Shows to check out:
Richard Foreman and John Zorn's opera ASTRONOME closes this Sunday April 5th!
David Levine's Venice Saved @ Performance Space 122 closes this Sunday April 5th!
Banana Bag & Bodice's BEOWULF: A Thousand Years of Baggage @ Abrons Art Center/Henry Street Settlementl OPENS APRIL 1st!
check out New York Times FeatureObject Collection's Problem Radical(s) @ Performance Space 122 opens April 24th!
check out Claudia LaRocco's discussion of Object Collection, the Wooster Group and experimental operas at WNYC
Save the date to show these organizations your support:
13P SPRING BENEFIT @ Joe's Pub, May 11, 2009
Performance Space 122 Spring Gala, at Abrons Art Center, Wednesday May 27th
Training Opportunities:
NY BUTOH-KAN TRAINING INITIATIVE PHASE 3 a joint effort of CAVE and Garnica LEIMAY (LEIMAY) check out details - sessions start April 3rd!
DCA:Free Training Sessions for Cultural Nonprofits
Registration is required. Read the Spring 2009 schedule.
Troika Ranch is holding another Live-I workshop: "Composition for Media and The Stage" Dates: June 9 - 12 and 15 - 20, 2009. Troika Ranch's Live-I Workshop is an intensive workshop for artists who wish to develop their ability to realize media intensive works for the stage. Application Deadline: April 10th, 2009ABANDONED PRACTICES - a NEW PERFORMANCE SUMMER INSTITUTE
Hosted by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
Work Opportunities:
Forced Entertainment are looking for performers to join their core company
for a major new performance project combining text, movement and image.
Deadline for audition applications is 12noon on Tuesday 31st March 2009.
Calls for Submissions:
FIGMENT is looking for artists, architects, and sculptors to join our team to create one-of-a-kind mini-golf holes on Governors Island. This is not your typical golf course, but rather the City of Dreams Mini-Golf Course, designed to free mini-golf from the windmill and dinosaur set and allow artists to release their creativity in a forum usually more associated with tourist traps.
Proposals are due March 31!Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) invites artists or curators (individuals or groups) of all levels of experience to submit exhibition proposals for realization in its gallery space in 2010. - Deadline April 1
The Harpo Foundation gives grants to nonprofit institutions that support artists who are under-recognized by the field - get an organization to apply on your behalf. - Deadline April 1The Rhizome Commission Program is now accepting applications to its Commissions Program for grants ranging $1000 - $5000 for the creation of new works.
Deadline April 2Philly Fringe! CALL FOR ARTISTS! - Deadline April 3
BAX Artist in Residence- Deadline April 24
EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission 2009-2010: Open Call For Proposals- Deadline MAY 1
EMPAC The Artist in Residence program and The Scholar and Researcher in Residence Program - Deadlines Rolling
P73 Playwriting Fellowship is a year-long program that provides support to one early-career playwright each year, from January 1 to December 31. During the year, Page 73 serves as the fellow's producer and advocate, providing support for career development, the development of one or more new theatrical projects, and a cash stipend. - Deadline May 31
Advocacy Made Easy:
The Queens Arts Council is partnering with Fractured Atlas on a project to improve access to affordable quality health insurance for artists in NY State. This isn't something that will happen overnight, of course, but together we're working hard to lay some of the groundwork.
The first step is to participate and be counted. That's where you come in. Please take a few minutes to let us know about your health insurance needs and experiences.
Human Services for Artists:
The Artists Access Program at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn offers uninsured artists, musicians, dancers and art workers very affordable health care by paying as little as $15 for a physician visit, lab tests and X-Rays. Artists may exchange their talents in the hospital for credits towards healthcare. For each hour of approved art activity provided by an artist, 40 credits (equivalent to dollars for use within Woodhull to see a doctor or dentist) will be credited to your personal account. Each artist will be fee-scaled based on income and can use these credits to pay for his/her individual fee. Please call 877-244-5600 to speak directly with the program coordinator for more information.
One more little item....
Any of you politically motivated / poetic terrorists / arts action folks please email Austin Guest for more information about plans for a big day of actions to BREAK UP THE BANKS! on Saturday April 11th in NYC.
The event is being called by a coalition called A New Way Forward (ANWF) as part of a nationwide day of action. As for practical plans, we're thinking of the day as a "people's bank holiday" involving two parallel sets of actions:
(1) a series of many small, decentralized, prankstery and artistic direct actions at ATMs across the city leading up to...
(2) a mass rally location tbd - see website for info.
Each of the actions is tailored toward a specific audience and group of participants and lends itself to a particular style of organizing.