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		<title>ARTISTS NEEDED TO TEACH</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General RISCA Information</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The North Kingstown Arts Council is seeking artists to teach in the Spring 2010 Take an Arts Break program, a series of classes in the arts for North Kingstown residents. Artists design their own classes; the Arts Council arranges teaching space, advertises, and registers students; the artists teach; and the Arts Council pays the instructors. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ensemble Studio Theatre Proposals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following request for proposals link has been sent to you from Philanthropy News Digest at the Foundation Center&#8217;s Web site.
Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science &#038; Technology Project Accepting Proposals
The Ensemble Studio Theatre collaborates with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop and produce full-length and one-act plays and musicals that address the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming Artists of all Disciplines to a Discussion of Our Creative Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
		
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November 7–8, 2009
Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
www.bpl.org

Help us spread the word: Download flyer



SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7


 


MORNING


 


9:30–10:00am
Registration


 
 


10:00am
Laura Pattison of the BPL: Welcome!
Kathleen Bitetti: State of the Artists Address


 
 


10:15–11:20am

Our Creative Future — a conversation
Moderator: Kathleen Bitetti
Panelists:
Paul Horn, performer and President of the New England Chapter of AFTRA
John Grimes, Boston Musicians Association
Liora Beer
Dan Hunter, playwright, songwriter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Urban Arts gets honored in White House ceremony!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[New Urban Arts wins national award at Greater City: Providence
Click on the link above for the original posting found on the Greater City: Providence blog.
    It’s official! New Urban Arts, an interdisciplinary arts studio and gallery for high school students and emerging artists in Providence, Rhode Island that empowers young artists to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cristina</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Individual Artists</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last 40 years, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, has
run the largest and longest residency Fellowship in the United States for
emerging visual artists and writers.  Artists who have not had significant
recognition for their work and writers who have not yet published a book
with significant distribution are welcome to apply.  Fellows receive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rhode Island ACLU raises concerns about impact on arts community of prostitution/sex trafficking legislation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General RISCA Information</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Brown, Executive Director of the Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (RI ACLU) has written to RISCA raising concern about legislation signed into law by Governor Carcieri designed to close a loophole in state law and make prostitution illegal in Rhode Island.
A copy of Mr. Brown&#8217;s letter can be found here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPEN PAINTING 2010 CALL FOR ARTISTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
		
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The Providence Art Club is now accepting applications for Open Painting 2010, an open juried exhibition.
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all living artists nationwide.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 25, 2009
EXHIBITION DATES: January 17-February 5, 2010
For a Complete Application: CLICK HERE



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		<title>$50,000 Literary Gift of Freedom: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Playwrighting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cristina</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Individual Artists</category>
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As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.—Virginia Woolf in A Writer&#8217;s Diary 

Sixth $50,000 Literary Gift of Freedom: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Call for Women Artists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cristina</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Individual Artists</category>
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	<category>Calls to Artists</category>
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Picture That, LLC and Thompson Hospitality invites you to submit artwork for consideration in UNITY to celebrate Women&#8217;s History Month 2010.  The UNITY publication is distributed on a complimentary basis to hundreds of corporate and university dining centers throughout the United States, where Thompson Hospitality provides food services.  This is a wonderful opportunity to have your artwork viewed by thousands of consumers and possibly sold.  

To view past editions of UNITY, visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging Artists 2010 - Call to Artists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cristina</dc:creator>
		
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Emerging Artists 2010 - Call to Artists 











Some work from the 2008 show above


SlowArt Productions presents Emerging Artists 2010, the eighteenth annual competition for group exhibition, and awards. Open to all artists working in any media this event is devoted to the discovery, introduction and promotion of emerging artists.
Emerging Artists Awards

Cash Award: A $1000 grand prize [...]]]></description>
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