October 20, 2021 | Issue 34 |
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REJUVENATE
self-care offerings
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CONNECT
opportunities that bring people together
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ELEVATE
tips from experts
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Artivate 360 is a free, four-part, virtual interview and webinar series that features five internationally renowned University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) alumni who have built successful businesses with a wide-ranging impact on issues including food and wellness, body positivity, environmental conservation and climate change. The series is broken up into two themes: Practicing Self Care (10/18 and 10/19) and Artist + Activism (11/15 and 11/16). You must register for each session to attend or receive the recordings.
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Dancer Mandie Kolkman discusses her process to use her art as a vehicle for healing through creating a dance that allowed her to be able to share and heal from the grief of pregnancy loss. See the coverage of Kolkman in Fort Wayne, Indiana for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month.
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Daily Meditation & Contemplative Practice Offerings: Breathing breaks, reflection journaling, monthly morning practice, midweek mantras, mindful drawing, and meditation. This is a virtual offering from the Pratt Institute and is free and open to all.
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Change the Story/Change the World is a chronicle of art and community transformation across the globe. In each episode, host Bill Cleveland will introduce listeners to creative change agents working to re-imagine and recreate the social, political, and cultural narratives that define their communities. This podcast series includes artists that have made change in homeless shelters, death row, emergency rooms, and many other areas.
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The University of Georgia Arts Council will celebrate its 10th annual Spotlight on the Arts festival this coming November. All events are open to the public.
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This 17-minute listen will help to guide you through the the books Traci Todd's Nina: A Story of Nina Simone and Claudia Rankine's Just Us: An American Conversation. The two books offer uncomfortable yet necessary looks into race to allow readers to be able to have challenging conversations about race and racial reckoning.
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Soft Residency is a 3-month residency project at Soft Surplus. This residency allows emerging creatives to test out different project ideas. There are two sessions being offered one in partnership with Hyperlink Press and the other in partnership with DigiMyths. This residency is focused on art, design, architecture, dance, aerial, illustration, reading, film, performance, technology, surfing, and teaching, who want their creative and emotional care to support a community with gender and racial balance that privileges queer and POC identities. You must be NYC-based, relocating there or able to get to NYC easily.
Application Deadline: October 22, 2021
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VIA Art Fund is accepting letters of inquiry for their Artist Production grant program to support new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in non-traditional exhibition environments. Individual artists, nonprofit organizations and institutions are eligible to apply. Museums and gallery exhibitions are not eligible.
Letter of Inquiry Deadline: October 25, 2021
Grant Amount: $25,000 - $100,000 (can be lower than $25,000)
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The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute hosts residential fellowships for emerging and distinguished writers who have published at least one book with a trade or literary press. This is a "working" fellowship in Las Vegas.
Application Deadline: November 1, 2021 at 12:00 AM PST
Grant Amount: $20,000 over 4-month period
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