Asian Arts updates...

VisArt Central Asia Visual Arts Residencies
September 25-October 21 Visual artists Kerimbek Bukar Akmatov (Kyrgyz Republic), Alisher Primkulov (Tajikistan) and Assel Alpysbaev (Kazakhstan) are in Johnson, VT to participate in month-long, in-depth residencies at the Vermont Studio Program.

VisArt Central Asia Contemporary Music
September 30-October 9Bang on a Can musicians Philippa Thompson, Mark Stewart, David Cossin, Robert Black and Evan Ziporyn, and Kenny Savelson, Managing Director, perform and offer master classes and workshops in Almaty, Kazakhstan and Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.

VisArt Contemporary Music
October 7-13Long Arms Music Festival: Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, Shelly Hirsch, Charles Gayle, Mark Stewart and David Moss perform in Moscow and St. Petersburg. This new festival was created in memory of Nikolai Dmitriev, founder of the DOM Cultural Center.
ArtsLink Residencies
October 10-November 19
14 Fellows from Central Europe, Russia and Eurasia are in Residencies with the U.S. arts organizations including Cornerstone Theater Company, Los Angeles, CA; International Writing Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; New York Theatre Workshop, New York, NY; Playhouse Square Center, Cleveland, OH; Washington Performing Arts Society, Washington, DC.

Open World Cultural Leaders Program
November 6
Sergey Bosenko, Ivan Golovnev and Alina Rudnitskaya, the filmmakers from Russia, and film expert Antonina Udalova, participate in the 2005 Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival in New York.

Application Deadlines

November 7, 2005
ArtsLink Residencies awards for artists and arts managers in visual and media arts
from Central Europe, Russia and Eurasia.
ArtsLink Independent Projects awards for artists and arts managers from
Central Europe, Russia and Eurasia.

January 16, 2006
ArtsLink Projects awards for U.S. arts professionals and arts organizations in
performing arts and literature.

October 21, 2005
Residencies for arts managers from Russia for Jubilee Fellowships.