Call: SAW Video is seeking emerging artists for national performance opportunity

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Show Canada What You're Made of!

Galerie SAW Gallery, SAW Video and the Dennis Tourbin Fund for Emerging
Artists are proud to call for two emerging regional artists to present
new performance works during the opening reception of the national
conference Performance Creation Canada.

Your submission should include:
- A 50-word description of the work you would like to present
- A curriculum vitæ with full mailing address, telephone number and
e-mail

- Only e-mail submissions with no attachments are accepted. Please paste
your description and CV in the body of your e-mail. Send your submission
to sawprogramming@artengine.ca.
- 2 artists will be selected from a shortlist of 5.
- We encourage artists from diverse cultural communities to apply.
- We encourage artists working in disciplines other than performance
creation to apply.
- Board members and staff of Galerie SAW Gallery and SAW Video, and
steering committee members of Performance Creation Canada are not
eligible to apply.
- The performances will be presented in the SAW outdoor courtyard.
- Only one submission accepted per artist.
- No phone or e-mail inquiries.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, May 30, 2007, at 5PM

The selected artists will each receive an honorarium of $1,000, access
to video equipment for their presentation, professional documentation
and the opportunity to present their work to many of Canada's best and
brightest dance, theatre, visual and media art professionals.

The opening reception will take place at Galerie SAW Gallery on Tuesday,
June 12, 2007, from 9PM to 2AM.

This commissioning project is generously supported by The Dennis Tourbin
Fund for Emerging Artists, an endowment fund administered by the
Community Foundation of Ottawa. It is a permanent tribute to the greatly
respected late Ottawa artist and his legacy. The fund seeks to encourage
emerging artists to carry out creative works of art that cross
disciplines and traditional boundaries, as well as expand the
presentation of art outside of the gallery walls into the public arena,
reaching new audiences and engaging community.

For more information on Performance Creation Canada Ottawa, please
consult www.artengine.ca/pcc.

Galerie SAW Gallery
67, rue Nicholas Street
Ottawa ON K1N 7B9
T: (613) 236-6181
www.galeriesawgallery.com

Call: Bhatboy seeks artist to make an indoor forest

I am looking to bid on a commission for the city of Ottawa to create an
indoor forest.
I am looking for an artist to share the project with me that will
create a light and sound element to the project.
There will be several thousand dollars in artists fee's paid.
Is there anyone you know of that may be interested.
The deadline for the project is Monday the 16th of April, if anyone is
interested in working on this project with me please let me know by the
first week in April (thats next week)
Thank you,
Bhat Boy

bhatboy@rogers.com

Call: Ottawa Community Project Funding Available

Applications for 2007 Community Project Funding and

Crime Prevention Ottawa Project Funding now available

Ottawa - Non-profit community organizations in Ottawa are invited to
submit applications for new projects that address Community Project
Funding Priorities & Community Initiatives in Crime Prevention.

Community Project Funding is available for projects that promote:

· Participation in community activities for families with
children
· Healthy development of children & physical activity for
all ages
· Access to literacy programs & participation of seniors in
community life
· ** Participation of low-income families in cultural
programs **
· Safe behaviour and injury prevention
· Neighbourhood-based social programming and planning
· Finding and maintaining employment for low-income
individuals and families and
· Conditions of equality, regardless of differences

Crime Prevention Ottawa Funding is available for projects that:

· Contribute to the actualization of Crime Prevention
Ottawa's strategic plan (available at Ottawa.ca) and
· Target specific crime issues or specific neighbourhoods
and
· Address risk factors associated with crime (e.g. family
conflict or violence, school drop-out, youth-at-risk, addictions,
social or economic exclusion) and

· Are designed based on research and effective practices

Program Guidelines and Applications for 2007 Community Project Funding
and Crime Prevention Ottawa Project Funding are available at municipal
Client Service Centres and online at: ottawa.ca/funding

Applications must be postmarked or received by 4 p.m. Friday, April 20,
2007.
Information Sessions are scheduled across the city:

Central / East (French) East (French)
Monday, March 26, 2-4 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

South (English) West (English)
Wednesday, March 28, 6-8 p.m. Friday, March 30, 10 a.m. - noon

For session locations and to reserve a seat, please RSVP by e-mail:
Melanie.gleason@ottawa.ca or by leaving a message at: 580-2424 ext.
25688. If you require special needs accommodation, please advise upon
registration.

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For more information:
Media contact
613-580-2450

Public inquiries
3-1-1

Call: Cube Gallery seeks 2007 submissions

Submission call out for Cube Gallery Fall 2007

The following group shows will make up the fall season at the Cube
Gallery in Ottawa. Shows will feature 2 - 7 wall-based artists and 1 -
2 sculptural artists for each show (any genre: representational or non,
figurative or photo-based). The wall based artists will have aprox.
30X12 ft. spaces to work with. The floor space for sculpture is aprox.
1600 sq ft. See the
floor plan at the link:
http://cubegallery.ca/Main%20Pages/submissions.html

Proposals for inclusion will preferably be in the form of links to html
sites. However, small .jpgs, CD's and slides will also be considered.
You are welcome to submit for more than one show. The dates are draft
only, they may be changed.

cube gallery, 7 Hamilton N. Ottawa, K1Y 1B4, 613 728 1750,
www.cubegallery.ca , info@donmonet.ca

The Deadline for submissions is Saturday June 2, 2007