Category: Opportunities - Charmaine Warren

Cultural Solidarity Coalition Opens Microgrant Applications for NYC Artists and Cultural Workers

2/24/2021

Cultural Solidarity Fund will award $500 relief microgrants to individual artists and cultural workers to ensure that they make it through this critical time. Applications will open for one week from February 26, 2021, at 9am, to March 5, 2021, at 5pm. The short application is estimated to take no more than 10 minutes to complete and will be available online in both English and Spanish at culturalsolidarityfund.org/get-a-grant.

The Cultural Solidarity Fund will initially open applications with $100,000 raised to support 200 artists and cultural workers. Organizations and individuals are invited to join the Coalition and increase the Fund’s capacity by sponsoring one or more artists/cultural workers with a donation: culturalsolidarityfund.org/sponsor. If additional funds are received, a new round of grants and/or lottery will be announced weekly.

The first round of funding will be announced by March 19, 2021. Details on eligibility, selection, and timeline are available at culturalsolidarityfund.org.

Ballet Hispánico Calls for Applications From Emerging Latinx Choreographers and Filmmakers ~ Deadline March 1

2/17/2021

Ballet Hispánico Calls for Applications
From Emerging Latinx Choreographers and Filmmakers
For 2021 Instituto Coreográfico

DEADLINE: March 1, 2021

Instituto Coreográfico gives a voice to young Latinx artists and opens access to the dance-making process for all audiences.

Ballet Hispánico, the nation's leading Latino dance organization since 1970 and recognized this year as one of America's Cultural Treasures, is accepting applications from emerging choreographers and filmmakers for the
Instituto Coreográfico. Now in its ninth year, the Instituto has helped to provide an important platform for 11 choreographers. The program provides young Latinx artists a supportive environment in which to explore process, cultural identity, and movement invention through the creation of dance. Now accepting applications for submission online athttp://bit.ly/instituto-2021 by March 1, 2021 at 5pm EST.

OPEN CALL ~~ region(es): Hz ~ Deadline March 15

2/17/2021

Inspired by Dial-a-poem, region(es) launches its third annual OPEN CALL to Bushwick Artists working in the fields of sound art, story-telling, poetry, music, and aural artistry. Nine artists will be selected as part of region(es): Hz, a virtual installation that will take place from April 1—Jul 1, 2021.

The open call solicits new or pre-existing sound works that are between 1-9 minutes in length. The work can span a broad range of themes and topics around displacement, isolation, and resilience. The application is open to Latinx, Afro-Latinx, and BIPOC folks who identify as Bushwick artists—whether you currently live and work in Bushwick or have been displaced from the place you once called home.

The deadline to submit works for consideration is Monday, March 15, 2021 at 11:59pm. Selected artists will receive a $100 honorarium for their work.

Find out more here

AOS is now offering day long residencies (7AM - 10PM) through the end of June!

2/17/2021

Click HERE for our availability.

Here's the breakdown in studios & price:

Studios 2R & 3R are for $150/day
(8-person maximum)
Studios 3F & 4F are for $125/day
(5-person maximum)

Reserve Now

Movement Research seeks a qualified individual to oversee its arts-in-education program, Dance Makers in the Schools

1/27/2021

Now Hiring: Dance Makers in the Schools - Program Director
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Movement Research seeks a qualified individual to oversee its arts-in-education program, Dance Makers in the Schools.

To Apply:
Please email the following materials to work@movementresearch.org with “Dance Makers Position” in the subject line:

Resume
Cover letter

Questions? Please email work@movementresearch.org. If you need to speak to someone by phone, call (212) 598–0551 and leave a voicemail; an MR staff member will be in touch with you.

Find out more here

Actors Fund hiring a Career Counselor for the Chicago/Central Region office

1/27/2021

Actors Fund hiring a Career Counselor for the Chicago/Central Region office!

Find out more here

The Wassaic Project is looking for a 2021–22 Programming Fellow - Apply by February 23

1/27/2021

FROM THE FOLKS AT THE WASSAIC PROJECT:

Our Programming Fellow works alongside our Director of Artistic Programming, helping run our year-round artist residency program, exhibitions, public programs, and special events. Special consideration will be given to those with experience in exhibitions and/or programming, and those who are also visual and/or performing artists.

Please email will@wassaicproject.org with any questions, and please put “Programming Fellow 2021” in the subject line. We’ll also be holding an info session about the position on Thursday, February 11.

Read more and apply HERE

Battery Dance Accepting Applications for 40th Annual Battery Dance Festival - Deadline 3/1

1/20/2021

Battery Dance Festival, New York City's longest-running free public dance festival, was established by Battery Dance as the Downtown Dance Festival in 1982. It draws audiences of approximately 2,000 people each night from the large downtown population of workers, residents, families, tourists, senior citizens and dance fans from the greater NYC metropolitan area and beyond. The Festival went virtual last summer and is planned to run as a hybrid model with live and streamed performances in August 2021.*

Battery Dance Festival provides a unique opportunity for professional dancers and choreographers in any genre to present original works of high artistic merit in a free public forum against the backdrop of New York Harbor, Statue of Liberty and the sunset. Past participants have included Dorrance Dance, New York Theatre Ballet, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Vanaver Caravan, Dancing Earth Indigenous Dance Company, Music from the Sole, and Jamal Jackson Dance Company alongside pre-eminent companies from Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Europe, South America and the Caribbean.

For more information, visit https://batterydance.org/apply/.

* If staged performances are not possible due to COVID restrictions, the festival would shift to online-only.

92Y Harkness Dance Center Announces Submissions Open for the Fourth Annual MOBILE DANCE FILM FESTIVAL ~ Deadline May 1

1/14/2021

92Y Harkness Dance Center Announces Submissions are Open for the Fourth Annual
MOBILE DANCE FILM FESTIVAL

THE ONLY FILM FESTIVAL TO PRESENT DANCE FILMS SHOT SOLELY ON MOBILE DEVICES
Submissions Open through May 1

Festival Screening Date
Saturday, July 31

New York, NY: January 12, 2021 -- 92Y announces that submissions are open for the fourth annual 92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival -- the only dance film festival featuring works shot entirely on mobile devices. Filmmakers may submit up to three films across three categories: standard, AR and VR, and a new student film category for anyone currently enrolled in a high school, university, or equivalent certificate program. Submission deadline is May 21, 2021.

The 2020 Festival featured 30 Official Selections from more than 152 submissions from around the world, including Australia, Brazil, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Uruguay and the US. The Official Selections included the Festival’s first-ever animated mobile dance film.

For additional information and submission forms, please click here https://www.92y.org/dance/mobile-dance-film-festival.aspx

92nd Street Y's A Call for Submissions For The Future Dance Festival

1/7/2021

THE FUTURE DANCE FESTIVAL

A NEW VIRTUAL FESTIVAL CONNECTING THE NEXT GENERATION OF CREATORS WITH THE CURRENT GENERATION OF DIRECTORS SHOWCASING THE WORK OF FINALISTS IN VIRTUAL PERFORMANCES OVER THREE WEEKENDS

APRIL 9 – 25, 2021
92Y.ORG/FUTUREDANCEFESTIVAL

Submission & Selection Period

January 1 – February 5, 2021          Submissions Open
February 6 – 26, 2021                       First Round Notifications
March 19, 2021                                  Finalists Announced