The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake (TAACCL) and the SAIC Digital Arts Lab invites participants to enter its 3rd Annual International Science and Technology Digital Art Competition. Levels include: Junior (ages 10-18), Student (college/university) and Open (professional) in the
Still Images and Animation categories. Cash awards are: Junior & Student:
1st Place: $300; 2nd Place: $100; and 3rd Place: $50. Open: 1st Place: $750; 2nd Place: $500; and 3rd Place: $250. Entry fees are $10 per Junior and Student entry (up to 3) and $20 per Open entry (up to 3). For more information on themes, techniques and media, visit the Arts Alliance Center Website.

This year, Cinanima is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Since 1977, Cinanima has been promoting the international art of animation in Espinho, a city located on the Northern coast of Portugal. Every year, the Cinanima International Animated Film Festival presents an international animation competition program, as well as retrospectives and exhibitions. Categories for competition include: shorts, features, first films, title sequences, educational films and TV series. Cash awards range from Euro 3,800 (Grand Prize) to Euro 1,200. There is no entry fee. For more information contact: Cinanima, Apartado 743, Rua 62-251, 4501 Espinho Codex, Portugal; Tel.: ++ (351) 22 733-1350/1; Fax: ++ (351) 22 733-1358; Email: cinanima@mail.telepac.pt; or Web: www.awn.com/cinanima.

An exhibition celebrating twenty five years of Cosgrove Hall Films

Kids World 2001, China is an exhibition focusing on animation, manga, education and entertainment for children. The event boasts 90 exhibitors from 12 countries. In the past, the event has drawn 30,000 public visitors and over 800 international guests. The event includes screenings of over 300 animated films, symposiums and an awards ceremony. Kids World 2001, China is organized by the China Oriental Culture Research Association - Manga Branch, China Artists Association - Culture Branch and China Publisher Association - Comic Books Branch.

The Vancouver Film School (VFS) is holding a three hour presentation that includes detailed descriptions of their classical, 3D and Maya programs. Student works will be shown and portfolios will be reviewed. The presentation will be held at the Sheraton Pasadena Hotel, 303 East Cordova Street, Pasadena, on Saturday, August 11 from 2-4pm. The event will include refreshments and prizes. RSVP to rebecca@vfs.com or call 1-800-661-4101

Creative Moments Inc. is having its summer animation art auction, with a diverse selection of almost 450 invididual vintage animation art pieces, from 18 different studios, compiled into 292 prime lots. The selection includes prime vintage Warner pieces, Disney shorts and vintage Disney features. The auction will be held at the Country Inn and Suites, 23627, Calabasas Road, Calabasas. Pre-sale exibition: Sunday, August 12, 2001; Qualifying bidding: Wednesday, August 15, 2001; Final bidding: Thursday, August 16, 2001.

The RICA (Rencontres Internationales du Cinema d'Animation) is a competitive festival promoting animated film and filmmakers. For its 4th edition the festival will present 250 short and feature films. The official competition will include several feature films and about forty shorts. Five prizes will be awarded, including: the International Jury Prize, Children's Jury Prize and Best Feature Film Prize. Film formats for submissions are: 35 mm (preferably), 16 mm and BetaSP (No Digital Beta). There is no entry fee. The festival will feature animation from all over the world, with a focus on German animation, a retrospective of African animated films and a special tribute to the Char Studio and Andre

The Art of Animation will be featuring the soon
to be released "The Princess and the Pea" by Feature Films For Families and Swan
Animation.

The CoCarAn festival (COmix-CARicature-ANimation) will feature over 180 animated films, including a world premiere of Oz Adi

The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology seeks to nurture a critical awareness of technology's implications for human beings and their natural and cultural environment. This new program of the Foundation is intended to further artistic and scientific knowledge. The program offers two grants every year to enable researchers to work in the Foundation's collections at the Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D) in Montreal. One of the CR+D's goals is on-line access to documents of all kinds (articles, photographs, video, audio), particularly documentation on the works and research projects supported by the Foundation and documentation drawn directly from its archives. The program of Grants for Researchers in Residence is open to historians, curators, critics, independent researchers, artists and scientists in various fields, including computer science and related areas of social science. The research projects must relate to the research topics established by the Foundation each year. For 2001-2002, the topics are: technological, artistic and aesthetic history of computer animation; and conceptual, scientific and artistic issues involved in preserving digital artworks or works with digital components. The research residencies run from three to six months and must be completed between January 1, 2002, and December 31, 2002.