CALL FOR ENTRIES

SLANT FILM FESTIVAL
Bold Asian American Images

10th Annual Shorts Film Festival

Houston, Texas. May 22, 2010.

Deadline: Postmark by January 30, 2010

Slant: Bold Asian American Images, an annual film festival of short films seeks
works by Asian American filmmakers. Now in its 10th year,  Slant will showcase
an eclectic mix of the best in emerging Asian American cinema. All genres are
accepted.

Slant is hosted by the Aurora Picture Show, a nonprofit microcinema dedicated to
showing non-commercial film, video, and new media. Aurora's primary interest is
curating high quality group programs that give exposure to emerging artists and
new works.

Program Content: All genres, including narrative, experimental, film art/video
art, documentary and animation.

Eligibility: Filmmakers or film content should be Asian American or Asian
Canadian.

Running Time: Each work should run 30 minutes or less.
Guidelines here: www.slantfestival.org

Presenting the third annual
Locus @ Kearny Street Workshop Do It Yourself Music Video Contest
co-presented by the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

Once again, Locus@KSW is teaming up musicians and bands with filmmakers from the
Asian American community to make music videos that will premiere at a special
event in February 2010 and compete for an opportunity to screen at the 2010 San
Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.

We've produced some amazing videos through this annual program. DIY teams have
duked it out online two years in a row for a coveted spot in the SFIAAFF. Last
year, two DIY music videos made it into the film festival: Mud's Careless,
directed by Matthew Abaya won the popular vote and Denizen Kane's Holdin' Up the
Wall, directed by Jason Mateo won the jury prize. These and all of the 2009 Do
It Yourself Music Videos can be seen at http://www.asianamericanmedia.org.

Musicians and filmmakers interested in participating in the 2010 contest should
get in touch with us by emailing brandon@.... No prior experience
with making music videos is necessary. Locus@KSW will match you up with a band
or filmmaker. Due to logistics for the premiere event, all participants,
especially musicians who are invited to perform at the premiere, should be local
to the San Francisco Bay Area (although this isn't required if you're willing to
make the trip!)

Asian American musicians and filmmakers interested in making no to low budget
music videos with other Asian American musicians and filmmakers just need to
submit a short bio about themselves along with the following:

• Solo musicians and bands must have a CD quality recording of the song you
would like to use in a music video. Please email us a link to your website or
other online venue with music samples.
• Filmmakers must have their own video camera, editing software, and a sample of
their work. If you have a sample of your work posted online, please email us a
link your work. If you do not have your work posted online, email us and we can
make arrangements to get a sample from you.

**We would also like to encourage participants to seek out their own partners.
Filmmakers, if you know a band that you've been wanting to make a music video
with and you contact them about collaborating for this project, feel free to
email us a collaborative submission. Musicians, same thing. Also, in the true Do
It Yourself spirit, we are also open to self-made videos by those of you
musician/filmmakers out there that really do it all yourself. If you want to
make a music video, we want to give you a place to show your talent to the
community in 2010.

The deadline to let us know that you are interested in participating is December
15, 2009. If you know any budding directors, producers, story tellers, bands,
singers, songwriters and MC's looking to get involved with a community network
that shares the love of making music videos please forward this call to them.

Email your submissions to brandon@... or visit www.kearnystreet.org
for more info.

Teaching Artist - 4 contract postions
The Asian Art Museum invites applications from teaching artists to participate
in an exciting program for local public high school youth "Art Speak". This is
an opportunity for teaching artists to cultivate meaningful interactions with
local youth and expand their roles as artists in the community.

Art Speak 2010 focuses on the upcoming exhibition Shanghai, featuring a diverse
range of work in many mediums from that dynamic city between 1850 and the
present. Shanghai will be on view from February 12 to September 5, 2010.

Four teaching artists will be selected to contribute lesson(s) to a
project-based arts curriculum for teens centering on two central themes pulled
from the Shanghai exhibition: IDENTITY and PLACE. Each teaching artist will
implement their own lesson(s) with the Art Speak participants during four
Saturday Studio Sessions in the spring. Projects will be representative of the
media on view in the exhibition: painting, illustration, photography,
architecture, printmaking, bookmaking/zines, poster art or other ephemera. The
program also includes a cultural and artistic exchange between Art Speak
participants and youth in Shanghai. The culmination of the program will be an
exhibition of the Art Speak youth's work at the museum.

Schedule
On January 23, 2010, the artists will participate in an all day professional
development workshop led by World Savvy (http://worldsavvy.org), and follow up
workshops on Sundays, February 28, March 28 and April 25. Subsequently each
artist will work four Saturdays from 12-4pm on one of the following schedules:
March 6, 13, 20, and 27; April 3, 10, 17, and 24 or May 1, 8, 15, and 22.

Payment
Each artist will receive a contract rate of $2000 for approximately 40 hours of
work (16 hours of teaching and 24 hours of professional development training).

Qualifications
Selected artists will have solid experience teaching art to high school age
students as well as a focus in at least one area of the mediums listed above.
The artists will have explored contemporary social and political issues in their
art, including themes of transformation, identity and place, and how they are
informed by immigration, globalization, the media and one's environment. In
addition to strong teaching and interpersonal skills, the artists will
demonstrate a collaborative spirit, cultural openness, and commitment to
education.

Apply
Register online at this website, providing cover letter, copy of resume, and
photos of selected work. Applications by mail will also be considered at HR,
Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street, San Francisco 94102. Deadline for
applications is Friday, November 30, 2009.

www.asianart.snaphire.com

http://www.blueprintreview.de/submissions.htm

Call for Submissions:


BluePrintReview #23

theme: (dis)comfort zones
(emotional, physical, moral,
geographic, social, mental, creative, cognitive, familiar, ethnical, etc.)


invited: short stories, poems,
creative non-fiction,
photos & artwork

submissions open: 01. Nov 2009
submissions close: 30. Nov 2009

issue is planned for: January 2010

send: send 1-3 poems, texts up to ~2000 words, and/or 2-3 images (low resolution or link is fine). please include a line about your work / about you, and website or blog links.

previously published works are welcome, online publications are preferred, please include the link to the original publication

simultaneous submissions: are fine, please indicate this in the submission, and redraw simultaneous submissions as soon as they are accepted elsewhere.

submit to: editor AT blueprintreview DOT de

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Purple Moon Dance Project <project@...>
> Date: November 11, 2009 4:57:02 PM PST
> To: Purple Moon Dance Project <project@...>
> Subject: Purple Moon Dance Project call for DreamSpeakers nominations
>
>                Dear Friend of Purple Moon,
>>>
>>> Do you know a woman in our community who has a rich culture,
>>> identity and background that has shaped her art making and
>>> inspired you?  An artist who creates beautiful, powerful work
>>> that is not seen or heard nearly enough?  We want to honor this
>>> woman in our next
>>> "In Honor of Our DreamSpeakers" celebration to be held May 2010!
>>>

>>>
>>>
>>> In 2007, Purple Moon Dance Project's 15th anniversary year, we
>>> held our first “In Honor of our DreamSpeakers” celebration,
>>> honoring 10 artists.  These women were chosen because of their
>>> ability to inspire us, reflect our own brilliance, and light our
>>> way through their work.
>>>
>>> In May 2010 we will present our third “In Honor of Our
>>> DreamSpeakers” to recognize women who tell our stories, heal our
>>> spirits and hearts, embody our wisdom, and preserve and enrich
>>> our culture through their artistic excellence.
>>>
>>> We invite you, our community, to nominate women who you would
>>> love to see honored as a DreamSpeaker.  Thank you for taking the
>>> time to fill out the attached nomination form to remember the
>>> women who speak to your dreams.
>>>
>>> You can read more about our last DreamSpeakers event on our
>>> website: Purplemoondance.org
>>>
>>> With gratitude,
>>>
>>> Michelle Fletcher
>>>
>>> Admin Associate
>>>
>>>
>>> Diversity made physical"

>>>
>>>
>>> 26 7th St., 6th fl.
>>> San Francisco, CA 94103
>>> 415-552-1105 p 415-864-6703 fax
>>> project@...
>>>
>>> Be on the look out for our upcoming events: The 4th biennial
>>> Community Healing Garden Festival in 2010, “In Honor of Our
>>> DreamSpeakers” and “When Dreams are Interrupted...” tour!!!
>>>

-------------------
Shizue Seigel
415-221-0487
shiz1@...
http://shizueseigel.com
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Books:  In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the
Internment, AACP, Inc, 2006 (second printing 2009), 320pp.
Century of Change, private commission, 2002, 198 pp.

Anthologies and journals:
Empty Shoes: Poems on the Hungry and the Homeless, Patrick T.
Randolph, ed., Popcorn Press 2009
Stone's Throw on-line journal, September 2009
My Words are Gonna Linger: The Art of Personal History, Association
of Personal Historians. 2008
Cheers to Muses, Asian American Women Artists Association, 2007

Group art exhibitions:
2009:
Photography Show Supervisor Eric Mar's Office, San Francisco City Hall
Dia de los Muertos, SOMArts, San Francisco
20th Anniversary show, Asian American Womens Artists Association, San
Francisco
CONTROL, Womens Caucus for the Arts, South Bay and Peninusual Chapters
Zero NW Zero WMD, WCA Artwaves International, Mexico City
St. Luke's Cardiovascular Center, Asian American Womens Artists
Association, San Francisco
Hybridity: Explorations of Cross-Cultural Identities, SOMArts
2008:
Cultural Resilience, Manilatown
Fast Food, Frankenart Mart
Behind Closed Dollars, Manilatown
2007:
Fetish: The Culture of Fear and Desire, Kearny Street Workshop
   Digital Offerings/Dia de los Muertos, SOMArts
The Second (After) Life digital gallery, SOMArts