GRANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Urban Artist Initiative Grant (UAI/NYC)
Grant info session hosted by Alliance: Sep 29th, 2009
UAI Grant Deadline: Oct 29, 2009
Asian American Arts Alliance and the Urban Artist Initiative/ New York City (UAI/NYC), announce the third application cycle of the new grants program for NYC individual artists of color.
This year, 34 Fellowships of $1,500 each will be available to individual artists for their artistic and professional development, allocated in accordance with the City’s demographics. Ten of these will be distributed by the Asian American Arts Alliance. Furthermore, grants in this cycle will be awarded only in the visual arts and media arts. Native American artists may apply in the performing and literary arts.
The deadline for application submission is October 29, 2009. The online application is available at http://uai.cuerate.org. Applications should be submitted online.
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A series of application seminars has been scheduled throughout the city by the consortium members as well as the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Council for the Arts and Humanities of Staten Island, and the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance to answer questions about eligibility and the application process. Artists interested in applying are encouraged to attend (See press release above for full schedule).
New On-line Forum: The UAI partners have introduced a new online forum for NYC artist of color to learn about opportunities, call for collaborators, find workshops, exchange arts goods and services, and more! Check back often to see new posts and replies. http://forum.aaartsalliance.org/
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SOAR: Small Organizations Arts Regrants
2008 JPMorgan Chase SOAR Grant Announced the Alliance has awarded grants to eleven New York City arts groups through the JPMorgan Chase SOAR Program. Selected by an independent panel of community leaders, the grants support music, theater, literature, film, dance and interdisciplinary projects from groups who identify as Asian American, or who are working in collaboration with Asian American artists and on Asian American themes.
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From October 6–15, 2008, Alliance members and donors are invited to vote for one of the grantees to receive an additional $2,000. Congratulations to Second Generation, the winner of the Community Choice Award!
2008 JPMorgan Chase SOAR Recipients:
Asian American Film Lab
Award: $4,000
Project: To produce the 72 Hour Film Shootout, the fifth annual 72-hour competition for filmmaking teams nationwide to write, shoot, edit and produce short digital films.
Crossing Jamaica Avenue
Award: $3,750
Project: To produce I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour, a time-travel play of love and war, written by Chiori Miyagawa.
Direct Arts
Award: $3,750
Project: To produce a full-scale theater production of Genny Lim’s Paper Angel, a play about Chinese detainees on Angel Island during WWI.
Garnica Leimay
Award: $3,500
Project: To produce Body Revolution, a new dance piece choreographed by Japanese Butoh master Ko Murobushi for emerging community dancers.
GERALDCASELDANCE
Award: $3,000
Project: To produce Save the Robots!, a dance named after the 1980s radical culture nightclub in the Lower East Side, and that examines gentrification and loss.
Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theater
Award: $3,500
Project: To produce an evening of four choreographic works by Kazuko Hirabayashi, including three reconstructions and a world premiere.
Parijat Desai Dance Company
Award: $3,500
Project: To produce Songs to Live For, a dance theatre piece that investigates the music, lyrics and historical context of Hindustani classical love songs.
Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Association
Award: $4,000
Project: To produce the ninth annual Peking Opera Festival, with Peking Opera performances subtitled into Mandarin Chinese and English.
Rattapallax, Inc.
Award: $2,000
Project: To produce the English translations of Bengali contemporary poetry. Poems to be published in Rattapallax magazine.
Second Generation
Award: $3,500
Project: To produce TWELVE, a series of free workshop staged reading performances of twelve new one-act plays.
Yin Mei Dance
Award: $3,500
Project: To produce City of Paper, a mixed media and performance collaboration between choreographer Yin Mei and dancer Sang Jijia.
Chinatown Arts Initiative (CAI)
Asian American Arts Alliance Awards $30,000 to 13 Chinatown Arts Groups; Provides Professional Marketing Consulting and Technical Assistance.
The Alliance is pleased to announce that it has awarded 13 grants of up to $2,500 each to Chinatown arts groups for the second year of the Chinatown Arts Initiative (CAI). The grants support opera, ensemble music, dance and theater performances; as well as three visual art exhibits and an artist residency program. All projects will take place in Chinatown in 2009. In addition to direct funding, the Alliance is providing each grantee with the individualized services of marketing consultants to create professional promotional materials. This special project, made possible by the September 11th Fund of the New York Community Trust, reflects the Alliance’s commitment to nurturing and promoting the arts in Chinatown.
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The 2008 CAI grantees are:
American Fujian Artist Association: To produce The 5th International Exhibition of American Fujian Artists at Confucius Art Gallery.
Art Resources for Teachers and Students, Inc.: To conduct twice weekly teaching in collaboration with a dancer from Inner-Mongolia for seniors.
Asian American Arts Center: To provide a media artist with a two-week residency space at Chinatown Manpower Project.
CBA Culture & Arts Center: To produce a festival of music, opera, dance, and acrobatics at the Chinatown Community Center.
Chinese American Culture & Art Association: To present a two-hour program of Fukienese Opera program at the Murray Bergtraum High School.
Chung Ying Cantonese Opera Association, Inc.: To produce the annual Cantonese Opera Fair at the Chinatown Community Center; also to produce performances during Chinese National Day and Chinese New Year celebrations.
Fine Art Photographic Association of America, Inc.: To produce an exhibition of Eddie Quan, Christopher Loo, Chan Hung, Armstrong Lim, Wen Gou Mou, Chiu Kwok Wai and various FAPA members at the Confucius Art Gallery.
Four Seas Players: To produce Chinese-translated western drama for the company's annual performances, tentatively to be produced at the Abrons Arts Center.
Mencius Society for the Arts, Inc.: To present Old Craft, New Stage - A bilingual Beijing Opera-musical; workshops to be conducted at the Mencius Society, culminating performance to be performed at the Chinatown Community Center.
Photographic Society of New York: To present the annual International Salon Exhibition of Color Photography at the Confucius Art Gallery.
Renaissance Chinese Opera Society: To produce full costumed Peking Opera performances in at Murray Bergtraum High and St. Margaret House.
Seagull Arts Group: To participate in the New Year performance for the Elderly at various public locations in Chinatown and for the Water Festival in Roosevelt Park.
Tong Xiao Ling Chinese Opera Ensemble: To present The Dream of the Red Chamber—a play inspired by the literary classic of the same title—at Murray Bergtraum High School.