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Miss Chanmoly Vuth, a Cambodian participant in the 2009 Cultural Visitors and Arts Management Fellows Program - Modern Dance, taking place in Washington D.C.
Cultural Visitors and Arts Management Fellows Mentoring Program
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Cultural Programs Division (CU) of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) are recruiting participants for the Cultural Visitors and Arts Management Fellows Mentoring Program. For further information and the program applications, please visit http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/state/cultural for the Cultural Visitors Program and http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/state/fellows for the Fellows Mentoring Program.
Description of Program
As part of an ECA Cooperative Agreement to the Kennedy Center, the Cultural Visitors Program offers professional development opportunities to 56 emerging artists in the performing arts field between the ages of 19-30. The Arts Management Fellows Mentoring Program offers mentoring and residency experiences to twelve arts managers between the ages of 25-35.
Project activities include a two-week U.S.-based training program for foreign artists, and a 21-day professional development, orientation and mentoring program in the United States for mid-level arts managers. The programs are designed to broaden the Cultural Visitors’ artistic development and strengthen the arts managers’ cultural institutions by building sustainable linkages and relationships with American individuals and institutions.
For each Cultural Visitors Program, it is anticipated to bring participants from two to three different countries who are engaged in the same discipline. The program areas are modern and hip-hop dance, jazz and classical music performance and theater, including actors, theatre technicians and directors.
Website and Deadlines
Information on the program, program disciplines (including sample agendas), deadlines for applications, and frequently asked program questions can be found on the following Kennedy Center websites: http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/state/cultural/ (Cultural Visitors) and http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/state/fellows (Fellows Mentoring Program).
We are specifically looking for applicants for the following programs:
- Fellows Mentoring Program to take place March/April 2010. Application deadline is November 1, 2009. These participants must speak English, no interpreter will be provided.
- Technical Theatre (Cultural Visitors Program) to take place March/April 2010. Application deadline is November 10, 2009.
- Jazz Musicians (Cultural Visitors Program) to take place April/May 2010. Application deadline is November 10, 2009
- Upcoming programs include
- Theatre – Actors (Cultural Visitors Program) to take place May 2010
- Theatre – Directors (Cultural Visitors Program) to take place June 2010
- Hip-Hop Dance (Cultural Visitors Program) to take place July 2010
- Classical Music Performance (Cultural Visitors Program) to take place August 2010
- Modern Dance (Cultural Visitors Program) to take place September 2010
More information about each program can be found here.
Application Information
Those who are interested in the program shall contact the Public Affairs Office of the U.S. Embassy before completing the online application. Applicants are encouraged read all detailed information related to the program for which you intend to apply at the above links before contacting the Public Affairs Office. In addition, application form is available at the Kennedy Center website (http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/state/cultural/ for Cultural Visitors Program and http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/state/fellows for Fellows Mentoring Program) and should be completed in English.
More information about specific program can be found here.
Contact information for the Public Affairs Office:
Pheakdey Nhim
Phone: 023-728179 or 012-333-411
Email: nhimp@state.gov
