Interested in beefing up your documenting skill set and meeting other audiophiles? Keep your calendars open for the Winter Documentary Happening Institute

From their site:

Now in its eleventh year, the Documentary Happening is a community festival where documentary artists come together to see and discuss work, to learn and be inspired. This year, we’ve added a new element—the Documentary Happening Institute!

Come to Durham for over three full days and four fabulous nights of documentaries, documentaries, documentaries. Select one of three tracks—photo, audio, or video. Learn from media gurus John Biewen, Alex Harris, Barrett Golding, Karen Michel, and Tom Rankin (more to be announced!). It’s an opportunity to mix and mingle with your documentary makin’ peers and to learn advanced skills. A major focus will be the art of editing—whether it’s audio, video, or selecting a sequence of images. How can we best create compelling narratives? What are the rules? When should we break them? You’ll have ample opportunity to receive focused feedback on your work, both in individual and group settings. Participants will work primarily within their medium, but there will be plenty of cross-fertilization, with classes on merging photography and audio, ways to create multimedia documentaries, and thinking critically about the art of documentary on the Web.

Note: Registration for the new Documentary Happening Institute includes all of the traditional Happening events (Friday evening/Saturday/Sunday). For more information on the Documentary Happening Institute, and bios of all our instructors, please go to the CDS Web site at http://cds.aas.duke.edu/events//happinstiute.html.

Limit 16 in each track: photo, audio, video.

Date: Wednesday to Sunday, January 31–February 4
Begins 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday
9 a.m.–5 p.m. Thursday–Saturday, plus evening presentations
10 a.m.–2 p.m. Sunday (16 hours)
Course fee: $325
Course ID: 10850 (photo), 10861 (audio), 10860 (video)

A bevy of how to articles, referrences and advice brought to you by The Association of Independents in Radio. And to supplement your research at the Foundation Center, there’s AIR’s fellowships and grants page. This page is specifically oriented to $$$ for radio, a few of which are oriented towards individuals and smaller projects. Another convenient resource is the pitch page, listing different radio projects that accept freelance work. Check it out, get learned, comments welcome!

A joint project of the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society and Western Folklife Center, the 24 hour show is a series of five minute vignettes on various aspects of Vegas life. In addition to producing some solid pieces, the project is a great example of finding funding to produce locally relevant audio.

Check out the short piece Wigs, then check out the Foundation Center . If you’re a D.C. local, it’s definitely worth your while to head over to their field office (3rd floor, 1627 K Street, NW). Check out the library, chat up the staff, and hopefully find yourself some money!