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Family Style OPEN MIC hosted by Yellow Rage

Hosted by spoken word duo Yellow Rage, this monthly open mic series invites the sharing of stories, song, dance, poetry among Asian Americans and extended “family” from all communities and cultures.

In Spring 2012, the Asian Arts Initiative will continue to host a pre-show reception with food and drink generously donated by local restaurants. The pre-show reception is FREE for all open mic guests!

Click here to go to Family Style's page and learn more about this season's guest features and event details.

Want to take the stage?Sign up for a 5-minute open mic spot here!

Asian Arts Initiative
1219 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107-1111
(215) 557-0455

Please Help Support This Amazing Kickstarter Project!

Please take a look at the short video above and consider donating to this amazing project.

IN THE IMAGE: CAPTURING THE STRUGGLE FOR PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTSIN THE IMAGE is a documentary about Palestinian women who film human rights abuses throughout the occupied West Bank. Each woman in our film belongs to the Camera Project, a unique collaboration of Jews and Arabs who use video to fight for justice, equality, and against intimidation by Israeli settlers and soldiers. Most importantly, the film explores the lives of these young Palestinian women as they enter the 21st century: their struggles between tradition and modernity, between invisibility and international media attention. The film also reveals the heartwarming collaboration between Arabs and Jews - a joint effort to achieve a just peace.

Where My Birthmark Dances is now available on Amazon

What's being said about Where My Birthmark Dances ?

The Ancient Romans used to call a person's creative spirit her "genius," and recognized the labor of setting it free as one of love and sacrifice. Octavia McBride-Ahebee's latest collection is just such a labor. Her poems depict human longing, love and dignity in the context of global inequality with fierce, uncompromising grace. As her characters speak, she creates indelible sensory images of loveliness and affection, profound misery and anger, letting each co-exist on the page. The resulting complexity of tone makes space for nuanced and compelling human voices that might otherwise be categorized as "victims" or "villains" of oppression. It takes the full use of genius to notice and capture these contradictions, and a deep social conscience to care so passionately about writing them down. This collection is one of McBride-Ahebee's "bighearted magnolia trees," its trunk scarred by the fire of sacrifice, its blossoms and branches so beautiful you don't want to leave their shade.

-Lillian Dunn, Editor of Apiary Literary Journal

Art Residency in Paris-Deadline March 3, 2012

Semapa, an urban development company of the Paris Rive Gauche area in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, is launching an international call for applications open to all forms of artistic creation.

Open to all forms of artistic creation and artists from all over the world, located in Paris, Rive Gauche.
Selection criteria: The provisional budget, including fees and production costs, amounts to 600.000 euros, excluding taxes. The selection will take place in two steps. The first part will be open to all applicants; a maximum of five artists will be selected to participate in the second phase. Each of these artists will have until the final trimester of 2012 to produce sketches on the basis of the contract specifications. Each of these proposals will be compensated in the amount of 15.000 euros, including taxes.

Further Information and Application http://www.commandeartistiqueparis13.com/en/index.php
Deadline: 03 March 2012

Creative Capital- Grants for Creative Work

HOW TO APPLY:

Creative Capital is the only national grantmaking and artist service organization for individual artists with an open application process. Our selection process includes three steps: inquiry, application and panel review.

To be eligible to apply, an artist must be:
• A U.S. citizen or permanent legal resident
• At least 25 years old
• A working artist with at least five years of professional experience
• Not a full-time student
Download the 2012 Grant Guidelines for more information.

The Letter of Inquiry Form for Film/Video and Visual Arts is now CLOSED. Thank you to everyone who submitted!

The Letter of Inquiry Form for Emerging Fields, Performing Arts and Literature will open on February 1, 2012.

Prior to the grant deadline, our grantmaking staff hold information sessions where artists can learn more about our application process.
Join our email list to receive future notification and announcements of grant rounds.
AWARD CALENDAR: February 1 – March 1, 2012: Open submissions for projects in Emerging Fields, Performing Arts and Literature

June 2012: Notification of advancement to application stage

September 2012: Notification of advancement to panel review

January 2013: Announcement of awards

If you have questions about the grant program or application process, please direct them to grants [at] creative-capital [dot] org.

The Laundromat Project

Create Change Public Artist Residency Application Guidelines

Eligibility
Artists of color…
•with a demonstrated creative practice and who are interested in (or already) making socially-engaged art. Proposed projects can use any medium or artistic genre as long as it can be adapted to a site-specific project in a working coin-op.
•who live in the Greater New York Metropolitan Area (including Jersey City and Newark) and Philadelphia.
•who are available to fully participate in all residency activities from May – October 2012.
•who are not enrolled as a full-time student at any point during the residency.

Benefits to Artists
The Laundromat Project is able to provide all Create Change participants with:
•Honorarium ($3000) and production budget ($1000)
•Access to a rich network of local and national peers, activists, arts professionals, curators, funders, and change agents
•Opportunity to form a peer network with other area artists on a bi-weekly basis
•A peer learning process for workshopping your creative vision, sharing strategies, and exchanging ideas
•Additional opportunities for support as program alumni

Additionally, Create Change Public Artists in Residence are resourced with:
•Support in promoting the public art project and generating participation
•Support in documenting the work
•A culminating event that features their Create Change project at the end of the residency cycle

Selection Criteria
Strong Create Change Candidates have:
•Familiarity or interest in local issues impacting their neighborhoods
•Willingness to take risks and step out of comfort zones
•Interest/Ability to actively engage non-artists in all aspects of your creative process
•Problem-solving skills, resourcefulness, and flexibility
•Capacity for critical analysis
•Deep respect for their neighbors, and the ability to collaborate with a broad public
•Demonstrated ability to carry out a project of this scale

Criteria Used to Evaluate Applications:
Artistic Merit
•Has the applicant demonstrated a command of the medium(s) presented in their work samples?
•Does the applicant’s work samples illustrate technical strength? Is the applicant’s work conceptually strong?
Project Clarity & Feasibility
•Is the project description and purpose clear?
•Can this project be completed within 6 months? If not, has the applicant indicated that the project will continue after the residency is over?
•Has the applicant identified the resources and support needed to realize their project? If they have listed resource and support needs that exceed $1000, do they offer an alternate strategy for acquiring these resources?
•Based on the work samples and the applicant’s past experience, will they be able to realize the project that they have proposed for the residency?
Relevance to Artists
•Does the applicant make a compelling case for why this residency is appropriate for their practice as an artist?
•Would participation in this residency significantly advance the artist’s career and scope of work?
•Do you think the applicant would go forward with realizing this project if funds were not granted?
Relevance to Neighborhood
•Does this project respond to the specific needs of the applicant’s neighborhood?
•Does the project incorporate the culture of the applicant’s neighborhood?
•Has the applicant demonstrated a familiarity or interest in local issues impacting their neighborhood?
•Is the project relevant and of benefit to the applicant’s neighborhood?
•Does the applicant demonstrate a deep respect for their neighbors and the ability to collaborate with a broad public?
•Is the project unique to the laundromat setting?
•Does the project interact with the laundromat as a public space?
•Will the applicant compellingly engage non-artists in all aspects of their creative process?
Sustainability
•Has the applicant identified additional resources (e.g. partnerships with schools, faith-based organizations, neighborhood leaders, local business owners, councilmen, etc) that will allow them to complete this project with excellence?
•Will the project continue after the residency term is complete?
•Will the applicant work with any of the aforementioned community partners and their neighbors to insure that the project continues past their residency term?

http://laundromatproject.org/

Octavia McBride-Ahebee

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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