Artist Opportunity | Wise Words 2017
CALLING ALL poets, spoken word artists, raconteurs, slam champs, authors, artists, performers, dancers and those with inspiring stories to tell…
We are once again opening the floodgates to all you wizardly wonderful creative types. So, if YOU want to perform or bring your work to Wise Words then this is your chance!
We’re looking for applications from experienced writers, performers, artists, wanderers and wonderers with something inspiring and excellent to offer in response to our mission and this year’s theme of Love. You can work through any art-form but ideally poetry will in some way inspire your work.
We are interested in performances, walks, talks, conversations, installations, street or outdoor performers, or something entirely different. Work could take place in our yurt, our marquee, the chapel, on the streets, in coffeeshops or within the Secret Garden. If its something for families it would need to take place in the chapel, in a small yurt or outdoors.
If you think that could be you, then please e-mail [email protected] putting ARTIST APPLICATION WW17 in the subject box and including the following:
- A short Bio
- A proposal (no longer than one side of A4, in PDF format) that explains how you will respond to our theme, the length of the work you are proposing, anything you would need from us and the fee you would require to make it happen
- If you are a performer 1-3 videos and /or audio files of you performing your work
We have VERY few slots available so please don’t be too disappointed if you are not selected. This also means that we can only view one application per person. Further applications will not be considered, so send us your best stuff first time around! Don’t send Word files of your poems or links to your books. However good they are, it’s the proposal and performance elements that we need for this application.
We do pay a fee, but are a small festival run on heaps of passion and a very small budget so please do take this into consideration when dreaming up your ideas.
The deadline for applications is, strictly, 5pm on Saturday 14th January 2017. We regret that we cannot view any applications received after this time, so please make a note of the deadline and make sure you submit as much in advance as possible. Don’t miss your chance!
We hope that you’ll understand that, given the positively elephantine volume of applications we receive every year, we are not physically able to respond to requests for feedback or advice, or to let every applicant know how they’ve done. Successful artists will hear back from by the end of February 2017.
Peter Morton & Sarah Simmons | A Heart at Sea | Wise Words 2016