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Opportunities: Call for Submissions: Highways Performance Space & Gallery (CA, USA) Deadline – 01/28/2018

Call for Submissions: Highways Performance Space & Gallery (Highways Performance Space & Gallery, Santa Monica, CA USA) July-December 2018 Deadline: 01/28/2018 Online Application: Fee to Apply: Free Description Of Opportunity: Highways seeks performance and visual works by emerging and established Los Angeles-area

January 11, 2018

Artist Opportunities·Festival Calls

Opportunities: Inverse Performance Art Festival (Fayetteville, Arkansas) Deadline – 01/24/2018

Inverse Performance Art Festival (Fayetteville, Arkansas) April 12-15, 2018 Deadline: 01/24/2018 Online Application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5l0QeFNNfIXvB8yvcHofpKG0X1KANm9uoCcujqSTfhrKIbA/viewform Fee to Apply: $0 Description Of Opportunity: Inverse Performance Art Festival strives to foster local dialogue about performance art on an international scale and build a community of

January 10, 2018

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5 Currents In Contemporary Performance To Know (Free PDF)

Currents focuses on a set of topics concerning the fields of Theater and Contemporary Performance. The book focuses on contemporary performing artists and companies pushing the formal relationships of architecture, artist, and audience. This first publication five areas on the forefront of

January 3, 2018

Artist Opportunities·Residencies

Opportunities: Signal Fire 2018 Programs (Western USA) Deadline – 01/31/2018

Signal Fire announces a call for applications for its ninth year of remote residencies and retreats on public wildlands, open to artists working in all disciplines, as well as activists, researchers, and curators. Applications are free and located entirely online at signalfirearts.org.

January 1, 2018

Artist Opportunities·Residencies

Opportunities: New Victory LabWorks Now Accepting Applications! (New 42nd street, New York, NY) Deadline – 01/15/2018

New Victory LabWorks Now Accepting Applications! (New 42nd street, New York, NY) July 2018 through June 2019 Deadline: 01/15/2018 Online Application: http://www.newvictory.org/About/Labworks/Labworks-Application Fee to Apply: Free Description Of Opportunity: The New Victory Theater, New York City’s premier nonprofit performing arts theater devoted

January 1, 2018

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Social Practice, Socially Engaged Art, Civic Practice: In Conversation with Aaron Landsman

Aaron Landsman is a playwright and performance artist whose work is occasionally co-authored with community members. His most recent piece, Perfect City, is a long-term collaboration with young people on the Lower East Side, architectural interventionists, and activists about the politics of

December 30, 2017

Artist Opportunities·Festival Calls

Opportunities: Open Call – Altofest 8th Ed. Naples (Naples, Italy) Deadline – 01/07/2018

alert regarding every attempt of imposing a depersonalized cultural proposal. A community that is able to recognize culture as a primary good, of which feeling a daily need. We try to insert a process athwart the several social elements of the urban

December 29, 2017

10 To know

10 Socially Engaged Art Practitioners to Know: 9. Ping Chong + Company

Ping Chong + Company Ping Chong + Company produces theatrical works addressing the important cultural and civic issues of our times, striving to reach the widest audiences with the greatest level of artistic innovation and social integrity. The company was founded in

December 28, 2017

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10 Socially Engaged Art Practitioners to Know: 3. Theaster Gates

Theaster Gates Theaster Gates was born in Chicago in 1973. He first encountered creativity in the music of Black churches on his journey to becoming an urban planner, potter, and artist. Gates creates sculptures with clay, tar, and renovated buildings, transforming the

December 28, 2017

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10 Socially Engaged Art Practitioners to Know: 5. The Foundry Theatre

The Foundry Theatre The Foundry Theatre aspires to assemble a community of artists with revolutionary ideas for the theatre and the world in which it is situated. We commission, develop, premiere, and tour theatrical works that explore the (im)possibilities of theatre and

December 28, 2017

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10 Socially Engaged Art Practitioners to Know: 6. Pedro Reyes

Pedro Reyes Pedro Reyes was born in Mexico City in 1972. He designs ongoing projects that propose playful solutions to social problems. From turning guns into musical instruments, to hosting a People’s United Nations to address pressing concerns, to offering ecologically-friendly grasshopper

December 28, 2017

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10 Socially Engaged Art Practitioners to Know: 7. Paul Chan

Paul Chan Paul Chan was born in 1973 in Hong Kong and was raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996 and an MFA from Bard College in 2002. From the

December 28, 2017

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10 Socially Engaged Art Practitioners to Know: 8. Sojourn Theatre

Sojourn Theatre Sojourn Theatre, founded in 1999, is an award-winning ensemble theatre company comprised of 15 artists who live in 8 cities and make performance together around the nation. National/international touring, a body of 25 works, and a reputation for consistent innovation

December 28, 2017

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10 Socially Engaged Art Practitioners to Know: 10. Mammalian Diving Reflex

Mammalian Diving Reflex Based in Germany and Canada, Mammalian Diving Reflex views innovative artistic interventions as a way to trigger generosity and equity across the universe. Founded in 1993, Mammalian is a research-art atelier dedicated to investigating the social sphere, always on

December 28, 2017

10 To know·Featured

10 Socially Engaged Art Practitioners to Know: 1. Aaron Landsman

Aaron Landsman Aaron Landsman makes live performances involving people, space, time and language. Based in New York City, his projects range from monologues and stage plays to participatory and conceptual works presented in places where people perform their lives: offices, homes, meeting

December 28, 2017

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10 Socially Engaged Art Practitioners to Know: 2. Project Row Houses

Project Row Houses Project Row Houses (PRH) is a community-based arts and culture non-profit organization in Houston’s northern Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African American neighborhoods. Founded in 1993 as a result of the vision of local African-American artists wanting a

December 28, 2017

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10 Socially Engaged Art Practitioners to Know: 4. Los Angeles Poverty Department

Los Angeles Poverty Department Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social forces that shape their lives and communities. LAPD’s works express the realities, hopes, dreams and rights

December 28, 2017

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Do You Know These Artists? Special Effects Festival NYC (Jan 11-13, 2018)

We wanted to share with you the artists for Special Effects Festival NYC 2018 and what we are focusing on with this project. This year’s edition asks; how do we strengthen community? how do we build empathy? and how do we stay focused

December 22, 2017

Artist Opportunities·Festival Calls

Opportunities: Open call for Formations at The Prague Quadrennial 2019 (Prague) Deadline – 02/28/2018

This Open Call is for artists and architects from around the world to participate in a performative urban experiment. PQ offers an opportunity for participants to realize time-based art works at the Prague Exhibition Grounds on the plaza in front of PQ’s

December 20, 2017

Artist Opportunities·Open Calls

Opportunities: 8th Dance Days Chania Open Call (Chania, Crete, Greece) Deadline – 01/21/2018

We invite you to visit our website http://dancedays.gr/ and submit your proposals for performances, workshops, site specific projects, video dance projects, lectures or any other idea you wish to spread! Dance Days Chania is an international contemporary dance festival taking place in Chania,

December 18, 2017

Artist Opportunities·Open Calls

Opportunities: How do I look? (United Kingdom) Deadline – Jan. 1, 2018

How do I look? (United Kingdom) February 2018 Dead Line: 01/01/2018 Online Application: https://grace.submittable.com/submit Fee to Apply: FREE Description Of Opportunity: If you identify as older and identify as a woman, Grace invites you to spend time with us from 7 Feb

December 16, 2017

10 To know

10 Performance Cabaret Artists to Know: 10. Ikechukwu Ufomadu

Ikechukwu Ufomadu Ikechukwu Ufomadu is an actor and comic entertainer. He is creator and host to a number of original, live shows including: his evening of talk-show entertainment Ike at Night (Under the Radar/The Public Theater, The Bushwick Starr, JACK); his night of

December 11, 2017

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10 Performance Cabaret Artists to Know: 9. Salty Brine

Salty Brine The Living Record Collection Salty Brine is a New York-based actor, playwright, and cabaret artist. He is the creative force behindThe Living Record Collection, a series of cabaret performances built around popular albums. Time Out New York has called him “the love

December 11, 2017

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10 Performance Cabaret Artists to Know: 8. Daniel Alexander Jones (Jomama Jones)

Daniel Alexander Jones / Jomama Jones Daniel Alexander Jones makes live art. He has dissolved boundaries and explored radical presence for over 20 years through his dynamic, interdisciplinary practice. His body of work is unified by its consistent regard for human complexity,

December 11, 2017

Contemporary Performance Network

Opportunities: Call for Submissions: Highways Performance Space & Gallery (CA, USA) Deadline – 01/28/2018

Opportunities: Inverse Performance Art Festival (Fayetteville, Arkansas) Deadline – 01/24/2018

Opportunities: Signal Fire 2018 Programs (Western USA) Deadline – 01/31/2018

Opportunities: New Victory LabWorks Now Accepting Applications! (New 42nd street, New York, NY) Deadline – 01/15/2018

Opportunities: Open Call – Altofest 8th Ed. Naples (Naples, Italy) Deadline – 01/07/2018

Do You Know These Artists? Special Effects Festival NYC (Jan 11-13, 2018)

Opportunities: Open call for Formations at The Prague Quadrennial 2019 (Prague) Deadline – 02/28/2018

Opportunities: 8th Dance Days Chania Open Call (Chania, Crete, Greece) Deadline – 01/21/2018

Opportunities: How do I look? (United Kingdom) Deadline – Jan. 1, 2018

10 Performance Cabaret Artists to Know: 10. Ikechukwu Ufomadu

10 Performance Cabaret Artists to Know: 9. Salty Brine

10 Performance Cabaret Artists to Know: 8. Daniel Alexander Jones (Jomama Jones)

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