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		<title>PAP Curators&#8217; trip to festival in Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In November 2009, NPN&#8217;s Performing Americas Program (PAP) traveled to Mexico City, M&#233;xico to attend various performing arts events, most notably the Latin American Contemporary Dance Festival produced by our hosts at the Federal University of Mexico in Mexico City (UNAM).

 
The group included active PAP curators Vallejo Gantner, Janella Sellars, George Lugg, Jennifer Mefford, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What NPN has meant to Jane Comfort &amp; Company&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and what it has meant to me.&#160; by Jane Comfort
When we did our first NPN residency, in 1989 at Dancer&#8217;s Collective in Atlanta, I was thrilled to finally be a part of a performing network that I had known about for years.&#160; I hoped that more tours would follow, but I had no idea how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark your calendars in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The dates and locations of the 2010 Mid-Year Meetings (formerly known as regional meetings) for NPN and VAN Partners have been set. 
Midwest:&#160; March 27 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago    West:&#160; April 14 at MACLA in San Jose    South:&#160; May 15 at Ash&#233; Cultural Arts Center [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.npnweb.org/mark-your-calendars-2/</link>
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		<title>NPN Receives Support for Creative Development of Performing Art Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awards $100,000 to the National Performance Network to support the design and implementation of the NPN Forth Fund Pilot Program including developmental support for six Creation Fund projects

 
NEW ORLEANS, LA (January 21, 2010)&#8212;The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the National Performance Network (NPN) $100,000 to pilot the NPN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the National Performance Network has meant to Dance Place&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and what it has meant to me.&#160; by Carla Perlo
It might seem strange that I compare, measure and am reminded of the significance of the National Performance Network in relationship to my greatest production, my son Daniel Perlo Bloom. I took my son, Daniel to the first NPN meeting in 1985, and I nursed him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the Annual Meeting in Knoxville</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Annual Meeting in Knoxville        December 10-14, 2009        by Mimi Zarsky, NPN Program Specialist for Convenings
&#34;What a great bunch of people to be around. It was JUST AMAZING!!!&#34;        These days, with the insane number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s Carnival Time&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and everybody&#8217;s having fun!&#34;
It&#8217;s that time of year again.&#160; The NPN office will be closed for Mardi Gras on Tuesday, February 16, 2010.&#160; Limited staff will be working on Monday, February 15 and Wednesday, February 17.
Regular office hours resume on Thursday, February 18. 
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		<title>Nora Chipaumire’s &#8220;gukurahundi&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The Museum of Contemporary Arts&#8217; Community Fund Project achieved breakthroughs that could be only derived from its unique framework,&#34; wrote Yolanda Cesta Cursach about MCA&#8217;s collaboration with Nora Chipaumire.&#160; Read all about it in another installment of an NPN Project Profile.
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		<link>http://www.npnweb.org/nora-chipaumire%e2%80%99s-gukurahundi/</link>
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		<title>Job Announcements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Navigate to the job announcements page for a description of a job opening at ArtsBoston.
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		<link>http://www.npnweb.org/job-announcements/</link>
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		<title>Are you an associate member of Fractured Atlas?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an NPN/VAN Partner or artist of the National Performance Network and/or Visual Artists Network, you can join Fractured Atlas as an Associate Member free of charge!&#160; Learn more about the benefits here.
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