The National Theatre Artist Residency Program has already awarded 87 grants, providing theatre artists and institutions with time together to explore and reflect on their work and to reinvent and expand their working relationships. Fran Kumin, who has administered the National Theatre Artist Residency Program since its inception, reports that the program has fostered successful partnerships between theatre artists and institutions nationwide.

Recipients of grants from the National Theatre Artist Residency Program in 1999 were: American Conservatory Theater of San Francisco and director/writer/teacher Charles Randolph-Wright; American Repertory Theatre of Cambridge, Mass., and director/teacher Franois Rohaix; Brava! For Women in the Arts in San Francisco and playwright Naomi Iizuka; Center Stage of Baltimore, Md., and playwright Willy Conley; Guthrie Theater of Minneapolis, Minn., and director Bartlett Sher; Long Wharf Theatre of New Haven, Conn., and playwright/actor Dael Orlandersmith; Mabou Mines, New York City, and visual artist Julie Archer; Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles and set designer Lawrence Miller; Nebraska's Omaha Theater Company for Young People with actor/director/writer Everett Quinton; Pennsylvania's Philadelphia Theatre Company and playwright Charles F. (OyamO) Gordon; Repertorio Espaol, New York City, with dramatist Abelardo Estorino and actress Adria Santana; Rites & Reason Theatre in Providence, R.I., and dramaturg Sydn Mahone; Washington's Seattle Repertory Theatre and director/adapter Stephen Wadsworth; Skylight Opera Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisc., and composer Richard Wargo; South Coast Repertory of Costa Mesa, Calif., and director Mark Rucker; Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Conn., and choreographer Ralph Lemon.

For guidelines and application forms contact: National Theatre Artist Residency Program, Theatre

Communications Group, 355 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 212-697-5230 (phone), or e-mail to ntarp@tcg.org Applicants with access to the World Wide Web can visit www.tcg.org after October 9, 1999 to download the guidelines.

Dedicated to encourage healing through the arts, Survivors Art Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to empowering Visual, Literary and Performing Artists with effective expressive outlets, via Web Gallery, National Exhibitions, Outreach Programs and Publications. Our goals are to provide entertainment, education, exposure to the arts, and raising public awareness, while mainstreaming trauma survivors with physical and mental disabilities into the arts.

The SAF Internet Art Gallery is located -- http//www.survivorsartfoundation.org

Exhibitors cross all cultures, genders, ages and religions. They are survivors, working through their personal journeys which span physical and domestic violence, holocaust and war-related trauma, rape, illness such as AIDS and cancer, MS, mental illness, and other disabilities.

It is our goal to enable the artists to display and market their works to give them recognition, hope and direction by implementing this innovative approach to healing.

Please contact us for guidelines at

Survivors Art Foundation

PO Box 383, Westhampton, NY 11977

email safe@survivorsartfoundation.org

URL: http//www.survivorsartfoundation.org

Applications for presenting work at at DTW are accepted year-round, but decisions for dance and theater events are generally made by the beginning of April for the following year (September-June). Decisions for Music events and Gallery exhibitions are generally made by September for the following year.

For application procedures and information about DTW PRESENTS, (Dance, Economy Tires Theater, Out-of-Towners, The 11 O'Clock News, Splitstream, Family Matters) SCHONBERG ASSISTED PRESENTATIONS, ECONOMY TIRES MUSIC HALL, (Big City Musics, New Song) and THE DTW GALLERY, visit the DTW website at http://www.dtw.org or contact Craig T. Peterson, Associate Producer/Director, Public Imaginations, Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011-4079 Email: dtw@dtw.org

MERIDIAN ARTS ENSEMBLE - SEEKS NEW COMPOSITIONS to consider for performance.Instrumentation: horn, 2 trumpets, tuba, percussion (usually trap set). For more information, contact: John Ferrari, 240 Van Nostrand Av, Englewood NJ 07631 OR jfedrums@aol.com