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Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW) is offering fellowships
within our workspace to support artists in the fulfillment of their
aesthetic and conceptual goals through the medium of printmaking.

RBPMW Fellowships provide artists an opportunity for immersion in the
medium of printmaking, supported by a stipend, materials, and access to a
fully equipped and staffed professional and cooperative printmaking
workspace. These fellowships allow for progress through creative
experimentation, realizing individual conceptual goals, and cultivating
valuable connections in the New York fine art printmaking community.

The application deadline is April 4th.

Visit the website for more info.

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Location:
Federal Hall National Memorial
26 Wall Street, New York City

Date: April 5, 2008
Time: 2:00–5:00 PM

SOAPBOX (n): a post upon which people stand and give their opinions on a topic, sometimes in quite emphatic terms.

Soapbox Event is a participatory performance created by Pia Lindman. Participants are given one soapbox each, which entitles them to one minute of free speech. They may form coalitions and stack their boxes together to obtain greater spatial presence and talk time. The spokesperson of a coalition may speak for as many minutes as there are stacked boxes. As the event evolves, boxes begin to express changing rhetorical configurations in sculptural forms.

In Soapbox Event, Lindman pares down the structure of democracy to the elemental forms of free speech: human bodies, live voices, and space. This performance investigates the construction and breakdown of collective structures, and how they influence individual expression in democratic decision-making. The event highlights the relationship of embodied speech to the bare life of an individual, in the context of increasingly mediated communication.

The site — formerly New York City Hall and Customs House, currently Federal Hall National Memorial — epitomizes freedom of speech in America. In this place, newspaperman John Peter Zenger was tried for seditious libel against the Royal Governor; with his 1735 acquittal winning a major victory for the free press in America; George Washington delivered his inaugural presidential speech from the balcony in 1790; and Yayoi Kusama held her Naked Event on the steps in 1969. We are pleased to present Soapbox Event amid this splendid tradition of speech acts.

Pia Lindman has performed and exhibited internationally since 1994, including at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Modern Art, Sculpture Center, and Performa 2005, all in New York; at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City; Keio University, Tokyo; and Beaconsfield, London. In 2008–2009 Lindman will be artist in residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin; currently, she is a lecturer at Yale University School of Art. Her work is in the collections of MoMA and the Queens Museum of Art. She is represented by Luxe Gallery, New York City.

Soapbox Event is curated by Sandra Skurvida and has been made possible, in part, by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with the generous support of the September 11th Fund.

Please see soapboxevent.blogspot.com for more information, or contact Sandra Skurvida: skurvida@earthlink.net or (917) 250-7251.

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—— April 3, 2008, 6 – 8 PM ———

If you are an established arts organization in NYC and are contemplating either renting or buying a larger space, this is the right workshop for you. Led by Sarah Eisinger of Denham Wolf Real Estate Services, the workshop covers an overview of current NYC real estate market and realities for arts organizations; key considerations for organizations contemplating a project: renting vs. buying, and nuts and bolts about finding the right real estate.

About Denham Wolf Real Estate Services
Denham Wolf is a real estate consulting and development firm that specializes in representing the not-for-profit sector. Founded in 1998, the company has worked with more than 125 organizations to plan, acquire, and develop in excess of a million square feet of space.

Location:
Harlem Arts Alliance (UMEZ building)
290 Lenox Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10027
By subway: 125th (2, 3 train)

Attendance is free but RSVP is required:
Send an email with your contact information to artbusinessinitiative@seedco.org or call us at (646) 843-6510. You need to hear back from us to complete the RSVP process.

This workshop is part of the Seedco Financial’s ArtBusiness Initiative and the Harlem Arts Alliance’s workshop series.

Seedco Financial is a nonprofit community development financial institution that offers technical assistance and below market-rate loans to community organizations, nonprofits, and businesses in economically distressed communities. Since February 2005, the ArtBusiness Initiative has disbursed over $4.6 million in loans and worked with more than 450 arts groups in New York City.

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FIGMENT 2008 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
http://figmentnyc.org/participate/

FIGMENT is a celebration of creative culture held on Governors Island in New York Harbor on June 27-29, 2008. It is a free, non-profit art project that is open to the public. FIGMENT was launched in July 2007 as a one-day arts event. Even in its first year, it attracted scores of art projects and over 2,800 people. This year, FIGMENT will be three days long and welcome many more projects and participants.

FIGMENT seeks to build community among artists, foster the participatory and public arts in New York City, and to demonstrate a vision for the future of Governors Island as an arts and culture destination.

Anyone can contribute an art installation, performance, activity, or other project to FIGMENT! Opportunities to participate stretch as far as your imagination! Last year, FIGMENT hosted a wide variety of creations including inflatable sculptures, group dance lessons, tree-based art installations, bathtub photo booths, roving samba bands, costumed stilt walkers, medieval swordplay, climbable metal sculptures, and more!

Projects that can be set up outdoors are welcome aboard. It is also possible that indoor space will be available for certain projects. If you have an idea for FIGMENT and have questions about whether it's plausible, don't hesitate to get in touch.

Please note that key projects will be given placement on the island on a rolling basis. If you have a large project, a project that requires specific placement or infrastructure, please submit it as soon as possible so that we can accommodate it. Any projects proposed for Fort Jay, Castle Williams, or the Parade Grounds must be submitted by April 10.

Governors Island's rich history, green lawns, cool island breezes, and breathtaking harbor views make it a spectacular destination for a summer day. Governors Island is New York's birthplace: the Dutch first landed here in 1623. For most of our nation's history, Governors Island has been a military installation, first run by the U.S. Army and then by the Coast Guard. In January 2003, the Federal Government transferred the 172-acre island to the City and State of New York and the

National Park Service. Twenty-two acres of the island are now a National Park, and the remaining 150 acres are managed by the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation (GIPEC), a City-State partnership. For more information about Governors Island, please see http://www.govisland.org/.

To contribute to FIGMENT, please visit ttp://www.figmentnyc.org/participate/.

FIGMENT is a project of Action Arts League, and is produced by a coalition of volunteers in partnership with The Pure Project.

To check out last year's FIGMENT event, visit http://www.figmentnyc.org. If you have any general questions about the event, please email info@figmentnyc.org.

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In Friday's New York Post, Justin Silverman paid a visit to LMCC's most recently acquired Swing Space at 14 Wall Street. At nearly 15,000 square feet, it is one of largest Swing Spaces ever donated to LMCC. Capstone Equities purchased the landmark building in 2007, and has generously agreed to donate space in the basement vaults to LMCC's Swing Space program.

Since January, the empty vaults have been serving as rehearsal space for live theater productions, musical groups, writers and multimedia performers - all of whom find themselves plying their art in a neighborhood far more famous for commerce than culture. "I didn't even notice the artists working in the building until one day I saw a guy in a leotard walking through the lobby," says Daniel Ghadamian, a partner at Capstone Equities, which purchased the landmark building last year.

Read the entire article here.

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See what our 15 artists- and 5 writers-in-residence have been working on since the start of their Workspace residency in September 2007. Whether you are art-fair-hopping or not, join us for a sneak preview of their works-in-progress!

RSVP is required. Click here!

And Save the Date, Open Studio Weekend is right around the corner, April 26-27, 2008.

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Battery Dance Company is proud to present our 27th Annual Downtown Dance Festival (DDF). Initiated in 1982, DDF is a wonderful opportunity for dancers and choreographers from different backgrounds to present original work of high artistic merit in a free public forum.

Applications are being accepted now thru Monday April, 21st. To apply for entry to the Festival you must submit:

1) An application (available at the office or on our website).

2) A work sample. Preferably this will be a sample of the work you plan to present at the festival. If not, please attach a note of explanation.

3) A recent press kit

The Downtown Dance Festival takes place entirely outside, so the work presented must translate well to an outdoor environment. Primarily this means that the work cannot rely heavily on lighting or set elements. The stages at the festival are appropriate for most forms of dance including tap, pointe and flamenco companies. Pending funding, participating companies will be paid a fee. DDF places a strong emphasis on the inclusion of diverse dance styles and an international roster of performers. Last year’s performers included: TAKE Dance Company, Parijat Desai Dance Company, Quorum Ballet (Portugal), HUNTERDance Theater, Jamal Jackson Dance Company and many others.

The Festival will take place August 16th - 24th. Weekday performances will be held at Chase Plaza during the lunch hour. Weekend performances will be at Governor’s Island and The Lawn at Battery Park from 1-5pm. All chosen companies will perform at each site.

For more information on the Downtown Dance Festival, you may contact Festival Coordinator, Shoshanna Gross at: shoshanna [at] batterydance.org or (212) 219-3910

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FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY: Step inside three books, drink free beer and wine, and experience the future of the book:

MBP, Hotel St. George Press, the Institute for the Future of the Book, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Writers Residency program offer a night of multi-media readings that invite attendees to step inside books, celebrating how new media and traditional publishing fuse to create innovative projects that are more than “just books.” On this night, authors Garth Risk Hallberg, Alex Rose, and Alex Itin demonstrate how their stories rely on more than just words.

Hallberg’s illustrated novella, A Field Guide to the North American Family, documents two fictional families through 63 entries accompanied by evocative photographs contributed by some of today’s freshest photographic talents, as culled from the book’s ongoing companion website, afieldguide.com. Read from start to finish or in a “choose your own adventure” style, Hallberg’s attention to narrative detail makes clear why he was included in the 2008 Harcourt Best New American Voices anthology, and why Print called A Field Guide to the North American Family “a modern illuminated manuscript.” Hallberg will project photographs from the book.

The interwoven, post-modern folktales that comprise The Musical Illusionist by Alex Rose muse upon historical arcana, tethered together by music and topography. Drawing on his experience as a director whose films, videos, and animations have appeared on HBO, MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, and the BBC, Rose conjures, in the words of the Village Voice, “the playful parables of Jorge Luis Borges . . . exotic maps and exquisite prints further suggest a volume passed down from an epoch much more enthralled with mystery than our own.” Rose will read from the title story of his collection, accompanied by a surround-sound score composed by David Little and recorded by the Formalist Quartet.

As an artist-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Institute for the Future of the Book, Alex Itin uses text, original illustrations and animations, and music to encourage readers to reconsider the definition of a book. Take for example Itin’s Orson Whales: Melville’s Moby Dick meets Orson Welles, and Led Zeppelin. Itin’s multi-media books will be screened.

The LMCC is the leading voice for arts and culture in downtown New York City, producing cultural events and promoting the arts through grants, services, advocacy, and cultural development programs.

Come on out. We'll be there . . .
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Last November, the NYC Department of Buildings issued a vacate order artists working at 287 Broadway. One of these artists, Lisa Bateman, was awarded a grant through the Manhattan Community Arts Fund. She wrote to us looking for temporary studio/work-only space, so we're posting this issuing an urgent plea. She also noted that despite 287's landmark status, "recent structural news from our landlord and the Dept. of Buildings suggests that we will not be returning to our building or leases anytime soon, perhaps not at all."

The Tribeca Tribune wrote about the ongoing engineering challenge earlier this month:

Some residents have moved out for good; others have found temporary housing elsewhere but remain in the dark about how long it will be before they can return, if ever.

“Everyone has settled into limbo,” said one tenant, who asked not to be identified. “What’s frustrating is that no one seems to know the plan to fix the situation.”

If you can help Lisa and the other affected artists find 200-300 square feet of studio (work-only) space to be used over the next 6-12 months, please contact us: email space [at] lmcc.net

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The Experimental Television Center is pleased to announce Finishing Funds 2008.

Finishing Funds provides media and new media artists with grants up to $2,500 to help with the completion of diverse and innovative moving-image and sonic art projects, and works for the Web and new technologies. Eligible forms include film and video as single or multiple channel presentation, computer‑based moving-imagery and sound works, installations and performances, interactive works and works for new technologies, DVD, multimedia and the Web. We also support new media, and interactive performance. Work must be surprising, creative and approach the various media as art forms; all genres are eligible, including experimental, narrative and documentary art works. Individual artists can apply directly to the program and do not need a sponsoring organization. Applicants must be residents of New York State; undergraduate students are not eligible. The application requires a project description, resume and support materials, including a sample of the proposed project. Selection is made by a peer review panel. About $25,000 is awarded each year. Announcement is made in early June.

The program is supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency, and by mediaThe foundation.

Postmark Deadline: March 15, 2008

Guidelines and applications are available on the web at: http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/ in the ETC News Section and the Grants area or by mail or email.

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