AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Ballpoint on thin cardboard,
Jan 2011

Drew 36 pictures on 36 one-half-inch x about 2. inch thin gray cardboard inserts that come with cig papers.
Uncle Scam -- www.unclescam.org-- is selling the originals in Harvard Square Jan -Feb 2011.

This years WCAD has love letters, 52 images, concerts, exhibitions, knitting jumpers for trees and much much more.
AMP has been one of the key groups over the years. So thanks for your support.

INVITATION 5th World Community Arts Day

World Community Arts Day 17/02/11
" ART AS A CATALYST FOR CARING AND SHARING"
http://www.communiversity.org.uk/worldcommunityartsday.htm

To create a World Festival Society for a day.
" We can either react in fear or anger to the state of our world thus becoming part of the problem or respond creatively and become part of the solution."

You are invited to be part of a global celebration on 17/02/11. And it is our fifth birthday!

Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea
info@montehermoso.net
http://www.montehermoso.net

Montehermoso 2011 Art and Research Grants

The Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, in accordance with its desire to support creation and research in contemporary art and thought, announces a call for entries for a series of grants. The objective of this initiative, which is promoted by the Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council, is to facilitate the production of thirteen selected projects in the following categories: Art Project Production, Curatorship, Research and Film Scripts. Authors of any nationality, regardless of age, can present their projects individually or collectively.

ART PROJECT PRODUCTION

Deadline: 7pm, Friday, 25 March, 2011

For more information:
www.marcovigo.com
www.fraclorraine.org

MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo and 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz (Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Lorraine) organize the MARCO/Frac Lorraine Award for Young Exhibition Curators. They offer participants the chance to propose a project focused on an original and personal reflection topic, and the possibility to develop it in the exhibition venues at MARCO (1st floor) and at Frac Lorraine. The proposal shall be within the field of contemporary artistic creation and is open to any other forms of creation. Works from Frac Lorraine Collection may be included. To visit the Collection: collection.fraclorraine.org.

Living with uncertainty:
Multiplicity as a healing pathway through expressive arts

9th International Expressive Arts Therapy Association Conference (IEATA) Lima, Peru 10th – 14th of August, 2011

We live in a time in which social and environmental destruction threatens us all. There are no clear answers to the problems of the world, but the arts offer possibilities and perspectives that can help us find new pathways towards healthful solutions.

EU bloggers and photographers covering water and climate change can compete for a reporting trip to Poland.

Photographers should upload a maximum of eight photos related to water and climate change to the CL!CK platform. Twelve will win spots on the trip. Bloggers should upload posts about water to the TH!NK platform. Their top 24 will also join the trip this April.

For more information, click here.
http://www.ejc.net/about/press_releases/thnk5_and_clck2_competitions_lau...

from Art4Development

As part of its 50th Anniversary Celebrations, OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) has launched a competition for young people around the world to showcase their talent by creating a short video describing their vision of "Progress."

If you are - or know anyone - aged between 18 and 25 years old, and are a film-maker, complete the following phrase..."Progress is," in a video no longer than 3 minutes in length, then post it on YouTube.

Three winners will be chosen by public vote from a short-list selected by our jury, after the competition closing date, 1 March 2011. The winners will then be invited for an all-expenses-paid visit to the OECD Forum in Paris, France, taking place May 2011, for an official screening of their videos.

Global Water Dances is a world event planned for June 25, 2011. On this day, a 24 hour series of dances around the globe will be danced, centered around water issues. Beginning in the Western Pacific Rim, and encircling the globe, the series of dances will also be broadcast online.

Call for Art: Mama Earth
The Center for Green Urbanism
Washington, DC

Deadline: February 12, 2011.

On behalf of the Tubman-Mahan Art Gallery of the Center for Green Urbanism, Authentic Contemporary Art is inviting artists to submit artwork for Mama Earth.

Open to U.S. artists 18 years and older residing in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. Mama Earth is a visualcelebration of the beauty of the planet Earth through a variety of artistic mediums.

It will serve as the backdrop to the Center for Green Urbanism's first annual Earth Day Celebration in April 2011 and related activities.

Eligible Mediums: original 2-D mediums including mixed media, collage,
photography, painting, and works on paper. Must not exceed $900.

U got films? indie fest in Taipei celebrates 10th edition

Urban NOmad Film Festival

Urban Nomad
5F, #16 Jinmen St., Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei, Taiwan
Phone: 886-2-2736-8136
seanscanlan@hotmail.com
http://urbannomad.tw

Call for submissions begins now and concludes February 28, 2011
Priority will be given to films with both Chinese and English