BOPA grant?

http://promotionandarts.org/index.cfm?page=grants&contentid=24

Grant for Organizations

Background & Purpose
Mayor Sheila Dixon and the City Council of Baltimore are committed to nurturing and supporting a vibrant, creative community that inspires individuals, celebrates our culture and showcases the arts.

In June 2007, the Mayor and City Council authorized an increase for underwriting the support of Baltimore's cultural community through the city budget.
The Creative Baltimore Fund will provide grants that will total over $1,000,000 to cultural organizations. The grant will support general operating expenses of the eligible organizations

Program Administration
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) will administer the Creative Baltimore Fund as a competitive grant program.
The fund will award up to 3% of the annual operating budget of eligible organizations.
Awards will be made based on track record of the organization, the quality of their public cultural programs, particularly those geared towards children/teens, the availability of other financial support for the organization, the organization’s service to the community and the organization’s ability to effectively manage its resources (financial, manpower, program, and administrative).

Funding Amounts
The Creative Baltimore Fund will provide up to 3% of an organization’s allowable operating cash budget.
Requests are based upon allowable operating expenses for the most recently completed fiscal year.
Not allowable as operating expenses are
Re-granting
Acquisition of capital assets
Allocations to cash reserves
Capital improvements
Depreciation
Deficits
Loan principal payments
Contributions to endowments
Scholarships awarded by the applicant organization for its
own activities

Not allowable as operating income are
Loans
Carryover
Transfer of funds earned in prior years
Revenue raised for capital or endowment funds
Funds intended for the purpose of re-granting

Time Line (TBD)
Applications available on line (www.promotionandarts.com) Tuesday, November 1, 2007
Applications due by 5:00 pm, Friday, January 4, 2008.
Jury review takes place February 1 - February 29, 2008.
Awards announced March 17, 2008. Payment of 80% of award made with receipt of completed contract.
Final reports due by July 31, 2008 and final 20% of award disbursed upon receipt of final report.

Eligibility
Non-profit cultural organization with 501(C)3 status headquartered in Baltimore City or providing at least 50% of its programs within the City.
Produces or presents cultural, visual, performing or literary arts programs or performances.
Member in good standing of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance

Funding available for:
Operating Expenses - All awards will be competitive.

Financial Information
All applicants will be required to use the financial reporting forms available through the Maryland Cultural Data Project (CDP). The Maryland CDP is a standardized online system for collecting historical financial and organizational data for grant applications to participating funders. Contact help@MDCulturalData.org or call 1-866-9-MD-DATA for more information.

Staff Review
After the application is received, it will be reviewed by staff at BOPA for completeness and adherence to the guidelines set forth in this document. Applicants will be notified by e-mail whether their application is complete or if additional information or corrections are necessary.

Advisory Panel Review
When the application is complete, it is assigned to members of the appropriate Advisory Panel for review. Advisory Panels meet formally to evaluate the applications submitted within their disciplinary areas.

Notification
All applicants will be notified of the final decision in writing by March 17, 2008.

Payment
Grant agreement forms mailed out by March 31, 2008, and must be executed before grant funds are disbursed.

Required documentation
Applicants must submit the following:
Most current audited financial statement for the organization
Copy of 501(C)3 tax exemption determination letter
Copy of Maryland Certificate of Good Standing
List of current Board of Directors
List of paid staff (FT and PT)
Resumes of key artistic and management personnel (with salaries listed)
List of activities scheduled and completed in the past two years

General Application Information
Applications may be submitted electronically to: Shawn James at Sjames@promotionandarts.com, or mail completed application to:

Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts
7 East Redwood Street, Suite 500
Baltimore, MD 21202
Attn: Creative Baltimore Fund

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ARS Electronica

Hybrid, Digital Music, or Interactive categories

http://www.aec.at/en/prix/cat_overview.asp?nocache=338262

March 7, 2008 deadline

http://www.aec.at/en/prix/cat_digital_musics.asp

This music category of the Prix Ars Electronica is open to:

* Sound and New Media- (audio visual performance, sonic sculpture, intermedia / video / film soundtracks, installations, soundspace projects, radio works, net-music, generative musics, etc.)
* Electronica- as in Dub, Techno, Microsound, Ambient, Global, Minimal, HipHop, Jazz, Noise, Downtempo, Drum'n Bass, Mondo/Exotica, digital DJ-culture, Mash-ups, Music videos, Glitch, Plunderphonics etc.
* Computer compositions (algorithmic, acousmatic and experimental), analog and electro-acoustic methodologies, the use of voices and acoustic or amplified instruments are allowed as well, but the crucial criterium is the artistic and inventive use of digital tools to manifest a convincing realization.

The crucial criterion is the artistic and innovative use of digital tools to manifest a convincing realization.
Participants may be individuals, groups, institutions, companies, etc. Exclusively commercially oriented activities in the sense of product advertisement are excluded.
Each participant may enter only one work, which has been created, realized or significantly updated within the last two years.


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DIGITAL MUSICS

Contemporary digital sound productions from the broad spectrum of "electronica" come in for consideration in the "Digital Musics" category, as do works combining sound and media, computer compositions ranging from electro-acoustic to experimental music, as well as sound installations. Regardless of the media or style utilized by the respective artist, utmost consideration is given to the entry’s musical qualities and sound artistry.

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WHAT SHOULD YOU ENTER? SUBMISSION DETAILS JURY NICA WINNERS 1987 - 2007
WHAT SHOULD YOU ENTER?

This music category of the Prix Ars Electronica is open to:

* Sound and New Media- (audio visual performance, sonic sculpture, intermedia / video / film soundtracks, installations, soundspace projects, radio works, net-music, generative musics, etc.)
* Electronica- as in Dub, Techno, Microsound, Ambient, Global, Minimal, HipHop, Jazz, Noise, Downtempo, Drum'n Bass, Mondo/Exotica, digital DJ-culture, Mash-ups, Music videos, Glitch, Plunderphonics etc.
* Computer compositions (algorithmic, acousmatic and experimental), analog and electro-acoustic methodologies, the use of voices and acoustic or amplified instruments are allowed as well, but the crucial criterium is the artistic and inventive use of digital tools to manifest a convincing realization.

The crucial criterion is the artistic and innovative use of digital tools to manifest a convincing realization.
Participants may be individuals, groups, institutions, companies, etc. Exclusively commercially oriented activities in the sense of product advertisement are excluded.
Each participant may enter only one work, which has been created, realized or significantly updated within the last two years.
SUBMISSION DETAILS

All works must be submitted on audio CD, DAT, DVD Audio, DVD Video, including specification of the necessary codecs, plug-ins and formats (such as NTSC and PAL).
Enter projects such as sound installations, real-time performances, audio/visual environments, etc. as a video document (3-10 minutes). This documentation should describe not only the event itself but also the characteristics of the work's environment aside from the music, such as spatial and technical requirements for the realization of the piece.
Along with the work, please include a comprehensive description of the work as well as information about equipment, scores, set-ups, and any illustrations or sketches if possible.

Important:
In addition to the complete work, please include a 2-3 minute excerpt that effectively gives an introductory summation of the essential elements explored in the whole piece. This edited extract can serve as a compressed remix of different musical areas of the longer composition, or the participant can simply choose a continuous representative slice. This helps the jury to deal with large quantities of submissions in a focused judicial manner.
Award-winning works may be performed in conjunction with the 2008 Ars Electronica Festival. Entrants are therefore requested to provide precise information about the technical set-up of all required equipment as well as suggestions regarding any technicians, musicians or soloists necessary to implement the production plans submitted.
We ask you to use the online registration at prixars.aec.at to register and send the signed print-out of the online registration form along with your entry material by March 7, 2008 to:

Ars Electronica Linz GmbH
Hauptstraße 2
4040 Linz, Austria
Code: Prix
or per fax to +43.732.7272-674

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Service Learning Article - Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

Do You Want to be Published for Your Service Learning Work?

Abstract DONE - Finish paper concentrating on multidisciplinary by March 31 2008

This is a call for abstracts for volume 15 (fall 08/ spring 09) of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL; www.umich.edu/~mjcsl/.

The MJCSL is the premiere international journal devoted to service-learning research, theory, pedagogy, and other matters relevant to curriculum-based (academic) service-learning in higher education. It is published at the University of Michigan Ginsberg Center.

To keep up with the expanding civic engagement field, beginning with volume 15 the MJCSL will expand its purview. In addition to research, theory, pedagogy, and other relevant issues to curriculum-based (academic) service-learning, the MJCSL now also will review articles focused on:

University-community partnerships
Engaged/public scholarship (faculty work which involves and benefits a community AND advances a faculty member’s scholarship or creative work)

Please submit by December 20th, 2008 an abstract or précis no longer than one-page that reflects the gist of your planned article submission. Abstract submissions that fit within the purview of the MJCSL and appear to satisfy MJCSL quality thresholds will be invited to submit a complete paper. The invitation will be sent via e-mail no later than January 15th. Complete articles will be due the last Monday in March (the 31st).

Additional submission guidelines may be found at the MJCSL webpage at www.umich.edu/~mjcsl/.

Contact info: daccardi@towson.edu; 410-704-3921.
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From Michigan Journal's page:

Since 1994, the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) has been the premiere national, peer-reviewed journal publishing articles written by faculty and service-learning educators on research, theory, pedagogy, and other issues related to academic (curriculum-based) service-learning in higher education.

To keep up with the expansion in the civic engagement field, beginning with volume 15 the MJCSL will expand its purview. We will now review articles focused on:

* University-community partnerships
* Engaged/public scholarship (work which involves and benefits a community
AND advances a faculty member�s scholarship or creative work)
* Academic (curriculum-based) service-learning

The MJCSL submission process remains the same: submit an abstract/precis by December 20th, the editor will invite submissions based on these abstracts by mid-January, and articles are due the last Monday in March for consideration in the next volume year.

Authors are welcome to contact the editor, Jeffrey Howard (jphoward@umich.edu

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Champ Libre - Call

http://www.champlibre.com/foret/uk/index.htm




INTRODUCTION

The MANIFESTATION INTERNATIONALE of Champ Libre is a biennale event. Its eighth edition will take place in September 2008. The Manifestation will develop a reflection on the theme of the FORET. The proposed theme is an invitation to the personal interpretation of creators.

Champ Libre, while creating a biennale entitled Manifestation Internationale, gave itself the double mandate to shed the knowledge of and to contribute to the development of media arts and architecture. Thus, Champ Libre increases the visibility of these fields in the public space. It is through a nomadic process that Champ Libre invests and diverts urban spaces already occupied by other uses. Every edition of this biennale event proposes a program composed of installations, within which cohabitate several modes of expression associated with new media arts and architecture. Champ Libre wants thus to sensitize the public to and develop a critical thought facing these disciplines. Often inaccessible places are invested during the events and a staging integrates the works presented to the architectural site as a whole. The Manifestation offers its artistic programming to a constantly renewed public, comprising the users of the invested site and takes advantage of social interactions that exist around these places.

The present call has for objective at once to constitute the programming of FORÊT/FOREST: 8th manifestation internationale of champ libre and to gather collaborators and partners that will allow the optimum realization of the event, and its success.

The projects in demand will have to spatially explore the perception of the invested site and invite the public to transform and manipulate this latter.

The partners in demand will have to enrich the programming while contributing to the optimal realization and to the critical positionning of each work, as well as to the optimal achievement of the goals of the event.





OBJECTIVES OF THE EVENT

Champ Libre is looking for installations allying art and architecture and occupying the public space, while using new media components, works that explore the architecture of the site occupied in its spatiality and transform the visual or sound perception of this latter.

Champ Libre is looking for interventions of art and of microarchitecture that occupy the contemporary public space and question it in terms of programming, that offer an appropriation of the site by the mutation of one of the aspects of the latter.
Champ Libre is looking for interventions of art and of architecture that transform the experience, the comprehension or the perception of the site of the event for the spectator, and that include the participation of the latter to the existence of a site and to a ritual that renders exceptional and makes this space evolve through time.

Form - http://www.champlibre.com/foret/uk/forest_form.pdf

March 1, 2008

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Call for Multi-Channel Works - EuCue Feb 2008

(Electroacoustiques universite Concordia university Electroacoustics)
http://music.concordia.ca/EuCuE/Concerts.html

invites composers to submit works for concerts 7 thru 13 of Series XXVI

February 6, 7, 8, 2008
at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
of Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Featured composers include:
John Chowning, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Maurice Wright

and the concerts will present the Concordia Quodlibet 2007.


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Multi-channel works are invited for 4, 4.1, 5, 5.1 etc up to 12.2,
with the possibility of other configurations, and video presentation.


All concerts are webcast (except Stockhausen). Received pieces are
kept in the Concordia Archive, and with the Sonus.ca contract
http://www.sonus.ca/contracts/index.html are included in Sonus.ca,
possibly the world's largest ea 'jukebox'. http://www.sonus.ca/


Selected works are preceded by a spoken introduction providing such
things as historical or analytical information.


Prefered file format is 24/48kHz mono.

Channels should contain a descriptor identifying the speaker
location: (L, C, R, LF, RF, LS RS, LB, CB, RB etc)


STAGE LEFT STAGE RIGHT



LEFT CENTER RIGHT


LEFT-FRONT RIGHT-FRONT


LEFT-SIDE RIGHT-SIDE


LEFT BACK CENTER-BACK RIGHT BACK


If no LFE channel is provided, the playback software (Logic), will be
used to extract an LFE channel with an approximate 80Hz crossover.


Preferred deadline for receiving pieces, January 15, 2008



Kevin Austin / Mark Corwin
EuCuE Production team

kevin.austin "at" videotron.ca


Associate-Professor (Music) / (EuCuE) RF-302
Department of Music (Electroacoustic Studies)
Concordia University
7141, rue Sherbrooke o
Montreal, QC
CANADA H4B 1R6


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Technical note:

Please normalize all channels to around -1 dB.

Please check for DC offsets that will shift levels and produce
anomalies in the subwoofer(s).

Please check for 'rogue' spikes that may compromise average RMS levels.



For further information or special consideration, please contact me off-list.



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