Mizna Arab-American Literature & Visual Arts-Grants
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: May 8, 2006
Art; Visual Arts Program
Mizna is granting $1000.00 to 8 artists. Go here for
application and information.
Call For Submissions For Mizna’s Fourth Annual Arab Film Festival
In 2005, Mizna held the largest Arab Film Festival in the United States.
Mizna is now seeking submissions for its Fourth Annual Arab Film Festival to be
held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in October of 2006. Works addressing Arab and
Arab diaspora issues are especially welcome. Short, experimental, documentary,
and feature length filmmakers are encouraged to submit. Criteria for film choice
will be based on artistic merit, technical skill, and content. Please submit
your work in VHS or DVD. The deadline for all submissions is June 15, 2006.
Items submitted to Mizna’s Fourth Annual Arab Film Festival cannot be
returned.
Please download this form and include it with your
submission.
Send your submissions to:
Mizna
2205 California Street
NE
#109A
Minneapolis, MN 55418
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Mizna has come a long way since 1999 when we published Volume 1, Issue 1 of
Mizna-our journal of Arab American literature. With the publication of
hundreds of Arab American writers later, we are proud of what we have
accomplished. Besides publishing our award-winning journal, we have been honored
to present to you some of the most talented Arab American artists in the visual
arts, on stage, in music, and in film. As we continue to grow and gain a wider
audience, we are extremely thankful for your vital support of this
groundbreaking and progressive Arab American arts organization.
Mizna journal continues to be the only journal of Arab American
literature in the United States, and is currently in libraries, museums, and on
coffee tables throughout the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. It has been the
focus of stories in many media outlets, including the Utne Reader,
National Public Radio, the Lebanese Daily Star, Bahrain Today, and
Qantara-the publication of the Institut du Monde Arabe. In 2003, we
received a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Small Presses for a piece which first
appeared in our journal.
In addition to the journal, we have presented the annual Arab Film festival
in Minnesota (the only such festival in the Upper Midwest), 9 public arts events
featuring over 50 emerging writers, musicians, dancers, and visual artists, the
first performance of an Arab American play in the Twin Cities with fifteen Arab
cast members, and such amazing international talent as Simon Shaheen, Suheir
Hammad, Hakim Belabbes, Nadia El Fani, Jack Shaheen, Raed Al Helou, Mai Masri,
Iron Sheik, Elias Khoury and others.
In the past year, we have opened our Mizna center, which has given us, for
the first time, a physical home to hold meetings, classes, and events. Over the
past year, we have also participated in conferences and gatherings throughout
the United States and have become an officially recognized non-profit
organization. Our group has grown from two founders in 1998, to a current board
of fifteen excited and committed professionals, community members, and artists.
Mizna has been a forerunner in the Arab American arts scene and last fall we
embarked on another new journey-cultural classes in which we are highlighting
the expertise of our community and sharing this knowledge with others.
An important outcome of the cultural and artistic work we do is the exposure
of American audiences to the breadth and depth of the current, vital culture of
the Middle East and of Arabs in America. This serves to counter the daily
stereotypes of Arabs that bombard Americans on a daily basis. We think it is
essential to continue to remind Minnesotans, Americans, and the world, that
Arabic culture did not end with the translation two centuries ago of Arabian
Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights and not even a century ago with
the novels of Naguib Mahfouz, rather the Arab art scene is alive and
flourishing.
We thank you for your continued support of our mission: to bring Arab
American arts to life, to support the vision of Arab American artists, and to
reflect a depth, breadth and humanity of Arabs everywhere.
Contact Mizna
Mizna, Inc.
2205 California Street NE
#109A
Minneapolis, MN 55418
USA
Mizna@mizna.org
http://www.mizna.org
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