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COLLABORATION AWARD
WOMEN WORKING WITH WOMEN Collaboration Award Presented
by the 2010 GUIDELINES Goal: The Collaboration Award: Women Working With Women is designed to encourage professional women in the arts and media to work collaboratively with women from other arts and media specializations on the creation of new work.
What: The award honors successful collaborations among women from different specializations in the arts and media. An award of $1000 will be made to one winning collaborative team. Two other teams will be honored with a Certificate of Achievement. Eligible teams are those collaborating on a new work, a completed work or a work-in-progress. Winning collaborative teams will be invited to an event celebrating the awards.
Those Eligible: Two or more women working together on a creative project may apply for the 2010 Collaboration Award. Each member of the applicant team must be a member of a Coalition organization. (See list below, under Sponsor.) The aim of the award is to encourage women to work with members of other unions and guilds. Applicants on each team shall be members of two or more different guilds, unions or associations. Collaboration Review Committee members, Coalition Board members or past Board members who have served since 2008 are not eligible to apply for the award.
Criteria: Applicants may suggest any form of creative collaboration on a new work: a proposed work, an existing work or a work-in-progress. Applications shall be judged on artistic excellence, clarity of proposal, likelihood of completion, and diversity in background and artistic endeavor. All topics and subjects will be considered. Special attention shall be given to those proposals which reflect the goals of the Coalition: to advance women's work and women's issues.
How: Applicants must fill out a two-page application form. Applications may be downloaded from the Coalition web site: www.nycwam.org. Address Collaboration Award questions to: collaborationawards@gmail.com Send
completed applications to NYCWAM, P.O. Box 2537,
New York, NY 10108. Attn: Collaboration Awards.
Deadline: The postmark deadline for the return of completed applications is July 1, 2010. Award winners will be announced by mid-October, 2010.
Sponsors: The New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media was founded to help advance and advocate for women in the arts and entertainment fields. The Coalition is comprised of all members of the following associations, unions and guilds: Actors' Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Dramatists Guild of America, League of Professional Theatre Women, Screen Actors Guild, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, New York Women in Film and Television, Writers Guild of America. For more information about the Coalition, please see www.nycwam.org
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