Good morning! Sorry about the snafu with my radio interview. I am pretty sure it will be rescheduled for Wednesday, June 3rd, but I'll let you know the closer we get. In the meantime, here are a couple residency deadlines coming up, the first (in Montreal) for artists, the second, in Japan, for scholars in the humanities, which can also mean artists and writers needing to do research. Both look like they are fully funded. The one in Japan is for more established scholars/people in the humanities. I also think that both are for all foreign nationals, but double check on their sites.... More great things to come!
(ARTISTS, PERFORMING & MEDIA ARTS) MONTREAL RESIDENCY: The Darling Foundry (Quartier Ephémère) Deadline: June 1 Duration: January 15 to May 15, 2010 and May 20 to September 20, 2010 * Disciplines: Dance, Drawing & Painting, Media Art, Multi Media, Music, Photography, Sculpture. QUARTIER ÉPHÉMÈRE's mission is to support the creation, production, and dissemination of visual art; it seeks at once to question the role of art and artists in the heart of the city, and to promote that role. By investing in 'in situ' projects within vacant or abandoned industrial buildings, QE attempts to explore our urban zones and to reach a diverse public. Quartier Ephémère runs an International Residency Programme, a France-Québec Exchange Programme and a new residency program for curators of the Americas. The Canada Council for the Arts is offering an international residency program at the Darling Foundry for foreign professional visual artists from outside of Canada. Two artists are awarded four-month residencies. Each resident receives a grant, which contributes towards living expenses, travel fees and production costs. Five production workshops are offered: wood, metal, multimedia, a video editing suite, and sound. Allowance for travel costs (maximum of $2,000 CDN), subsistence fees ($8,000 CDN), production costs ($8,000 CDN). For more information, write: info@fonderiedarling.org or go to: www.fonderiedarling.org
(HUMANITIES/RESEARCH) JAPAN: Hosei University International Fellowship Programs
The Hosei University is accepting applications for the Hosei International Fund Fellowship-Foreign Scholars Fellowship Program to advance international cooperation in academic research and scholarship. The program, located at Hosei University in Japan, sponsors two foreign scholars to carry out non-degree research programs in the humanities (as well as social or natural sciences, or engineering) for a period ranging from six to twelve months. Foreign scholars can start their research either in April or October of 2006. Citizenship: Unrestricted. Deadline: Jun. 5, 2009. The official announcement and description of this opportunity may be found on the funding agency's website: http://www.hosei.ac.jp/ic/ic-e/index.htm