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CALL SHEET 11/24/21

Casting! Grant opportunities! Tenure Track positions!

NoPro Newswire

24 Nov 2021 • 5 min read

And we’re back with our ever-evolving CALL SHEET, our recurring roundup of gigs, grants, deadlines, and other professional opportunities in the realms of physical and digital immersive.

LISTING DEADLINE: Every Thursday at 5PM Pacific Time — callsheet@noproscenium.com and/or the callsheet and jobs-board channels on our Discord.

Note: while we are happy to receive the full text of a job listing for reference, we only publish summaries with links to full job listings/casting breakdowns. To be considered your listing must be published somewhere else online. We cannot publish full listings or host PDFs.

Calls for festival entries, however, are eligible for being published on our newswire. Use the callsheet email, above. (Educational workshops should follow the process for event listings at Everything Immersive.)

Check out previous editions for more listings, scan some of the sites we use to draw selections from below or join our Discord and follow the callsheet and jobs board categories on the Bulletin Board.

IN THE UK?

PUNCHDRUNK IS HIRING!
Link
UK Applicants ONLY, please.

(Sorry, LA. We missed our chance when the City screwed up. Burnt City could have been OURS. Am I bitter? YES. VERY MUCH SO. LET US GO BE BITTER TOGETHER.)

CASTING

DEDHAM, MA

Actors wanted: A Night at the Endicott
Romancing Jan
Production Date: April 30th, 2022
Compensation & Benefits: 20$ per hour; 10 hours total
Accepting Applications
LINK

We’re looking to hire some actors for our Live Romancing Jan event: A Night at the Endicott. This event will include tea time on the lawn of the historic Endicott house, a dance lesson, and a buffet dinner and ball, although not all characters will be present for all of these things.

The event will be held in Dedham, MA on April 30th, 2022 and we ask a time commitment of our actors from 2pm ’til 11pm on the day of.

Expectations

Generally good improvisational skill, awareness of inspirational media a plus. We can assist with costuming but if you have your own we’d love to see it. We will be offering 20$ per hour for two hours of prep/rehearsal time before the show and eight hours on the day of for the event itself. There will be an in-character dinner that will be provided.

ACADEMIC POSITION

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA

Assistant Professor in Emerging Media Arts
Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Term: Full
Compensation & Benefits: Tenure Track Position
Now Open
LINK

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The Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts with experience in one or more of the following domains: game design, game development, storytelling, or virtual production.

The Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, a newly established $57M interdisciplinary center, research facility, and academic degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is re-envisioning the university for the 21st century and how students co-create and learn. Current areas of research interests within the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts include interactive + immersive storytelling; experience + generative design; XR + VR + AR; games, play + performance; embodied cognition; machine learning + blockchain technologies; sonic + data arts; virtual production + real-time filmmaking; cinematic arts; and entrepreneurship + innovation.

The Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts envisions being the premiere destination for a faculty and student body seeking a fresh social vision beyond today’s media environments that values inclusivity and diversity, plays to the innermost recesses of our imaginations, solves human-scale problems and tells breathtaking stories that stimulate, provoke and inspire. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the founding team and to set the culture and vision of the Carson Center.

GRANTS

ONLINE

Black Immersive Creators Grant
Platform: Artizen
Compensation & Benefits: $8500 grant
Deadline: Feb 28, 2022
LINK

The Black Immersive Creators Grant is a new initiative founded by leaders in the experiential space. This is an annual grant in the amount of $10,000. Our ultimate goal is to facilitate the creation of immersive work by Black-identifying creators, which would otherwise not be created without the funding offered by this grant. This funding may be used either directly toward the creation of the immersive work(s) or indirectly by offsetting unrelated costs of the creator that would impair the freedom and comfort of practicing their creativity and art.

The recipients of this grant will be Black-identifying creators who demonstrate a passion for creating immersive work. Whether they have an existing portfolio or not, create only immersive work or create this art in addition to other work and life priorities, our hope is that this grant will aid the cultivation and growth of inspired immersive art by Black creators to broaden and encourage diversity in the industry.

INCUBATOR

ONLINE FOR SOUTHERN ONTARIO

Scale Up Immersive
OYA Black Arts Coalition (OBAC) and CFC Media Lab
Term: Three-month program
Deadline: Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
LINK

Scale Up Immersive is a three-month virtual program that provides ten Black-owned media production companies founders who are looking to scale-up and transition into the immersive space; with industry expert consultation, workshops, case studies and mentoring in addition to a rapid prototyping lab with access to state-of-the-art immersive media production facilities and technologies. Program partners include CFC Media Lab, Crux, Dark Slope.

OYA Black Arts Coalition (OBAC) and CFC Media Lab will select a minimum of ten Black mid-career content-creators/producers with the objective to increase the capacity to operate successfully in this growing sector, diversify the talent pool in immersive media and be poised to access the additional funds available for digital and immersive productions.

Scale-Up Immersive sessions will take place across three months in February to April 2022.

FESTIVAL SUBMISSIONS

ONLINE

FIVARS — The Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories
Fest Dates: Feb 21–28, 2022
Deadline: Dec 25, 2021
Submission Fee: $50
LINK

The Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories is the world’s premiere dedicated immersive story arts festival, launched in 2015 and now in its 8th year.

FIVARS Announces FIVARS in FEB! The original VR / AR Stories festival is now running events in late Winter and continues its Autumn event in October.

Now you don’t have to wait all year to showcase your incredible new world to the world and the core of the XR and entertainment industry.

The Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories focuses on curating the best immersive story-driven content from around the world with the aim of exploring and nurturing this platform for new narrative forms. FIVARS was the first Canadian festival of its kind featuring many world premieres and content creators who have gone on to win awards from Lumieres to Oscars!

In 2020 FIVARS turned into a 3D WebXR world that hosted 35 experiences from over 15 countries, of which more than 50% were female directors! Qatar, Spain, France, Korea, US, Canada, Australia, Lebanon, were all represented. In 2021 FIVARS launched its first in-person event in West Hollywood, California!

Discover the latest immersive events, festivals, workshops, and more at our new site EVERYTHING IMMERSIVE, new home of NoPro’s show listings.

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