From the Fractured Atlas Blog

• Featured Member: Opus Nine Ensemble Diverse, young (all are under age 30), and fresh from the top music academies in America, the 16-member Opus Nine Ensemble formed in late 2008, "to explore the infinite possibilities offered by chamber music's diverse instrumentation, sizing, genres, and periods." In this week's Featured Member profile, Opus Nine members discuss their passion for classical music and how they bring its dynamism into the greater community.
• Union Square Awards Accepting Nominations Who they are: The Union Square Awards are named for the park on 14th Street, a historic gathering place where since the nineteenth century [...]
• We’re Hiring!! That’s right, Fractured Atlas is in the market for a new Program Associate. Here’s the official job description. Here’s the unofficial one: We’re looking for smart perfectionists who are obsessed with customer service and believe passionately in the value and importance of the arts. We’re looking for creative problem solvers who are cool under pressure [...]
• Various Upcoming Grant Deadlines The Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media is now accepting applications. Who they fund: Named to honor singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson, the Fund supports media activism and grassroots organizing by funding the pre-production and distribution of social issue film and video projects and the production and distribution of radio projects, made by local, [...]
• Wordless Wednesday Watch this wordless video by one of our members, then click to learn more...
• Featured Member: To Them That’s Gone To Them That's Gone documents a small group of civilians on their Run for the Fallen, a cross-country journey in remembrance of the American servicemen and women killed in Iraq. Commenting on the filming of the group's run from Fort Irwin, California, to Virginia's Arlington National Cemetery, producer/director Rolando Garcia says, "...how much more epic do you get than crossing the entire country on foot? Unbelievable. You can’t even script that."
• Wordless Wednesday Okay, so maybe just two words. Can you find the two words hidden in this image? And who is behind this project? Click the image, explore their website...
• Do We Discriminate Against Female Playwrights? The NY Times reports on a fascinating study of gender bias in American non-profit theatre. As expected, research conducted by economics students at Princeton University confirmed that female playwrights are less likely to have their work produced than their male counterparts. But among the surprising findings was that the differential can be entirely attributed to [...]
• Fiscal Sponsorship Survey Results (and the winner!) I first want to thank all of the 405 fiscally sponsored projects who took our annual survey.  About 27% of our projects took the survey, which gave us a really great sample to work from.  This is the first year that we’re going to directly respond to certain things that you expressed in your survey [...]
• Featured Member: Art Throb Art Throb is a multimedia online magazine, dedicated to chronicling the arts and culture of Boston’s North Shore. Founder and editor-in-chief Dinah Cardin says, "[Art Throb's] definition of art is not confined to things that hang on museum walls. We have a recurring theme...that art is in the cracks and crevasses of the sidewalk, in a way of looking at life and the people around us. Art is community.” We agree!

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