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PSi Digest 36 (October 2008) Workshops / Opportunites for Artists (Items 86 - 92) WORKSHOPS / OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS 86. COSmino Theatre Workshop Event, October 25-26 2008, London, UK (Workshop will be repeated in January 2009 – dates tbc) FROM THE SHAMAN TO THE ACTOR workshop in London with Rachel Karafistan Ph.D. Tribal shamans are the original inspiration for many aspects of artistic creativity. This workshop reconnects the timeless power and insights of the shaman with the demands of contemporary performance. Drawing from exercises from both eastern & western performance trainings, the workshop will relocate the tacit wisdom of the shaman in the work of the actor and, more generally, in our lives.
Venue: Islington Arts Factory THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE REPEATED IN LONDON IN JANUARY 2009 dates to be confirmed. 87. Theatre Nohgaku Writers’ Workshop, Feb 25-March 3 2009, Tokyo, Japan Theatre Nohgaku (TN) is pleased to announce its 7th Annual Writers' Workshop, to be held in Tokyo, Japan February 25 through March 3, 2009. Led by acclaimed noh expert, playwright, and Theatre Nohgaku founding member David Crandall, the workshop will familiarize participants with the structure and character of noh, a 600-year-old traditional stage art of Japan. By guiding participants toward the writing of their own noh plays, TN is fulfilling its mission as a multi-national theatre company that champions the creation of new English language noh. The Writers Workshop started in Tokyo in 2003 and has subsequently alternated between Japan and the United States. In 2006, TN completed a southeast U.S. tour of Pine Barrens, a product of a previous workshop written by TN member Greg Giovanni. In 2007, the company toured David Crandall's Crazy Jane in the Pacific Northwest. TN is expanding the canon of English noh by introducing noh's complex structural layering of spoken text, sung text, musical accompaniment and dance to today's inspired writers. Past participants have included award-winning artists such as playwrights Erik Ehn, Ruth Margraff and Deborah Brevoort, composer/lyricist Eric Schorr, and poet Lee Ann Brown. This year's workshop offers four days of seminars covering all aspects of noh, but focusing particularly on the structure of the text and how the words are integrated with the music and dance. Participants will also view at least three noh programs and receive a backstage tour of one of Tokyo's main noh theatres. The total cost of the workshop is $750 USD which includes: Cost does NOT include: The workshop is limited to 12 participants, with a nonrefundable deposit of $250 due December 1. The remaining $500 is due January 25. Accommodation can be arranged at a hotel near Mr. Crandall's home in Nakanosakaue, Tokyo for ¥8000 JPY for a single room and ¥12000 for a double room per night.
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For more information regarding this workshop please contact Theatre Nohgaku at info@theatrenohgaku.org or call us at 917-338-7018 in North America or 03-3373-0553 in Japan. Also please visit our website at www.theatrenohgaku.org. 88. CF Submissions: 209Shorts, UK (no date) 209radio is a community radio station broadcasting on 105FM to Cambridge City, UK and worldwide from www.209radio.co.uk. From its early days as a front room web based venture 209radio has been notable for its engagement with sound art of all kinds. 89. CF Submissions: Balloon Project 2008-09 (due Oct 30) A peer support project for eight performance practitioners, organised by Oval House Theatre and Artsadmin and facilitated by Nikki Tomlinson (Artists’ Advisor, Artsadmin) and Michael Atavar (Artists’ Advisor, Oval House). Balloon will involve six afternoon sessions with a sustained group of artists, held fortnightly at Toynbee Studios from December 2008 to March 2009. Our intention through Balloon is to provide a framework for artist-to-artist support and critical feedback during the making of new work. There are currently a wide range of agencies in London providing professional development, funding and planning advice. Balloon is different as it aims to offer a space for artistic reflection, feedback, peer support and discovery. The main focus will be discussions around making and showing work - live or documented. The content of the sessions will evolve through and be directed by the participating artists’ contributions. “The fantasticality of these sessions was being given time and space to delve into what we needed. There were no limits and no instructions” Janine Fletcher, former participant Balloon would suit individual artists currently engaged in making live performance work, who are actively interested in discussing and viewing other artists’ work and ideas and are open to the possibility of sharing their own working processes within a constructive and supportive environment. It is open to application by artists of all levels of experience working in contemporary performance practice, who are not currently studying within an institutional framework. Limited technical resources will be available to the participating artists at each session, which will be held in one of the studio spaces at Toynbee. There is no fee or travel expenses available for participants. Artists need to be London-based or within easy travelling distance, and able to commit to the full programme of 6 sessions plus an introductory meeting. These will be held on: Thursday 27th November evening - meeting of all artists involved Thursday 4th December 2-5pm If you are interested in joining this project, please send a short written statement about your practice, detailing why this opportunity is of interest to you. (300 words max). Please do not send visual material or support material of any kind. Selection will include an informal conversation with Nikki Tomlinson and Michael Atavar in the second week of November at Toynbee Studios Deadline for submitting statement of interest: Thursday 30th October 2008 by post By post to: 90. Commission for Plays for Young Audiences: Native Voices at the Autry (due Nov 15) Native Voices at the Autry is devoted to the development and production of new works for the stage by Native American writers. NEW – Commission for TYA Plays Who should submit: All emerging or experienced playwrights writing from the indigenous experience in North America and who are interested in integrating live puppet performance into their work are encouraged to submit a play or proposal for consideration. Puppeteers and designers who are creating new works of live puppet theater from the indigenous experience in North America are also encouraged to submit proposals for consideration. Partnerships between playwrights and puppeteers are encouraged, as long as at least one of the partners is Native American. What to send: PLEASE DO NOT SEND one acts or ten-minute plays. Solo performance artists/ puppeteers whose work is text based should send full text in manuscript form. Please use a standard play-script format. All submissions must include: tribal affiliation, full contact information, a 75-100 word biography, and a C.V. or resume. Where to send your submission: Electronic submissions: will be accepted in Word or PDF format. Type SUBMISSION in the subject line and send email to carlenne@gmail.com or nativevoices@autrynationalcenter.org. For more information: 91. Georgia College & State University Pillars Playwriting Prize (due Dec 1) Presenter: Georgia College & State University Theatre Department in collaboration with the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English, Speech, and Journalism. We are now accepting full-length scripts for a playwriting festival prize for 2009-2010. The competition is open to all playwrights. All scripts entered in the contest must remain unpublished and unproduced. Produced is defined as any production to which tickets are sold. Translations, adaptations and musical texts are not eligible. Scripts submitted will not be returned. The winning script will be produced as a part of the Georgia College & State University, Department of Music and Theatre, mainstage season. An honorarium of $2000.00 will be awarded for a short residency and presentations of workshops early in the rehearsal process. Submitting playwrights should be open to some minor revisions and to working in an educational setting during the 2009-2010 school year. Playwrights will return to the campus for the opening. Travel expenses will be included. A $20.00 reading fee is charged in order to pay the reading teams a stipend for their work. Checks should be made payable to the GCSU Pillars Playwriting Prize. Please submit the complete script in the standard format along with a cover letter and brief biography, resume or CV of no more than two pages by the deadline of December 1, 2008 to the following address: Georgia College & State University 92. The Art of Walking: An Embodied Practice Dee Heddon and Cathy Turner are embarking on a collaborative research project, funded by the British Academy, to collate and explore work made by women artists who use walking as a primary material or resource. We would very much like to hear of or from women artists who use, or have used, walking in their work (whether as walkers themselves, or by setting up walking activities for others to do, etc. - the only limit is that it is If you are, or know of, an artist that this research applies to, please do let us know by dropping us an email. Whilst this stage of the research is primarily focused on artists resident in the UK, we would nevertheless also like to learn of artists working outside the UK too. With many thanks, Dee (University of Glasgow) and Cathy (University of Winchester) Dr Cathy Turner expandeddramaturgies.com <http://www.expandeddramaturgies.com/> Cathy.Turner@winchester.ac.uk and d.heddon@tfts.arts.gla.ac.uk
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