Job: Common Weal seeks a Project Assistant

Common Weal Community Arts Inc. is seeking an energetic, self-motivated and experienced individual for the contract position of Project Assistant. Working under the supervision of the Southern Artistic Coordinator in our Regina office, the successful candidate will assist in the successful delivery of Common Weal projects and events. Duties will include: supporting project artists, communications, and ongoing project and event support.

Qualifications:

The successful candidate will have excellent communication, organizational and research skills, the ability to work both independently and cooperatively with a diverse group of people and to be culturally sensitive. A valid drivers license is necessary. Previous experience in the arts and having own vehicle would be assets.

Salary: 20 hrs a week at $13/hr
Duration: 16 weeks
Application closing date is 4:00 p.m., Wednesday June 11th, 2008

Apply in writing stating experience and qualifications to:

Common Weal Community Arts Inc.
2431 8th Avenue
Regina, SK
S4R 5J7
Email: ac@commonweal-arts.com

This position is funded through the city of Regina’s Urban Aboriginal Community Grant Program, which provides opportunities for aboriginal people to participate in arts culture, recreation or sport. As Common Weal promotes employment equity, we encourage candidates to voluntarily self-identify if they are an Aboriginal person, a member of a visible minority group or a person with a disability. Only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

Common Weal Community Arts links artists and communities to animate long term and positive social change. Common Weal facilitates the production of participatory arts projects, based on creating partnerships between communities and artists, through a philosophy of inclusion and cooperation, and in order to create opportunities and choices for individuals and communities.

Call: Saskatchewan Arts Board seeks resident musician in Swift Current

Musician in Residence opportunity
Saskatchewan Arts Board

There is an opportunity for a Musician in Residence in the Swift Current Area. The focus of this residency will be professional development of the existing local music talent pool and introducing/developing diverse music genres and experiences.

For more information, go to: http://www.artsboard.sk.ca/News/news_musician%20in%20residence%202007.htm

Call: Saskatoon Pride Festival seeks performers!

Subject: Entertainer? Artist? Saskatoon Pride Festival Wants YOU to
Spice up the Fair!

We here at Saskatoon Diversity Network are busy as bees organizing the
2007 Pride Festival!

Do you have the entertaining spirit? Are you an artist? A clown? An
acrobat? We want you to show it off! We want buskers, artists plying
their trade and doing on the spots sketches (like caricature but what
ever you want), or doing body painting or walking around juggling or
whatever you desire!

The Pride Festival Fair is on Saturday, June 16th and most of the
events will take place after the Parade, which starts at noon. The
fair is an outdoor evet, featuring a main entertainment stage, vendor,
information and food booths including beer gardens. Of course we want
YOU in the parade too! I want as much activity going on at the fair as
possible and I think you can help!

Please, ask me any questions, email me! info@saskatoonpride.ca

Cheers,
Chris
--
Christine Watson
Secretary, Membership and Volunteer Coordinator
Saskatoon Diversity Network:Living Out Loud, Saskatoon Proud
(306) 47-PRIDE (477-7433)
www.saskatoonpride.ca
Pride Festival 2007 is June 10-17th:Building Bridges
Proud Members of Tourism Saskatoon, Tourism Saskatchewan, and
SaskCulture

Call: "Comin' Out Swingin': Sexualities in Improvisation" interdisciplinary symposium seeks writers and artists

> Hi all,
>
> Our friends and colleagues at UBC are holding an
> interdisciplinary symposium on contemporary improvised musics in
> Vancouver on November 16 & 17, 2007 titled "Comin' Out Swingin':
> Sexualities in Improvisation".
>
> Please find attached and below the call for papers for the
> symposium, an exciting opportunity for engaging in dialogue
> around improvisational music, gender, and sexuality.
>
> Gregory Fenton
> Managing Editor
> Critical Studies in Improvisation/ Études critiques en
> improvisation
> 519-824-4120 Ext 56547
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Comin’ Out Swingin’: Sexualities in Improvisation
> A Symposium
> Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
> November 16 & 17 2007
>
> Improvised and Creative New Musics have been on the upswing in
> recent years, but listeners, critics and scholars have said
> little, so far, about the relationships of the various forms and
> practices of improvisation to gender and sexuality. Compositions
> and performances in recent years by such prominent artists as
> Fred Hersch, Marilyn Lerner, Patricia Barber, Irene Schweizer,
> Maggie Nicols, Gary Burton, Pauline Oliveros, Lori Freedman,
> Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi, Miya Masaoka, Evan Parker, Peter
> Brötzmann and many others have placed the cultural politics of
> gender directly at issue, while many recorded works from the
> history of improvised music and jazz (from Valaida Snow to Cecil
> Taylor, from Billy Strayhorn to Andy Bey) provoke a
> reconsideration of the music’s relationship to sexuality and
> identity.
>
> With an ear to addressing this gap, th e second Creative Music
> Think Tank presented by Coastal Jazz and Blues Society in
> conjunction with St. John’s College and the Department of
> English at the University of British Columbia) invites proposals
> for critical and scholarly conference papers on gender,
> sexuality and improvisation. Essays can range from theoretical
> to practical, from aesthetic to political in their aims and
> methods, and interdisciplinary work is both welcome and
> encouraged. We are especially interested in provocative,
> informed work that deals with improvisation in as unlimited a
> sense as possible. Submissions are invited from both academic
> and non-academic writers and critics.
>
> The symposium will be held in Vancouver from November 16 & 17,
> 2007, and will be coordinated with a set of evening concerts.
> Selected papers from the conference will be published in a
> special issue of Critical Studies in Improvisation,
> http://www.criticalimprov.com/public/csi/index.html. Possible
> themes and areas of interest for conference presentations may
> include, but are not limited to, any of the following topics:
>
>
> Queer Music
> Sexing the Ear of the Other
> Women in Contemporary Creative Music
> Body Languages: Fingering, Tonguing, Blowing
> Performance and Performativity
> The Poetics of Improvisation: Speaking in Music
> Musical Affect, the Textures of Feeling
> The Politics of Dissonance: Fractured Identities
> Improvising Masculinities
> The Instrument as Prosthesis
> Radical Subcultures: Revolting Noise
> The History of Sexuality in/and Contemporary Creative Music
> Transitive Genders: Playing with Our Selves
> The Erotics of Close Listening
> Bump and Grind: Rhythm and Corporealities
> Mixed Media, Cyborg Songs
> Extemporaneous Positions: Improvising Sexualities
> Auscultation and other Apparatuses of Audience
> Other than Music: Confronting Idioms of the Heteronormative
>
>
>
> Please submit conference-paper proposals of no more than 500
> words — finished papers should conform to a 20-minute delivery —
> by July 15, 2007 to Dr. Kevin McNeilly
> mcneilly@interchange.ubc.ca or Dr. Julie Smith
> julie@coastaljazz.ca
>
>
> k_and_e_99@yahoo.com
>
>