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Please find below the announcement for the new round of UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme for 2009. The programme consists of a global network of bursaries for international residencies. This year it is focusing on visual arts, creative writing and music, so please pass the information to anybody who may be interested.

Among the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme, the 18th Street Art Center (Santa Monica, CA, USA) is offering a fully funded artist residency in visual arts to an Iranian artist for 2009.
For information on application procedure and requirements please visit their site.

This is a great opportunity for Iranian artists, especially those inside Iran, to showcase their art outside of the country and we strongly urge all artists to apply for this.

I saw Persepolis over the weekend. While I have mixed feelings about how it works as a movie, from an artistic point of view it was beautiful. Shabnam Rezaei of Persian Mirror has recently sat down with Marjan Satrapi (creator and co-director of Persepolis) for an interview which is definitely worth a read.

This is a bit late, but Persepolis, the animated feature based on the popular graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi won the jury prize at Cannes last week. The novels tell the story of Marjane's childhood growing up in Iran and have won her critical praise worldwide. Also check out Persepolis's myspace page.