Call for Submissions: Re-Creating Community Together
No deadline posted for opportunity
Deadline: December 20, 2023
Re-Creating Community Together: A Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Creative Community Building
Note: Deadline Uncertain
On Cue Performance Hub, in partnership with Dance Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Association of Theatre Professionals, encourages applications from artists working in one or more performing arts disciplines (dance, music, theatre, spoken word poetry, storytelling, etc) to create a new performative work for Re-Creating Community Together, a cross-cultural community gathering in Regina on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21, 2024.
This program will involve 4 artists plus our Knowledge Keeper/Artist, Joseph Naytowhow, who will lead the collaborative creative development process with potential organizational/developmental support provided by On Cue and our partners as needed. We are ideally looking to create a mix of disciplines such as one dancer, one theatre artist, one musician, and one visual artist.
Beyond professional fees ($3000), the take-away for artists from this program is intended to include:
- Professional development
- Artist-in-the-schools training and experience (with additional fees depending on the availability of artists to visit schools)
- Increased knowledge and understanding of Indigenous cultures and ways of knowing
- Increased skills and experience in cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary collaboration
- Extended cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary connections
- Community building/facilitation skills
- A creative performance piece (@ 45 mins) available for further professional performance
Timelines and components of the process
January-February
- 4 half-day workshops led by our Knowledge Keeper focused on
- Indigenous ways of knowing,
- Cultural history on the Prairies
- Cross-cultural sharing and discovery
- Development of performance concept
- Development of a collaborative approach to creating together
- 2 half-day workshops for artists-in-the-schools led by arts educator Ann Kipling Brown
- Possible 2-day school visits
February-Early March
- Collaborative development of performance piece in the studio
- Participation in full-day symposium on cross-cultural collaboration in the arts
- Deadline for finalizing the structure and components of the performance
- Rehearsal
March
- March 19 technical dress rehearsal
- March 20 dress rehearsal for neighbourhood school children & teachers
- March 21 Public performance
Link to apply: https://airtable.com/appbm394g5jM0iVyr/pagQhKmaig1WzHxwf/form
Find more information about On Cue Performance Hub and our 2024 partners--Dance Saskatchewan, Inc. and the Saskatchewan Association of Theatre Professionals at:
https://oncueregina.ca/about | https://dancesask.com/about-documents/ | https://sasktheatreprofessionals.ca/about
