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NYC office space with sound booth

May 3, 2011 MiaLobel Leave a comment

In case any of you NYC folks are in need of office space… sound booth included!
-mia

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Hello! We are a progressive non-profit currently looking for an organization to share our large office space with in NoHo. We currently have two open offices ($700 a piece) and the tenants will have full access to our copiers, fax, postage machine and sound booth. We are looking for a fellow non-profit organization, or related group. If you are interested and think you may be a good fit, please don't hesitate to email me and set up an appointment!

We offer:

*Access to postage machine/copiers/fax and broadcast quality sound booth
*24/7 Building Access
*Doorman
*Shared Conference Rooms
*Comfortable kitchen with filtered water, coffee, tea machine, microwave oven, refrigerator
*Cleaning service
*Close to various subways
*Great Neighborhood!

We also have a private office suite available which is detached from the communal office space for $1000 per month (including utilities)

Contact: drew.zimmerman@fex.org

Freelance Cafe East, Workshops

Digital preservation workshop for Videotape – NYC, June 6

May 3, 2011 MiaLobel Leave a comment

Interesting workshop for you NYC folks.
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Please share – for people who might be interested in videotape preservation.

Linda Tadic, the trainer, is well-established as an expert and teacher in video preservation.

Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP)
Presents a Workshop on
Digital Preservation for Videotape
Co-sponsored by The New York Metropolitan Library Council (METRO)

Monday, June 6, 2011
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

If content on analog videotape is to survive for the long term, the tapes must be digitized–moved from the unstable magnetic media on which the content is currently held, into the digital realm where–in theory–they can be preserved indefinitely and migrated forward as files rather than physical objects. Digitization, however, means more than simply selecting a destination file format. It requires a series of decisions that will determine the long-term viability of files created–and thus of the valuable video content. Workshop topics include: basic digital file creation, preservation and access file formats and codecs, software, storage and trusted digital repositories, workflows for digitization, and technical and preservation metadata. In addition, participants will examine case studies of small and large-scale digitization projects in order to understand real-world applications of principles introduced in the workshop.

Workshop location:
METRO Training Center (4th Floor)
57 E. 11th Street
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 228-2320

Workshop fee and registration
$100 IMAP and METRO members
$150 non-members
$50 artists and students
Pre-payment is required with registration. Space is limited.

Freelance Cafe East

Grant opportunity for Arts Writers, deadline June 8

April 30, 2011 MiaLobel Leave a comment

Wow – this looks like a good one! I'm not familiar with this org so if anyone has experience they'd like to share, drop me a line. Details below.
-mia

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Online application form opens:
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Application deadline:
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

http://www.artswriters.org

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program supports individual writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through grants ranging from 3,000 to 50,000 USD.

Writers who meet the program’s eligibility requirements are invited to apply in the following categories:

Articles
Blogs
Books
New and Alternative Media
Short-Form Writing

Due to legal constraints we can only fund U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and holders of O-1 visas. For guidelines and additional eligibility requirements, please visitwww.artswriters.org/guidelines.html.

<<Art Writing Workshop>>

In partnership with the International Association of Art Critics/USA Section, the Arts Writers Grant Program offers applicants consultations with leading art critics. For more information, please visithttp://www.aicausa.org.

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This American Life looking for contributions for next week’s show

April 28, 2011 MiaLobel Leave a comment

Forwarded from the folks at AIR, a fabulous opportunity from Ira Glass. LOVE this idea!
-Mia

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Hi there This American Life friends and contributors:

It’s Ira Glass here. We're doing this show next week – May 6th – that
we've been planning for months and are very excited about. It's
unlike any show we've ever done. The theme is simply: "This Week."
Everything in the show will have happened in the previous seven days.
That'll include an international story or two, and things that are
happening in national news in DC and elsewhere. But it'll also
include hyper-local: hopefully a bar fight, a first kiss. In other
words: an approach to doing a “news” show in a narrative way,
reporting the week's news with great characters and stories and
hopefully a lot of feeling. Fingers crossed on that anyway. Not one
minute of tape has been recorded as I write this.

Here's where you fit in.

Do you know of anything especially interesting happening (to you or
anyone else) between Saturday April 30 and Friday May 6th? Something
that might qualify as having a “big” week? Some ideas we’ve thrown
around here: a Youth League soccer or school sports rivalry that'll
come to a big decisive game? Someone doing something for the first
time? Someone who might go into remission or come out of a coma or
get married or open a business or shut down their business? Anyone
who'll get their tax check back from the government and get to spend
it? A talent show or recital or school play? Someone getting their
first drunk tattoo or braces put on or braces taken off? Someone
trying as hard as they can in the last weeks of the semester not to
flunk out?

Or maybe there's an interesting local news story where you are that
might be approaching a turning point next week?

Obviously, the best stories – as always – would be ones where
something important is at stake for someone. What we already have: a
beauty pageant, Wisconsin electoral news, a college student who's
graduating and moving back in with her parents. That leaves a lot of
room for you.

Because we'll be turning these stories around so fast, if you're not
an experiened radio producer or reporter we most likely will pay you
for the idea and then either set up a quick phone interview with the
subject or figure out a way to get a producer to gather some tape.

And if nothing comes to mind as you read this right now, please keep
us in mind next week should you happen to fall in love for the first
time, decide suddenly to emigrate to Norway, find a thousand dollar
bill on the sidewalk or get called up from the minor leagues to the
majors.

Like always, you can send pitches/ideas/thoughts to Julie Snyder at
julie@thislife.org.

Thanks! I know the contributions we get from all of you will be an
important part of this show.

Ira Glass

Events, Freelance Cafe West

The Art of Audio for Non-Fiction Writers

April 26, 2011 MiaLobel Leave a comment

For print writers AND audio producers – this promises to be a great event. Evite and details below!
-mia

http://new.evite.com/services/links/HJXAB6DQRC

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You are warmly invited to an informal gathering and professional discussion April 28 sponsored by the Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) and the Mills College journalism program. “The Art of Audio – for Nonfiction Writers in a Trans-media World” brings radio reporters Rachel Louise Snyder of NPR and Sarah Varney of KQED to talk about how the audio story is another element of a literary & journalistic calling and how radio reporting can complement other skills when building a journalism career. Please tell others about the event at Mills College in Oakland if you think they might like to attend. We will begin and end with a wine reception; the discussion will start at 7 p.m.

Rachel Louise Snyder is the best-selling author of "Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade (WW Norton)." She is also the host and executive producer of the weekly public radio program "The Global Guru," which uncovers mysteries of global culture around the world, as well as hosting a new global affairs show in Washington, DC called "Latitudes." Her work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Travel & Leisure, the New Republic, and Slate, among others, and she received a 2006 Overseas Press Award for her work on the public radio show "This American Life." She lived in London for two years, before moving to Cambodia for six, and she recently relocated to Washington, D.C., where she is an assistant professor of literature in the MFA program at American University. She earned her MFA degree in Creative Writing with a focus in fiction from Emerson College in Boston.

Sarah Varney covers health for KQED's statewide news programs The California Report and Health Dialogues. She has reported extensively on health policy, health disparities, public health and environmental health, including a series of stories on the safety of alternatives to banned substances like phthalates. She began reporting for KQED in 2002 and has covered a range of subjects and stories – from the ethics, politics and science of stem cell research to the religious and legal challenges over gay marriage to the inside workings of baseball park food vendors. Sarah also reports regularly for National Public Radio's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

Kat

Katherine Ann Rowlands

Assistant Managing Editor for News, Bay Area News Group-East Bay

Metro Editor, Contra Costa Times

President-elect, Journalism & Women Symposium (www.jaws.org)

925-943-8379 office or 510-872-2007 cell

Freelance Cafe East

Grant funding available from the CA Council for the Humanities

April 26, 2011 MiaLobel Leave a comment

Upcoming info sessions (both in-person and online) on receiving grant funding from the CA Council for the Humanities. Details below!
-mia

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NYC journalism and trauma event w/Daniel Zwerdling, Wed. 4/27, 5:30pm

April 26, 2011 MiaLobel Leave a comment

Another upcoming event for you NYC folks. This looks like a good one.
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2011 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

5:30 – 8:00 pm

* Reception: 5:30 pm * Awards and winners' round table: 6:00 pm *

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

World Room, 3^rd floor

116th Street and Broadway

New York, NY

Crusading Against Silence:

High Impact Reporting on Invisible Victims

The 2011 Dart Awards recognize searing, in-depth investigations which exposed how important institutions – schools, universities and the military – betray the very people they are supposed to protect: victims of teenage bullying and campus rape, brain-injured soldiers and families left behind by war. Please join us in celebrating the winners and engaging in a conversation on journalism that is both hard-hitting and humane.

Panelists:

Kevin Cullen, Columnist, Boston Globe

Sonya N. Hebert, Photographer, Dallas Morning News

Kristen Lombardi, Reporter, Center for Public Integrity

T. Christian Miller, Reporter, ProPublica

Daniel Zwerdling, Correspondent, NPR

Moderator: Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

This event is free and open to the public.

Winners of the the 2011 Dart Awards are The Boston Globe for "A Tormenting Problem: An Exploration of New-Age Bullying"; The Dallas Morning News for "Private Battles"; NPR and the Center for Public Integrity for "Seeking Justice in Campus Rapes"; and NPR and ProPublica for "Brain Wars: How the Military is Failing its Wounded."

Established in 1995, the annual Dart Awards recognize exemplary journalism on the impact of violence, crime, disaster and other traumatic events on individuals, families and communities. The Dart Awards are administered by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia.

Events, Freelance Cafe East

Several Columbia Jschool events over the next few days

April 26, 2011 MiaLobel Leave a comment

The latest events at the Columbia J-school. Spread the word.
-mia

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Please see below and share widely…

In addition to the Social Media Weekend May 13-15 (with limited 15% off tickets) described below, here are several other events at the J-school over next few days:

* Tuesday, April 26

4-5 pm: "Storycraft." Long-form narrative writing coach Jack Hart shares his trade secrets to help you develop, craft, structure and edit your work. Room 601B of the Journalism School.

5:30-7 pm J-School Debates. Round 2. SPJ hosts another debate for students, faculty and industry, with the motion: "This House would accept government funding to finance its journalism operations." Featuring Columbia President Lee Bollinger; Chen Weihua, the Editor of the U.S. Edition of the China Daily; John Bentley, CBS reporter, Political unit; Dan Pashman, formerly of NPR, host of the Sporkful; and students Linette Lopez, Bilal Lakhani and Jonathan Hall. Professor Richard Wald will be chairing. Lecture Hall of the Journalism School.

* Thursday, April 28

7-9 pm: Delcorte Lecutre by Amy DuBois, editor-in-chief, Ebony The Delacorte Lectures examine various aspects of magazine journalism, presented in the spring semester each week by a leader in the field of magazine publishing.

* Monday, May 9

12-2 pm Social Media in the Middle East
Rasha Abdulla, Chair of Journalism and Mass Communication, American University in Cairo, "The People Want to Tweet the Revolution: How Social Media Brought Down Egypt's Dictator." Journalism 601B

* Tuesday, May 10

The release of The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism

A special report by

BILL GRUESKIN
Dean of Academic Affairs, Columbia Journalism School

AVA SEAVE
Principal, Quantum Media
Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia Business School

LUCAS GRAVES
Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia Journalism School

Discussion moderated by
KEN AULETTA
"Annals of Communication" Writer, The New Yorker

Author, Googled: The End Of The World As We Know It

Opening remarks by
NICHOLAS LEMANN
Dean, Columbia Journalism School

and

EMILY BELL
Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Columbia Journalism School
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Reception, World Room
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Panel Discussion, Lecture Hall

RSVP REQUIRED: http://fs12.formsite.com/jschoolacademics/form15/index.html

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Social Media Weekend at Columbia Journalism School http://bit.ly/socmediaweekend

May 13-15 (Friday evening to Sunday afternoon), the Continuing Ed department of Columbia Journalism School (@columbiajourn) is hosting a weekend of workshops, panels and keynotes to help journalists, media professionals and others understand social media better. We expect about 200 people from around the country to attend various parts of the weekend, which will be a fun, interactive, multi-day learning experience filled with new-fangled tools and services and sprinkled with some old-fashioned networking, too.

The opening event will give you a flavor of the weekend:
Friday 6-9 pm Opening Keynote & Reception features Andy Carvin (@ACarvin) of NPR, whose innovative Twitter work during #Egypt, #Libya, #Japan, etc, have gotten attention around the world, including a Washington Post Style cover profile; and CJR asked, "Is this the world's best Twitter account?"

SAMPLE TWEET: JOIN US! @ColumbiaJourn’s first Social Media Weekend of LEARNING, May 13-15 (Fri-Sun): http://bit.ly/socmediaweekend #socmediaweekend

NOTE: 75 tix get 15% off the weekend pass! http://j.mp/h5BeFT

Prof. Sree Sreenivasan | sree@sree.net
Dean of Student Affairs, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism

http://www.sree.net | http://www.journalism.columbia.edu

Contributing editor, DNAinfo: http://bit.ly/dnainfosree
LINKEDIN: http://linkedin.com/in/sreenivasan

FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/sreetips
TWITTER: @sree – http://twitter.com/sree

Events, Freelance Cafe West

Sonic Soiree in SF Bay Area, May 1, 5-7pm, Berkeley

April 22, 2011 MiaLobel Leave a comment

Another gathering of Bay Area audio/multi-media producers. Don't miss it! Details and contact info below.
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Independent producers in the Bay Area are again meeting at the house of Lonny Shavelson in Berkeley (see address at www.photowords.com) on Mayday, Sunday May 1,from 5-7pm. If interested, reply offlist to the emcee, David Dunaway, new Professor of Radio at San Francisco State University (Dunaway@sfsu.edu). We will audition current and past projects, and David will offer a short session on gaining national distribution for long-form projects. Bring something to eat or drink and some great voices and sounds !

Freelance Cafe East, Workshops

EMPAC – Summer Workshops in Music and Audio

April 19, 2011 MiaLobel Leave a comment

Very cool stuff going on at this place. See below for two upcoming workshops.
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Composer Hans Tutschku in residence at EMPAC – photo by Natt Phenjati

EMPAC – the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY – offers two unique one-week workshops this summer, each suited for advanced undergrads, graduate students, and professionals:

Composing for Large Scale Multi-Channel Loudspeaker Environments offers the opportunity to work in a very large 24-channel speaker set-up plus two “smaller” rigs (16 and 8 channels) while studying with Hans Tutschku (Harvard), one of the foremost composers for such configurations. This is a workshop with an emphasis on hands-on work, as well as discussion of participants’ pieces, aesthetics, and technology. June 5 – 10, 2011

Physical Modeling for Digital Audio Workstation Plug-ins is your chance to get an introduction on using computers to generate physical models of analog audio circuits with plug-in guru David Amels (Bomb Factory) as instructor. Participants will work together to reverse engineer and model the Shure Level-Loc (limiter/compressor unit) with a Shure SM57 microphone attached – and then integrate it as functional VST plug-in. The best way to learn with an expert in the field! July 18 – 23, 2011

For more information: http://empac.rpi.edu/workshops/

EMPAC 2010-2011 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions

EMPAC Box Office:
518.276.3921

Plan your visit to EMPAC! Get directions, maps, parking info, and a visitors guide.

Our mailing address is:

EMPAC

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

110 8th Street

Troy, NY 12180

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