workshop, Mondays, April 9- May 7, 2007
About The Women Writers Workshop
The Women Writers' Workshop is going into it's 8th year. The Workshop
uses the Amherst Writers As Artist Method to inspire the highest
levels of creativity, give women an opportunity to write, and allow
for opportunities for feedback. Join us for this supportive writing
experience where all levels and genre are welcome. Workshops are
held in Park Slope and the space is easily accessible by subway or
bus. For more information or to sign up, please contact Courtney
Young at nycwome...@gmail.com or 646-206-9470.
Dates: Mondays - April 9, 16, 23, 30 and May 7
Time: 6:15 - 8:30 p.m.
Cost: $150.00 ($25 deposit required with balance due at first
workshop)
Location: 76A Fifth Avenue, Between St. Marks and Warren Sts.,Park
Slope.
Not far from the Atlantic Mall.
Apply early, Workshop size is limited to 10 women
For more info about the method or the workshop, the instructor's
certification and affiliation with Amherst Writers as Artist please
visit http://www.amherstwriters.com/WorkLead.html
2. Bangalore, India: Film Appreciation & Theatre Workshop for Children, May 21st – 28th
Dear All,
This summer Theatre Lab and Little Jasmine will be conducting a Film Appreciation & Theatre Workshop for Children.
We will be screening children's film classics from around the world to inspire an interest in different genres, as well as to have some critical understanding of visual media.
Program
Ÿ To watch, learn about and discuss films as diverse as Albert Lamorisse's lovely The Red Balloon, Hayao Miyazaki's beautiful animated film My Neighbour Totoro, Majid Majidi's Children of Heaven, Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali and Charlie Chaplin's The Kid.
Ÿ To discuss the stories and themes of the films.
Ÿ To have an idea about technical components such as shots, lighting, costumes and sets.
Ÿ To connect certain motifs in the films to theatre exercises through improvisation and art. Eg An improvisation exercise inspired by Charlie Chaplin's gait or an art exercise with red balloons.
Ÿ Kavita Ratna of the Concerned for Working Children will do an interactive session on Children and the Media. Click here for her article on " Giving children a voice in the media"
http://www.infochangeindia.org/features410.jsp
Ÿ In the course of the workshop the children will break up into groups and choose particular film scenes/themes and improvise on them. Each group will have to plan 10 shots for their scene.
Ÿ On the last two days we will shoot these scenes, with lights, in costume and make-up.
Ÿ Each child will be given a CD of the scenes shot.
Dates: May 21st – 28th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Venue: 58 St.Mark's Road
Bangalore 560 001
Tel: 25585395, 98452-13857
Fees: Rs 5,000/-
Contact: Kirtana at 98452-13857 to register.
Opportunities
1. Ulm, Germany: Call for dancer: handsdancefeet musicdance project
handsdancefeet musicdance project looks for a female dancer
we prepare a trio project for this summer (june/july) and are looking for a female dancer who has a background of traditional indian dance (whatever style), and is experienced in urban/modern/concemporary dance, and can sing/recite indian vocal rhythms.
so far the project includes the hungarian violin player zoltan lantos (electro accoustic violins, live looping, effects/he studied classical western/jazz/hindusthani and carnatic traditional styles) and the german percussionist friedrich glorian (percussion/vocals/live looping/he studied jazz/north indian dhrupad vocal and percussion)
the rehearsals are schedueld for june 16 - 26 near stuttgart/southern germany.
handsdancefeet
explores the intrinsic rhythmical interplay of the dancer's feet (there will be body
movement, of course) and the rhythmical dancing movements of the musicians' hands.
vocal percussion is the medium and common language for musical instruments, percussion
and dance, to meet and to interact, unveiling sonic stories, told without words.
'handsdancefeet' spins a cross cultural net, transforms material from the indian
tradition, from urban and contemporary music and dance styles into emotional dialogues
and spontaneous improvisation. music fades into dance, dance glides into music, carried
through spacetime by their inherent energies.
for more information please contact
friedrich glorian/inner....@yahoo.de
2. New Delhi, India: Call for Photography: Autoportraits: Photography at the Nigah QueerFest '07
Dear All,
Photography's power of visual documentation has been used since its invention to create an iconography of the "other". As part of that project, queer sexualities have been defined, labelled and, eventually, criminalised. However, a parallel hidden history has recorded our lives, becoming public only when society and the law allows. Photography shows us what we look like. The media and entertainment industries have tended to portray us as hysterical victims or monstrous child molesters. However, we have become quite expert at presenting ourselves on our own terms, even under the pressure of living double lives. In this exhibition we are calling for photographic self-portraits by a wide variety of queer women and men as a way of reaffirming our actual presence in the world. Our photographs are a momento mori, asserting our right and desire to be made visible on our own terms.
We invite you to be part of Autopotraits. Part of The Nigah QueerFest '07, this is, above all, an exhibition for and by queer communities. We understand the different circumstances that may cause many to hesitate before sending identifying self-portraits to the exhibit. We encourage all of you, however, to consider submitting any kind of portrait that you are comfortable with and which you feel is an expression of your sexuality. Anonymous entries are accepted, and the confidentiality of all entrants and submissions will be respected. No identifying information shall be shared with any individual or entity outside Nigah.
To download the Call for Entries and see Submission Guidelines, go to www.nigahmedia.com/queerfest.html
3. New York City, USA: Casting Call
Fwd from Sharbari Ahmed:
This is summer I am producing my first feature, Eventually Yours, a unique romantic comedy about the choices we don't make, written and directed by my friend Anthony Marinelli. I have put the pressure on to cast a desi actress in one of the leads. Below is the description of the character:
SUZANNE
Suzanne is Julia's (the other female lead) best friend and roommate who, when we first meet her, seems to be a slacker in sweatpants, sitting cross legged on the couch and chomping popcorn while watching God-knows-what on TV. We don?t realize until halfway into the film that she is also a successful lingerie model .
She is a beautiful, earthy woman with a very matter-of-fact view of herself, a dry sense of humor and bemused by all the attention she gets. She is the perfect foil for the high strung Julia.
Please check out the film's website below.
Cheers,
Sharbari Ahmed
Producer, Eventually Yours
http://web.mac.com/anthonymarinelli/iWeb/Site/Home.html
Please send your headshots and resumes to
anthonym...@mac.com .
4. San Francisco, USA: Call for film submissions: 3rd I
3rd I San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival 2007 is seeking submissions for its annual festival at the Castro Theatre and other venues in San Francisco on November 16,17,18
We are looking for innovative film and video of all lengths and genres from or about South Asia and the Diaspora. We aim to provide a platform for artists taking new directions. Film and Videos may be experimental, narrative, documentary, animation, comedy, music videos, digital media, produced in any year and of any length.
We look forward to seeing your films. Please spread the word.
For submission inquiries contact 3rd I National at in...@thirdi.org or on website http://www.thirdi.org/submission.html
Please complete the submissions form link:
http://www.thirdi.org/form.html
5. Chicago, USA: Call for Writing: MAKE Magazine . Deadline: 6 April 2007
MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine Submission Call:
Issue #5: City in Biography
We are calling for essay, fiction, and poetry pieces that are both entertaining and artistically interesting. This magazine seeks to expand upon the Chicago tradition of informative and innovative writing, while also examining current styles and textures.
MAKE is seeking writers and thinkers from every level of experience who have strong, inspired voices, frenetic imaginations, and a sense of humor.
For issue #5, MAKE is seeking essay, fiction, and poetry that consider the American city in a historical context.
Please include a cover page detailing all contact information. 12,000 words is the limit for fiction and nonfiction. Poetry submissions should include 3-5 poems.
Deadline is April 6, 2007.
MAKE will be publicized throughout the Chicagoland area and beyond and circulated in magazine format. Payment will be in the form of contributor's copies. Following publication, there will be publicity opportunities such as readings and music and theater events.
To submit or for more information, write to:
MAKE
PO box 478353
Chicago, IL 60647
OR
submissions [at] makemag.com
6. New York City, USA: AUDITION: OPEN CALL FOR ASIAN AMERICAN ACTORS AND ACTRESSES, audition dates: 6-10 April 2006
OPEN CALL
ASIAN AMERICAN ACTORS AND ACTRESSES OF ALL TYPES SOUGHT
For TEN
a staged reading of brand new ten-minute plays by
CARLA CHING, JULIA CHO, ANDREW CHU, MICHAEL GOLAMCO
DAVID HENRY HWANG, MRINALINI KAMATH, CHIORI MIYAGAWA
QUI NGUYEN, A. REY PAMATMAT, and SUNG RNO
Produced and directed by LLOYD SUH
Associate Directors MICHAEL LEW and REHANA MIRZA
Performances on
MONDAY, APRIL 30TH AND TUESDAY, MAY 1ST AT 7:00pm
at the JOSEPH PAPP PUBLIC THEATER
No experience necessary. Especially seeking new talent.
Up to 15-20 roles available for actors and actresses of all Asian ethnicities, ages, types.
Rehearsal period during the week of April 23-30. Both day and evening rehearsal hours possible.
Auditions to be held at 440 Studios, 440 Lafayette Street, New York, NY, April 6-11. For an appointment, please email cas...@2g.org with requested audition times. Appointments will be
schedueld in five minute increments during the following hours:
Friday, April 6th, 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm
Saturday, April 7th, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Monday, April 9th, 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Tuesday, April 10th, 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm
In your email, please include your full name, contact information, and preferred appointment
times (attach headshot and resume, if possible), along with any conflicts with the above schedule.
We will respond to your email with the exact time of your appointment, and provide copies of the audition sides that you will be asked to prepare.
For further info, please visit www.2g.org
7. New York, USA: Retreat: Call for submissions voice & vision call for scripts by women. Deadline: 9 April 2007
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Postmark Deadline: Monday, April 9, 2007
for The ENVISION Retreat
July 15-29, 2007
Bard College, Annandale-on-Bard College, Ann
Voice & Vision is looking for projects initiated by women theater artists including performers, directors, writers, designers and groups of collaborators Voice & Vision Theater's annual summer retreat offers selected participants an artist-centered workshop environment where they can develop projects with women at the core. Voice & Vision provides ample rehearsal space on the Bard College campus, dramaturgical support, round-trip transportation from New York City, housing, a daily stipend and most meals. The ENVISION retreat affords each artist a highly focused workspace and opportunities to informally present their works-in-progress.
More after the jump...
Projects will be chosen to reflect a broad range of aesthetic and cultural perspectives. Past Retreat participants include Ruth Maleczech and Mabou Mines, Kia Corthron, Estelle Parsons, Olympia Dukakis, Yeardley Smith, Lola Pashalinski, Lynn Nottage, Chiori Miyagawa, Caridad Svich, Kristen Marting, Karen Hartman, Jennifer Miller, Lisa D'Amour and Theodora Skipitares.
Please send TWO COPIES OF THE FOLLOWING:
-Your script, if available (if not, excerpts are acceptable, or a writing sample with selected scenes or an outline); -A one-page description of your project and its current stage of development (we do consider projects at very early stages of development as well as projects much farther along), including a statement of your particular goals for the ENVISION Retreat; -The names of all collaborators you would like to bring to the Retreat, as well as the number of performers, or other collaborators you would like us to help you find (we accept both established creative teams and help artists form creative teams. We also accept artists who would like to work independently at the retreat); -Resumes of established collaborators whom you would like to bring to the Retreat; -Any special equipment, practical or technical needs; and -Names and phone numbers of three professional references. -You may also include ONE COPY of a video, CD or DVD of your project as a supplement to your application. If you would like it returned, please include a SASE.
Please include ONE $15 check payable to Voice & Vision to help offset the costs of circulating scripts among readers.
Send submissions to: Voice & Vision
Attn: ENVISION Retreat
520 8th Avenue, #308
NY, NY 10018
Decisions will be announced by mail by
May 20, 2007
For more information:
www.vandv.org
212.268.3717
ret...@vandv.ret
8. Davis, USA: Call for Papers, graduate conference: In Tangible Bodies. Deadline: 10 April 2007
In Tangible Bodies
Dance Under Construction IX
An annual, roving, interdisciplinary forum for
graduate students
to share research and action in dance, body, and
performance studies.
May 19-20, 2007
University of California, Davis
Department of Theatre & Dance
Possible topics, papers, presentations, & performances
include:
- sites of knowledge (bodies, places, communities…)
- experimentation
Antachara
Come walk about the frontiers of dance
Antachara, a dance performance by Manijeh Ali, Reena Almoneda Chang, and Ulka Simone Mohanty, is a collection of pieces representing diverse forms of Asian and Afro-Asian aesthetics. A joint-production of Silken Dance, Chameleon Dance, and Kinalaya, Antachara will be presented at:
April 5, 6, and 7 at 8PM
Centre Culturel Calixa-Lavallée
3819 rue Calixa Lavallée
(Parc Lafontaine/access from Rachel)
Metro Sherbrooke
Free parking at the site
Admission: $15
Tickets (cash only) available at the door 45 minutes prior to show
Info: 514.883.4358
http://www.kinalaya.net/antachara/
3. Mumbai, India: April 6, 2007: Reading, Screening and Discussion, presented by LABIA and Goethe Institute
Lesbians and
Bisexuals in Action
&
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan
invite you to
The release of the 10th issue of
SCRIPTS, the Queer Zine published
by LABIA
Selected readings from
this issue of
SCRIPTS
followed by discussion
Screening of
IF THESE WALLS
COULD TALK 2
Directed by: Jane Anderson / Martha Coolidge / Anne Heche
A film about 3 lesbian couples, 3 different decades, 3 different
socio-political climates, all relevant to us today.
on 6th April, 2007
at 06:30 p.m.
K. Dubash Marg,
Kala Ghoda,
Mumbai 400 001
Tel.: +91 (22) 22 02 77 10
4. London, UK: April 7, 2007: Spoken Word: La Langustine est Morte
La Langoustine est Morte
07 Apr 2007, 19:30
22 Betterton St, London, WC2H 9BX
Cost : 4
LA LANGOUSTINE EST MORTE, THE 6TH, Saturday April 07 2007 7.30pm The Poetry Café 22 Betterton St. Covent Garden London WC2H 9BX Adm.£4 La Langoustine est morte Saturday 7 April 2007 7.30pm The Poetry Café 22 Betterton St. Covent Garden London WC2H 9BX Adm. £4/£5 For more info: www.myspace.com/langoustine Email: lalang...@gmail.com La langoustine est morte, The only literary event in London dedicated to experimental and innovative poetry, fiction and performance returns to the Poetry Café in Covent Garden for the 6th instalment of the series. Continuing in the Langoustine tradition of multi-medium, genre straddling work, this month we feature: Sophie Woolley – writer and performer who specialises in razored monologues Alex Walker – reads from Licentia and other works with Alex Thomas, noisician Adrian Owusu/Son Blues - primal 21st century London Delta blues Aime Hansen - Experimental performance poet from Estonia Josie Collins – abstract and experimental prose stylist Hosts: Sascha Akhtar and Anthony Joseph The last event was completely sold out so arrive early to get a seat!
5. New Delhi, India : April 12, 2007: Discussion: PROSTITUTES AND POLITICS: THE TOLERATED BROTHELS DEBATE IN COLONIAL INDIA
The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality is hosting a discussion on
12 April 2007 (Thursday), 3:00 - 4:30 pm
TARSHI, 11, Mathura Road, First Floor, Jangpura B, New Delhi
In 19th century colonial India the reaction to the threat (both social and biological) of the prostitute was to forcibly confine infected women in "lock hospitals". An international backlash against these measures left the government in need of a method of regulating prostitutes without seeming to impinge upon their liberty.
Steve Legg, PhD will make a presentation for 45 minutes, tracing the 20th century evolution of the legislative machinery that allowed the state to exert some authority over female prostitutes.
This involved a shift from initial policies of segregating women into certain quarters of a town, to the later targeting of brothels under
the Suppression of Immoral Traffic Acts, both of which the prostitutes resisted and challenged in various ways.
Steve attained BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge and spent three following years as a Research Fellow. He is now a Lecturer in cultural and historical geography at the University of Nottingham and has a book out in March/April entitled Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities to be published
by Blackwells (in the UK, America and Australia) and Rawat Publishers (in India). He is currently expanding this work on urban politics to look at the regulatory policies applied to prostitutes in
20th century colonial India. This entails situating the local history of Delhi's prostitutes in the national politics of the Suppression of Immoral Traffic Acts and the international politics of social hygiene campaigners and the League of Nations.
The presentation will be followed by an open discussion.
Please stay for tea /coffee and biscuits from 4:30 - 5:00pm.
RSVP:
Sumit Baudh
Senior Programme Associate
The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality
TARSHI, 11 Mathura Road, 1st Floor, Jangpura B, New Delhi-110014
tel: +91 11 2437 9070, +91 11 2437 9071
fax: +91 11 2437 4022
eml: su...@tarshi.net
6. Los Angeles, USA: April,13-15 2007: Dance Forum: Dance/USA On Tour
For Immediate Release
March 23, 2007
Press Contact:
Ann Norris, (202) 833-1717
ano...@danceusa.org
Los Angeles Dance Community Toasts a New Collectivity
Dance/USA On Tour brings professional development programs to
support and advance the dance community in Los Angeles
Washington, DC – Dance/USA, the national service organization for professional dance, in collaboration with The Music Center, the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center and the Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles brings Dance/USA On Tour to Los Angeles April 13-15, 2007. This final presentation of On Tour aims to provide the Los Angeles Dance community with professional development seminars, panel discussions and workshops led by top-level professionals in the dance and performing arts field (please see attachment for full bio information). The On Tour sessions planned for next month are intende to create a sense of self-determination by helping artists and administrators join together as a community to take their future into their own hands.
Development Specialist, David Bury, will be on hand Friday and Saturday to provide one-on-one consultations with artists and administrators. Bury willcoffer hands-on concepts, knowledge and skills needed to design and implementceffective fundraising programs.
The LA community gets into the action on Saturday with the panel "Resource Development: New Ways to Develop Your Reach at Home and On the Road." Participants will hear from managers, presenters and arts advocates about how artists can promote relationships to expand presentations and audiences at home, as well as on tour. They will tackle the issue of touring and discuss how companies can know if they are ready to hit the road. The community will be
invited to share their experiences with touring and resource development following the panel presentation. This session grew directly out of feedback provided at earlier On Tour seminars. The moderator, Danielle Brazell will be joined by five extraordinary LA presenters, administrators and advocates: Linda Chiavaroli, Director of Communications Los Angeles County Arts; Leo Garcia, Executive/Artistic Director of Highways Performance Space; Laurel Kishi, Manager of Performing Arts for the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa I n Malibu; Gayle Leonard-Hooks, President of Lucas LaFrance Associates; and Peter Lesnik, Executive Director at Carpenter Center, CSULB.
The three days of professional development will conclude on Sunday with a day-long community dance forum at the Japanese American Cultural Community Center. The dance forum is open to dancers, choreographers, managers, educators, funders, and all other dance enthusiasts. Plenary speaker, Joe Goode of Joe Goode Performance Group in San Francisco, will talk about creating community and the positive growth that occurred when the widely diverse Bay Area dance community joined forces towards common goals. The forum will allow time and space for members of the LA community to discuss common aspirations, create a unified vision and set priorities and strategies for the Los Angeles dance community. The day will end with a celebratory toast to the Los Angeles Dance Community.
Dance/USA is proud to have been part of the Los Angeles Dance Community through Dance/USA On Tour, which is kindly supported by the James Irvine Foundation. The Irvine foundation has enabled Dance/USA On Tour to return to Los Angeles four times over the last two years in order to ensure the best possible training and
support for the Los Angeles dance community so that it may continue to grow and thrive.
For more detailed information about Dance/USA On Tour including workshop topics, speaker bios and agendas, please visit
www.danceusa.org/meetings/ontour.htm . The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Arts generously support Dance/USA On Tour.
Dance/USA is the national service organization for the professional dance field. We believe that dance is essential to a healthy society, demonstrating the infinite possibilities for human expression and potential, and facilitating communication within and across cultures. Dance/USA sustains and advances professional dance by addressing the needs, concerns, and interests of artists, administrators and organizations. By providing services and national leadership, Dance/USA enhances the infrastructure for dance creation, education and dissemination.
Established in 1982, Dance/USA is a membership organization serving a broad cross-section of professional dance (currently over 400 ballet, modern, ethnic, jazz and tap companies, dance service and presenting organizations, individuals, and related organizations). With an informed understanding of local dance
communities and an eagle-eye view of dance nationally, we occupy a unique position in the field. By working primarily in the interests of our membership, Dance/USA strengthens the dance field as a whole and the performing arts field in general. Dance/USA's priorities include advocating for dance, providing information & research on the field, convening & networking, and building
leadership among dance professionals. Learn more about Dance/USA and our branch offices by visiting our website, www.danceusa.org.
www.drc-la.org
7. Los Angeles, USA : April 15, 2007: Music: Girls Gone World
Three Indian singers of planet Earth bring you ambient soulful sounds
April 15, 2007
9:00pm
Temple Bar
1026 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, 310-393 6611
http://www.templebarlive.com
$10 at the door
$7 in advance
For pre-sale tickets, call 800-594 TIXX (8499)
Artists:
Manisha Shahane (los angeles via southern Virginia)
Micropixie (san francisco via the UK)
Sumitra (los angeles via Vienna, Austria)
Here is a website with event and ticket details, plus artist bios, reviews, and sounds:
http://www.myspace.com/thegirlsgoneworld
The link above also directs the viewer to each artist's website and myspace page for more sounds and sights.
Additionally, please view this poster designed by Micropixie featuring all three artists:
http://manishamusic.com/performances/girlsgoneworld.htm
About Girls Gone World
For girls gone world and all our fellow planetary singers
by Manisha Shahane
Welcome to the world of
Girls gone world,
Or, rather, welcome to our music-
Music of this universe.
When home is everywhere and, yet, no place,
Beats and grooves that know no race
Give us life, make us smile.
We pen our words Earthling style.
These words around the world we sing,
Yet, at the same time, round the ring
Of roses red and daffodils
We all fall down.
We wake to smell the jasmine past.
No time, the future calls us fast-
Hurry, blurry, flurry, fly
Into the light.
The worldly lies we leave behind.
When home is everywhere and, yet, no place,
Beats and grooves that know no race
Give us life.
Thanks for your consideration!
With best wishes -
Girls Gone World
Manisha Shahane, Micropixie, Sumitra, Temple Bar
8. Los Angeles, USA : April 17, 2007: Hapa Mixed Race Book Events
The editors of "All Mixed Up," a collection of works dedicated to the writing,
art, photography, and social commentary by and about mixed race Asian North
Americans, announce two events in southern California.
Authors will read, perform, and sign chapbooks. Editors Brandy Liên Worrall
and James Lawrence Ardeña will answer questions about the "Mixed Up" chapbook series and talk about the forthcoming anthology, Completely Mixed Up.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007,
7:15 pm, Tuesday Night Project,
Lost Souls Cafe, 124 W. 4th St.
(Harlem Place Alley), Los Angeles.
Alison De La Cruz, Daniel Takeshi Krause and Sumi Braun are the featured contributors from all three chapbooks.
"All Mixed Up" will be on sale for $12. "All Mixed Up" is a limited-run chapbook collection, and each copy is handcrafted. Proceeds go toward an anthology of the complete works of the "Mixed Up" series, in addition to new works, entitled Completely Mixed Up: An Anthology of Mixed Race Asian North American Writing and Art, forthcoming in Fall 2007. For submission guidelines, email
mixedu...@gmail.com . Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2007.
Next event-- Tuesday, April 24, 2007,
6-9 pm, Cal Poly Pomona (see Post Natyam Pointers for details- Shyamala is in it!)
For more information on the chapbooks, anthology, and related events, email
mixedu...@gmail.com or visit http://www.myspace.com/mixtuppress .
9. Toronto, Canada: April, 19, 2007: Unheard Voices: a night of poetry, theatre and music by and for Sri Lankan women
The Canadian Sri Lankan Women's Action Network present
Unheard Voices: a night of poetry, theatre and music by and for Sri Lankan women
THURSDAY APRIL 19, 7pm 7pm @ TWB
admission by donation
all welcome. partially wheelchair accessible.
This unforgettable evening of poetry, theatre and music presented by the Canadian Sri Lankan Women's Action Network features the extraordinary Sathya Thillainathan, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Rosina Kazi and others. (TBA)
Plus a report back about how the renewed civil war and suspension of civil rights in Sri Lanka affects women, and Sri Lankan feminist
organizin
10. Chicago, USA: April 26-29, 2007: Literature: 2007 Kriti Festival
We're delighted to announce that the 2007 Kriti Festival will be held in Chicago April 26-29th, 2007. Please mark your calendars!
Kriti will be a four-day event celebrating South Asian and diaspora literature, with panel discussions, performances, readings, music and song, storytelling for kids, and much more! At our 2005 festival we had 30 visiting writers, editors and agents, and huge fun -- for more info on that festival, take a look at our archive here: http://www.desilit.org/kriti2005.html
Workshops
1. New York, USA : The Women Writers Workshop, Mondays, April 9- May 7, 2007
About The Women Writers Workshop
The Women Writers' Workshop is going into it's 8th year. The Workshop
uses the Amherst Writers As Artist Method to inspire the highest
levels of creativity, give women an opportunity to write, and allow
for opportunities for feedback. Join us for this supportive writing
experience where all levels and genre are welcome. Workshops are
held in Park Slope and the space is easily accessible by subway or
bus. For more information or to sign up, please contact Courtney
Young at nycwome...@gmail.com or 646-206-9470.
Dates: Mondays - April 9, 16, 23, 30 and May 7
Time: 6:15 - 8:30 p.m.
Cost: $150.00 ($25 deposit required with balance due at first
workshop)
Location: 76A Fifth Avenue, Between St. Marks and Warren Sts.,Park
Slope.
Not far from the Atlantic Mall.
Apply early, Workshop size is limited to 10 women
For more info about the method or the workshop, the instructor's
certification and affiliation with Amherst Writers as Artist please
visit http://www.amherstwriters.com/WorkLead.html
2. Bangalore, India: Film Appreciation & Theatre Workshop for Children, May 21st – 28th
Dear All,
This summer Theatre Lab and Little Jasmine will be conducting a Film Appreciation & Theatre Workshop for Children.
We will be screening children's film classics from around the world to inspire an interest in different genres, as well as to have some critical understanding of visual media.
Program
Ÿ To watch, learn about and discuss films as diverse as Albert Lamorisse's lovely The Red Balloon, Hayao Miyazaki's beautiful animated film My Neighbour Totoro, Majid Majidi's Children of Heaven, Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali and Charlie Chaplin's The Kid.
Ÿ To discuss the stories and themes of the films.
Ÿ To have an idea about technical components such as shots, lighting, costumes and sets.
Ÿ To connect certain motifs in the films to theatre exercises through improvisation and art. Eg An improvisation exercise inspired by Charlie Chaplin's gait or an art exercise with red balloons.
Ÿ Kavita Ratna of the Concerned for Working Children will do an interactive session on Children and the Media. Click here for her article on " Giving children a voice in the media"
http://www.infochangeindia.org/features410.jsp
Ÿ In the course of the workshop the children will break up into groups and choose particular film scenes/themes and improvise on them. Each group will have to plan 10 shots for their scene.
Ÿ On the last two days we will shoot these scenes, with lights, in costume and make-up.
Ÿ Each child will be given a CD of the scenes shot.
Dates: May 21st – 28th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Venue: 58 St.Mark's Road
Bangalore 560 001
Tel: 25585395, 98452-13857
Fees: Rs 5,000/-
Contact: Kirtana at 98452-13857 to register.
Opportunities
1. Ulm, Germany: Call for dancer: handsdancefeet musicdance project
handsdancefeet musicdance project looks for a female dancer
we prepare a trio project for this summer (june/july) and are looking for a female dancer who has a background of traditional indian dance (whatever style), and is experienced in urban/modern/concemporary dance, and can sing/recite indian vocal rhythms.
so far the project includes the hungarian violin player zoltan lantos (electro accoustic violins, live looping, effects/he studied classical western/jazz/hindusthani and carnatic traditional styles) and the german percussionist friedrich glorian (percussion/vocals/live looping/he studied jazz/north indian dhrupad vocal and percussion)
the rehearsals are schedueld for june 16 - 26 near stuttgart/southern germany.
handsdancefeet
explores the intrinsic rhythmical interplay of the dancer's feet (there will be body
movement, of course) and the rhythmical dancing movements of the musicians' hands.
vocal percussion is the medium and common language for musical instruments, percussion
and dance, to meet and to interact, unveiling sonic stories, told without words.
'handsdancefeet' spins a cross cultural net, transforms material from the indian
tradition, from urban and contemporary music and dance styles into emotional dialogues
and spontaneous improvisation. music fades into dance, dance glides into music, carried
through spacetime by their inherent energies.
for more information please contact
friedrich glorian/inner....@yahoo.de
2. New Delhi, India: Call for Photography: Autoportraits: Photography at the Nigah QueerFest '07
Dear All,
Photography's power of visual documentation has been used since its invention to create an iconography of the "other". As part of that project, queer sexualities have been defined, labelled and, eventually, criminalised. However, a parallel hidden history has recorded our lives, becoming public only when society and the law allows. Photography shows us what we look like. The media and entertainment industries have tended to portray us as hysterical victims or monstrous child molesters. However, we have become quite expert at presenting ourselves on our own terms, even under the pressure of living double lives. In this exhibition we are calling for photographic self-portraits by a wide variety of queer women and men as a way of reaffirming our actual presence in the world. Our photographs are a momento mori, asserting our right and desire to be made visible on our own terms.
We invite you to be part of Autopotraits. Part of The Nigah QueerFest '07, this is, above all, an exhibition for and by queer communities. We understand the different circumstances that may cause many to hesitate before sending identifying self-portraits to the exhibit. We encourage all of you, however, to consider submitting any kind of portrait that you are comfortable with and which you feel is an expression of your sexuality. Anonymous entries are accepted, and the confidentiality of all entrants and submissions will be respected. No identifying information shall be shared with any individual or entity outside Nigah.
To download the Call for Entries and see Submission Guidelines, go to www.nigahmedia.com/queerfest.html
3. New York City, USA: Casting Call
Fwd from Sharbari Ahmed:
This is summer I am producing my first feature, Eventually Yours, a unique romantic comedy about the choices we don't make, written and directed by my friend Anthony Marinelli. I have put the pressure on to cast a desi actress in one of the leads. Below is the description of the character:
SUZANNE
Suzanne is Julia's (the other female lead) best friend and roommate who, when we first meet her, seems to be a slacker in sweatpants, sitting cross legged on the couch and chomping popcorn while watching God-knows-what on TV. We don?t realize until halfway into the film that she is also a successful lingerie model .
She is a beautiful, earthy woman with a very matter-of-fact view of herself, a dry sense of humor and bemused by all the attention she gets. She is the perfect foil for the high strung Julia.
Please check out the film's website below.
Cheers,
Sharbari Ahmed
Producer, Eventually Yours
http://web.mac.com/anthonymarinelli/iWeb/Site/Home.html
Please send your headshots and resumes to
anthonym...@mac.com .
4. San Francisco, USA: Call for film submissions: 3rd I
3rd I San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival 2007 is seeking submissions for its annual festival at the Castro Theatre and other venues in San Francisco on November 16,17,18
We are looking for innovative film and video of all lengths and genres from or about South Asia and the Diaspora. We aim to provide a platform for artists taking new directions. Film and Videos may be experimental, narrative, documentary, animation, comedy, music videos, digital media, produced in any year and of any length.
We look forward to seeing your films. Please spread the word.
For submission inquiries contact 3rd I National at in...@thirdi.org or on website http://www.thirdi.org/submission.html
Please complete the submissions form link:
http://www.thirdi.org/form.html
5. Chicago, USA: Call for Writing: MAKE Magazine . Deadline: 6 April 2007
MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine Submission Call:
Issue #5: City in Biography
We are calling for essay, fiction, and poetry pieces that are both entertaining and artistically interesting. This magazine seeks to expand upon the Chicago tradition of informative and innovative writing, while also examining current styles and textures.
MAKE is seeking writers and thinkers from every level of experience who have strong, inspired voices, frenetic imaginations, and a sense of humor.
For issue #5, MAKE is seeking essay, fiction, and poetry that consider the American city in a historical context.
Please include a cover page detailing all contact information. 12,000 words is the limit for fiction and nonfiction. Poetry submissions should include 3-5 poems.
Deadline is April 6, 2007.
MAKE will be publicized throughout the Chicagoland area and beyond and circulated in magazine format. Payment will be in the form of contributor's copies. Following publication, there will be publicity opportunities such as readings and music and theater events.
To submit or for more information, write to:
MAKE
PO box 478353
Chicago, IL 60647
OR
submissions [at] makemag.com
6. New York City, USA: AUDITION: OPEN CALL FOR ASIAN AMERICAN ACTORS AND ACTRESSES, audition dates: 6-10 April 2006
OPEN CALL
ASIAN AMERICAN ACTORS AND ACTRESSES OF ALL TYPES SOUGHT
For TEN
a staged reading of brand new ten-minute plays by
CARLA CHING, JULIA CHO, ANDREW CHU, MICHAEL GOLAMCO
DAVID HENRY HWANG, MRINALINI KAMATH, CHIORI MIYAGAWA
QUI NGUYEN, A. REY PAMATMAT, and SUNG RNO
Produced and directed by LLOYD SUH
Associate Directors MICHAEL LEW and REHANA MIRZA
Performances on
MONDAY, APRIL 30TH AND TUESDAY, MAY 1ST AT 7:00pm
at the JOSEPH PAPP PUBLIC THEATER
No experience necessary. Especially seeking new talent.
Up to 15-20 roles available for actors and actresses of all Asian ethnicities, ages, types.
Rehearsal period during the week of April 23-30. Both day and evening rehearsal hours possible.
Auditions to be held at 440 Studios, 440 Lafayette Street, New York, NY, April 6-11. For an appointment, please email cas...@2g.org with requested audition times. Appointments will be
schedueld in five minute increments during the following hours:
Friday, April 6th, 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm
Saturday, April 7th, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Monday, April 9th, 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Tuesday, April 10th, 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm
In your email, please include your full name, contact information, and preferred appointment
times (attach headshot and resume, if possible), along with any conflicts with the above schedule.
We will respond to your email with the exact time of your appointment, and provide copies of the audition sides that you will be asked to prepare.
For further info, please visit www.2g.org
7. New York, USA: Retreat: Call for submissions voice & vision call for scripts by women. Deadline: 9 April 2007
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Postmark Deadline: Monday, April 9, 2007
for The ENVISION Retreat
July 15-29, 2007
Bard College, Annandale-on-Bard College, Ann
Voice & Vision is looking for projects initiated by women theater artists including performers, directors, writers, designers and groups of collaborators Voice & Vision Theater's annual summer retreat offers selected participants an artist-centered workshop environment where they can develop projects with women at the core. Voice & Vision provides ample rehearsal space on the Bard College campus, dramaturgical support, round-trip transportation from New York City, housing, a daily stipend and most meals. The ENVISION retreat affords each artist a highly focused workspace and opportunities to informally present their works-in-progress.
More after the jump...
Projects will be chosen to reflect a broad range of aesthetic and cultural perspectives. Past Retreat participants include Ruth Maleczech and Mabou Mines, Kia Corthron, Estelle Parsons, Olympia Dukakis, Yeardley Smith, Lola Pashalinski, Lynn Nottage, Chiori Miyagawa, Caridad Svich, Kristen Marting, Karen Hartman, Jennifer Miller, Lisa D'Amour and Theodora Skipitares.
Please send TWO COPIES OF THE FOLLOWING:
-Your script, if available (if not, excerpts are acceptable, or a writing sample with selected scenes or an outline); -A one-page description of your project and its current stage of development (we do consider projects at very early stages of development as well as projects much farther along), including a statement of your particular goals for the ENVISION Retreat; -The names of all collaborators you would like to bring to the Retreat, as well as the number of performers, or other collaborators you would like us to help you find (we accept both established creative teams and help artists form creative teams. We also accept artists who would like to work independently at the retreat); -Resumes of established collaborators whom you would like to bring to the Retreat; -Any special equipment, practical or technical needs; and -Names and phone numbers of three professional references. -You may also include ONE COPY of a video, CD or DVD of your project as a supplement to your application. If you would like it returned, please include a SASE.
Please include ONE $15 check payable to Voice & Vision to help offset the costs of circulating scripts among readers.
Send submissions to: Voice & Vision
Attn: ENVISION Retreat
520 8th Avenue, #308
NY, NY 10018
Decisions will be announced by mail by
May 20, 2007
For more information:
www.vandv.org
212.268.3717
ret...@vandv.ret
8. Davis, USA: Call for Papers, graduate conference: In Tangible Bodies. Deadline: 10 April 2007
In Tangible Bodies
Dance Under Construction IX
An annual, roving, interdisciplinary forum for
graduate students
to share research and action in dance, body, and
performance studies.
May 19-20, 2007
University of California, Davis
Department of Theatre & Dance
Possible topics, papers, presentations, & performances
include:
- sites of knowledge (bodies, places, communities…)
- experimentation
- new modes of research
- dance and memory - hybridization
- choreography in crisis - translations, adaptations,
and fusions
- the artist as citizen - your research interests
here
Call for participation:
Proposals are invited from current and recent graduate students for panels, presentations, workshops and
performances. We seek both finished work and research-in-process. Innovative alternatives including
site-specific and time-based events are welcome.
Presentations – 20 min max.
Workshops – 80 min max.
Saturday night performances – 15 min max.
If what you want to offer doesn't fit these frames,
your proposal is still welcome. Collaboratively,
creatively we will attempt to include your work.
Proposals should include the following:
1. Title of panel, roundtable, paper or presentation.
2. Names of all presenters, including chair &/or
organizer and discussant (for panels and roundtables).
3. Affiliation(s), mailing address, phone numbers and
email addresses of all participants.
4. Explanation of the session – 250 words max (for
panels, workshops, and roundtables); abstract of each
presentation or paper - 250 words max.
5. Two or three sentence bio for all participants.
6. Technical requirements.
Proposals should be emailed to the conference
organizers:
Mary Elizabeth Anderson and Keith Hennessy
dance_under_...@yahoo.com
The deadline for submission of all proposals is
Tuesday, April 10, 2007.
In Tangible Bodies
the fine print:
Late to organize and small in scale, we envision this year's conference as a low-key event. No keynote speaker. Low-tech performances. Generous collaborative spirit.
No fee to participate. Everyone pays for (fundraises) their own transportation and hotel. We will try to reserve discounted rooms at one or two specific hotels. More info to come.
Also, Davis folks will be encouraged to host guests
for those who prefer a homestay.
Dance Under Construction
BACKGROUND
Dance Under Construction is an interdisciplinary forum for presenting graduate student work on dance, the body and performance. It originated as an initiative of the graduate students of UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures and has been hosted by various UC campuses. Dance Under Construction has grown to an annual student-run event for dance and performance scholars, as well as those in related disciplines. Designed for the development of intellectual inquiry in a supportive and rigorous environment, the conference offers students a chance to explore through experimental modes of research and performance. This
interdisciplinary event provides a rare and important discursive space for the stimulation and presentation of cutting-edge research in topics related to the body as a site of cultural identification. Previous conferences have addressed artistic and intellectual
exploration of themes such as Black Aesthetics, Technology and Dance, Globalization, Transnational Bodies, Gender and Sexuality, Dance and Popular culture and Postcolonialism and Performance.
9. London, UK: JOB: women's library seeks poet to deliver project with young women. Deadline: Friday 13 April 2007
THE WOMEN'S LIBRARY SEEKS POET TO DELIVER PROJECT WITH YOUNG WOMEN
Reply to: joanna...@thewomenslibrary.ac.uk
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The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University is looking to
engage a performance/spoken word poet to deliver a short project with young women at a local youth club. The poet will work with the group towards a poetry performance and anthology. The project will use The Women's Library's collections to explore the way women's lives have changed over the last 120 years, and to enable the participants to reflect on their own opportunities as young women today. The project will be delivered between May and July and sessions will take place in the evening.
To apply, please send a CV with a covering letter saying why you are
interested in the project and what skills and experience you have to
offer to Joanna Ingham, Learning Co-ordinator, The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT or email it to joanna...@thewomenslibrary.ac.uk. Applications must be received by Friday 13 April.
For further information please e-mail joanna...@thewomenslibrary.ac.uk .
10. Jordan: Artist Residency: Call for Applications. Deadline 13 April 2007
CALL FOR APPLICATION
Shatana International Artist Workshop, Jordan is inviting
applications for its 2-week workshop residency program in Shatana,
Jordan from the 7th until the 21st of July 2007. Shatana workshop is
part of the Triangle Arts Network of artists.
Submissions Deadline: 13, April, 2007
For more information:
http://www.makanhouse.net/shatana
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The workshop will take place in the historic village of Shatana. The
residencies and work spaces are set in historic stone houses and
churches situated between olive and oak trees. Shatana has a
population of approximately 150. Shatana is about 70 kilometers away
from the capital Amman.
Shatana International Artist Workshop, Jordan is inviting
applications for its two-week workshop residency program in Shatana.
The workshop is process oriented, supports experimentation in all media and is targeted at emerging to mid career artists in all fields; encouraging contemporary work in painting, drawing, sculpture (or 2D and 3D work), installation, video, performance and sound. This workshop is part of the Triangle Arts Network of workshops currently active in 20 countries. The Triangle Arts Trust, established in 1982 by Robert Loder and Anthony Caro, is organised as a network of artist- led workshops that encourages experimentation, and cross-media exchange. The workshop will bring together 20-25 international artists practicing in a wide variety of media, to work among each other, and share ideas and methods for a period of two weeks in the serene village mountain setting of Shatana. At the end of the two weeks, the workshop will host an Open Day which will invite in the local public, artists, and critics to celebrate the developments and results of the workshop.
The workshop will provide the selected artist with full lodging and food, working space, local transportation and a small material stipend. Travel expenses to Jordan may also be awarded.
Application Requirements
Personal Information: name, age, nationality, contact details
(address, email and telephone number)
200 words stating interest in applying
Bio/Curriculum Vitae
10 digital images of work in JPEG formats (PC and Mac formats),
resolution 1024 x 768
Inventory list of the 10 images sent on MS Word that includes: Title
of image, date, dimensions, medium, & explanation (if documentation
of installation, performance etc.)
All 5 requirements are to be sent by email to
shatana...@gmail.com <shatanaworkshop%40gmail.com>
Time based work, such as performance, video, or sound can be sent by
DVD by mail to the following address:
Shatana
P.O. Box 317
Amman 11821
Jordan
Applications must be received by April 13, 2007. Late applications
can not be reviewed. Selected artist will be notified by the end of
April. Work or material sent by mail cannot be returned back by mail.
For more information please contact
Shatana workshop
Email: shatana...@gmail.com
11. Bangalore, India: Call for Entries: VOICES FROM THE WATERS 2007 2ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ON WATER. Deadline 15 April 2007
Bangalore Film Society in collaboration with Water Journeys and CIEDS collective is organizing the second edition of the International Film Festival on Water titled 'Voices from the Water 2007'. The first edition of the festival was successfully held in April 2004 in Bangalore, India. The festival is a series of film screenings and conferences held over three days that aim to create general awareness and inspire dialogues among the general public on water- a precious, seamless natural resource that is becoming increasingly scarce and deviously comodified.
We invite you to be part of this event by contributing short, documentary and feature films (DVD/VCD formats) with English subtitles on water and related issues. Further, we would appreciate
a preview copy of any films you would wish to send so that we may place them in one of the five categories of the festival, Water Scarcity, The Dams and the Displaced, Water Harvest, Water
Struggles and Water and Life. We would duly acknowledge your participation. While there is no entry fee, 'Voices From the Waters' being a public awareness program, films for the festival will be short-listed by a committee composed of film-makers and social activists.
Should you need more information about us, please do get in touch with us. Deadline for entries is 15th April, 2007.
Looking forward to your participation.
Thanking you,
Yours Sincerely,
BFS team
Contact:-
Siddharth Pillai,
33/1-9, Thyagaraja Layout,
Jai Bharath Nagar,
M.S. Nagar P.O.,
Bangalore- 560 033,
Karnataka,
India.
Tel: 91- 80- 25493705
Email: b...@bgl.vsnl. net.in
Bangalore Film Society:-
Bangalore Film Society is a non profit membership based organization committed to explore the cultural politics and how it impacts and shapes the modern cultural practices, politics and social behaviour. We volunteer to screen feature and documentary films for the film society members, in colleges and institutions. Our aim is to introduce the contemporary socio-political- cultural concerns through cinema among the youth and initiate discussions, as also to inculcate among the youth a deep sense of humanism, pluralism, and an appreciation of diversity. We also attempt to open up pluralist cultural spaces for progressive perspectives on notions of justice, rights, racial equality and so on to enable the participants to visualise images of – a world free from intolerance, violence and injustice.
Water Journeys:-
Water Journeys is to screen films on water issues, water struggles, water conservation and related issues in schools, colleges and communities to start a dialogue on the issue of control and use of water. It aims at networking with agencies involved in the protection and preservation of lakes, rivers and other water bodies.
CIEDS collective:-
CIEDS is a thirty-year- old organization that critiques the contemporary development paradigm which has created pockets of plenty and abysmal poverty across the globe. The homocentric development paradigm treats the earth as a commodity, which will have catastrophic effects on nature and the environment. We are already victims of such an approach. CIEDS in its involvement with present socio-political issues concerning women, tribals, Dalits, environment, culture and so on, attempts a nature-centric vision and sustainable development.
Campaign for the fundamental right to water,
C/o No.33/1-9, Thyagaraj Layout,
Jai Bharath Nagar,
Maruthisevanagar P.O,
Bangalore-560 033.
"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water" - Loran Eisley
12. Melbourne, Australia: Call for Papers: (Un)Making Queer Worlds: Transformations in Asia-Pacific Queer Cultures. Proposal deadline: 27 April 2007
Roundtable Workshop for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers
June 22-23, 2007
Graduate Centre, University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Call for Papers
Since 2000, intellectual interest in Asia-Pacific queer cultures has
surged. This surge responds partly to the new visibility of non-normativ sexual and gendered subjectivities in the Asia-Pacific and its multiple diasporas. Along with the new thinking around Asian/Pacific sexualities and genders come various contestations: in particular, the fine distinction between understanding A/P sexual cultures as part of an emerging 'queer globality', and the tendency to subsume them under a developmental model that places the 'West' as the vanguard of, or bad example for, the 'rest'. Collaborations between queer studies, post-colonial studies, and post-structuralist critiques have shed light on the contemporaneity and historicity of each local queer culture in the Asia-Pacific. But although such effort to carefully describe geographical or local queer particularities is invaluable, locality does not subsist in
an insular manner, but is always relational. 'Glocal' queer theory marries the specificity of locality with the context of globality. Additionally, the economic processes of globalisation have been accompanied by—indeed, in some cases actively promoted—mass migration, warm body exports and brain drains, particularly from the Asia-Pacific regions, that have temporarily and permanently dislocated individuals and families from their homelands. In such instances the ability to locate 'local sexualities' is brought to the fore just as it proposes new difficulties for the analysis of sexuality along national, regional lines, particularly in Australia. And if sexualities and genders are 'glocal', then so is capital. Understanding the nexus between glocal capital and sexual subjectivities through their localised and diasporic trajectories is, at bottom, about the political stakes of queer survival in a neoliberal world.
(Un)Making Queer Worlds tackles these important questions directly by bringing together scholars for a two-day roundtable workshop at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The workshop is particularly
interested in proposals from postgraduates and Early Career Researchers
(ECRs).
Confirmed speaker: Associate Professor Peter A. Jackson will deliver a keynote address on Friday June 22. Dr Jackson is the Deputy Convenor and Senior Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is the author and editor of numerous publications on genders and sexualities in Thailand and elsewhere, including Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand (Haworth Press, New York, 1999) and Multicultural
Queer: Australian Narratives (Haworth Press, New York, 1999).
______________________________________________
Submission of abstracts
What we're looking for:
We seek participants investigating how various Asia-Pacific constituents are (un)making trajectories of queer world and globality. We encourage papers that employ interdisciplinary approaches. We hope that (Un)Making Queer Worlds will contribute to the ongoing elucidation of constantly evolving Asia-Pacific queer cultures and their global articulations.
Workshop format:
Featured participants will be asked to circulate their papers a week in advance of the workshop. Participants will be allocated a one-hour session to present a paper (20-30 minutes) and engage in discussion. As this is a postgraduate and ECR event, registration is free of charge.
Please submit abstracts of 450-500 words to unmakin...@unimelb.edu.au by April 27 2007. Keep in mind that papers presented will be circulated before the workshop. Circulated papers should be no more than 6000 words in length.
Important dates:
Proposals due: 27 April 2007
Speakers confirmed: Monday May 7
Deadline for papers to be submitted: Monday June 4
Papers circulated: Monday June 11
Workshop: Fri/Sat June 22-23
For more info, to register or to submit a paper proposal, email
unmakin...@unimelb.edu.au
ULR: http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/postgraduate/unmaking_worlds.html
(Un)Making Queer Worlds is a project jointly initiated by the Cultural
Studies Program, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, and the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney. We acknowledge the support of the Cultural Research Network of the ARC and the School of Graduate Studies, University of Melbourne.
13. Canada: Call for Writing: mixed-race youth in canada anthology. Deadline: 30 April 2007
HALF BRED: mixed-race youth write revolution
Hey everyone! A new anthology voicing the words of mixed youth of colour Canadians called "HALF-BRED: mixed-race youth write revolution!" is coming soon! We want this book to be a site where mixed young people can express their experiences and issues of identity while speaking to race politics in Canada.
Want to be a part of this anthology? We're looking for prose, poetry,
artwork (including photography), memoirs and essays that talk about the identity issues that come with growing up multiracial in this country.
Written submissions are to be no longer than 3000 words. Creativity of all kinds is welcomed and encouraged
We are looking for writing that speaks to race politics in Canada. That addresses multiculturalism, globalization and post)colonialism. That intersects with issues of class, sexuality, gender, disability, religion, etc.
We are two biracial young women of colour who are eager to hear the voices of other multi-racial young folks. If this sounds interesting to you, and you're between the ages of 18-29, please submit!
Deadline: April 30
Send submissions to or contact us at:
halfbreed...@gmail.com
check us out!!!
http://groups.myspace.com/halfbreedyouth
14. New York, USA: Call to Artists: Soundfest. Deadline: 30 April 2007
Call To Artists!
Asian American Arts Alliance presents
Soundfest: Asian Americans in Music
This August, the first ever Soundfest: Asian Americans in Music festival will take place. Soundfest is an all-day outdoor Pan-Asian music festival that will showcase the diversity and talent of musicians in New York City. Soundfest will bring together local artists from a broad range of diasporas, musical genres, generations, and traditions.
Soundfest is presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance (AAAA), a diverse alliance of artists, organizations, and individual supporters who believe that working together as a pan-ethnic, multidisciplinary community is essential to nurturing the development of artists and arts organizations, and to providing a political voice for the community.
Soundfest is accepting proposals from performing musical artists of Asian descent who self-identify as Asian/Asian American. Participating musicians and groups should be based in New York City (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island), or conduct a significant amount of their artistic activities within New York City. An independent curating panel convened by AAAA will review artist submissions, and a total of ten artists/groups will be featured during the day-long outdoor music
festival.
Those artists whose proposals are accepted and who perform at Soundfest will be paid for their work. Soundfest seeks to provide a rich sampling of the talent and diversity of Pan-Asian communities in New York City that will speak to audiences of different backgrounds and ages.
To be considered, complete the attached application and return to:
Ujju Aggarwal, Soundfest Director
Asian American Arts Alliance
155 Avenue of the Americas, 6th floor
New York, NY 10013
Deadline to apply: April 30th, 2007.
Materials must be received, not postmarked, by this date.
Include a self-addressed postcard if you want receipt confirmed.
15. Los Angeles, USA: Call for submissions to ITCH #5: fiction and fictions. Deadline: 1 May 2007
Fiction:
1. the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, esp. in prose form…
2. something feigned, invented, or imagined;
3. an imaginary thing or event, postulated for the purposes of argument or explanation.
4. "a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning" (Dorothy Allison)
As (movement) artists, practitioners, creators, and citizens of the bush administration, we experience miscellaneous forms of fiction everyday. Whether or not we recognize them as such is often a moot point. We make use fiction (ie metaphor, fantasy, illusion) as a communicative device in our work, and a way to move us smoothly through the day Fiction also helps us unwind, or cope, depending on the leg you're standing on. When we take time to recognize the amount of fictions we are immersed in everyday, we come to realize that fiction is not about varying levels of believability, nor is it the opposite of truth. It is simply a strategy, a tactic.
We'd like to collect a mélange of fiction for issue #5 of itch:
actual prose/storytelling; a (radical) faerie/fairy tale; a record of how you employ fiction in your own work or daily life; a record of how fiction is employed by another person or entity (be they a politician, an artist, your professor, your pet, a movie, a war, etc); recorded observations of your daily surroundings; or something else. tell us lies.
*Also, for our rolling dialogue section, please submit your responses to issue #4: evidence
D E A D L I N E: T U E S D A Y MAY 1, 2007 . (mayday)
send submissions to sub...@itchjournal.org. Further questions, concerns, provocations, etc can also be send to sub...@itchjournal.org
--if you'd like to stop receiving itch emails please let us know
thanks. meg, rae, taish
16. Queens, NY, USA: CALL FOR LGBT PERFORMERS & FILMMAKERS . Queerin Queens. DEADLINE: POSTMARK MAY 1, 2007
QUEERIN' QUEENS QUEENS PRIDE CELEBRATION, JUNE 17th @ QUEENS MUSEUM
Call for SUBMISSIONS
Queens Museum of Art and CINEMAROSA -- Queens Only Queer Film Series are seeking performers (musicians, dancers, performance artists, poets, and comedians) as well as short filmmakers to participate our 5th Annual Queerin' Queens LGBT Pride Celebration in the beautiful setting of Flushing Meadows Park and the Queens Museum of Art on Sunday, June 17th, 2007 from 3:00 - 7:00 pm. CINEMROSA queer film/video screenings will take place for the first half, followed by performances and reception from 5 - 7pm.
This FREE event brings together organizations and individuals in an afternoon of free music, dance, video, dynamic performances, food, art, and activism to celebrate and support the importance and strength of multicultural connections in our New York gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities. In the past we've had performances by Carmelita Tropicana, Imani Henry, Mahina Movement, Chaney Sims, Imani Uzuri, Emanuel Xavier, performance artist Zeena Diwani, and Sri Lankan poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha to name a few.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Postmark May 1, 2007
FILMMAKERS:
Send a VHS, DVD or MiniDV Tape (NTSC Format Only) along with Electronic Press Kit on a CD containing: Still pictures (300 dpi, jpg or pdf format), Synopsis and Director's Bio. Also include Printed Promotional Material (if available) along with the completed Entry Form at http://www.cinemarosa.org/pages/pdfs/cinemarosa_entryform.pdf to:
Canonge c/o
CINEMAROSA
Box 20850, Columbus Circle
NYC, NY 10023
17. New York, USA: Call for artists: SAWCC Tenth Anniversary Annual Viisual Arts Exhibition. Deadline: 1 May 2007
SAWCC is now accepting submissions for its Tenth Anniversary / Annual Visual Arts Exhibition to be held from August 4 – September 1st 2007 at Exit Art in New York City.
*** Submission deadline- May 1st 2007***
As other spaces in the art world present the work of women artists' this year, SAWCC will participate in a truly collective fashion in the spectacle. The women in SAWCC have worked together and influenced each other for a decade now, and we would like to make this energy manifest in the exhibition itself. The theme for our tenth anniversary exhibition is collaborative works and participatory projects. All visual media, including 2D, 3D, video and installation work that fall within the guidelines of this call for submissions will be considered. Participatory projects are being defined for the purposes of this exhibition as interactive artworks that engage the
audience through the duration of the exhibition. We are also looking for work produced through a process of dialogue between at least two South Asian women artists – across disciplines. Meaning, this year we will also be accepting projects between visual artists and writers, dancers, musicians etc. (Following from our participation in the New York South Asian and Arab Film Festival, we will consider collaborations between South Asian and Arab/Persian women.) Artists are invited to submit multiple projects with different collaborators, provided the finished products are ready in time.
If you have work that has already been produced, please send us
documentation of the project. If you are initiating a project for this
exhibition, initial sketches or jpegs and a proposal will be reviewed but are due on May 1st with other artworks. All selected projects must be completed and ready to review by July 15th 2007 for a final approval by the curators.
Entries must be original work/s completed within the last six years. Audio or video equipment required will be supplied by Exit Art. Please forward this call widely.
The show will be juried by :
Jaishri Abichandani, Founder/ Executive Director SAWCC &
Jeanette Ingberman, Co- Founder / Director of Exit Art
TIMELINE:
Entry deadline: May 1st 2007 (received)
Notification: Selected artists notified by June 1st 2007
Artist's Reception: August 4th 2007
Exhibition Dates: August 4 to September 1st 2007
PLEASE MAIL ALL MATERIALS BY MAY 1ST 2007 TO Exit Art
475 Tenth Ave_New York, NY 10018
SAWCC would like to thank the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) for its generous support of SAWCC's 2007 Visual Arts Show, and Exit Art, New York for hosting the exhibition at its gallery space.
18. Washington, USA: IAHHE Call for papers and Exhibits on Hip Hop. Deadline 31 May 2007
1st Annual Conference 2007
Call For Papers and Exhibits
The IAHHE is hosting its first annual conference and is looking for researchers, scholars, documentary filmmakers, and artists in hip hop to present their work.
The one-day conference will take place at Howard University on Friday, September 28th.
Topics for presentation may include:
Hip Hop Pedagogy
What methodologies work in the classroom?
Successful lesson plans and activities using hip hop
Ethnography
Research on individuals and communities in hip hop
Biographies
Multimedia Presentations
Independent Films
Power Point presentations
Graphic Artists exhibits
Sociological Approaches to Hip Hop
Building Better Relationships in Hip Hop
Health and Wellness in the Hip Hop Community
How does hip hop lifestyle affect the health
and wellness of its community?
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (MLK 2007)
Hip Hop and Politics
(how can hip hop be used politically)
Hip Hop and Philosophy
(is hip hop a philosophical movement?)
Hip Hop Economics
(insights on the developing underground industry)
Please submit your paper, panel, workshop, film or exhibit proposal to:
IAHHE
Call for Papers 2007
3911 9th St NE #2
Washington DC 20017
The deadline for submission is May 31, 2007
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- dance and memory - hybridization
- choreography in crisis - translations, adaptations,
and fusions
- the artist as citizen - your research interests
here
Call for participation:
Proposals are invited from current and recent graduate students for panels, presentations, workshops and
performances. We seek both finished work and research-in-process. Innovative alternatives including
site-specific and time-based events are welcome.
Presentations – 20 min max.
Workshops – 80 min max.
Saturday night performances – 15 min max.
If what you want to offer doesn't fit these frames,
your proposal is still welcome. Collaboratively,
creatively we will attempt to include your work.
Proposals should include the following:
1. Title of panel, roundtable, paper or presentation.
2. Names of all presenters, including chair &/or
organizer and discussant (for panels and roundtables).
3. Affiliation(s), mailing address, phone numbers and
email addresses of all participants.
4. Explanation of the session – 250 words max (for
panels, workshops, and roundtables); abstract of each
presentation or paper - 250 words max.
5. Two or three sentence bio for all participants.
6. Technical requirements.
Proposals should be emailed to the conference
organizers:
Mary Elizabeth Anderson and Keith Hennessy
dance_under_...@yahoo.com
The deadline for submission of all proposals is
Tuesday, April 10, 2007.
In Tangible Bodies
the fine print:
Late to organize and small in scale, we envision this year's conference as a low-key event. No keynote speaker. Low-tech performances. Generous collaborative spirit.
No fee to participate. Everyone pays for (fundraises) their own transportation and hotel. We will try to reserve discounted rooms at one or two specific hotels. More info to come.
Also, Davis folks will be encouraged to host guests
for those who prefer a homestay.
Dance Under Construction
BACKGROUND
Dance Under Construction is an interdisciplinary forum for presenting graduate student work on dance, the body and performance. It originated as an initiative of the graduate students of UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures and has been hosted by various UC campuses. Dance Under Construction has grown to an annual student-run event for dance and performance scholars, as well as those in related disciplines. Designed for the development of intellectual inquiry in a supportive and rigorous environment, the conference offers students a chance to explore through experimental modes of research and performance. This
interdisciplinary event provides a rare and important discursive space for the stimulation and presentation of cutting-edge research in topics related to the body as a site of cultural identification. Previous conferences have addressed artistic and intellectual
exploration of themes such as Black Aesthetics, Technology and Dance, Globalization, Transnational Bodies, Gender and Sexuality, Dance and Popular culture and Postcolonialism and Performance.
9. London, UK: JOB: women's library seeks poet to deliver project with young women. Deadline: Friday 13 April 2007
THE WOMEN'S LIBRARY SEEKS POET TO DELIVER PROJECT WITH YOUNG WOMEN
Reply to: joanna...@thewomenslibrary.ac.uk
---
The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University is looking to
engage a performance/spoken word poet to deliver a short project with young women at a local youth club. The poet will work with the group towards a poetry performance and anthology. The project will use The Women's Library's collections to explore the way women's lives have changed over the last 120 years, and to enable the participants to reflect on their own opportunities as young women today. The project will be delivered between May and July and sessions will take place in the evening.
To apply, please send a CV with a covering letter saying why you are
interested in the project and what skills and experience you have to
offer to Joanna Ingham, Learning Co-ordinator, The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT or email it to joanna...@thewomenslibrary.ac.uk. Applications must be received by Friday 13 April.
For further information please e-mail joanna...@thewomenslibrary.ac.uk .
10. Jordan: Artist Residency: Call for Applications. Deadline 13 April 2007
CALL FOR APPLICATION
Shatana International Artist Workshop, Jordan is inviting
applications for its 2-week workshop residency program in Shatana,
Jordan from the 7th until the 21st of July 2007. Shatana workshop is
part of the Triangle Arts Network of artists.
Submissions Deadline: 13, April, 2007
For more information:
http://www.makanhouse.net/shatana
----------------------------------------------------------
The workshop will take place in the historic village of Shatana. The
residencies and work spaces are set in historic stone houses and
churches situated between olive and oak trees. Shatana has a
population of approximately 150. Shatana is about 70 kilometers away
from the capital Amman.
Shatana International Artist Workshop, Jordan is inviting
applications for its two-week workshop residency program in Shatana.
The workshop is process oriented, supports experimentation in all media and is targeted at emerging to mid career artists in all fields; encouraging contemporary work in painting, drawing, sculpture (or 2D and 3D work), installation, video, performance and sound. This workshop is part of the Triangle Arts Network of workshops currently active in 20 countries. The Triangle Arts Trust, established in 1982 by Robert Loder and Anthony Caro, is organised as a network of artist- led workshops that encourages experimentation, and cross-media exchange. The workshop will bring together 20-25 international artists practicing in a wide variety of media, to work among each other, and share ideas and methods for a period of two weeks in the serene village mountain setting of Shatana. At the end of the two weeks, the workshop will host an Open Day which will invite in the local public, artists, and critics to celebrate the developments and results of the workshop.
The workshop will provide the selected artist with full lodging and food, working space, local transportation and a small material stipend. Travel expenses to Jordan may also be awarded.
Application Requirements
Personal Information: name, age, nationality, contact details
(address, email and telephone number)
200 words stating interest in applying
Bio/Curriculum Vitae
10 digital images of work in JPEG formats (PC and Mac formats),
resolution 1024 x 768
Inventory list of the 10 images sent on MS Word that includes: Title
of image, date, dimensions, medium, & explanation (if documentation
of installation, performance etc.)
All 5 requirements are to be sent by email to
shatana...@gmail.com <shatanaworkshop%40gmail.com>
Time based work, such as performance, video, or sound can be sent by
DVD by mail to the following address:
Shatana
P.O. Box 317
Amman 11821
Jordan
Applications must be received by April 13, 2007. Late applications
can not be reviewed. Selected artist will be notified by the end of
April. Work or material sent by mail cannot be returned back by mail.
For more information please contact
Shatana workshop
Email: shatana...@gmail.com
11. Bangalore, India: Call for Entries: VOICES FROM THE WATERS 2007 2ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ON WATER. Deadline 15 April 2007
Bangalore Film Society in collaboration with Water Journeys and CIEDS collective is organizing the second edition of the International Film Festival on Water titled 'Voices from the Water 2007'. The first edition of the festival was successfully held in April 2004 in Bangalore, India. The festival is a series of film screenings and conferences held over three days that aim to create general awareness and inspire dialogues among the general public on water- a precious, seamless natural resource that is becoming increasingly scarce and deviously comodified.
We invite you to be part of this event by contributing short, documentary and feature films (DVD/VCD formats) with English subtitles on water and related issues. Further, we would appreciate
a preview copy of any films you would wish to send so that we may place them in one of the five categories of the festival, Water Scarcity, The Dams and the Displaced, Water Harvest, Water
Struggles and Water and Life. We would duly acknowledge your participation. While there is no entry fee, 'Voices From the Waters' being a public awareness program, films for the festival will be short-listed by a committee composed of film-makers and social activists.
Should you need more information about us, please do get in touch with us. Deadline for entries is 15th April, 2007.
Looking forward to your participation.
Thanking you,
Yours Sincerely,
BFS team
Contact:-
Siddharth Pillai,
33/1-9, Thyagaraja Layout,
Jai Bharath Nagar,
M.S. Nagar P.O.,
Bangalore- 560 033,
Karnataka,
India.
Tel: 91- 80- 25493705
Email: b...@bgl.vsnl. net.in
Bangalore Film Society:-
Bangalore Film Society is a non profit membership based organization committed to explore the cultural politics and how it impacts and shapes the modern cultural practices, politics and social behaviour. We volunteer to screen feature and documentary films for the film society members, in colleges and institutions. Our aim is to introduce the contemporary socio-political- cultural concerns through cinema among the youth and initiate discussions, as also to inculcate among the youth a deep sense of humanism, pluralism, and an appreciation of diversity. We also attempt to open up pluralist cultural spaces for progressive perspectives on notions of justice, rights, racial equality and so on to enable the participants to visualise images of – a world free from intolerance, violence and injustice.
Water Journeys:-
Water Journeys is to screen films on water issues, water struggles, water conservation and related issues in schools, colleges and communities to start a dialogue on the issue of control and use of water. It aims at networking with agencies involved in the protection and preservation of lakes, rivers and other water bodies.
CIEDS collective:-
CIEDS is a thirty-year- old organization that critiques the contemporary development paradigm which has created pockets of plenty and abysmal poverty across the globe. The homocentric development paradigm treats the earth as a commodity, which will have catastrophic effects on nature and the environment. We are already victims of such an approach. CIEDS in its involvement with present socio-political issues concerning women, tribals, Dalits, environment, culture and so on, attempts a nature-centric vision and sustainable development.
Campaign for the fundamental right to water,
C/o No.33/1-9, Thyagaraj Layout,
Jai Bharath Nagar,
Maruthisevanagar P.O,
Bangalore-560 033.
"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water" - Loran Eisley
12. Melbourne, Australia: Call for Papers: (Un)Making Queer Worlds: Transformations in Asia-Pacific Queer Cultures. Proposal deadline: 27 April 2007
Roundtable Workshop for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers
June 22-23, 2007
Graduate Centre, University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Call for Papers
Since 2000, intellectual interest in Asia-Pacific queer cultures has
surged. This surge responds partly to the new visibility of non-normativ sexual and gendered subjectivities in the Asia-Pacific and its multiple diasporas. Along with the new thinking around Asian/Pacific sexualities and genders come various contestations: in particular, the fine distinction between understanding A/P sexual cultures as part of an emerging 'queer globality', and the tendency to subsume them under a developmental model that places the 'West' as the vanguard of, or bad example for, the 'rest'. Collaborations between queer studies, post-colonial studies, and post-structuralist critiques have shed light on the contemporaneity and historicity of each local queer culture in the Asia-Pacific. But although such effort to carefully describe geographical or local queer particularities is invaluable, locality does not subsist in
an insular manner, but is always relational. 'Glocal' queer theory marries the specificity of locality with the context of globality. Additionally, the economic processes of globalisation have been accompanied by—indeed, in some cases actively promoted—mass migration, warm body exports and brain drains, particularly from the Asia-Pacific regions, that have temporarily and permanently dislocated individuals and families from their homelands. In such instances the ability to locate 'local sexualities' is brought to the fore just as it proposes new difficulties for the analysis of sexuality along national, regional lines, particularly in Australia. And if sexualities and genders are 'glocal', then so is capital. Understanding the nexus between glocal capital and sexual subjectivities through their localised and diasporic trajectories is, at bottom, about the political stakes of queer survival in a neoliberal world.
(Un)Making Queer Worlds tackles these important questions directly by bringing together scholars for a two-day roundtable workshop at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The workshop is particularly
interested in proposals from postgraduates and Early Career Researchers
(ECRs).
Confirmed speaker: Associate Professor Peter A. Jackson will deliver a keynote address on Friday June 22. Dr Jackson is the Deputy Convenor and Senior Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is the author and editor of numerous publications on genders and sexualities in Thailand and elsewhere, including Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand (Haworth Press, New York, 1999) and Multicultural
Queer: Australian Narratives (Haworth Press, New York, 1999).
______________________________________________
Submission of abstracts
What we're looking for:
We seek participants investigating how various Asia-Pacific constituents are (un)making trajectories of queer world and globality. We encourage papers that employ interdisciplinary approaches. We hope that (Un)Making Queer Worlds will contribute to the ongoing elucidation of constantly evolving Asia-Pacific queer cultures and their global articulations.
Workshop format:
Featured participants will be asked to circulate their papers a week in advance of the workshop. Participants will be allocated a one-hour session to present a paper (20-30 minutes) and engage in discussion. As this is a postgraduate and ECR event, registration is free of charge.
Please submit abstracts of 450-500 words to unmakin...@unimelb.edu.au by April 27 2007. Keep in mind that papers presented will be circulated before the workshop. Circulated papers should be no more than 6000 words in length.
Important dates:
Proposals due: 27 April 2007
Speakers confirmed: Monday May 7
Deadline for papers to be submitted: Monday June 4
Papers circulated: Monday June 11
Workshop: Fri/Sat June 22-23
For more info, to register or to submit a paper proposal, email
unmakin...@unimelb.edu.au
ULR: http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/postgraduate/unmaking_worlds.html
(Un)Making Queer Worlds is a project jointly initiated by the Cultural
Studies Program, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, and the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney. We acknowledge the support of the Cultural Research Network of the ARC and the School of Graduate Studies, University of Melbourne.
13. Canada: Call for Writing: mixed-race youth in canada anthology. Deadline: 30 April 2007
HALF BRED: mixed-race youth write revolution
Hey everyone! A new anthology voicing the words of mixed youth of colour Canadians called "HALF-BRED: mixed-race youth write revolution!" is coming soon! We want this book to be a site where mixed young people can express their experiences and issues of identity while speaking to race politics in Canada.
Want to be a part of this anthology? We're looking for prose, poetry,
artwork (including photography), memoirs and essays that talk about the identity issues that come with growing up multiracial in this country.
Written submissions are to be no longer than 3000 words. Creativity of all kinds is welcomed and encouraged
We are looking for writing that speaks to race politics in Canada. That addresses multiculturalism, globalization and post)colonialism. That intersects with issues of class, sexuality, gender, disability, religion, etc.
We are two biracial young women of colour who are eager to hear the voices of other multi-racial young folks. If this sounds interesting to you, and you're between the ages of 18-29, please submit!
Deadline: April 30
Send submissions to or contact us at:
halfbreed...@gmail.com
check us out!!!
http://groups.myspace.com/halfbreedyouth
14. New York, USA: Call to Artists: Soundfest. Deadline: 30 April 2007
Call To Artists!
Asian American Arts Alliance presents
Soundfest: Asian Americans in Music
This August, the first ever Soundfest: Asian Americans in Music festival will take place. Soundfest is an all-day outdoor Pan-Asian music festival that will showcase the diversity and talent of musicians in New York City. Soundfest will bring together local artists from a broad range of diasporas, musical genres, generations, and traditions.
Soundfest is presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance (AAAA), a diverse alliance of artists, organizations, and individual supporters who believe that working together as a pan-ethnic, multidisciplinary community is essential to nurturing the development of artists and arts organizations, and to providing a political voice for the community.
Soundfest is accepting proposals from performing musical artists of Asian descent who self-identify as Asian/Asian American. Participating musicians and groups should be based in New York City (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island), or conduct a significant amount of their artistic activities within New York City. An independent curating panel convened by AAAA will review artist submissions, and a total of ten artists/groups will be featured during the day-long outdoor music
festival.
Those artists whose proposals are accepted and who perform at Soundfest will be paid for their work. Soundfest seeks to provide a rich sampling of the talent and diversity of Pan-Asian communities in New York City that will speak to audiences of different backgrounds and ages.
To be considered, complete the attached application and return to:
Ujju Aggarwal, Soundfest Director
Asian American Arts Alliance
155 Avenue of the Americas, 6th floor
New York, NY 10013
Deadline to apply: April 30th, 2007.
Materials must be received, not postmarked, by this date.
Include a self-addressed postcard if you want receipt confirmed.
15. Los Angeles, USA: Call for submissions to ITCH #5: fiction and fictions. Deadline: 1 May 2007
Fiction:
1. the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, esp. in prose form…
2. something feigned, invented, or imagined;
3. an imaginary thing or event, postulated for the purposes of argument or explanation.
4. "a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning" (Dorothy Allison)
As (movement) artists, practitioners, creators, and citizens of the bush administration, we experience miscellaneous forms of fiction everyday. Whether or not we recognize them as such is often a moot point. We make use fiction (ie metaphor, fantasy, illusion) as a communicative device in our work, and a way to move us smoothly through the day Fiction also helps us unwind, or cope, depending on the leg you're standing on. When we take time to recognize the amount of fictions we are immersed in everyday, we come to realize that fiction is not about varying levels of believability, nor is it the opposite of truth. It is simply a strategy, a tactic.
We'd like to collect a mélange of fiction for issue #5 of itch:
actual prose/storytelling; a (radical) faerie/fairy tale; a record of how you employ fiction in your own work or daily life; a record of how fiction is employed by another person or entity (be they a politician, an artist, your professor, your pet, a movie, a war, etc); recorded observations of your daily surroundings; or something else. tell us lies.
*Also, for our rolling dialogue section, please submit your responses to issue #4: evidence
D E A D L I N E: T U E S D A Y MAY 1, 2007 . (mayday)
send submissions to sub...@itchjournal.org. Further questions, concerns, provocations, etc can also be send to sub...@itchjournal.org
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16. Queens, NY, USA: CALL FOR LGBT PERFORMERS & FILMMAKERS . Queerin Queens. DEADLINE: POSTMARK MAY 1, 2007
QUEERIN' QUEENS QUEENS PRIDE CELEBRATION, JUNE 17th @ QUEENS MUSEUM
Call for SUBMISSIONS
Queens Museum of Art and CINEMAROSA -- Queens Only Queer Film Series are seeking performers (musicians, dancers, performance artists, poets, and comedians) as well as short filmmakers to participate our 5th Annual Queerin' Queens LGBT Pride Celebration in the beautiful setting of Flushing Meadows Park and the Queens Museum of Art on Sunday, June 17th, 2007 from 3:00 - 7:00 pm. CINEMROSA queer film/video screenings will take place for the first half, followed by performances and reception from 5 - 7pm.
This FREE event brings together organizations and individuals in an afternoon of free music, dance, video, dynamic performances, food, art, and activism to celebrate and support the importance and strength of multicultural connections in our New York gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities. In the past we've had performances by Carmelita Tropicana, Imani Henry, Mahina Movement, Chaney Sims, Imani Uzuri, Emanuel Xavier, performance artist Zeena Diwani, and Sri Lankan poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha to name a few.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Postmark May 1, 2007
FILMMAKERS:
Send a VHS, DVD or MiniDV Tape (NTSC Format Only) along with Electronic Press Kit on a CD containing: Still pictures (300 dpi, jpg or pdf format), Synopsis and Director's Bio. Also include Printed Promotional Material (if available) along with the completed Entry Form at http://www.cinemarosa.org/pages/pdfs/cinemarosa_entryform.pdf to:
Canonge c/o
CINEMAROSA
Box 20850, Columbus Circle
NYC, NY 10023
17. New York, USA: Call for artists: SAWCC Tenth Anniversary Annual Viisual Arts Exhibition. Deadline: 1 May 2007
SAWCC is now accepting submissions for its Tenth Anniversary / Annual Visual Arts Exhibition to be held from August 4 – September 1st 2007 at Exit Art in New York City.
*** Submission deadline- May 1st 2007***
As other spaces in the art world present the work of women artists' this year, SAWCC will participate in a truly collective fashion in the spectacle. The women in SAWCC have worked together and influenced each other for a decade now, and we would like to make this energy manifest in the exhibition itself. The theme for our tenth anniversary exhibition is collaborative works and participatory projects. All visual media, including 2D, 3D, video and installation work that fall within the guidelines of this call for submissions will be considered. Participatory projects are being defined for the purposes of this exhibition as interactive artworks that engage the
audience through the duration of the exhibition. We are also looking for work produced through a process of dialogue between at least two South Asian women artists – across disciplines. Meaning, this year we will also be accepting projects between visual artists and writers, dancers, musicians etc. (Following from our participation in the New York South Asian and Arab Film Festival, we will consider collaborations between South Asian and Arab/Persian women.) Artists are invited to submit multiple projects with different collaborators, provided the finished products are ready in time.
If you have work that has already been produced, please send us
documentation of the project. If you are initiating a project for this
exhibition, initial sketches or jpegs and a proposal will be reviewed but are due on May 1st with other artworks. All selected projects must be completed and ready to review by July 15th 2007 for a final approval by the curators.
Entries must be original work/s completed within the last six years. Audio or video equipment required will be supplied by Exit Art. Please forward this call widely.
The show will be juried by :
Jaishri Abichandani, Founder/ Executive Director SAWCC &
Jeanette Ingberman, Co- Founder / Director of Exit Art
TIMELINE:
Entry deadline: May 1st 2007 (received)
Notification: Selected artists notified by June 1st 2007
Artist's Reception: August 4th 2007
Exhibition Dates: August 4 to September 1st 2007
PLEASE MAIL ALL MATERIALS BY MAY 1ST 2007 TO Exit Art
475 Tenth Ave_New York, NY 10018
SAWCC would like to thank the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) for its generous support of SAWCC's 2007 Visual Arts Show, and Exit Art, New York for hosting the exhibition at its gallery space.
18. Washington, USA: IAHHE Call for papers and Exhibits on Hip Hop. Deadline 31 May 2007
1st Annual Conference 2007
Call For Papers and Exhibits
The IAHHE is hosting its first annual conference and is looking for researchers, scholars, documentary filmmakers, and artists in hip hop to present their work.
The one-day conference will take place at Howard University on Friday, September 28th.
Topics for presentation may include:
Hip Hop Pedagogy
What methodologies work in the classroom?
Successful lesson plans and activities using hip hop
Ethnography
Research on individuals and communities in hip hop
Biographies
Multimedia Presentations
Independent Films
Power Point presentations
Graphic Artists exhibits
Sociological Approaches to Hip Hop
Building Better Relationships in Hip Hop
Health and Wellness in the Hip Hop Community
How does hip hop lifestyle affect the health
and wellness of its community?
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (MLK 2007)
Hip Hop and Politics
(how can hip hop be used politically)
Hip Hop and Philosophy
(is hip hop a philosophical movement?)
Hip Hop Economics
(insights on the developing underground industry)
Please submit your paper, panel, workshop, film or exhibit proposal to:
IAHHE
Call for Papers 2007
3911 9th St NE #2
Washington DC 20017
The deadline for submission is May 31, 2007
• Disclaimer: Information is not verified and included in good faith. We are not responsible for any direct of indirect damage incurred because of the information contained in this newsletter. Though we check the information, we are not responsible for the content of external announcements and links. *
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