2009 Joseph Henry Jackson, James Duval Phelan & Mary Tanenbaum Awards March 24, 2009
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Calling you California writers out there, submit your poems, prose, plays, or non-fiction by March 31:
2009 Joseph Henry Jackson, James Duval Phelan & Mary Tanenbaum Awards
These awards, sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation and administered by Intersection for the Arts, are offered annually to promising young California writers. There is no entry fee to apply for $6,000 total in awards.
The postmark deadline for the 2009 Awards is March 31, 2009. We will be announcing the winners for the 2009 Awards by October 2009.
For more information and to download the application form for the 2009 Jackson, Phelan and Tanenbaum Literary Awards by clicking here.
Make movies! February 20, 2009
Posted by Adrien in opportunities.Tags: Asian, Asian American film, Film Festival
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Film festivals for Asians all over! Go be a star!
(Repost via Hyphen)
From the east coast to the west, February brings opportunities to filmmakers everywhere.
With a record number of nearly 18,000 attendees last year, the San Diego Film Festival returns for its 10th year. Be part of the celebration of Asian American media by submitting your own shorts, animation, feature length, documentary or music videos. There’s a minimum cash prize of $1,000 for the Jury Winner and all films are automatically entered into competition. Think about that: way better odds than the Lotto. The festival is in October, but the April 30th early deadline for entries is sooner than you think, so visit their website for more information.
Another deadline is right around the corner, and that’s for the 9th Annual Slant: Bold Asian American Images in Houston, Texas. As a festival of short films, covering all kinds of genres, it will sure appeal to people who like to get to the good stuff quickly. It’s also worth mentioning that the festival’s curator is Hyphen’s own founding editor, Melissa Hung! Deadline is February 23rd so do make sure you postmark accordingly. Follow this link to read up on more details, and act fast.
In New York, gears churn for the next Asian American International Film Festival. Their regular deadline is tomorrow — but don’t panic. The final deadline gives you until February 25th. With six categories currently accepting submissions, they are looking for films of different strokes to please the many different folks. Follow their submission guideline here, and take part in the first and longest running festival to recognize the works of Asian American filmmakers.
Your camerawork wants to fly. Set it free.
The Little Ripple Project February 2, 2009
Posted by Adrien in opportunities, poems, projects.Tags: Caitlin Meissner, HeartFirst Challenge, Little Ripple Project
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“It’s truth we’re after here,
hurting for, out in the streets”
–Yusef Komunyakaa, Safe Subjects
Last summer on a steamy New York June afternoon, I hopped out of the Metro deep in the heart of the financial district in Manhattan to meet up with the ineffable Caitlin Meissner, poet Goddess extraordinaire. What proceeded was the most magical forty-minute lunch I’ve ever had with someone I just met — filled with spontaneous poetry sharing, stories of love struggles, life movement, and one of the most beautiful voices to ever grace my ears.
Last month, Caitlin sent me, along with many others in her poetic community, an intimate email that ended with the simple prompt: “What is YOUR truth? Write it down. Tell it to your best friend. Put it on a blog or in an email or sing it or design it or whatever you do to do you. And then send it to me. I’m gathering stories.”
Thus began the Little Ripple Project, which in turn helped to inspire the HeartFirst Challenge. You can read the full email that started it all here and I encourage you brave people to participate in the Little Ripple Project.
Here is my submission to Caitlin, cross-posted on the Little Ripple Project blog.
My truth
I sit forty hours a week in the same chair the same desk. Between youth and adulthood. In between a new President and becoming a second class citizen in my own state. In between a man shot and a city on fire. In between Gaza and Israel.
This world I live. I a fresh breath bursting out of college into the face of a maelstrom sweeping me. History is time that won’t quit and my time just started.
Take me. All of me flesh and nerves a mess. I lay myself peeling back skin back layers of death and ash. A thousand years. A lotus pod. Unfolds. Find the beats in me beat even in the middle of still ness.
Find I am already bound in it like
Poetry pulses five quarts a minute out my aorta like
Protesters arrests the marching of feet pounds my ears like
Specks of struggle under my fingernails in the cracks of my skin like
My love for men seep out my eye sockets like
Communities in agony
History is time that won’t quit and I am already caught in it
Engulfs me
How else do I do
But bloody spit out my lungs into the thick air of it
Breathe the wind rushing into me
Dance the earth already turning me
Tumble into
Stumble
Live
word.
Take the HeartFirst Challenge January 28, 2009
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The HeartFirst Challenge is a new blog/project I am heading up for the month of February. This is the first official announcement so be the first to participate! Check it and then hit me up!
Live Heartful: The HeartFirst Challenge
February 2009
In reclamation of the month of the heart, to bring more love and passion into the world, in the name of self-love, and because you deserve it: I issue a challenge to all of you out there who love anything, care about anything, feel something, deep in the pit of you. If you dare to live like you mean it, I challenge you.
The challenge is extremely simple: For 28 days in the month of February, put your heart first.
What might happen if for just 28 days, you gave in to your dreams? If for once in this fast-changing, money-driven world, you chose to live by what your heart needs. If you have wanted to be an artist, start painting. If you want to go to culinary school, sign up for a cooking class. If you’ve always wanted to be a revolutionary, go join a protest!
The challenge is this: commit yourself to your heart, firmly and decisively. Barring logistical constraints — you don’t have to leave your job or stop going to school — do all you can to live exactly how you have dreamed to live.
You can take many small actions or a few big actions! Following your heart can mean different things for different people. Here is a short list of of things you can do to start off:
- write that poem screaming inside you
- create a music album
- tell the person you love them
- come out of your closet
- send letters to loved ones
- go to the museum
- get that haircut you want
- redesign your wardrobe
- start your blog
- buy that ticket to Paris
- sign up for salsa dancing
- go talk to a stranger
- volunteer at an organization
- call your parents
Speak your truth
Don’t hesitate
Do it now.
If you feel something compelling you, go for it. And if you stop yourself, take a moment and reflect on why.
This challenge is predicated upon the possibility that our hearts know what is good and healthy and uplifting for us and our lives. That we are capable of everything we imagine. That good energy begets good energy, and that once you commit to your heart’s truth fully, all the Universe conspires in your favor.
Every day in February, live by that faith. Resist the I can’ts and I shouldn’ts. Tell yourself you deserve to live your dreams. This is your time, this is your life.
Try it out, just this once. Live by your heart. Then come back here and share what happens.
HeartFirst Challenge Instructions
This is a serious challenge, so considerate it seriously. By participating you are making a personal commitment to yourself, your heart, and your dreams. If you are up for it, email heartfirstchallenge@gmail.com with the following:
Your name, location, and an intro describing why you are taking on the Heart First Challenge, no more than 250 words all together, and a picture of yourself. When I get your email I will post your introduction here.
This website will document the Heart First Challenge. Weekly suggestions and exercises will be posted; but mostly I will post participant’s challenges, newfound blessings and opportunities, epiphanies, and revelations in their own words. Your commitment, asides your personal contract with your own heart, will be to send an update at least once a week in February to heartsfirstchallenge@gmail.com to be posted on this blog.
However if making public your dreams and wishes is not your cup of tea just yet, by all means, take the challenge on in secret as well! The point is to spread our love, passion, and the natural joy in our hearts into the world.
Think about it. Not too long though. Listen to your heart. Feel if this is something you need. If your heart says yes, then go for it.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.
-H.D. Thoreau
More Video Contests! — Goodbye Bush. January 16, 2009
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What up with all these video contests? Well get excited if you have a webcam. MoJo is holding this contest where you can post a 30 sec message to farewell our soon-to-be ex-Pres. The contest started in December, but they say you can still submit. They are starting to post their favorites now. Here is the first one:
If you had 30 seconds to say goodbye directly to Bush, what would you say?
We asked MoJo readers in December for their YouTube video responses to this question; today we’ll start posting our favorites on motherjones.com.
You can still participate: Just put your 30-second (or so), PG-13 video on YouTube labeled “Mother Jones Goodbye Bush Video” and send us the link at:
mojobushvideo@gmail.com
All styles of video are welcome, from simply talking at the camera to fancier stuff. Bring it on, we say. Just don’t forget to include your snail mail address when you email us if you want to win MoJo swag.
Freedom to Marry Youtube Video Contest January 16, 2009
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If you got a camera, grab it and make a statement! Get on this, the deadline is February 6!
ANNOUNCING THE 7 CONVERSATIONS IN 7 DAYS YOUTUBE VIDEO CONTEST
People all around the country are using every tool possible to talk to their friends, family, and community about why marriage equality is important to them. Here’s your chance to make your voice heard!Grab a camera and make a short video about why marriage matters to you. Upload it to the Freedom to Marry YouTube Group Page. Then share it with all of your friends and encourage them to vote for your video.
1st and 2nd Place winners get $1,000 and $500.
Hurry, the last day to upload is February 6, 2009.
To upload a video or friend us on YouTube visit http://www.youtube.com/freedomtomarryTo view contest rules visit http://www.freedomtomarry.org/contest/contest_rules.php
To view messaging, news and video resources for the contest visit: http://www.freedomtomarry.org/contest
To join our fan page visit: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=505836705#/pages/Freedom-to-Marry/40484170092?ref=ts
Maganda Magazine Submissions Deadline Extended December 19, 2008
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Submissions are being accepted now through January 20 for the amazing bastion of Filipino/American arts and literature, {m}aganda magazine.
Call for Submissions
What is today’s generation marked by?
Invention. Innovation. Invigoration.
The energy to fight for a cause
The spark to cause an effect
The power to effect change
The people living in today’s world share much more in common than
merely existing at the same time. We share a history: chapters both
ugly and triumphant, events that have occurred both within and outside
of our control. In the end, our future is still to be determined by
our decisions.
As the electric current of ideas rapidly fires through the generator
of our collective minds, we gain the power to make a difference, to
mark a place in history, not only in continuing the pursuits of
previous generations but in creating entirely new possibilities.
What will this generation be defined by?
GENERATE
produce
cause
What does it mean to you? What do you generate? How do you perceive
generation in the world today?
Generate your ideas through your own means of artistic expression and
submit to {m}22.
* * * (Submission instructions after jump)
Make a Music Video for Locus Arts and KSW! December 11, 2008
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Kearny Street Workshop and Locus Arts are teaming up to bring you back to the Do It Yourself Music Video Night where all you local musicians and film makers get the chance to team up and produce a music video that would premiere at a Locus event in February 2009.
You get the chance to collab with a musician or band, make a movie, and possibly be showcased in national and international festivals! Anyone down to make a vid???
Hurry if you’re interested, the deadline to state your interest is December 14!
From Kearny Street Workshop:
We’re teaming up Asian American musicians with Asian American filmmakers to make music videos to premiere at an event in February 2009 with the possibility of entry into a competitive event in March. Last year’s competition was sponsored by the Center for Asian American Media and the videos competed for a spot in the 2008 San Francisco Asian American Film Festival.
The videos from the 2008 DIY event can be viewed at http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/videos/ under Locus Arts Do It Yourself Music Video Contest. The winning video, I-Hotel by Autonomous Region, directed by Jason Nou, and all of last years videos went on to national and international film festivals.
We want interested musicians and filmmakers to get in touch with us by emailing brandon@locusarts.org.
CIRCA-Pintig calls for scripts October 21, 2008
Posted by Adrien in opportunities.Tags: CIRCA, CIRCA-Pintig, Filipino, Filipino American, Filipino American theater, Pintig
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Chicago-based Filipino community arts and theatre group CIRCA-Pintig is now seeking scripts for their next season cycle. Here is the call:
CIRCA-Pintig seeks scripts for its 2009-2010 Theater Season.
*Submissions for one-act plays will be considered for our annual SHORT ACTS that provides opportunities for exploring narratives and honing skills in the areas of playwriting, acting and directing.
*Submissions for full-length plays will be considered for our major FALL Production that celebrate and interrogate the immigrant narrative from historical and contemporary focal points.
Send to:
Louie Sison
c/o CIRCA-Pintig
4938 N. Washtenaw Ave. Apt#3
Chicago, IL 60625
or email your script to: lousis30 at yahoo dot com
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New blog for Filipina/o writers September 15, 2008
Posted by Adrien in news, opportunities.Tags: Filipino, Filipino American, Filipino poetry, Filipino-American Art
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Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., a Northern California-based non-profit dedicated to supporting and connecting Filipino/American writers and artists is now hosting a blog chocked full of new and upcoming literary announcements, events, and opportunities.
Check out the blog regularly for Filipino/American literary/arts news.
