IFA - Rave Foundation Scholarship

Rave Scholarships are awarded to young curators, restorers, museum technicians and cultural managers from countries in transition and developing countries. The aim of this IFA funded scholarship is to contribute to further practical training in arranging and realizing exhibitions for these cultural practitioners and also provide professionals from these countries with their first professional contacts in Germany. The Rave Scholarship is an investment in long term cultural exchange that allows scholarship-winners to gain practical experience in Germany and put it to use in his or her own home country.

The target group for this scholarship is:-

• Curators
• Restorers
• Museum technicians
• Cultural managers

from emerging and developing countries

The benefits of the scholarship include:

• A monthly lump sum of 1,300 euros for a scholarship period of three to six months
• Travelling expenses (to and from Germany)
• Married person’s supplement if the spouse is present in Germany
• Assistance with health insurance (also for spouses)
• German course (participation in a language course is expected)

For further details on how to apply, please refer to:- IFA

Arthinksouthasia 2011

ArthinkSouthAsia is an initiative sponsored by the South Asian network of Goethe Institutes, the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany. The first project is a fully funded fellowship in arts management addressed to art practitioners of today. The Fellowship has been designed to help develop skills, knowledge, networks and experience of potential leaders in the cultural sector of South Asia which include museums, the visual and performing arts and digital media. By supporting exceptional individuals to make a step-change in their skills and career potential, we can bring substantial benefit to the cultural field as a whole. Fifteen fellows will be selected from across South Asia.

The Fellowship includes-
• A two week residential course from in March
• A secondment / internship in Germany over the fellowship year
• A concluding seminar in March the following year

The two week residential course is designed to include a balance of theory and professional training and will consist of five to six modules which include latest thinking in cultural management in areas such as strategic planning, project management, strategic finance and fundraising, marketing, communication, and internet technologies amongst others. These modules will be led by a mix of Indian and international professional trainers and academics and will be supplemented by expert guest lectures. Participation in the residential programme is mandatory.

Each participant will be offered a funded four week secondment / internship best suited to his/her needs, interests and objectives in a cultural organization in Germany during the year. The Fellow will attend a closing seminar at the end of the Fellowship year to present and share updates on his/her project and learnings of the secondment with next years’ batch of fellows.

For further details on how to apply please refer to:- Arthinksouthasia

4th Global Conference, Prague, 8th -10th March 2011

Inter-disciplinary.net  is a multi-disciplinary project that seeks to explore the new and prominent place that the idea of culture has for the construction of meaning and identity, as well as the implications for social political membership in contemporary societies. In particular the project will assess the larger context of major world transformations, for example, new forms of migration and the massive movements of people across the globe, as well as the impact and contribution of globalisation on tensions, conflicts and the sense of rootedness and belonging. Looking to encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, papers have been invited from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand what it means for people, the world over, to forge identities in rapidly changing national, social and cultural contexts.

Papers, workshops, presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on any of the following themes:

1. Contemporary Rediscoveries and Redefinitions of Culture
~ Multiple, polyvalent and contradictory conceptions of culture
~ Infinite source of meaning and identity, of membership and exclusion, of privileging and stygmatising, of worth and misery, of place and history, of violence and destruction
~ Cultural remaking of self and other; recasting of links, bonds and relations
~ The contradictory forces of culture: diversity versus homogeneity, multiplicity versus sameness, alterity versus normality, recognition versus misrecognition
~ Textures of cultures: fixed, fluid, porous, hermetic, rigid and flexible

2. Cultural Boundaries, Peoples and Nations
~ Dislocation and decoupling of culture and nation, of culture and place, of culture and history
~ Resurgence of the local, the diminishing importance of the national and the forces of the global
~ What does it mean, today, to be part of a culture, to be part of multiple cultures?
~ Massive and new forms of global migration and the new hybridity of cultures
~ Assimilation, integration, adaptation and other forms of ‘forcing’ cultures on migrants

3. Individuals, Identity and the Inter-Subjective
~ De-centering individuals and th emaking of persons; thinking and acting with others in ind and interpersonality
~ Tensions, contradictions and conflicts of identity formation and social membership
~ New sources and forms of belonging; new tribalism, localism, parochialism and communitarianism
~ Bonds of care across boundaries of inequality and exclusion, ideologies and religions, politics and power, nations and geography
~ Who am I if not the Relation with Others?
~ Non-recognition as cultural violence

4. Cultural Formations
~ What are the dynamics and processes that define the central tenets of a culture?
~ How are cultures defined and redefined? Who participates in the social and political task of defining and redefining culture?
~ What is shared from cultures? How are cultures shared? Who has access to the sharing of cultures?
~ Symbols and significations that connect people to cultures other than ‘their own’
~ Culture and the construction of identities: destiny, happenstance, choice and politics

5. Politicising Culture
~ Political battles over the principles and core values of a culture, of many cultures
~ The dynamics of cultural recognition and misrecognition
~ What is the place of cultural claims in today’s forms of social and political membership?
~ Trans-cultural connections that escape institutional and political control
~ Cultural claims and human rights

6. Art and Cultural Representations
~ Media and the construction of cultures and identities
~ Production and reproduction of cultural recognition and misrecognition
~ The contested space of representing meaning and identity, culture and belonging
~ Art, media and how to challenge the rigid and impenetrable constructions of culture
~ Living, being and belonging through art; life imitating art and fiction

7. Crossing Cultural Boundaries
~ Interpenetration, overlapping, crossovers, interlacing, hybridisation and interdependence
~ Languages, idioms and new emerging forms of bridging the ‘invisible’ divide of cultures
~ Conceptualisations that foster the breaking down of rigid cultural boundaries
~ Equalising cultures; recognition and respect across cultures
~ How to revamp historically old concepts like tolerance, acceptance and hospitality?
~ An ethics for cultural relations

For further details on how to apply, please refer to:- Inter-Disciplinary.Net

Recycling Borse

Calls remain open for the fourth “RecyclingDesignprize” competition, a competition that invites all creatives and designers with professional or semi-professional education to submit their works and concepts.  Just as for the first, second and third RecyclingDesignprize 2007, 2008 and 2009, design objects made of “garbage” and/or industrial waste should be submitted. The objects should be made for daily use or for décor and should be easy to produce in “smaller” or “bigger” series in the frame of an institution of employment promotion. Materials that are marked with the “green point” (which is a special german collection system for the packing material of consumer goods) should only be submitted.

The aim of the designprize

Via the use of “littered things” (from industry, handicraft), garbage, “residual material”, useless things become useable. The developed products will be displayed for sale in institutions of employment promotion and generating so a social usability. The production of “clever”, “beautiful” and “useful” objects will be awarded prizes especially those that are conducive to the environment.

Valuation criteria

Valuation criteria for projects of recycling design: quality of design, practical value, producability (also with physically or psychologically handicapped people, in youth workshops or initiatives of employment), environmental safety, innovation and potential for the future.

Members of the Jury

Jan Hoet
Lievenes Daenens, Design Museum Gent, Director
Roland Nachtigäller, Marta Museum Herford, Director
Prof. Verena Wriedt, Furniture and product development, Detmold School of Architecture and Interior Design (FH Detmold), dean
Prof. Hermann Weizenegger, Potsdam Acadamy for Design (FH Potsdam)
Torsten Blume, Bauhaus Foundation Dessau
Imke Volkers, Museum der Dinge, Berlin, Director
Constanze Unger, Academy for Design, Münster, Director
Udo Holtkamp, RecyclingBörse!, board of Arbeitskreis Recycling e.V., Herford
Oliver Schübbe, Os2 Designgroup, Herford

Organizational details

There is no registration fee.  The award is endowed with a prize money of 2.500 €.
The coyrights a.s.o. remain the sole property of the designers.
Each participant/ team can take part with a maximum of three works for the competition.
An online registration is requested. Registration will be possible from the beginning of April and must include a description of the project and a number of photographs of the project. The jury will meet in September and winners will be immediately informed about the decisions by e-mail.
Prototypes are explicitly not required in the first step for the decision and meetings of the jury. However submitted prototypes will not be returned.

Prototypes of selected works

The prototypes of selected works have to be provided for the exhibition instantly. By agreement postal charges can be repayed.
The design/ products may not have been offered for sale yet.

Award ceremony and exhibition

The award ceremony will take place on October the 15th , 2010, at MARTa Museum, Herford.
The award is endowed with a prize money of 2.500 €.  The exhibition will present the winners and further selected works until November the 7th at MARTa Herford. Further exhibits of selected works will follow at stilwerk Designcenters, Museum for Design, Gent, and other locations.

Uferstockl

Dedicated to the promotion of contemporary international print art, the “Kulturwerkstatt Uferstöckl” announces the first “International Print Triennal Wallsee 2010″. The objective of the Triennal is the promotion of international contemporary print art. The Print Triennal is organized by the art association “Kulturwerkstatt Uferstöckl”.

Conditions for Admission

Professional artists will be admitted without age restriction. The presented work has to be related to print. Novel techniques are as accepted as traditional graphic techniques like woodcut, linocut, etching and so on. The particular technique has to be convincing as an instrument in form and content and must not be taken as a pure reproduction technique. Three- dimensional works and unique items are – as long as they are related to print – permitted as well. The innovative, artistic quality is decisive.

Preliminary Selection

An internal jury will select on the basis of online presented photographs a pre-selection for admission to the professional jury. Each artist can hand in photographs/hard copies of up to four works, which have to include name of the artist, title, year, technique and the dimensions of the work. Furthermore, the artist has to add a curriculum vitae and a short statement about the own artistic work.

Deadline is the 30th of August 2010. The notice about admission to the professional jury will be announced not later than 17th of September 2010.

Professional Jury and prize money

The artists chosen in the pre-selection will be invited to compete in front of the professional jury with their original print works. The deadline for the professional Jury is 1st October 2010. The print work should be posted unframed. The organizers will consider framing (up to dimensions 70×100 cm). In order to participate it is compulsory to submit a CD, containing the digital data of the presented works. The data has to be suitable to be printed in the catalogue (resolution minimum 300 dpi for a 21cm picture for the long side of the dimensions) and should include a price list. Every artist sending works to the professional jury must pay a participation fee of 20 Euro. If the print work is collected by the artist him- or herself or sold, the fee will be refunded.

The five members of the jury are:

Mag. Alexandra Schantl, Deputy Director of the Artothek of Lower Austria; Art & Exhibition curator of Lower Austria

Dr. Heidemaria Gürer, Austrian Embassador Ankara, art collector

Dir. Rolf Feichtinger, Artmanagement Oberbank

Dr. Paul Lehner, Cultural Management of Upper Austria

Dr. Georg Spiegelfeld, entrepreneur, art collector

The jury will determine the work for the exhibition as well as the laureates. Prizes in the amount of 2.500 Euro, 1.500 Euro and 1.000 Euro will be awarded.

Exhibition and Catalogue

The exhibition of the selected print works will take place from the 28th of November to the 9th of December 2010 at Kulturwerkstatt Uferstöckl. Simultaneous to the exhibition a catalogue in two languages (German/ English) will be published, containing all the works of the exhibition.

The Directorate of Film Festivals organizes International and National Film Festivals within the country, facilitate India’s participation in Film Festivals abroad, arrange programmes of foreign films in India and Indian films abroad, under bi-lateral exchange agreements, and conducts the National Film Awards. As a vehicle of cultural exchange, DFF promotes   international friendship, provides access to new trends in world cinema, generates healthy competition and, in the process, helps to improve the standards of Indian Cinema.

The Festival aims at providing a common platform for the cinematographies of the world to project the excellence of the film art; contributing to the understanding and appreciation of film cultures of different nations in the context of their social and cultural ethos; and promoting friendship and cooperation among people of the world.

Festival regulations and entry form can be found here.

Janine Goldsworthy, Compeung Artist in Residence 2008 (UK, www.rednile.org)

ComPeung is the first non-governmental artist-in-residence program in Thailand. Founded in 2005 by art professionals who strongly believe places that defy the mainstream art’s obsession with commerce rather than content are needed.  Call for residency applications for 2011.

The ComPeung Artist-in-Residence Program is designed for local and international artists to live and work together with our team and the local community. Interested artists are encouraged to apply by providing ComPeung with a preliminary proposal of her/his/their art work or project. As a work-in-progress we understand that the proposed project might change in the process.

By living and working together in basic yet comfortable conditions with our team, the local communities and a broad spectrum of artists, the ComPeung program provides the resident artists with a wide range of exchanges, opportunities, experiences and possibilities. ComPeung envisions to be an open playground for dialogs, alternative contexts, experiments, explorations, and mutual learning. The aspired goal for ComPeung is to develop and expand into a network of artists and art organizations on local, regional and international levels.

Deadline for residency applications January – June 2011: November 1, 2010.

Deadline for residency applications July – December 2011: May 1, 2011.

Applications in fields of: Visual Arts, Architecture, Performing Arts, Literature, Music (open list)

The 1st annual Cambodia International Film Festival (CIFF) is scheduled for October 20-23, 2010, in Phnom Penh. This exciting event brings international filmmakers to screen their latest movies and share their skills with Khmer filmmakers. Events will be open to the public alongside invitation-only galas and workshops designed for local film industry development.

Throughout the festival, movies screen at several venues in Phnom Penh. Public screenings are shown at outdoor venues. Types of movies include international independent films, award-winning documentaries, classic and modern Khmer films, youth-oriented films and films made in Cambodia, as well as showcasing some of the best locally produced TV dramas and music videos.

In addition to screenings, the festival hosts the Cinema Industry Showcase at which booths display the latest equipment, products and services available for making movies in Cambodia. There is also a strong emphasis on tourism with the opportunity to promote Cambodia as a country with a rich culture – perfect for destination travel.

All events of the festival are designed to benefit the local economy and culture through educating the local film/TV sector, inspiring good citizenship and entertaining audiences. The festival also helps increase tourism as people around the world see movies made in Cambodia because of the local industry development.

The Cambodia International Film Festival is the largest cinema event in Cambodia. For 4 days, film lovers, filmmakers, industry professionals and media watch the best in new cinema from established masters and new talent. Up-and-coming Khmer filmmakers gain unparalleled insight into the workings of the international market. The Festival also provides excellent resources and networking opportunities for film-industry professionals and buyers.

The 2010 Cambodia International Film Festival will include, but will not be limited to, the following programmes: Galas, special exhibitions, feature films, short films , documentaries, youth program.

Selected films will be placed in the appropriate programme by the Festival Organizing Committee in consultation with the filmmaker.

In addition to the Festival , the CIS (Cambodia Industry Showcase) will offer the opportunity for all professionals to expose their know-how and services and to exchange about the latest technologies.

Submissions are accepted for consideration. Our inaugural year (2010) is exhibition only – not a competition. At least one filmmaker representing the production is highly recommended to attend. Filmmakers are encouraged to contact international governmental and arts organizations for assistance to attend.

Entry form can be found here.

Dialogue on Arts, Culture & Climate Change, Beijing (organised by ASEF on occasion of ASEM 7 Summit)

ASEF invites contributions on the theme of Sustainable Creative Cities.

Ideas, comments, contacts are welcome to feed into a Culture360.org feature article on the role of the arts in the globalised urban context in Asia and Europe.

In October 2010, the 4^th Connecting Civil Societies of Asia and Europe Conference takes  place in Brussels as a preparatory event for the Summit meeting of Heads of State of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).  This conference will include a workshop on the theme: Sustainable Creative Cities – the role of the arts in globalised urban context.

Invited experts will address the roles of artists and creative workers in the evolution of globalised cities across Asia and Europe, assessing how an “artistic mode of knowing” can contribute to a transition from creative cities to sustainable creative cities.  The aim is to facilitate the emergence of local urban processes of social change in partnerships between artists, cultural practitioners and communities, as opposed to top-down urban planning.  The workshop outcomes will include recommendations for the ASEM Summit and will be of relevance for local governance and for ASEM cultural policy.

As a contribution to the workshop, Culture360.org is preparing a feature article with short case studies to highlight examples of Sustainable Creative Cities in Asia and Europe.  These will illustrate a range of themes, focal points and values and aim to widen reflection on the subject.

You are invited to contribute your ideas, comments and contacts on two questions:

1. How can the arts/artists contribute to a transition from creative cities to sustainable creative cities?

2. Can you suggest any specific initiatives that reflect good practice in creative sustainable cities?  It might be a project, policy or city.

Please provide URL links with your answers and 2-3 examples/ideas per question are plenty!

In order to be considered for the article, please respond by: AUGUST 22 2010

Send your responses to: judith.staines [at] culture360.org

The article will be published on www.culture360.org, all contributions will be acknowledged and this topic will remain open for comments and debate for a longer period.

More information on the 4^th Connecting Civil Societies of Asia and Europe Conference ( 2-3 October 2010, Brussels)

The results of the Sustainable Creative Cities Workshop will be published on Culture360.org in October 2010.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam launches an ambitious experiment in film-making in the digital era: Cinema Reloaded allows filmmakers to directly connect with film lovers in order to finance and distribute their projects through combined online crowd sourcing and crowd funding.

The participating directors are Alexis Dos Santos (UK/Argentina), Ho Yuhang (Malaysia) and Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland).

The first part of the Cinema Reloaded project is to seek finance for the three proposed films through the festival’s loyal supporters and film lovers around the world in a crowd-funding plan coordinated through the dedicated web site www.cinemareloaded.com.

The films will begin shooting when a minimum level of finance is reached. Payments will take the form of “coins” to be invested in an individual project. Once production has begun, backers, called “co-producers”, will be able to track their chosen project, talk to other investors and to interact with the film-maker. For the film-maker, this will be an opportunity to experiment with different ways to collaborate with audiences. The films will be premiered at the 2011 festival but will then be distributed online to various platforms.

Cinema Reloaded will be accompanied by a year-long discussion and debate on the issues raised by the experiment, at the festival itself and online at the main festival website. The film-makers will also blog on the progress of their projects.

“Cinema Reloaded is a bold, practical experiment that aims to test some of the opportunities of this rapidly changing time for film,” said Rotterdam director Rutger Wolfson, “This is not about finding the definitive business model but about trying to understand how the closer interaction between film-maker and audience, enabled by the internet, can benefit the whole of cinema.”

Visit cinemareloaded.com for more information, or to become a co-producer!