NUWORKS 2019! CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Pan Asian Repertory
INFO: PAN ASIAN REPERTORY THEATRE is now accepting submissions for our 2019 NUWORKS performance series, June 25–30, 2019, in Manhattan.
NUWORKS presents new work from emerging artists who explore different genres and techniques. We seek a diversity of voices; submission does not have to reflect contemporary Asian American themes. PAN ASIAN REP will provide artist stipend, rehearsal and performance space, and social media marketing/PR.
GUIDELINES:
* New work (solo or duo show preferred) that is rehearsed and ready-to-perform. Works in development/Works-in-progress will be accepted. N.B., there is only one rehearsal in May/June.
* Work can be any style (comedy, drama, musical, dance, experimental, etc.) at 15-45 minutes in length.
* Work previously not presented in New York City preferred.
* Shows should have few set elements, provide own props and costumes, and be low tech and high quality in content.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline: Friday, February 22, 2019
Notification: Thursday, March 28, 2019
https://www.panasianrep.org/pan-asian-rep-event/2019/1/22/nuworks-2019
THE 2019-2020 U.S.-JAPAN CREATIVE ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Japan-United States Friendship Commission
INFO: The Japan U.S. Friendship Commission offers leading contemporary and traditional artists from the United States the opportunity to spend three to five months in Japan through the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program. Artists go as seekers, as cultural visionaries, and as living liaisons to the traditional and contemporary cultural life of Japan. They also go as connectors who share knowledge and bring back knowledge. Their interaction with the Japanese public and the outlook they bring home provide exceptional opportunities to promote cultural understanding between the United States and Japan.
JUSFC and NEA will support and select up to five collaborative projects of U.S.-Japan artists representative of diverse genres and regions of both countries. The 2019-20 program is only for collaborative pairs, and not for individual artists. Alumni of the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program are encouraged to apply. Please refer to How to Apply for detailed instructions. This is a special, modified program in 2019-2020.
GRANT AWARD:
Each collaborative team will receive a $25,000 fellowship award and up to $2,500 for one round trip airline ticket between the United States and Japan.
The collaborative team will have one year (July 1, 2019-July 1, 2020) to complete their project. The award may be used for any expenses directly related to the project, including, but not limited to living expenses in Japan, cost of project materials etc.
The artists must complete a collaborative work incorporating the vision of the Olympic and Paralympic games to present in Tokyo during the Games in 2020.
The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission will collaborate with public and private sector organizations in and around Tokyo to host performances and presentations of the artists’ works.
Exhibition sites will be selected depending on the specific project.
REVIEW CRITERIA & SELECTION PROCESS:
The U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program is extremely competitive; only up to five artists will be selected for travel to Japan. In 2019-2020 applicants should anticipate a highly rigorous review of their artistry and should have compelling reasons for wanting to create a captivating piece of art, in collaboration with a Japanese colleague, for the Olympic and Paralympic games. Their work must exemplify the best in U.S. and Japanese arts. Generally, this means that only those artists who have demonstrated expertise and established professional recognition (e.g. awards, featured shows, publications, etc.) in their field either regionally or nationally or who have shown truly exceptional promise at the local level are likely to be competitive. Proficiency in the Japanese language is not required.
Applications will be judged on the following criteria:
Clear representation of themes including, diversity and inclusion – “Unity in Diversity”, sustainability, building a better tomorrow, peace and prosperity, and highlighting the unique relationship between Japan and the United States.
The artistic excellence of the applicant’s work and artistic merit of the proposed collaboration;
The extent to which working in Japan is consistent with the applicant’s artistic vision and would contribute to his or her artistry;
The applicant’s potential to contribute to increased cultural understanding and dialogue with Japanese artists and/or the Japanese public;
The availability of resources in Japan that are necessary to the artist’s proposed collaboration;
Ability to live and work in unfamiliar settings under different conditions
With the assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Japan U.S. Friendship Commission will convene a panel to review applications. The panel will include previous recipients of the U.S.- Japan Creative Artists Program award, as well as other arts professionals with expertise in working with the Olympics and Japanese culture.
ELIGIBILITY:
The applicant must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States and live and work professionally in the United States.
All proposals must be collaborations between a U.S. artist (or group of artists) and a Japanese artist who is a citizen or permanent resident of Japan and living and working professionally in Japan.
The applicant and their Japanese collaborator must be a professional creative artists (contemporary or traditional) working as but not limited to: architects, choreographers, musicians, composers, creative writers, designers, media artists, playwrights, librettists, visual artists and theater artists who work with original material (including puppeteers, and performance artists).
The proposed collaborative artistic project must be a new artistic venture, or something that the collaborative team is in the process of developing, and must have a completion date of July 1, 2020.
The proposed collaborative artistic project must touch on one or more of themes including, but not limited to, diversity and inclusion – “Unity in Diversity”, sustainability, building a better tomorrow, peace and prosperity.
There are additional eligibility requirements for librettists, playwrights, and creative writers (fiction, non-fiction, and poetry) outlined below.
Librettists and playwrights must have had a full-length work professionally produced and/or published in the United States at least once in the last five years.
Creative writer applicants must meet specific publishing requirements. Self- published work will not satisfy this eligibility requirement. In the last 10 years writers must have published at least one of the following:
Twenty poems in five or more literary journals
Five different short stories or essays (of creative non-fiction) in two or more literary journals, anthologies, or publications
A book of poems of more than 48 pages
A novel or a novella
A book of creative non-fiction
Creative writer applicants may use online publications to establish up to fifty percent of their eligibility, provided that such publications have competitive selection processes and stated editorial policies.
The following may not be used to establish eligibility:
Pre-publication material, such as galleys, proofs, and advance reader’s
Work that has appeared in a publication for which you are the editor, publisher, or staff
Collaborative work
Scholarly writing including Instructional writing, Book reviews, Editorials/letters to the editor, Student publications and publications that primarily print work by persons who are affiliated with a particular academic institution, any publication by presses that: require individual writers to pay for part or all of the production costs; require writers to buy or sell copies of the publication; publish work without competitive selection or a stated editorial policy; or publish work without professional editing.
DEADLINE: March 1, 2019