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The RFPA Awards recognise the best radio programmes that contribute to
peace in Africa. The RFPA Awards particularly celebrate radio
programmes that help to reduce group and community tensions, enhance
and give value to shared interests, break down listener stereotypes,
or provide positive role models.

The 2012 Awards are open to all African radio broadcasters, both men
and women. Prizes will be awarded in the following categories:
•    RFPA Gender Award;
•    RFPA Youth Award; and
•    RFPA Jury’s Special Award.
Three prizes will be awarded in each category. The first prize is 600
Euros, the second 300 Euros, and the third 150 Euros. The winning
recipients will be honoured at an award ceremony.

Specific entry requirements include:
•    Programmes can be in any language spoken on the African
continent, but must be accompanied by a translation in either English
or French.
•    Programmes must be a minimum of 20 minutes in duration.
•    Radio programmes must have been broadcast between January 1 and
December 31, 2011.
•    Participants can submit more than one entry, but each must be
sent as a discrete submission.

Each entry must include a complete entry form, a copy of the radio
programme, and a translation if necessary. Submissions can be
submitted electronically to rfpa@sfcg.org or by mail to any SFCG
Africa Country Office (list available at
http://www.sfcg.org/sfcg/sfcg_world.html) or SFCG’s Brussels Office.

All entries must be received by midnight GMT, May 11, 2012.

Previous winning entries are available for listening and download from
the audio section of our website www.radiopeaceafrica.org
For more information and to apply, contact the RFPA Team: rfpa@sfcg.org

We wish good luck to all the participants and we look forward to
listening to your radio programmes!

The RFPA Team

-mia

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Trans-X Symposium Call for Papers deadline March 16, 2012

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is pleased to announce the Trans-X,
a symposium about Transmission Art May 25-27, 2012

Rooted in the earliest experiments with radio, Transmission Art has
continued to flourish with experiments with wireless communications
technology over the past 100 years. The 21st Century is not excluded
from this experimentation as artists have ventured into exploring a
variety of mobile-based platforms and more lesser known forms of
transmission such as VLF. The terrain of transmission art is dynamic
and fluid, always open to redefinition.

The Trans-X symposium, part of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio &
Transmission Art, will focus on transmission art, with particular
interest in paper contributions that summarize, examine or reframe
traditions and histories of transmission art practices, technology,
education and pedagogy. Additionally, we are very interested in paper
presentations that go beyond the local contingent to give a sense of
what new technologies of international transmission activity might
sound like.

Proposals related to any aspect of transmission art practice are
welcome. Submit a 500-1000 word abstract, and a biography of 250 words
or less, to the symposium's Review Committee at: http://naisa.ca/transx-submit-piece.php

All symposium contributions will be webcast live, and text proceedings
will be published on-line on the NAISA web-site.

Important Information
Deadline for receipt of proposals: Friday March 16, 2012 @ 11:59 PM EST
Notification of acceptance: Monday April 2, 2012
Symposium sessions including workshops, keynote lectures, papers and
panel discussions: May 26 & 27, 2012
Keynote address by Joseph Galen-Hunter, author of Transmission Arts:
Artists & Airwaves and Executive Director of free103point9
Deep Wireless Festival concerts: May 25 and 26, 2012 @ 20:00
Symposium registration fees (General): $70 (includes admission to all
concerts)
Symposium registration fees (Student): $35 (includes admission to all
concerts)
Questions and requests for further information should be directed to: naisa@naisa.ca

Review Committee:
Galen Joseph-Hunter, author of Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves
Anna Friz, post-doctoral fellow, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Gregory Whitehead, radio artist / co-editor of Wireless Imagination
Jonathon Guberman, Site 3 coLaboratory
Geoffrey Shea, OCAD University
Tetsuo Kogawa, Tokyo Keizai University
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NAISA Inquiries & general information:

Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Executive Director
New Adventures in Sound Art
Address: Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252, Toronto, ON
M6G 4C7
Tel 416 652 5115
www.naisa.ca

NAISA current/upcoming events:

TransX, a Symposium about Transmission Art May 25 – 27, 2012
Call for Papers, deadline March 16, 2012

http://naisa.ca/opportunities.html

Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art May 1 – 31, 2012

Follow us on:
Facebook www.facebook.com/NAISASoundArt
Twitter www.twitter.com/NAISASoundArt
You Tube www.youtube.com/user/NAISAtube

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USC Annenberg/California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships February 27, 2012 Call for Applications! All-Expenses-Paid Mini Fellowship, $2,000-$10,000 Reporting Grants At USC Annenberg When: July 22-26, 2012 Where: Los Angeles Deadline to Apply: April 16, 2012 USC Annenberg's California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships program is offering three different reporting grants this year to underwrite investigative or explanatory journalism projects on substantive health issues. The grants all include participation in The National Health Journalism Fellowships , which allow journalists to step away from their daily routines to spend five days in Los Angeles exploring topics related to "Health and Place," or how neighborhood and work environments impact health and life expectancy. This intensive mini fellowship will help you understand how community health, health policy, and the nation's growing ethnic diversity intersect. You'll come away from the experience with a multitude of story ideas and sources, new insights into what community influences contribute to personal health, and funds to pursue an important health-related reporting project. Based at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism, the National Fellowship is open to print, broadcast, and online journalists from around the country. National Fellows receive meals, travel, and lodging, plus a $2,000 stipend upon publication or broadcast of a major fellowship project on almost any domestic health issue. The Hunt Fund (grants of $2,500 to $10,000) will support projects that examine the effects of a specific factor or confluence of factors on a community's health, such as poverty, health disparities, pollution, violence, land use, urban development, access to health care, and access to healthy food. And our new Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health Fund (California journalists only) will provide grants of $2,000-$5,000 to underwrite projects focused on children's health issues. Competition for all the grants is open to both newsroom staffers and freelancers who contribute to print, broadcast, and online news outlets. The stipends and grants can be used to defray reporting and publishing-related costs such as travel, website development, database acquisition and analysis, environmental testing, translation services, and a journalist's otherwise uncompensated time. Applicants must join ReportingonHealth.org, a Web 2.0 community for health journalism and the official website for the Fellowships. To encourage collaboration between mainstream and ethnic media, preference will be given to applicants who propose a joint project for use by both media outlets. For more information, visit ReportingonHealth.org or e- mail Martha Shirk at Cahealth@usc.edu. (To improve your prospects for success, we recommend that you discuss your project idea with us in advance.) Visit Our Website email: cahealth@usc.edu web: http://www.reportingonhealth.org