[ELECTRON] fwd: AV Festival NaREC Artist Residency

[Simon Yuill]

AV Festival 10 Announcement and Call for Artists:
Residency at NaREC (New and Renewable Energy Centre)

AV Festival, in partnership with Inspire Northumberland, seek to appoint
an artist in residence at NaREC, the centre of excellence for new and
renewable energy technologies in North East England.

The residency will provide an opportunity for an artist to carry out new
research and share ideas in response to one or more areas of sustainable
energy technology undertaken by NaREC, which are: Marine Renewables,
Offshore Wind, Advanced Photovoltaics, Low Carbon/Distributed energy and
Electrical Networks. The fee for the residency is £10,000.

The residency is open to any professional artist working within or
outside the UK, and can be worked flexibly between September - February
2010 as part of AV Festival 10. The artist will be invited to give a
public presentation about the residency as part of AV Festival 10 which
has the theme of energy. The festival dates are 5 - 14 March 2010, and
it will take place across Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough and
Sunderland.

Deadline for proposals: 9am, 22 July 2009
Shortlisting: 24 July 2009
Interviews: 5 August 2009

The residency brief can be downloaded at:
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/news/opportunities/av-festival-10-announcement-and-call-for-artists

AV Festival forms part of North East England's world-class festival's
and events programme.


Rebecca Shatwell
Director, AV Festival / Audio Visual Arts North East
Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Middlesbrough
Tel: 44 (0)191 227 5523
Email: rebecca at avfestival.co.uk
www.avfestival.co.uk

AV Festival is run by Audio Visual Arts North East. Limited by
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1120368. Registered Office: c/o Tyneside Cinema, 10 Pilgrim Street,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6QG, UK