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<span style="font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:24px;font-weight:bolder;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none">Due To Popular Demand We Have Extended the Online VAFA 2012 Open Call Deadline Until 15 October </span><br style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif!important">
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VAFA – Video Art for All is an International Video Art Festival organized in Macau by Art For All Society (AFA), Fundação Oriente and this year also with Sky 21. VAFA launched in 2010 as the first international open call video art festival in Macau and was proven to be a complete achievement. <br style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif!important">
<br style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif!important">The 2nd VAFA International Video Art Open Call Festival was successfully held in December 2011 at Fundação Oriente, video artists from all over the world made overwhelming response toward the festival. 160 works were collected. Nearly an hundred participating artists came from all over the world including countries and cities like Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Germany, Sweden, England, Italy, Turkey, India, Singapore and Chile. Local artists had also submitted works for the event. 10 Videos the Best Video were selected. The winner was invited to Macau to attend the award presentation ceremony, organize workshops and share their art related experience with local art lovers. <br style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif!important">
<br style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif!important">The 3rd VAFA International Open Call is now open. The application form and regulations are now available on AFA website (<a href="http://www.afamacau.com/" style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif!important" target="_blank">www.afamacau.com</a>) and on VAFA blog (<a href="http://vafa-videoartforall.blogspot.com/" style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif!important" target="_blank">http://vafa-videoartforall.blogspot.com</a>). Interested artists are requested to submit the application form and video artworks before 15 October 2012. The organizer has invited jury composed of three renowned video artists and curators from Macau, Portugal and Hong Kong. One Best Video and a number of selected works will be chosen to be exhibited in Macau. The winner of the Best Video will be awarded USD$1,000 and will be invited to Macau to join the opening ceremony of the exhibition. Since video art is an independent creation, there are no fixed criteria concerning the theme and form of the works, which also apply to assessment and regulation. Every artwork that does not contain offensive, provocative message or content will also be considered. For enquiries, please call 2836 6064 or email to <a href="mailto:afamacao@gmail.com" style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif!important" target="_blank">afamacao@gmail.com</a> or <a href="mailto:vafa.videoartforall@gmail.com" style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif!important" target="_blank">vafa.videoartforall@gmail.com</a>.</p>
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<font color="#ff0000" style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif!important"><a href="http://www.afamacau.com/sitemanage/fronet/uploadfile/20120927133559666.doc" style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif!important" target="_blank">VAFA2012_regulation_and_form</a></font><br style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif!important">
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