CALLING ALL ARTISTS, FILMMAKERS, PLAYWRIGHTS AND WRITERS!

Thanks to ArtSake for these first two:
(ARTISTS) ARTWORKinternational, Inc. New Financial Support Grant: ARTWORKinternational, Inc. is pleased to announce a financial support grant for the full-spectrum career development of individual visual artists in the amount of $12,000. The selected artist will be awarded one full year of career development via ARTWORKinternational, Inc.’s comprehensive global services. Beginning on January 15th, 2010 the grant recipient will become a “career client” of ARTWORKinternational, Inc., benefiting from a wide range of services, including portfolio design and creation, resume building, grant writing, full-spectrum career development, placement with gallery and museum venues and much, much more. Deadline is December 31, 2009. Visit the website for more details: http://www.artworkinternational.com/grant.php

(PLAYWRIGHTS) The Professional Artists Lab 4th Annual Script Competition: Scientists/Technologists/Artists Generating Exploration: The Professional Artists Lab and the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara are offering the the fourth STAGE International Script Competition, open to plays about science and technology. The winning script will receive $10,000. Submitted plays must explore scientific and/or technological stories, themes, issues and/or events. Science and/or technology must figure prominently in the script, whether in form or content or both. Deadline: December 15, 2009. For more info, go to: http://stage.cnsi.ucsb.edu/index.html.

(ARTISTS) Artist-in-Residence Program at SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc.: The goal of the Artist In Residence Program at SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc. is to use art to inspire people to recycle more and conserve natural resources. The company provides selected local artists with the opportunity to create art using materials they gather from San Francisco's refuse. This includes 24-hour access to a well-equipped studio, a monthly stipend, and an exhibit at the end of their residency, but artists seem most excited about having 24-hour access to the materials. For more information, go to: http://www.sfrecycling.com/AIR/index.php?t=d.

(FILMMAKERS) Cinereach Grants: Just a reminder that the Cinereach Grants are due December 1st, 2009, for the winter grant cycle. Grants usually range from $5,000 to $50,000 and are awarded to filmmakers at any stage in their career. Visit the website: www.cinereach.org for more information.

(ALL) Petrified Forest National Park Residencies in Arizona: The Artist-In-Residence Program at Petrified Forest National Park offers professional visual, performing, and literary artists the opportunity to pursue their artistic discipline while being surrounded by the park's inspiring landscape. Selected artists stay in park housing for two-week periods from April through October. No stipend is provided. Applications will be accepted for the 2010 program with postmarks dated through March 15, 2010. For more information, go to: http://www.nps.gov/pefo/parknews/artist-in-residence.htm.
**(Thanks to http://www.fundsforwriters.com for this one)

(WRITERS) Andrews Forest Writer's Residency in Oregon: The mission of the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program is to bring together writers, humanists and scientists to create a living, growing record of how we understand the forest and the relation of people to the forest, as that understanding and that forest both change over time. For the Andrews Forest Residencies, writers are provided a comfortable, three room apartment at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, access to a majestic ancient forest and world-renowned research site opportunities to interact with research scientists as they go about their work opportunities to have their writings included in The Forest Log. For more information, go to: http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu/residencies.html
**(Thanks to www.fundsforwriters.com and http://www.practicing-writer.com for this one).