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DO YOU KNOW...
- A leader in the Asian American community working for the advancement of the arts?
- An emerging or mid-career professional outside of the field but working to support the arts?
The Wai Look Award recognizes an Asian American who demonstrates a commitment to outstanding service and leadership.
* You may nominate yourself or others!
ABOUT WAI LOOK (1969 - 2010)
Born in New York, Wai Look was one of five daughters in a Chinese American family. She grew up in Queens and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1991. Since that time, she held positions in management and development for the United Hospital Fund, the Arts & Business Council of New York, and the New York Pops. A longtime board member of the Alliance, Ms. Look served on the executive committee as board secretary. She also served on the board of the Artists Community Federal Credit Union.
RECENT PAST AWARDEES
2016 RECIPIENT
Sarah Gambito and Joseph Legaspi
Co-Founders of Kundiman
Kundiman creates an affirming and rigorous space where Asian American writers can explore, through art, the unique challenges that face the new and ever changing diaspora.
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2017 RECIPIENT
Christina Chiu, Author, Co-host & Curator, Pen Parentis
Pen Parentis provides critical resources to working writers to keep them on creative track after they start a family.
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For a complete list of past Wai Look Award recipients
click here.
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Alliance + Member Events
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Wednesday, August 9 to Thursday, August 17
presents Asian American Mixfest, where there will be hosting readings of full-length plays by Carla Ching, Qui Nguyen, A. Rey Pamatmat, Madhuri Shekar, and Lloyd Suh. Jessica Huang, Leah Nanako Winkler and Jiehae Park will create short one-acts and present them as readings alongside a short play by Rajiv Joseph!
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Wednesday, August 9 to Wednesday, August 30
Asian American Writers' Workshop
presents Workshop: Protest Poetry with Sally Wen Mao. We are living in a senseless political era. How do we react, as writers, artists, and citizens? Where do we channel our anger, our protest, our ideals - how do we do right by our art and our politics? In this workshop, participants consider the political poem and examine the ways to approach resistance through language, lyric, and form-in poetry or in lyric essays.
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Tuesday, August 15 to
Sunday, August 20
Broadway Bound Theatre Festival presents
Poor Boys' Chorus. A daring trick by a mysterious illusionist at the summer carnival inspires a rich girl to convince an orphan boy to break all of the town's rules. Plans are hatched, promises are broken and innocent mistakes produce tragic consequences. The Poor Boys' Chorus proudly presents a tale so tragically romantic it'll take your breath away. Literally.
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Rockwood Music Hall presents
The Aakash Mittal Quintet featuring Brad Goode. Saxophonist Aakash Mittal and trumpet player Brad Goode are teaming up with pianist Adrean Farrugia, bassist Ray Parker, and drummer Alex Ritz to play a set of original and standard jazz at Rockwood Music Hall. Mittal, who is a former student of the Chicago born Goode, will be reuniting with his mentor after a five-year departure to India and New York.
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Monday, August 21 to Sunday, August 27
Navatman
presents Drive East
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Join Navatman as we bring together artists from all over the globe for one of the most ambitious-and lauded-congregations of Indian classical music and dance. Whether you are a seasoned patron or interested in learning more, there is an experience for everyone in this extraordinary festival.
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Chen Dance Center presents a
Summer Open House Party. Join Chen Dance Center for a summer party to celebrate their new website and season. Refreshments and activities included.
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Museum of Chinese in America
presents a Chinatown Food Tour as part of their exhibition "Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Spicy: Stories of Chinese Food and Identity in America". Get to know and taste the diverse food and cooking styles of Chinese cuisine while exploring stories of the neighborhood through this multi-regional tasting tour of Chinatown. The tour includes 5-6 food samples. Learn more
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Tuesday, September 5 to Saturday, October 7
Ars Nova in association with Ma-Yi Theater Company + Woodshed Collective Presents: KPOP. KPOP is here and America will never be the same. Claim your exclusive, all-access pass and immerse yourself in the Korean Pop music factory where stars are made... or broken.
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Wednesday, September 27 to Saturday, October 28
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
presents the final installation of {my lingerie play}. Still image, raw footage, and music wildly chronicle Diana Oh's journey in intimate attire from her first f*ck me bra to the vengeful loss of her virginity, from being arrested to being followed, all the way to creating 10 Underground Performance Installations in her lingerie staged in an effort to make New York City a saner, safer and more respectful space for women to live in.
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Featured Opportunities
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Call for Actors Theatre Communications Group is accepting applications for the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, a fellowship for actors that supports their artistic and professional growth in collaboration with a TCG Member theatre.
Learn more | Deadline: August 16, 2017
Call for Artists The Sustainable Arts Foundation is now accepting applications for their 2017 Awards. Visual artists and writers with children are invited to apply. At least half of their awards will go to applicants of color.
Learn more | Deadline: August 31, 2017
Grant Opportunity The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council is pleased to announce the launch of the FY18 guidelines and applications for LMCC's Manhattan Arts Grants: Creative Engagement and Creative Learning. They award grants of up to $8,000 to Manhattan-based artists, emerging arts groups, and community-based organizations working across disciplines.
Learn More | Deadline: September 12, 2017
Grant Opportunity The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation supports arts and cultural organizations through grants to catalyze collective action, promote equality, contribute to advocacy and policy change and develop capacity for greater civic engagement. Learn More | Deadline: September 15, 2017
Call for Socially Engaged Artists
A Blade of Grass is inviting Letters of Interest for its Fellowship for Engaged Art, which provides resources to artists who demonstrate artistic excellence and serve as innovative conduits for social change. Learn More | Deadline: September 15, 2017
Call for Entries The Paley Center for Media has announced a call for entries for its celebrated Art of the Documentary Pitch Workshop. A panel of documentary executives and producers discuss the process of developing a documentary and will hear and evaluate pitches from up to five pre-selected up-and-coming filmmakers who are hoping to sell either a nonfiction concept or a documentary work-in-progress. The winner of the pitch competition in November will receive a $5,000 grant to be used towards the completion of their project. Learn more | Deadline: September 15, 2017
Grant Opportunity
The Indie Theater Fund is currently accepting proposals for their 2017 Artist Pay and Leadership Grants to fund the artists and administrators that make your play development and productions happen.
Learn More | Deadline: September 18, 2017
Call for Artists
Lewis Center for the Arts
is now accepting applications for its 2017-19 Princeton Arts Fellowships. Applicants should be an early-career poet, novelist, choreographer, playwright, designer, performer, director, filmmaker, composer, or performance artist who would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community.
Call for Teaching Artists Teaching Artist Project (TAP) is a comprehensive training and internship program designed to prepare practicing artists to bring their craft to the classroom. The program entails a rigorous, 8-month curriculum, rich in social justice-based pedagogy that also provides supervised on-the-job experience.
Grant Opportunity Brooklyn Arts Council invite individual artists, collectives, and small nonprofit organizations to apply for up to $5,000 to support arts and cultural projects taking place across Brooklyn in 2018. Information sessions available.
Call for Submissions Quills Edge Press is seeking submissions for 50/50: Poems & Translations by Women Over 50. Each of the poets selected will see two or three of her poems included, so that her unique voice can be more deeply appreciated by others. This high-quality anthology will allow new and established voices to submit on a level field.
| Deadline: September 22, 2017
Call for Queens Artists Queens Museum seeks applications from artists and cultural producers living and/or working in Queens to be considered for the 8th iteration of the Queens International. The Queens International is a biennial that focuses on the international within the local via its dedication to the inherently diverse cultural output of Queens-the most ethnically diverse county in America.
Call for Artists Queer|Art will be accepting applications for The Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant, an annual grant that will be awarded to self-identified lesbians for making visionary moving-image art.
Call for Entries The Ann Arbor Film Festival, the oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America, is calling for entries for their 56th Festival in 2018.
Learn more | Deadline: September 31, 2017
Call for Queens Artists Queens Arts Fund offers grants to Queens-based individual artists and nonprofit organizations offering distinctive arts and cultural programming that directly serves the citizens of Queens. Information Sessions are mandatory for first time applicants and those applicants that have not applied in the past two years.
Grant Opportunity The MAP Fund will be accepting application for their fall grant on September 25, 2017.
Call for Essays NYU Press is having an open submission call for a forthcoming anthology on colorism which will include a collection of essays written by Asian American women about their personal experiences with colorism.
Learn more | Deadline: October 31, 2017
Call for Non-Profits Japan Foundation is now accepting project proposals for Performing Arts Japan (PAJ) touring and collaboration grants for the 2018 - 2019 fiscal year. This program is designed to provide financial assistance for non-profit organizations in the US and Canada that aim to introduce Japanese performing arts to local audiences.
Learn more | Deadline: October 31, 2017
Award Opportunity
The Richard Rodgers Awards were created and endowed by Richard Rodgers in 1978 for the development of the musical theater. These awards subsidize full productions, studio productions, and staged readings by nonprofit theaters in New York City of works by composers and writers who are not already established in this field.
Call for Proposals Think!Chinatown, in collaboration with the arts organization chashama, is soliciting proposals to utilize exhibition space and artist work space at 384 Broadway. Think!Chinatown and chashama will also install a 24-hour window projection featuring images from various archives of Asian American art.
Call for Artists
Queens Council on the Arts (QCA)
is pleased to announce the launch of the Artist Commissioning Program (ACP) to support Queens artists to create new, original works to be interpreted for theatre, dance and music. This innovative program allows Queens community members to become panelists who will select four artists to each receive a $10,000 commission.
Job Opportunity
DataArts
is currently seeking a new CEO to envision and lead the implementation of its strategic action plan, comprehensive resource development, and delivery of high quality services to participants, subscribers, and those who support the arts and cultural sector.
Job Opportunity
The Authors Guild Foundation
is currently seeking a Director of Development to raise annual, endowment, and special project funds.
Job Opportunity
Tenement Museum
is seeking an Executive Vice President for Operations (EVP) who will provide strategic leadership to the Museum and be an integral resource in the development of new systems, enterprise programs and initiatives, renovations and/or expansion efforts.
Job Opportunity
Children's Museum of the Arts
is searching for a Development Manager to play a key role in CMA's fundraising. Reporting to the Director of Development, he/she will be responsible for key department areas particularly special events and annual appeal, as well as donor research, grant writing and management, and administrative duties.
Job Opportunity
PS122
is seeking an Executive Development Assistant. Reporting directly to the Executive Artistic Director (EAD), the Executive Development Assistant is responsible for providing administrative assistance and professional level support to the EAD with a special focus on Development and Fundraising.
Job Opportunity
Japan Society
is seeking a Chief Development Officer. The Chief Development Officer will lead, manage, and build Japan Society's development efforts for corporate, foundation, individual, and member giving.
Job Opportunity
Living Stage
is currently seeking an Event Coordinator, Press & Marketing Associate, and Actors to support a permanent performance space in the Lower East Side that doubles as a community garden. Living Stage is seeking applicants who speak Cantonese fluently.
Job Opportunity
Primary Stages
is currently seeking a part-time development assistant, who is responsible for coordinating special events, providing support for individual giving, and leading other administrative tasks.
Call for Artists
is accepting applications for their Sublet Series curated rental program has allowed many upstart companies and emerging artists to realize their full artistic vision on a small budget.
Job Opportunity
Poets & Writers Magazine is currently seeking a full-time advertising assistant, who is responsible for selling, processing, and formatting classified advertising and job listings for Poets & Writers Magazine and pw.org. In addition, the advertising assistant works closely with the associate publisher to prospect new accounts and maintain relationships with clients.
Open Call The W.O.W. Project is officially beginning recruitment for their new papermaking project, Resist, Recycle, Regenerate 反对－回收－再生, a series of workshops for Asian American girls that teaches papermaking and printmaking using discarded Chinese New Year fireworks recycled as hand-printed zines. Learn more
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