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.

360°

Panorama.dk is a photography site that can take you places you may never go.

See the world in 360°:

The Great Wall of China

The Taj Mahal

Mount Everest – also called Sagarmāthā

Also: The Jerome Foundation, created by artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill (1905-1972), makes grants that support emerging artists in the creation, development and production of new works. The economy has taken a toll its toll. The Foundation will announce whether or not it will offer a 2010 Travel and Study Grant Program in early December 2009 in a posting on the Foundation’s website.

Find out if you are eligible to apply for a grant using the Jerome Foundation's interactive eligibility worksheet.

Get information on the foundation's current funding status (pdf).

See the World

How are your ideals holding up?

Idealist.org is hosting a Global Volunteering Fair on February 5th from 6:00 - 9:00 PM at the Barnard College in the LeFrak Gymnasium at 117th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. The address is 3009 Broadway and you can get there on the #1 Train because February 5th is a Thursday. If it were a Saturday you would probably be stuck on the train for like an hour cursing the MTA.

The idealists also maintain an International Volunteerism Resource Center which offers strategies and options for serving abroad, or emigrating or fleeing the country or whatever you want to call it.

Nothing you can do that can't be done

Obstacles to travel and study these days include war without end and the devaluation of the dollar.

On the other hand, people are surprising.

NY Times
Frugal Traveler: Q&A with Leon Logothetis, a $5-a-Day Traveler

By Matt Gross

Published: January 13, 2009

The Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant Program awards grants to emerging artists who create new work (music: composers and sound artists; theater: playwrights and creators of performance art and experimental theater; and visual artists). Mr. Jerome Hill was a privileged person who could do exactly what he desired with his life because he had money. Beautifully, he thought perhaps he would make that reality possible for other artists.

Money is dyed paper.

Awards are made once per year.

If you want something, you have to ask.

Jump. (pdf application guidelines)

Also: All You Need is Love