Opportunities:

competitions, calls for entry, residency programs, etc.

Resources:

websites with useful info, etc.

Other info:

symposiums, organisations, etc.Opportunities

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WANTED….YOUNG VIETNAMESE ARTISTS

The Bookworm’s art space is available rent free and commission free to young Vietnamese artists. Exhibitions last for 3 or 4 weeks. The space is available for first solo exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions or exhibitions by established young artists who wish to test the waters with experimental work.

The space is suitable for all types of art (on and off the wall) and particularly welcomes installation artists. Overseas artists who want to exhibit work in collaboration with young Vietnamese artists are also welcome

Interested artists should contact the Bookworm at 4b Yen The.
747 8778…. bookworm@fpt.vn

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10th Aubagne International Film Festival
16-21 March 2009

Deadline for entries: October 15th 2008

Aubagne Interational Film Festival supports the young cinematographic creation and the musical creation related to image.
Registrations are open for 2 competitions:

- FEATURE FILMS: first, second and third films of any cinematographic genre (fiction, documentary, experimental, animation), having imperatively an original music, are accepted. Shooting formats allowed: film and video.

- SHORT FILMS: first, second and third works running less than 30 minutes of any cinematographic genres (fiction, documentary, experimental, animation) are accepted as long as the film presents an original music or a particular treatment of the sound. Shooting formats allowed: film and video.

The Short Films registrations will be done on line directly!
Please go to the shared film festival registration system:
http://www.le-court.com/films_platform/index.php?&lang=_en

Aubagne International Film Festival
FIRST FILMS
IMAGE & SOUND CREATION
Fiction, Animation, Documentary, Experimental

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2009 Master Programs in Milano, Italy

Application deadline: 31 Oct 2008
Scholarships available

NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano - Postgraduate programs department Tel. (+39) 02 97372264
master@naba.it
www.master-naba.com

NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano is looking for talented young creatives for its 2009 postgraduate programs

Applicants should require the application form writing master@naba.it, and send it back to the Academy before October 31st, 2008, together with artistic and professional portfolio, resume, motivation letter, academic transcript. A commission headed by the Director of each program will evaluate the applicant’s profile and NABA will get back to the candidates within two weeks from receiving the application.
Deadline for enrolments is November 30th, 2008, and programs will start on January 12th, 2009.

Several scholarships available, please check www.master-naba.com for further details.

2009 postgraduate programs

• Digital Environment Design – Director: Paolo Atzori
• Interior Design “New Domestic Landscapes”– Director: Luca Molinari
• Landscape Design “Extraordinary Landscapes”, in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano – Directors: Elisabetta Bianchessi, Paolo Mestriner
• Multimedia Communication Design – Director: Alessandro G. Montel
• Photography and Visual Design, in collaboration with FORMA Centro Internazionale di Fotografia – Director: Denis Curti
• Textile and new Materials Design – Director: Anna Barbara
• Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies – Director: Marco Scotini

The Academy

NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano is an innovative Arts and Design Academy, legally recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), and at the same time a dynamic artistic and cultural centre.
Founded in 1980 on the initiative of a private group of artists and intellectuals, it was the first Italian Academy who introduced the study of fashion and graphic design in the fine arts academic curricula, combining the academic educational tradition with the critical project culture, typical of Italian design.
Strongly oriented towards experimentation, NABA aims at integrating education, research and production and at fostering a cross-disciplinary, intercultural and socially responsible approach to education and artistic production.
Nowadays NABA educational offer includes Bachelor and Master of Arts programs, leading to the attainment of legally recognized degrees and to the achievement of educational credits, allowing students to continue their studies in Italian and foreign institutions, in the areas of Visual Arts, Graphic Design, Fashion and Textile Design, Design, Media and Theatre Design.
Studying at NABA means meeting professionals and artists coming from various professional environments, taking part in several extra-curricular activities and working with students from all over the world.
The multicultural environment of the Academy, with more than 20% of its 1050 students coming from abroad, is also strengthened by the wide network of international relations, involving more than 50 foreign academies and universities.

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2008 Jean-Claude Reynal Scholarship

A 10,000 euros grant awarded to a young artist for studies abroad.

Deadline for online registration: 15 Nov 2008

http://www.rosab.net/bourse-reynal

The Jean-Claude Reynal Foundation, under the auspices of the Foundation of France, in collaboration with the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux, offers an annual grant of 10,000 euros to enable a young artist, who works directly on paper, to travel to a country of his/her choice for a period of six months maximum.

Candidates must be between 20 and 30 years of age and have had an artistic practice on paper for at least two years.
All artists are eligible regardless of educational background or nationality.
50% of the scholarship money will be paid before departure and 50% at the time and place of residency.

Registration only online on this web page

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Arts Writers Grants

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program awards project-based grants to individual authors writing on contemporary visual art. In its 2008 cycle, the program will fund approximately 20 projects in amounts ranging from 3,000-50,000 USD. All writers who meet our eligibility requirements are encouraged to apply.

For guidelines, eligibility requirements and application materials, please visit http://www.artswriters.org

Deadline for Applications: September 22, 2008, 4:59 p.m. EST

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Auditions

Auditions will take place at L’Espace for Vietnamese :
- Contemporary / Traditional dancers,
- Hip Hop dancers,
- Musicians

THÔNG CÁO

Tìm các vũ công HipHop; nghệ sĩ múa truyền thống và đương đại; nhạc công biểu diễn nhạc cụ dân gian cho một chương trình hợp tác nghệ thuật với các nghệ sĩ Đức và Pháp.

Năm 2006/2007, Sébastien Ramirez, nghệ sĩ múa và biên đạo múa trẻ đến từ Perpignan (Pháp), cùng với biên đạo múa Storm Robitzky đến từ Berlin (Đức), đã sáng tác và biểu diễn tác phẩm múa HipHop có tên «Xe Cộ». Tác phẩm này là thành quả của dự án hợp tác với nhóm hip-hop Ngón Chân Cái tại Hà Nội.

Bạn múa lâu năm của Sébastiens là Raphael Hillebrand đến từ Berlin. Raphael đã sang Việt Nam vào tháng 10 năm 2004, trong chuyến lưu diễn thuộc chương trình “The Art of Urban Dance” (Nghệ thuật múa đô thị) tại Hà Nội và TPHCM.

Được sự ủng hộ của Trung tâm Văn hoá Pháp (L’Espace) và Viện Văn hóa Đức (Goethe-Institut), Raphael và Sébastien sẽ tới Việt Nam trong mùa thu này để tìm sự hợp tác với các nghệ sĩ múa và nhạc sĩ/nhạc công Việt Nam cho một dự án nghệ thuật chung, dự kiến sẽ hoàn tất và trình diễn vào tháng 12.2008.

Lộ trình dự kiến:

Tháng 9.2008, Sébastien và Raphael sẽ dành 3 ngày để tuyển chọn (casting) các nghệ sĩ múa HipHop (đẳng cấp chuyên nghiệp), nghệ sĩ múa đương đại, nghệ sĩ múa truyền thống, cũng như các nhạc công (có khuynh hướng truyền thống) để tìm ra những người sẵn sàng tham gia dự án.

Bên cạnh trình độ kĩ thuật, các nghệ sĩ Việt Nam muốn tham gia dự án cần hội tụ các yếu tố khác như cởi mở trong giao lưu văn hoá, sẵn sàng thử nghiệm cái mới và nghiêm túc trong công việc.

Khi tham gia tuyển chọn, các nghệ sĩ múa sẽ được yêu cầu biểu diễn một trích đoạn trong một vở múa hoặc một bài múa tự do; đồng thời sẽ được đề nghị biểu diễn theo kịch bản ngắn có sẵn. Các nhạc sĩ thì sẽ được yêu cầu chơi một nhạc phẩm tự chọn; đồng thời chơi ngẫu hứng dựa trên một văn cảnh cho sẵn.

Thời gian tuyển chọn (casting) tại hội trường sân khấu Trung tâm văn hóa Pháp (24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội)
Dành cho nghệ sĩ múa: Thứ Năm 11.9. và Thứ Sáu 12.9.2008
Dành cho nhạc sĩ: Thứ Bảy 13.9.2008

Sau khi đã tuyển chọn xong, những người tham dự cần dành thời gian để tiến hành tập luyện và biểu diễn.
Thời gian tập luyện: 16.11. - 07.12.2008
Biểu diễn: 8. & 9.12.2008 ở Hà Nội và 11.12.2008 ở TP HCM

Dự kiến sẽ có các buổi diễn tiếp theo ở Jakarta (Indonesia) trong khoảng thời gian từ 12.12 tới trước Noel.

Đăng ký tham gia:
Xin liên hệ với
Chị Huỳnh Thị Thu Hương, Phòng chương trình, Viện Goethe Hà Nội. 56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học, Tel. 7342251, máy lẻ 14, Email: huynhhuong@hanoi.goethe.org
Hoặc Chị Trần Thị Khánh Vân, Trung tâm văn hóa Pháp, 24 Tràng Tiền, Tel: 9362164, máy lẻ 434, Email: Tran.Thi.Khanh.Van@espace-ccfhanoi.org

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CALL FOR ENTRIES -
VIDEONALE 12

Application deadline is 30 August 2008

MONITORING THE FUTURE

‘We are looking for video art which, today, is already part of tomorrow’s breeding ground,’ says Georg Elben, curator of the VIDEONALE 12. Quo vadis video art? this is the question the VIDEONALE at the Bonn Kunstmuseum has addressed every two years since 1984. As of now all artists are invited to apply for the VIDEONALE 12 with a video work created in the past two years.

One of the oldest festivals for video art in the world, VIDEONALE 12 will present the latest trends in video art from 26 March to 26 April 2009. There is no set topic for submissions, but only single-channel works can be entered. VIDEONALE 12 will open with a four-day festival featuring a variety of events. The exhibition will run for four weeks, showcasing 40 to 50 video works chosen by an international jury. VIDEONALE has ‘always had the advantage, as a kind of film festival for video art, of being able to provide a realistic assessment of the current filmic state of development of this genre. That is what defines its function as an aesthetic gauge.’ (K.WEST) The works featured at VIDEONALE 12 will be shown in other international institutions following the exhibition at the Bonn Kunstmuseum; the works chosen for VIDEONALE 11 were, among others, shown in 2007 at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and 2008 at the Bangalore Goethe Institut.

‘Thinking outside the box’ the Bonn Videonale is looking for new ways of presenting video art,’(Süddeutsche Zeitung) - VIDEONALE is particularly interested in developing new forms of presentation for video art beyond the black box. For the past years each VIDEONALE has commissioned a new team of architects and designers to create an innovative exhibition design, both technically and artistically, for presenting the exhibition in the context of a museum. ‘We are happy about the attention and broad recognition from the specialist audience we have received in the last years for our pioneering work in this field where, so far, only a small number of convincing approaches have been found,’ says Georg Elben.

The videos presented at VIDEONALE 12 will automatically be taking part in the competition for the Videonale award worth 5.000 Euro which will be awarded by a second international jury. All information and entry forms can be found at http://www.videonale.org

Contact:

Videonale e.V. im Kunstmuseum Bonn
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2
D- 53113 Bonn
Tel: +49 (0) 228 692 818
einsendungen@videonale.org
http://www.videonale.org

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The International Young Fashion Entrepreneur (IYFE) Award

is devised and organised by the global British Council to celebrate young talents in the fashion sector* across the world. This year Vietnam will take part in the competition for the first time. The national winner will travel to the UK to take part in a programme which includes valuable networking both with key UK fashion industry partners and their IYFE peers and where they will also take part in a judging procedure to select the overall international winner of the award.

Deadline: 15 Sept 2008

1st Award prize:
Represent Vietnam in the International Young Fashion Entrepreneur Award 2009 in the UK.
A certificate.
A free 10-12-day trip to UK.
Participation in London Fashion Week .
A chance to win a financial prize of GBP7,500 and a specially commissioned bowl for the IYFE Award 2009.

Eligibility:
Vietnamese citizens aged between 25 and 35 as at 28 February 2009
Already work in the fashion sector*
Be entrepreneurial and have shown the ability to promote the fashion sector in Vietnam, in either a commercial context, public context, or both
Demonstrate potential to be a future leader of the fashion sector in Vietnam through character, drive and abilities
Have a good command of English - especially communications and presentation skills

Complete info and application forms on the British Council website.

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CALL FOR ENTRIES:

Deadline: 25 AUGUST, 2008

RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID
FILM / VIDEO / MULTIMEDIA

http://art-action.org/en_info_appel.htm

The ‘Rencontres Internationales‘ will take place at the Centre Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and in other key locations in Paris in November 2008. The same program will be presented in Madrid in April 2009 and in Berlin in June 2009.
Those three events will propose an international programming focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers acknowledged on the international scene along with young artists and filmmakers.

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CINEMA AND VIDEO CYCLES (all film and video formats)
* Video / Experimental video / Video art
* Fiction - short, medium and feature length
* Documentary, experimental documentary
* Experimental Film
* Animation movie
MULTIMEDIA CYCLES
* Installation
* Net art
* Multimedia performance and concert

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The ‘Rencontres Internationales‘ offer more than a simple presentation of the works. They introduce an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world - artists and filmmakers, institutions and emerging organizations - to testify of the vivacity of creation and its distribution, but also of the artistic and cultural contexts that often are experiencing deep changes.
The event reflects specificities and crossings of art practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores media art practices and their critical purposes, and work out this necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged.
The event aims at presenting those works to a broad audience, at creating circulations between different art practices and between different audiences, as well as creating new exchanges between artists, filmmakers and professionals. The ‘Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid’, is an event without competition supported by French, German, Spanish and international cultural institutions.

http://art-action.org/en_soutien.htm

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104 - CENT QUATRE
RESIDENCY APPLICATION FORM

Deadline: 18 Aug 2008

http://www.104.fr/#en/85-Residencies

periodicity and method

Each year, some thirty teams of artists are welcomed as residents. At least ten teams are permanently resident on the site. Twice a year, invitations to apply for these residencies are widely circulated. The duration of each residency varies, according to practices and projects, between one and ten months, during which the artists will benefit from scholarships. These artists’ development times are a response to the standardisation of production time and the demand for immediacy and instant response. The residency is contractual and assumes that the artists agree with the overall project. Each residency starts with a fortnight’s exploration of the surroundings of the place, accompanied by a resident who is a voluntary representative of the district. The artists can then devise their own way of meeting with the public and the local people.

Please note that applications are only available via our website.
From July, 3rd to August, 18: register to generate you space.
Up to August, 31: feed you personal space: 100 Mo dedicated to your texts, sounds, images and videos!
September, 1st: end of the invitation, your space is locked. The selection process begins…

“Le CENT QUATRE est un lieu de creation et de production artistique. Un nouvel etablissement artistique de la Ville de Paris - la rencontre de tous les arts.”

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Dong Son Today - Open Academy

Click on the images below for larger versions in both Vietnamese and English.

Click on the link below for a downloadable application form.

public-application-form

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CDEF / Danish Embassy Talent Prize 2008
Performance Art in Hanoi

Application Deadline: 30 July 2008

The prize is open for all Vietnamese artists under 35 years old, amateur or professional, working with performance art as their main art form. Individuals as well as groups not exceeding 10 people can participate. The applicants must submit in writing in 200 words describing their idea for a performance artwork and what inspired them before July 30th 2008.

Judges for the competition includes leading visual artists in Vietnam such as Dao Anh Khanh, Tran Luong and Nguyen Nhu Huy and one representative of the Embassy of Denmark. They will select 10 best performances and shortlisted candidates will receive 500 USD to complete their work and show them in Final Competition, which is scheduled on October 16th, 2008. The best performance voted by the audience will be awarded with 3000 USD.

Pls. refer to the Embassy’s website for more information.
Or contact:
Ms. Dang Huong Lan
Culture and Press Officer
Tel: 8231888-223

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Call for Asian artists -

Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery Residencies and Exhibitions

Deadline: Monday 04 August 2008

Call for proposals for an exciting Contemporary Asian Art Programme in Blackburn and Darwen, which includes artist residencies and exhibitions in 2009.

Submissions are welcome from both British-based and International contemporary Asian artists across all mediums.

Proposals should include:

* Artist CV
* Draft budget
* Project Proposal
* CD/ DVD of past work, if sending by email please send as JPEG files

Deadline:
For 2009 residencies/ exhibition - Monday 4 August 2008

For further enquiries, a full artists brief, and submissions please contact:

Amy Cham
Asian Arts Coordinator
Arts Services @ Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery

Email amy.cham@blackburn.gov.uk

Source: Visiting Arts News

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Maison des Arts
Memoir of the Long Bien Bridge

The Maison des arts presents from the middle of this month to the end of the year an enormous artistic programme named, “Memoir of the Long Bien Bridge, in the former days and nowadays”. This artistic event celebrates the 105th anniversary of the bridge.

Built in 1903 by the French architect Gustave Eiffel, the Long Bien Bridge is a historic cantilever bridge crossing the Red River. Before Vietnam’s independence in 1954, it was called Doumer Bridge, named after Paul Doumer, The Governor-General of French Indochina. It was, at that time, one of the longest bridges in Asia and in the world with the length of 1860 m. It was heavily bombarded during Vietnam War. Nowadays, only half of the bridge retains its original shape. Hanoian consider the bridge as a living historic witness which still relates to many Hanoian daily life.

This extraordinary event, opened to vietnamese and foreign artists, collectors, historians, storytellers who compose various forms of arts such as painting, photography, calligraphy, sculpture, poem and also old pictures, stamps, postcards, archives which portray the bridge. By its values as esthetic than symbolic the Long Bien Bridge is not only a footbridge between two banks, but also between past and present, art and people, Vietnam and World. The Maison des arts’ ambition is to create a real artistic and sparkling movement in Hanoi with this artistic programme.

The memoir of the Long Bien Bridge programme will start from the middle of june with a photography exhibition.

Maison des arts invites all the artists interested in this project to participate.

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Paolo Bertolin of Venice International Film Festival:

Mission to South East Asia

Mr Bertolin is in the region scouting for features, shorts and documentaries that still have not had public screenings outside their territories of origin.

He will be in Hanoi 03-05 June.
If you have material that you think he may be interested in, please send an email to one of the following addresses:

Paolo Bertolin, Italian embassy in Hanoi, Hanoi Grapevine

Here is his schedule in the region:

Kuala Lumpur 28/05-01/06
Ho Chi Minh City 01-02/06
Hanoi 03-05/06
Bangkok 06-10/06
Phnom Penh 10-11/06
Singapore 12-15/06
Jakarta 15-19/06
Manila 19-23/06

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OPEN CALL SUBMISSION

SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL (SIPF)

8th - 31st Oct 2008

Submission call closed on 31st May 2008.

About Singapore International Photography Festival
Scheduled to take place from 8 to 31 October 2008, the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) is the first event of its kind in Southeast Asia. This biennial festival strives to provide a platform for Southeast Asian artists to showcase their works alongside their international peers in various venues such as National Museum of Singapore, LASALLE, 2902 Photo Gallery and more.

For more information, please visit the festival website

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Tempography
Founded in 2003 by Swiss artist, Anthony Bannwart/Hontoban, and Swedish fim-maker, Magnus Aronson, Tempography is a minimalist, video-based, conceptual art project. ‘Time’ and ‘movement’ as its primary elements Tempography explores what is between photography and cinema/film in order to comprehend movements from our ever-changing world. Tempography can be described as brief visual impacts from everyday surroundings, creating an atmosphere, an image of thoughts, rather than telling a story. Since 2005 Tempography has received submissions from active/potential video artists and has developed into a communitiy-oriented project.

Tempography Guidelines
We examined our idea in order to understand it, and realized that there was a structure to what we were doing. The following guidelines are not to be seen as a dogmatic approach, but are there to make people understand better what constitutes the process of this art.

� Tempography lies somewhere between cinema and photography. The pieces are called tempographs, and can be described as brief visual impacts, impressions, visions.
� As the name suggests, the time element is crucial for a tempograph; the art form was born from the idea of extending the photograph.
� to capture what a non-durative still image cannot capture. The more isolated the movement, the more tempographic the piece.
� The key to understanding Tempography is: Without the movement or change in composition, there would be no need for the duration. It is minimalist video art - constrained, observational.
� A tempograph is a single moving image shot.
� There must be no cuts, fades, etc.
� The colour balance/intensity and the brightness/contrast may be adjusted, although not to the extent that the shot looks processed.
� Apart from the above, no effects may be used. This of course includes graphic superimpositions and animations.
� The camera must be as steady as possible.
� A tempograph must no be longer than 30 seconds.
� The tempo must be real-time.
� The narrative must be minimal and ‘extra-filmic’.
� A tempograph identifies a certain way of documenting an individual perspective, a unique metaphor, a point of-view. It could be seen as an evocative shot from a film and mirrors the narrative of an individual: the author. The tempographic idea brings with it personal ways of looking at, and even re-discovering, the visual world.

Tempography
Curated by Kyung Roh Bannwart
Hosted by Gallery Factory

Gallery Factory
Seoul, Korea

Exhibition
20 international artists present more than 90 tempographs
From 4th April to 27th April 2008

Download the Tempography Press Release as a pdf.

Read an article about the Seoul exhibition in the Korea Times.

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LIA - Leipzig International Art Program
Residencies

Anna-Louise Kratzsch has created LIA - Leipzig International Art Program, a residency program “designed to foster international artists by providing studio space and exhibition opportunities at the Spinnerei Leipzig, known for having the largest artist population in Germany”.

She will present her program at Dong Son Foundation, 3rd floor, 10D Building, Ly Nam De St, Hanoi, on Thursday, 18 Apr at 7 pm.

More info about the residency at the LIA website.

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A Matter of Attitude: Print Design Contest!

Deadline 25 May 2008

Are you a designer or just interested in design?
Have a passion for Conservation and saving Vietnam’s remaining Wildlife?

WWF Greater Mekong and TRAFFIC are looking for creative and innovative print public service announcements (PSAs) that tackle the idea of:

Changing Attitudes in Order to Stop the Illegal and Unsustainable Consumption of Wildlife in Vietnam.

The PSAs can be about illegal wildlife trade in general, or species-specific topics, preferably relating to one or all of the following: Tigers, Bears, King cobras, Marine turtles, Pangolins and Rhinos.

The top six finalists will have the opportunity to work with designers from the world-renowned Saatchi & Saatchi, an advertising company, to finalize their print PSAs. These will be showcased in numerous publications for one year. The top six will also receive a digital camera generously donated by Canon.

Deadline 25 May 2008
Official Rules, Guidelines, and How to Submit:

in English and in Vietnamese

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Beat Presser’s workshop/cultural exchange project
“My Oasis of Silence”

presented by Art Vietnam in conjunction with the Beat Presser’?s ?”Oasis of Silence”? exhibition to open at Art Vietnam Gallery on March 28, 2008.
Beat Presser will also be giving an artist’s lecture and multimedia presentation at the Hanoi Cinematheque on Thursday March 27, 2008.Beat Presser has traveled for decades throughout Southeast Asia documenting both Theravada Buddhism and its followers. His personal journey lead to his ‘Oasis of Silence’ exhibition; an exhibition whose intimate holiness is a medium through which the viewer may also celebrate their own sense of quietude and peace. In these photographs one sees Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka, and Thailand; but one must rightly ask … where is Vietnam?Vietnam, a country that for centuries has fought for the self-governance of its own land, is largely a Buddhist country. However, this grounding force, this philosophical root is slowly being eroded by economic advancement and an all-too-familiar modern love affair with apathy.

Not only does bringing Beat Presser’s exhibition to Hanoi allow him the opportunity to document Buddhism in Vietnam, he will also conduct a two-week-long, subsidized photographic workshop with a group of highly acclaimed local photographers. During this rich cross-cultural experience Beat Presser will encourage the workshop participants to risk seeing both the image and their country not as a given but as a territory readily available for photographic exploration. Photography in Vietnam has not had the opportunity to develop as quickly as other forms of art for many reasons: its absence from the curriculum offered at the Fine Arts University, the high cost of materials, as well as the difficulty in maintaining the artworks in Vietnam’s tropical climate. Having greatly admired the two well known Vietnamese photographers Le Vuong and Le Cuong, I saw this project as a wonderful opportunity to further expose Vietnamese photographers to a high level of training while fostering the photographic community of Vietnam.
Photographers interested in participating in this workshop are encouraged to contact Art Vietnam. For contact info please see the ‘Addresses‘ page of Hanoi Grapevine.

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Lijiang Studio presentations in Hanoi - 21, 22 Mar

Lijiang Studio

This info just arrived:

Hello friends,

As part of our continued interest in connecting Yunnan with its regional neighbors, there will be two Lijiang Studio presentations in Hanoi this week:

Friday 5pm at Nha San Studio
Saturday 4:30pm at Goethe Institut

Two new broadsheets inculding such topics as ‘digesting cholera and chemical weapons’ plus our ‘2008 New Countryside Laboratory call for participation’ are on www.lijiangstudio.org.

-Lijiang Studio

Lijiang Studio and the New Countryside Laboratory

L?jiang Studio is an artist-in-residence program located in a farming village in the mountains near Lijiang, Yunnan province. Lijiang Studio runs the residency program because a residency is a time of risk, vulnerability, and possibility, where the work to be created does not have market value, does not have official meaning, and the whole endeavor to make art can be questioned at the point of inception: an approach with fits well with Yunnan?s geographic, political, and cultural liminality. As a traveler might find Yunnan not to fit with their expectations of China , an artist or curator might find Lijiang Studio does not fit their expectations of art in China.

Working at Lijiang Studio, halfway between the high, remote mountain villages with very little contact to the outside, and the tourist hive of Lijiang’s old town artists can experience both the reciprocity and generosity of the farmers and the gradual disconnection of people from land. This forces even the best-prepared artist to seriously confront their life and practice.

This talk by Jay Brown, Director of Lijiang Studio, will present an overview of Lijiang Studio and introduce its current process-based mode of production, the New Countryside Laboratory.

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Major commissioning opportunities for all East Asian Artists

Deadline for entries 3 March 2008

As part of the Five Circles festival, London-based arts organisation Chinatown Arts Space, and Chinatowns principle landowner, Shaftesbury PLC, are working in creative partnership to commission two major new pieces of exciting public art for Londons Chinatown.These are two significant opportunities for East Asian* artists to win a prestigious commission and see their work showcased in the heart of a major capital city. Artists are encouraged to create ideas for contemporary works that address both the heritage and history of London’s Chinatown, and that celebrate the current diversity and dynamism of the area.

1. Mural Commission
Horse & Dolphin Yard / Value: 6k
East Asian* artists born or resident in the UK

2. Sculpture Commission
Wardour Street / Value 20k
East Asian* artists worldwide (including the UK)

Full entry details can be downloaded from
www.chinatownartsspace.com

*East Asia includes: Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and their Diasporas.

I learned of this via Visiting Arts Newsletter. Check it out.

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imagine art after - call for artists

DEADLINE 1 JUNE 2008

imagine art after is a multi-stage project for internet, gallery & broadcast curated by Breda Beban that brings together visual artists and filmmakers who made a home in London with those who stayed in their country of origin.

For its second edition, imagine art after is looking for visual artists and filmmakers from the following places, who either still live there, or now live in London:

Afghanistan | Albania | Algeria | Angola | Bangladesh | Cameroon | China | Colombia | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Former USSR | Gambia | Ghana | India | Iran | Iraq | Ivory Coast | Jamaica | Kenya | Libya | Nigeria | Pakistan | Palestinian Authority | Romania | Serbia | Sierra Leone | Somalia | Sri Lanka | Sudan | Syria | Turkey | Uganda | Vietnam | Zimbabwe

For more information and an application pack, go to www.imagineartafter.net, or email info@imagineartafter.net.

Resources

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KadmusArts

In 2006, KadmusArts created a website, which has become a popular search engine and open community space for every kind of performing arts festival throughout the world.

In addition to linking audiences and the arts online, KadmusArts maintains an extensive database of information on artists, performances, and arts organisations from around the world. It also provides specialised technology services to the field, and develops content packages for other media companies.

KadmusArts provides a platform for multi-faceted content as well as features on festivals and artists. Everyone in the community - festivals, artists, audiences, and cultural travellers - contributes to the site by sharing information, making connections, and exchanging ideas.

www.kadmusarts.com

I learned of this via Visiting Arts Newsletter. Check it out.

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Digital Artists Handbook

folly have announced the completion of the first edition of the Digital Artists Handbook.

The Digital Artists Handbook is a new, up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that introduces artists to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital arts. The touchstone of this new compendium is free open source software (FLOSS) and technologies. The Handbook has been edited by Marloes de Valk and Aymeric Mansoux of GOTO10, a collective of international artists and programmers.

“folly are very excited to announce our Digital Artists Handbook, which we hope will be an indispensable resource for artists seeking an introduction to the world of free and open source technologies. folly strongly believe that FLOSS is an empowering, cost-effective and democratic way to introduce digital art technologies to artists”
Creative Director Kathryn Lambert

Building on the collaborative and accumulative nature of the web, the Digital Artists Handbook will always be a work-in-progress, with new articles being commissioned on an ongoing basis, and new fields explored.

The goal of the Handbook is to be a signpost, a source of practical information and content that bridges the gap between new users and the platforms and resources that are available, but not always very accessible.

The Handbook will be slowly filled with articles written by invited artists and specialists, talking about their tools and ways of working.

http://www.digitalartistshandbook.org

Other info

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Symposium Announcement
Modern & Contemporary Vietnamese Art

Symposium Announcement

Modern & Contemporary Vietnamese Art

Fri - Sun, 16 to 18 May 2008
10:00am to 5:00pm
Singapore Art Museum, Auditorium
Singapore
Conference fees is at SGD100* per person for the full 3 days, Students get 50% off

Singapore Art Museum, in conjunction with the National Heritage Board Vietnam Festival, is organising a three-day symposium to explore the artistic developments that have taken place in Vietnam. Speakers from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Australia, Vietnam and Singapore will be presenting on the rise of modern art from the French Colonial period to the experimental art movement in present-day Vietnam.

To register, call 6332 3220 or email <nhb_sam_programs@nhb.gov.sg>. For more details on the speakers and symposium programme, please log on to the Singapore Art Museum website.

Click on the link below to download a Word document with the symposium schedule.

vietnam-symposium_sessions-outlinev4

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Dong Son Today Foundation

Founded by Dr. Frederick Harris in 2005, since then Dong Son Today Foundation has not only become a friendly name to the art community in Hanoi but also in all over Vietnam. In coming 2008, with more plans and programs, we hope to expand our activities in deeper aspects both artistic and social.

Annual Grants every year DSTF has been receiving many applications all over the north of Vietnam. Last year, DSTF has given out an amount of _ to support many art events.

Artist’s talk With the bloom in Hanoi art scene over the last few years never have the need for communicating, sharing and exchanging ideas between artists and artists, artists and the public grown so strongly. Artist’s talk which is taken place once or twice a month would be absolutely just right for artists or anyone concerned.

English class those classes offered freely to the artists aim to help artists to develop necessary skills in the age of integration.

Yearly Awards for Young Artists aiming to stimulate the creativity activities in an unique art community like Hanoi starting this year, special awards would be honorably given to artists who have the most contribution to the art and community in that year. The artistic board would be altered every year and these awards would be varied from different fields of visual arts.

Reading room a small space in our office has been dedicated to artists, art lovers… where you can easily access to art books, magazines and art information. At the moment we are still on the process of building up the library with the hope to expand our library, for any donation to the library please contact us.

Media Arts in 2007 the first Media class has been opened at Hanoi University of Fine Arts. In this experimental project (2007-2010) DSTF collaborates with the academy staff of the university to help art students have chances to practice art in various kinds of media.

For further information on any of the programs, support the program or volunteer opportunities please don’t hesitate to contact us or check our website.

Contact:
Dong Son Today Foundation - Hanoi Office
Add: 3rd floor, 10D Building, Ly Nam De St, Hanoi.
Tel: (+844) 7343853
Fax: (+844) 7343853
Email: dongsontoday@gmail.com
dstf@vnn.vn
Website: www.dongsontoday.org

Nguyen Mai Huong: 0978999389
Tuong Linh: 0904012260

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