Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts

CBS Casting to conduct workshops in New York

David Harrell — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:14:20 +0000

CBS CASTING TO CONDUCT WORKSHOPS IN NEW YORK

CBS CASTING VICE PRESIDENT

WORKING ONE-ON-ONE WITH ACTORS

We are pleased to announce that Fern Orenstein, CBS
Casting Vice President, is coming from Hollywood to present her acclaimed
workshop two times only on

Thursday, May 31^st (3 to 6 p.m.)

Friday, June 1^st (3 to 6 p.m.)

This workshop is an intensive experience designed to help actors land roles. Ms. Orenstein will share her extensive knowledge of the casting process and give actors her professional assessment of their headshots offering specific critiques on how best to market themselves. Ms. Orenstein will do one-on-one conversations with actors to help them identify the kinds of
roles best suited to them.

This is an interactive and intensive experience
and enrollment is limited.

Workshops will be held at CBS headquarters, 51 West 52^nd Street,
NYC.

Interested actors should submit headshots and
resumes to Barbara Matos at bmatos@cbs.com
NO LATER than Friday, May 18, 2012.

Note: When submitting, please be sure to mention you were referred by Inclusion in the Arts

Thanks!!!

VSA now accepting entries for its 2012 visual art programs

David Harrell — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:09:46 +0000

Sustaining / Creating

A National Juried Exhibition for Emerging Artists with Disabilities, ages 16-25

Deadline: July 8, 2012

Sustaining / Creating
asks emerging artists to showcase work that illuminates innovative
viewpoints on sustainability and contemporary creativity. Beyond its
scientific definition, sustainability references notions of
responsibility and stewardship of our natural world in all facets of
human interaction–from the environmental to the cultural. Sustainability
indicates the capacity to endure. Fifteen artists will be selected for
an exhibition at the Smithsonian and will share $60,000 in cash awards.
Entry deadline is July 8. Enter today!

Yo Soy…Je Suis…I am…

International Art Program for Children with Disabilities, ages 5-18

Deadline: July 15, 2012

This program presents a unique opportunity for
student-artists with disabilities from around the world to display their
artwork side-by-side in an online exhibition. A selection of artwork
from the online entries will be chosen for a live exhibition at the
United States Department of Education in Washington D.C. Children with
disabilities, ages 5-18, are encouraged to create a self-portrait that
illustrates who they are and who they will be. Self-portraits allow
artistic freedom for children with disabilities to celebrate the unique
qualities they have to share with the world. Entry deadline is July 15,
2012. Enter today!

Hulu announces new LGBT genre category

Sindy Gordon — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:56:25 +0000

Internet video giant Hulu will launch a new LGBT category heading on the free, ad-supported Hulu and Hulu Plus, GLAAD and Wolfe Video announced today. The new category heading arises out of an initiative spearheaded by LGBT film distributor Wolfe Video, and will help users locate LGBT content more efficiently, including nearly 100 films.

“Wolfe has been working with content providers and retailers for more than twenty years on this simple but important distinction. Creating a visible category for gay and lesbian films continues to be a vitally important reflection of LGBT equality in our culture,” said Wolfe VP, Linda Voutour. “We’re extremely grateful to our colleagues at Hulu for taking such leadership in the digital delivery space.”

“Making such groundbreaking and popular LGBT films available and accessible to a wider audience can have a tremendous impact on LGBT people longing to see relatable stories onscreen,” said GLAAD President Herndon Graddick. “We applaud Hulu and Wolfe for their leadership in bringing stories that can touch, inspire and entertain so many.”

A sample of available and upcoming LGBT titles on Hulu are available on the GLAAD website.

by Seth Adam, GLAAD’s Communications & Publications Manager

Sprout Film Festival in NYC then tours the country

David Harrell — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:36:27 +0000

The Sprout
Film Festival is here!!! This
weekend…

Our NYC event will take place on Friday
April 27 through Sunday April 29^th at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. Please check out the festival
website for the full schedule and to
purchase your tickets. www.sproutfilmfestival.org

One of the films featured at this year’s
festival is Forgotten People: a 9 ½ min. film that documents the
inhumane conditions faced by individuals with mental disabilities situated in
grossly understaffed, inadequate and neglectful psychiatric facilities around
the world.

Click here for free stream: http://sproutflix.org/content/forgotten-people

After the NYC festival the Sprout
Touring Film Festival (STFF) may be coming to a city near you! Below is a
list of upcoming Sprout Touring Festivals:

April 30, 2012 YAI Conference
- New York, NY

May 10 – 11, 2012 Full
Access - Bend, OR

May 12, 2012 HSRI - Tualatin, OR

May 14, 2012 Home Life - Corvallis, OR

June 7, 2012 The Arc of Whatcom
County - Bellingham, WA

June 12, 2012 Spurwink – Augusta, ME

June 14, 2012 Spurwink – Portland, ME

August 4, 2012 Arc Northland – Duluth, MN

Classical Theatre of Harlem introduces The Playwright’s Playground:

David Harrell — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:47:54 +0000

Classical Theatre of Harlem introduces The Playwright’s Playground:
Seeking Playwrights and Actors to take part in a
twice-monthly cold reading series
What is The Playwright’s Playground?
Classical Theatre of Harlem’s (CTH) Playwright’s Playground is a cold-reading series
designed to promotes the work of emerging playwrights whose works are persistently
under-represented on American stages. The Playwright’s Playground is especially
interested in works by artists of color, women and other underrepresented artists such as
immigrants, and ethnic and religious minorities. The Playwright’s Playground seeks to
provide the opportunity for playwrights to hear works in early development through cold
readings with professional actors, to offer them the opportunity to develop a play in a
nurturing environment while helping actors hone their craft and giving them the
opportunity to become familiar with new work and emerging playwrights.
How does the Playwright’s Playground work?
Starting on

May 14, 2012, the second and fourth Monday of each month will be a

Playwright’s Playground Monday. Interested playwrights may submit a 10- to 12-page
scene from a work in progress, and a Monday will be assigned to them. Up to six
playwrights will be featured at each Playground. The night of the Playground, CTH will
provide copies of the scenes and cast actors to read from those attending the Playground.
•

Playwrights may submit only 10-12 pages.

• Play samples must be submitted as a PDF or as a Word document.
• A brief synopsis of the play and a short bio may be included with the writing
sample.
• Please understand that The Playwright’s Playground does not present readings
of full plays, only cold readings of scenes from works in progress.
All Playwright’s Playground Mondays will take place from 7 – 10 pm at The
Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center, which is located
at 3940 Broadway between 164th and 165th Street.
Playwrights:

Please e-mail your submissions or inquiries to Debra Cardona,

Playwright’s Playground administrator, at:

playwrightsplayground@gmail.com

Actors:

Please arrive a half-hour before the start of each Playwright’s Playground

Monday and check in with administrators Debra Cardona and Pia Wilson in order to be
considered for a scene.

An event not to be missed! April 24 in LA and Live Webcast

Sindy Gordon — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:32:32 +0000

What do you get when you put the makers of the acclaimed documentary “Lives Worth Living”, Jim LeBrecht, Lawrence Carter-Long and moderator Robert David Hall at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (yes, THAT Academy) in North Hollywood for a screening of the doc and a rip-roarin’ follow-up panel discussion?

An event not to be missed!

Not an Academy member? Don’t live in Los Angeles? Never fear. The event will be webcast LIVE, April 24, on Emmys.com & Emmys.tv.

Click the link for more info and please SPREAD THE WORD!

Link: http://www.emmys.tv/events/2012/04/lives-worth-living

ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES DIVERSITY COMMITTEE and ITVS invite you to attend a screening and discussion on disability access within the industry

Lives Worth Living

Live Webcast on Emmys.com & Emmys.tv

April 24, 2012 – 7:00pm – 9:00pm

TELEVISION ACADEMY CONFERENCE CENTRE

5210 LANKERSHIM BLVD.

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA

Civil rights are taken for granted in the United States. However, for a diverse population of over 54 million Americans — those with disabilities — it is an ongoing struggle. “Lives Worth Living” is television’s most comprehensive history of the disability rights movement. It opens a window into the world of citizens with an unwavering determination to live their lives like everyone else. It is also a journey through the past when millions of people lived without access to schools, work, public transportation and housing. Charismatic leaders of the movement narrate the story of this long, hard, and successful drive for civil rights that brought together a once fragmented population into a powerful coalition that created some of the most far reaching civil rights legislation in our nation’s history…and around the world.

PANELISTS

Eric Neudel, Director, Lives Worth Living

Alison Gilkey, Producer, Lives Worth Living

Lois Vossen, Independent Lens Senior Series Producer & Vice President, ITVS

James LeBrecht Sound Designer and Mixer, Lives Worth Living

Lawrence Carter-Long, Founder and Curator of disTHIS! Film Series

Moderated by Robert David Hall, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, National Chair SAG-AFTRA-AEA, PWD Committee

Call for Interest: PERFORMANCE & DISABILITY

David Harrell — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:11:44 +0000

Call
for Interest

PERFORMANCE & DISABILITY

New IFTR Working Group

The International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) approved a new
Working Group on Performance & Disability. The goal of this group is to
have an international dialogue regarding disability and performance and to
share scholarly work and best practices from around the world – traditions,
conventions and demonstrations of how diverse physical, sensorial,
developmental and psychological abilities manifest in all areas of performance.
We are open to any definition of disability or performance. We are soliciting
interest in our working group from any area of performance studies that
intersects with disability studies.

If interested, feel free to join our mailing list:

https://listserv.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/performance-disability.itw

We will be meeting for the first time at the IFTR annual conference in
Santiago, Chile (22- 28 July 2012, http://www.firt2012stgochile.com/).

Information on the IFTR (membership, activities, events…) are available at https://www.firt-iftr.org/.

Contact: Mark Swetz (mark@yeca.org)
& Yvonne Schmidt (yvonne.schmidt@zhdk.ch),
Working Group Conveners.

Wolf Trap Foundation Fellowship

Sindy Gordon — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:26:09 +0000

A 12-month, full-time paid Fellowship position within the Wolf Trap Foundation is available beginning September 2012. Intended for a young professional of color who has recently earned a Master’s degree in the arts or a related discipline, the Fellowship will provide substantive arts management experience in a variety of areas within the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.

The Fellow will rotate through four departments within the Foundation over the course of their 12 month tenure. Each rotation will be three months in length. The Fellow will select to work within three administrative areas of Wolf Trap: Wolf Trap’s Executive Office, including Human Resources, Finance, Planning and Initiatives, Operations, and Government Relations; Wolf Trap’s External Affairs, including Ticket Services, Development (Corporate, Foundation, Individual, or Special Events), and Communications and Marketing (Marketing, Creative, or Media); and Wolf Trap’s Performing Arts and Education, including Technical Theatre, Education, Opera (Production or Administration), and Programming (Filene Center, The Barns at Wolf Trap, or Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods).

A $24,000 stipend is provided over the course of the year, as well as additional financial assistance for housing and transportation, if needed. Funding for attendance at selected national conferences is also provided. The Fellow will be eligible to receive certain Wolf Trap Foundation benefits, including health insurance and paid leave.

Fellowship applicants are required to submit an application form, a statement of purpose, a resume, and two letters of recommendation. For further information, please call (703) 937-6304.

Applications are due May 1, 2012.

Aspiring to Conquer Crossover Acting Path

Sindy Gordon — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:16:57 +0000

By Kate Taylor, New York Times

It didn’t take much rehearsing for Russell Harvard, who plays the deaf son of a loquacious and argumentative British family in the Off Broadway play “Tribes,” to get inside his character’s skin.

Like his character Billy, the 30-year-old actor is himself partially deaf. And while, unlike Billy, he grew up in a deaf family, the early rehearsals for “Tribes” gave him a crash course in the isolation that Billy often feels among his cacophonous relatives.

The producers had hired a sign-language interpreter to help ease communication among Mr. Harvard and the other cast members and the director, David Cromer, but in the rehearsal room, where many people were often talking at once, Mr. Harvard said he sometimes felt lost.

“I couldn’t pick up on a lot of the overlapping conversation going on,” Mr. Harvard said in an interview late last month, adding, “I was like, ‘I’m Billy — right there, right now.’ It was funny, and then frustrating.” (Mr. Harvard wears a hearing aid and conducted the interview without an interpreter, occasionally leaning forward to ask that something be repeated.)

Read the full article at the New York Times.

PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA ANNOUNCES EIGHTH ANNUAL “POWER OF DIVERSITY” WORKSHOP

Sindy Gordon — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:52:07 +0000

The program will focus on moving projects forward through seminars and master classes with top professionals in film, television, and new media supported by one-on-one mentoring with Producers Guild members. Topics include: story development, pitching, packaging, financing, marketing, and new media opportunities. Every session will be tailored to our participating producers and their projects.

Workshop call for entries opens on March 12th 2012 and closes on April 20th 2012 at 5:00 pm.

Applicants will be notified by May 7th, 2012

Workshop sessions will take place between May 14th and July 29th. Selected participants must attend all sessions of the program. Workshop sessions are held weekday evenings, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. with a few Saturday sessions at The Producers Guild of America offices at 8530 Wilshire Blvd., Ste 450, Beverly Hills.

Past workshop speakers have included, Marshall Herskovitz (Defiance, Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai) Damon Lindelof (Lost, Star Trek), Mark Gordon (Grey’s Anatomy, Saving Private Ryan, 2012) Bruce Cohen (Pushing Daisies, Milk, American Beauty) in addition to others.

For more information go to: PGA website