Successful cities are led by innovative, forward-looking local governments that work hard to serve the best interests of the public, including new immigrants. These cities view inclusion and the diversity of the city as core values and assets in today’s global economy.

Local governments have significant capacity to use the authority and instruments of public office to integrate migrants and provide equal opportunities for all residents.

Cities of Migration wants to know more about what local governments around the world are doing to make immigrant integration a success. How can city services, policies and practices help build inclusive, resilient communities and contribute to a shared urban prosperity?

We invite you to share innovative, successful examples of immigrant integration practice that are led and delivered by local governments. Be the next Big Idea @ Cities of Migration.
Deadline for Entries: January 30, 2012

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Call for Proposals for C Magazine issue 114 “Men”

C Magazine is pleased to announce a call for proposals for our upcoming issue on “men”. For this issue we are looking for contributions that explore how maleness is both performed and transformed, and how our contemporary understanding of “men” is informed by feminism and ideas of queer identity. This issue will aim to complicate this category in order to reveal new possibilities for pleasure and meaning, and of addressing gender inequality. We are interested in hearing from writers and artists – either women or men – engaged with practices that explore and experiment with both embodied experiences and representations of maleness and masculinity. Proposals can address either specific artists or other cultural practices that are engaged with these issues. Continue reading →

2012 Grant Cycle
Harpo Foundation will use a new 2-step application process to review proposals submitted by non-profit institutions and fiscal sponsors who seek support on behalf of under recognized visual artists. Unlike in 2010 and 2011, the foundation will not use a thematic focus to prioritize funding in 2012.

Proposals
The foundation will consider proposals that directly support the production of new work by visual artists and/or collaborative teams who are under recognized by the field. This production may happen in the context of an installation, public intervention, residency, or exhibition.

Criteria
In its grantmaking, Harpo Foundation prioritizes projects that advance and cross the boundaries of visual media and artistic disciplines. Proposals are evaluated on the basis of the quality of the artist’s work, the potential to expand aesthetic inquiry, and the strength of its relationship to the foundation’s priority to provide support to visual artists who are under recognized by the field.
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