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Vimeo – Festival & Awards
Deadline: July 31, 2010

The Best Video Award will be selected by a group of judges from multiple categories and the Vimeo Awards staff. This award will be selected from top finalists in each category. If you win your category, you’ll be in the running for best overall Film or Video, the grand prize includes a $25,000 grant to produce your next big hit. The Vimeo Festival and Awards will kick off with a preview event in Amsterdam on September 10th, followed by a two-day festival on October 8-9, in New York City.


YouTube Play – A Biennial of Creative Video
Deadline: July 31, 2010

YouTube is looking for amazing animation, motion graphics, narrative, non-narrative, or documentary work, music videos and entirely new art form’s to showcase at the Guggenheim in New York City, and throughout the Guggenheim network of museums in Bilbao, Venice and Berlin. YouTube Play is a collaboration between YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum, presented by HP and Intel, to unearth and showcase the very best creative video from around the world.


ASCAP Foundation: Music Grant Program
Deadline: August 1, 2010

The ASCAP Foundation is a publicly supported charitable organization dedicated to sponsoring American music creators and encouraging their growth through music education and talent development programs. The ASCA Foundation invites proposals from nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations engaging in music education and talent development programs that are consistent with the mission and objectives of the foundation and which support music education for aspiring songwriters and composers.


Call for Artists – Mystic Sons of Morris Graves
Deadline: August 1, 2010

Artists interested making a counterfeit copy, an homage or a send-up of any work in the Graves oeuvre are encouraged to participate. Artists are being asked to “channel” Morris Graves in anticipation of a séance to be held on his 100th birthday August 28 in the Vandenbrink Community Room at the same address. There are no fees, no sales commission and no rejections. The Rock|DeMent Visual Art Space at 306 S. Washington, Studio #104 will be accepting submitted work for the show over the weekend of July 31-August 1.


National Parks Service: Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program
August 1, 2010

Do you have an idea for a local conservation and outdoor recreation project, but need assistance to move that vision into reality? The mission of the Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance program (RTCA) is to assist community-led natural resource conservation and outdoor recreation initiatives.  RTCA staff provide guidance to communities so they can conserve waterways, preserve open space, and develop trails and greenways.


The Visual Arts Touring program (VAT)
Deadline: August 2, 2010

VAT is a competitive grant program. Using National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) funding, WESTAF will allocate matching grants of up to $50,000 each to visual arts organizations to support tours of visual art exhibitions of important regional artists. The Western States Arts Federation, is a nonprofit arts service organization dedicated to the creative advancement and preservation of the arts. Based in Denver, Colorado, WESTAF fulfills its mission to strengthen the financial, organizational and policy infrastructure of the arts by providing innovative programs and services to artists and arts organizations in the West and nationwide.


Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition – Vocals and Composers
Deadline: August 6, 2010

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz is pleased to announce that the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition will be held on October 3-4 in Washington, DC. Jazz vocals will be featured this year.The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, a nonprofit education organization, was founded in 1986 by the Monk family along with the late Maria Fisher, an opera singer and lifelong devotee of music. Its mission is to offer the world’s most promising young musicians college level training by America’s jazz masters and to present public school-based jazz education programs for young people around the world.


The Institute of Museum and Library Services – Conservation Assessment Program
Deadline: August 6, 2010

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. IMLS is seeking grant applicants for its Conservation Assessment Program, designed to provide an affordable and accessible collections conservation assessment program to small and medium-sized museums of all types. Museums, institutions of higher education, and organizations that support museums are encouraged to apply.


Memoir (and) – Prize for Memoir in Prose or Poetry
Deadline: August 15, 2010

A prize of $500 and publication in Memoir (and) is given twice yearly for a memoir in the form of a poem, a short story, or an essay. The editors will judge. Submit up to five poems or up to 10,000 words of prose. Memoir (and) is a nonprofit literary journal born with these ideas in mind. Our mission is to publish traditional as well as nontraditional forms of nonfiction allied with memoir. This includes, but is not limited to, autobiography, diary, personal and critical essay, reportage, autobiographical fiction, alternative histories, “flash memoir,” narrative poetry or “poemoir” (it’s okay to groan, we did) and graphic memoir.


New York Public Library – Young Lions Fiction Award
Deadline: August 27, 2010

A prize of $10,000 is given annually to honor a novel or short story collection by a U.S. citizen who is 35 or younger. Publishers and agents may submit 10 copies of a book (or bound galleys) published in 2010, a nomination form, an author biography, and book reviews.Each year five young fiction writers are selected as finalists by a reading committee of Young Lions members, writers, editors, and librarians.


Glimmer Train Press – Short Story Award for New Writers
Deadline: August 31, 2010
A prize of $1,200 and publication in Glimmer Train Stories is given quarterly for a short story by a writer whose fiction has not been published in a print publication with a circulation over 5,000. Submit a story of up to 12,000 words. Entry fee.


Performing Artists – USArtists International
Deadline: September 7, 2010

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts have announced the availability of guidelines for the 2010–2011 cycle of USArtists International (USAI), which provides support for American dance, music, and theater artists who have been invited to participate in significant international festivals and engagements that represent extraordinary career opportunities anywhere in the world outside of the United States and its territories.  The deadlines for the program are: September 7, 2010 for projects taking place between November 1, 2010–October 31, 2011; December 13, 2010 for projects taking place between March 1, 2011–February 28, 2012; and April 22, 2011 for projects taking place between July 1, 2011–June 30, 2012.


The New Orleans Photo Alliance’s Grants – The Clarence John Laughlin Award
Deadline: September 15, 2010

The Clarence John Laughlin Award was created by the New Orleans Photo Alliance (NOPA) to support the work of photographers who use the medium as a means of creative expression. It honors the life and work of Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985), a New Orleans photographer best known for his surrealist images of the American South. The Clarence John Laughlin Award grants one $5000 prize annually to a photographer whose work exhibits sustained artistic excellence and creative vision.


Hedgebrook Writer’s Residency
Deadline: September 23, 2010

Hedgebrook retreat for women writers is on Whidbey Island, about thirty-five miles northwest of Seattle. Situated on 48-acres of forest and meadow facing Puget Sound, with a view of Mount Rainier, the retreat hosts women writers from all over the world for residencies of two to six weeks, at no cost to the writer. Residents are housed in six handcrafted cottages, where they spend their days in solitude – writing, reading, taking walks in the woods on the property or on nearby Double Bluff beach. In the evenings, they gather in the farmhouse kitchen to share a home-cooked gourmet meal, their work, their process and their stories. The Writers in Residence Program is Hedgebrook’s core program, supporting the no-cost residencies of 30-40 women writers at the retreat each year as well as 5-10 alumnae return stay residencies.


Residency Program – Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
Deadline: September 30, 2010

Few programs exist either on the national or international level where the sole mission is to support the creativity of artists. From the beginning, the art-making process has been the highest priority at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, where both the atmosphere and environment offer ideal situations for creative growth and experimentation. We address the practical aspects of this mission by providing well-equipped studio spaces, living accommodations and monthly $750 stipends. Located in two urban warehouses totaling 110,000 square feet, our facilities are designed to foster creativity and the productive exchange of ideas. Artists from around the world come to the Bemis Center to work in this supportive community and confront new challenges.


Grammy Foundation – Grant Program
Deadline October 1, 2010

The Grammy Foundation Grant Program, funded by the Recording Academy, annually provides grants for music archiving and preservation efforts and for scientific research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition.The foundation will award archiving and preservation project grants to organizations and individuals working to advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas. The archiving and preservation area has two funding categories — preservation implementation ($20,000 maximum award each) as well asplanning, assessment, and/or consultation ($5,000).


COUCHFEST 2010 – Couch Fest Films
Deadline: October 8, 2010

Celebrating its third annual year in 2010, Couch Fest Films is a cozy shorts film fest hosted in people’s houses. During Couch Fest Films, lovers of film can sit shoulder to shoulder with total strangers watching short films and snacking. On Saturday, November 6th, 2010, each Couch Fest Films house will have its own genre of short movies that play on rotation all day. Starting every hour, each inviting house will have its owunique 30 minute program of short films. Ultimately, the hope is that you might interact, share and discover fellow lovers of film. They are looking for submissions of films and willing hosts. Films should be no longer than 6 minutes and houses should be friendly!


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