DCASE Opportunities
CORRECTION TO OUR EARLIER EMAIL: 2016 CityArts Program grant applications are due on February 24, at 5pm.
Grants for Arts Organizations 
2016 CityArts Program Grant Application
2016 CityArts Program for Nonprofit Organizations
Application Deadline February 24, 5pm (absolutely no late applications will be accepted)
Attention Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations! If you are a Chicago-based arts organization in search of funding, DCASE provides one-year general operating support grants to organizations with vibrant artistic or cultural programming. To check eligibility requirements, funding categories, grant amounts and grant calendar, please visit
  
Calls for Artists and Creatives 
Taste of Chicago Vendor Applications Taste of Chicago Vendor Applications
Application Deadline February 26
Vendor Applications are now being accepted for this year's Taste of Chicago, the premier free-admission food festival showcasing the diversity of Chicago's dining scene. The event is a vibrant experience for visitors and vendors, with a diverse line-up of food options and world-class entertainment all set in beautiful Grant Park on Lake Michigan this July 6-10. Last year, Taste of Chicago attracted more than 1.4 million visitors, creating an ideal opportunity to market your restaurant to new audiences. There are three ways for a food vendor to participate: as a five-day vendor, a one or two-day pop-up vendor or as a food truck. This flexibility allows the festival to be accessible to all establishment types across the city. For more information on each vending type, eligibility requirements and how to apply, vendors should visit tasteofchicago.us.

Lake FX Marketplace by DOSE Market Lake FX Marketplace by DOSE Market
Application Deadline March 15
As part of this year's Lake FX Summit + Expo, Dose Market will curate an extraordinary group of Chicago makers for a pop up marketplace on Sunday, May 15, 10am to 4pm at the Chicago Cultural Center. The second Lake FX Marketplace curated by Dose Market will feature approximately 80 makers creating in the disciplines of food, fashion, film, music and art, selling and showcasing the best Chicago-made work. Apply now to be a vendor at www.dosemarket.com/lakefx.

Chicago Farmers Market
Chicago Farmers Markets Vendor Applications
Application Deadline April 8
Applications are now being accepted for vendors at the 2016 Chicago Farmers Markets running May to October at locations throughout the city. Markets are designed to provide fresh, locally grown foods to residents, while also supporting rural and urban independent farmers. For eligibility requirements, rules & regulations and application information, please visit chicagofarmersmarkets.us. A technical workshop will be held on February 24 (see below).
   
Performance Applications Open for DCASE Festivals Performance Applications Open for DCASE Festivals
Ongoing 
Submissions have now closed for most of the spring and summer festivals, however, DCASE continues to accept ongoing applications for programs such as Chamber Mondays, Wired Fridays, Maxwell Street Market and Daley Plaza Under the Picasso. For more information on application criteria and process, please visit cityofchicago.org/dcase.
 

Events & Workshops for Artists and Creatives 
Chicago Farmers Markets Technical Workshops
Chicago Farmers Markets Technical Workshops
Wednesday, February 24, 10am and 5pm, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.
Looking to start a Farmers Market in your area? Want to know what permits are required? Or just curious to see what it takes to start a market in your area? The Chicago Farmers Markets Program will be hosting a series of Technical Workshops to help put you in the right direction of starting a Farmers Market. Advance registration is required here.

Embodied Practice Workshop with Okwui Okpokwasili
OnEdge Performance Series and Workshop: Embodied Practice Workshop with Okwui Okpokwasili
Sunday, February 21, 2-4 pm, Gallery 400, 400 S. Peoria St. (5th Floor Great Space)
OnEdge spotlights experimental dance, theater and genre-defying performances by local, national and international performing artists and companies. Performances include Bronx Gothic by Okwui Okposkwasili, Yellow Towel by Dana Michel, My Voice Has an Echo In It by Temporary Distortion, and Mon, Ma, Mes by Jack Ferver at locations throughout the city.
 
The workshop with Okwui Okpokwasili is open to artists at all levels focused on finding an embodied practice at the intersection of performance and dance. How does a body make narrative? How does one build a movement vocabulary around the psychic condition of a character? In collaboration with the UIC School of Art & Art History Free Art School and the "Everyone is An Artist" Initiative. Free and open to those who RSVP to [email protected].
 
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