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The Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists is accepting applications for their next round of cohorts. The fellowship will support 9 artists, ages 22-38 in NYC, working in visual arts, music and performing arts and who want to develop a new project with a Jewish theme or element.

The 2 year fellowship will provide a stipend of $20,000, a project grant of $20,000, plus retreats, monthly workshops, coaching and mentorship.

The Letter of Intent is due March 1, 2010 and the fellowship begins October 2010. Six Points is a unique collaboration of Avoda Arts, Foundation for Jewish Culture, and JDub Records, with significant funding from UJA Federation of New York.

The last group of Six Points cohorts included Jeremiah Lockwood, Avishai Mekonen, Dan Safer and more!!

APPLICATION AND MORE INFO @ SIXPOINTSFELLOWSHIP.ORG

Clare Burson - Baby Boy

In case you missed her last Joe’s Pub show, Six Points Fellow Clare Burson will be back in the neighborhood again to play her breathtakingly beautiful brand of folk-pop.  She is performing tomorrow night at Joe’s Pub in NYC.  It’s obviously going to be great, but make sure to get there by 7PM, because the last time Clare played this venue it sold out early!

Friday, 10/2 - Clare Burson @ Joe’s Pub

$15 / Tickets / 7PM

Last Thursday night, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, The Sway Machinery rang in 5770 one night early with the wildest and most exuberant experience a Los Angeles Temple (and crowd) has ever experienced.  Over a year in the making, Hidden Melodies Revealed was unlike any Jewish or cultural event ever held in the City of Angeles - from the diversity of the crowd, which included septuagenarians with walkers, tattooed hipsters, Israelis, and Adam Levine of Maroon 5 - to the location - the Historic Piness Auditorium at Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s Eastside campus, soon to undergo mass renovations including takeover of the full city block, to the music - a reimagining of the Jewish New Year with afrobeat, blues, and stories of frightened cantors hiding in cellars.  We had plenty of adventure behind the scenes as well, with last minute beer runs to BevMo and Trader Joe’s (Thanks @bruin!), abuse of our secret service ear pieces, and sushi runs in Little Tokyo followed by poser time on the roof of The Standard.  All in all a good time.

Between the event here and 2 nights later in San Francisco, both of which required JDub to bring in sound, lights, generators, caterers, and huge security guards, on top of our normal team of event producers, publicists, marketers, and sponsors - this was one of our largest productions to date.  With 1,000 moving pieces, I have to give huge props to JDub’s own MC Tater Tot for holding it down and leading the team, and JCUB for having his back at all times.  And of course to our funder, the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles and our sponsors, Myspace Music, Reboot/10Q (jump on that!), Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, Tablet Mag, and The Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists.  Click the pics for the full set.

For those of you who saw last week’s issue of Time Out, you may have noticed a familiar face among its pages… The issue had two covers, one featuring photographer Ellen Stagg, and the other featuring comedian Judah Friedlander. Obscured by Friedlander’s right elbow is Six Points Fellow and performing artist Dan Fishback! Check out Dan’s TONY dating profile, maybe he’s the nice Jewish boy of your dreams.

Six Points fellow Clare Burson will be performing live on WNYC’s Soundcheck today at 2 pm. You can listen live on the radio in the NYC area at 93.9 FM or online at Soundcheck’s website. 

If you miss the broadcast, it will be available in Soundcheck’s archive.