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July 24, 2008 A great job -- if you qualify!Linda Frye Burnham / 12:16 PM Another entry in the "be careful what you ask for" category of job descriptions from the UK, where community art has become organized and sustainable. It's from the "refugee arts sector" and requires an unusual skill set: Sound It Out Community Music is the regional Community Music Development Agency for the West Midlands, and is looking to appoint a highly motivated, enthusiastic individual to join our growing team. Programme Officer – Cultural Cohesion This is an exciting new post that has been created to develop strategic links within the Refugee Arts sector (working with refugee, asylum seeker and economic migrant communities). You will work with the Sound It Out team as well as a broad number of external agencies and stakeholders to develop Sound It Out’s programme of work in the refugee arts sector, and will coordinate delivery of activity. You will also be responsible for attracting funding to the strand and for administering this. You will be a dynamic individual with project management, fundraising and refugee arts experience.
July 23, 2008 Best 2008 press release -- a challenger!Linda Frye Burnham / 11:41 AM I already awarded Dell'Arte my Favorite Press Release of 2008 award, but I might have to rescind that decision. Here's a true challenger from another Northern California collective: Modern Garage Movement. Modern Garage Movement Dance Performance For more information, please visit www.moderngaragemovement.com
Grassroots arts organizing works in Santa Monica Linda Frye Burnham / 09:56 AM Forwarding an e-mail sent out to arts supporters in Santa Monica, Calif., by Jan Williamson, executive director of the 18th Street Arts Center in that city: Dear Friends, You guys rock! Thanks to all of you the City Council of Santa Monica approved the proposed arts and culture budget and then some... Because of your emails, letters, and testimony at City Hall, Santa Monica will be giving new awards to individual artists, new awards for arts education projects and expanding their support for nonprofit arts organizations. Very few cities in the US currently give out grants to individual artists. So this is a milestone that we can all hope will encourage other cities to follow suit. The June vote was unanimous! We knew that the new arts education grant program would be an easy sell to the City Council, but we were not confident that the artist grant program would get passed. So I really want to thank you and express my sincere appreciation to you all for your advocacy. I know that the City Council heard you all, and it made the difference. Plus, in addition to funding these new grant programs, adding a new staff position (to help with the added work), the Council also voted to give Cultural Affairs $100,000 in one-time funds for the maintenance of the City’s art collection. In otherwords – we got MORE than what we asked for.
July 22, 2008 Help Wanted: MournerLinda Frye Burnham / 02:33 PM Forwarded from ELandF Gallery in Lexington, Ky. Help Wanted: Mourner GREENGRIEF The Kentucky Mourning Project provides compensation to mourners for grieving, praying, singing and for giving thoughtful consideration and sincere apologies to our earth for the environmental and cultural devastation wrought by us humans to it in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Mourner Wanted to grieve for loss by demolition of irreplaceable historical/cultural and architecturally unique block in downtown Lexington Kentucky (the Dame block), to apologize for our culture’s sad lust for profit and to offer prayers of healing and hope. Mourner is asked to articulate these expectations while walking around the block for a period of one hour (12:00pm- 1pm) during a weekday on a date yet to be decided in August/September 2008 Honorarium: $100.00 To apply: No more than 100 words on what mourning means to you and why you would like to mourn for the loss of this cherished block. Deadline: August 1, 2008 Some sponsors: Lonely Mountain Community Center, Radical B.U.G.S (Build Urban Garden Spaces) The H.O.G.G.G.S., Eco Life Force, S.E.A.P (Southern Exploration of Artistic Processes)
July 17, 2008 Art processionsLinda Frye Burnham / 11:36 AM "Carried Away -- Processions in Art" is an exhibition for the Sonsbeek Festival at Arnhem Museum of Modern Art in the Netherlands. The exhibition features a selection of Dutch and international artists who have organized processions, or have been influenced by processions, political parades, carnival parades, marches or funeral processions. "Some art processions," says the Arnhem's press release, "are in veneration, others are homages, or express protest, criticism or questioning. For instance, the exhibition features a film of a carnival parade in which Joseph Beuys joins the people in solidarity to protest the high price paid for his own work by a museum. The exhibition also features life-sized pigs by Stephen Wilks, which have been carried around by people and refer to George Orwell's book Animal Farm." There's more on e-artnow.org
The Jesse Helms AIDS Bill? Linda Frye Burnham / 10:58 AM "Republican Senator Dole introduced an amendment to name an HIV/AIDS relief bill after the recently deceased Jesse Helms," says Rachel Weiner on the Huffingtonpost.com. "Helms, of course, was a strident foe of HIV/AIDS prevention, research and treatment." Talk about a tin ear. Helms was also a foe of public funding for artists. Especially gay artists. The bill passed without Helms' name on it. "Elizabeth Dole Tries To Name AIDS Bill After Jesse Helms"
July 16, 2008 What does a foundation program officer do, anyway?Linda Frye Burnham / 03:02 PM Erica Kohl, a CAN writer ("Connecting Californians") and a doctoral candidate in Social and Cultural Studies at UC Berkeley, has written "The Program Officer: Negotiating the Politics of Philanthropy," posted on the Web site of Berkeley's Institute for the Study of Social Change, where she is a Fellow. It's part of her larger study on the relationship between private philanthropy and farmworker organizing and community development across California’s Central Valley. Says the paper's intro: "This paper concentrates on the central role of the foundation program officer in negotiating the process of grant making. The work of the program officer is revealed as both containing and opening up spaces for addressing political and economic inequity. It is argued that the work of the foundation program officer often limits the approach of granted organizations through professional processes and program frameworks that make poor people responsible for their own betterment while excluding the economic relationships that created the situations the programs seek to ameliorate. Yet findings also point to the role of the program officer as one of significant risk taking and advocacy during non-movement times. Data was gathered through in-depth interviews with foundation program officers, consultants, and grantees, review of foundation program materials, and participant observation at foundation gatherings and presentations." "The Program Officer: Negotiating the Politics of Philanthropy" |
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