Ann Arbor Summer Festival is in full swing. Bring your creative minds down to the Top of the Park this weekend and make a movie on the Animation Station. Find us in the Grove on the evenings of Friday, June 19th and Saturday, June 20th and in the community tent on June 21st.

Then, come back and watch the full edited movie with a soundtrack by Ed Special on Wednesday night, right before Jaws.

PLAY picked up two EMMY awards out of four nominations at the 2009 Michigan EMMY awards celebration. The Animation Station project won in the category of Advanced Media and Peter Traylor’s “Shadow Puppet” won in the Graphics category. Congratulations to all those involved including Tom Bray, Zack Weaver, Dan Fessahazian, Katherine Weider, Peter Traylor & Heidi Kumao.

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The PLAY Project garnered four nominations all together for MICHIGAN EMMYs! Joanne Leonard: A Life in Pictures received two nominations. Peter Traylor’s Shadow Puppet received another (and since he’s the only one in his category, it’s safe to say he WON the award.) And the Animation Station is up in the category of Advanced Media. Check out the list at the NATAS site.  The awards will be announced on June 6th, 2009.

PLAY Gallery is looking for an Audio Intern to work on Sounds of the State. This ongoing series of audio shorts airs on Michigan Radio and features the sounds of Michigan: places, memories and experiences.

This internship with the Sounds of the State project is non-paying, but it is a fantastic creative and professional opportunity for serious audiophiles with interests in sound art, documentary or public radio.

Our ideal candidate:

~ listens to and enjoys public radio

~ has advanced audio recording, editing and mixing skills

~ has an interest in heading out ‘into the field’ to record people and places

~ is willing and able to collaborate and take direction cheerfully

~ is seriously fastidious…enjoys making things “just so”

~ is creative and has great ears! good writing skills, a plus!

Internship is approximately 5 hours a week, starting early June 2009. Deadline for applying is May 15th. If you are interested, send a cover letter and resume to: playgallery at umich dot edu. Please include any work samples you think are relevant.

Students in Heidi Kumao’s Animation for Broadcast class explore the technique of stopmotion to animate the PLAY logo. Many of these contributions will air on Michigan Television (PBS).