Cultural Findings

The exciting mission of the Mediamatic Travel Agency is "to stimulate international collaboration."

If you visit their website, you will find a quirky set of online City Guides, along with contact information for artists in a city you may wish to visit. For a fee of 45 €, a local artist can be contracted to act as a travel agent--providing information about the "unseen or underground culture in their city."

If you would rather be one of the travel agents, or if you just have something to share, the site has multiple ways for artists to join and communicate.

Cultural workers are invited to create a profile, and post images and text.

Information is here.

A Bite

Hey, there's this cool panel on Wednesday, and I think we should all go.

The Promise of Arts Education:
A Panel on How the Arts Can Drive Innovation in Public Education

Wednesday, September 23, 2009
92Y Tribeca
200 Hudson, NY, NY

6:30: Cocktails & Networking

7:15: Panel and Q&A

This event is free, by invitation.

RSVP required. rsvp@urbanarts.org.

Get more information: www.urbanarts.org

I have heard from good authority that there will be decent snacks--which either means the recession is over, or the funders are coming.

Not for Nothing

Grantmakers in Film & Electronic Media (GFEM) connects media projects and the funding community. In the belief that media play "a vital role in shaping, framing and catalyzing public discourse and culture" the organization maintains a searchable database of film and video projects that need dollars.

If you need money, submit your project here.

If you have money, find a project to support here.

Video: Filmmaker Jesse Epstein is one of the artists listed on the GFEM database. Her New York Times Op-Ed, Sex, Lies and Photoshop explores our obsession with body image and calls on magazines to start telling the truth about the images they publish.

Start All Over Again

If you just can't stand it one more day, try to hold on.

The New York City Arts In Education Roundtable is hosting a forum on career transitions.

It's tomorrow.

Wearing New Hats: Professional Transitions
Mobility is a fact of contemporary professional life. Whether relocating from one city to another, from one job to another or from work as a teaching artist to that of an administrator, we all face the challenge of adjusting to new circumstances. This session will consist of a speed-networking exercise designed to introduce participants to each other by way of describing the professional transitions and related adjustments they are experiencing or contemplating. People new to their job, the field or to NYC will find others in like situations and will both get the information they need and share insights. Experienced Roundtable members will be on hand.

WHEN: Thursday, March 12, 2009; 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

WHERE: Roundabout Theatre Company, Penthouse Lobby, American Airlines Theatre, 227 West 42nd St.

If you're like "Hold up, what's the Roundtable?", this handy FAQ will answer all of your questions.

Also: Kate Bush and Peter G - Don't Give Up