ANNOUNCES A CALL FOR PROPOSAL FOR THE
12th ANNUAL SPIER ARTS FESTIVAL
DEADLINE: 30 JUNE The Africa Centre has recently taken responsibility for what was previously known as the Spier Arts Summer Season – a four-month performing arts festival. The Summer Season, for the past 11 years, has produced a diverse offering of dance, theatre and music. The Africa Centre has embarked on a process to re-conceptualise the content to align it with the core objectives of the AC and the Summer Season.
The objectives of the Summer Season were to:
· Deliver innovation and excellence in the performing arts;
· Showcase, promote and develop emerging South African artists;
· Provide opportunities for collaboration with Pan-African artists; and
· Build new audiences for performance art forms.
The AC seeks to:
· Become a major international organization which celebrates both the visual and performance heritage of Africa;
· Formulate innovative models to present, debate and encourage the production of art;
· Explore the space and design of cultural encounter;
· Provide broad access to the creative work, ideas of historic and contemporary African artists;
· Be a place where communities throughout the continent can explore their heritage and histories; and
· Re-examine the role, identity, transience, creation, performance and curation of art.
The Africa Centre (AC) is seeking proposals for new and original work for 12th Annual Spier Arts Festival. We are looking for innovative and creative performing arts productions to take audiences into the intellectual and emotional spaces they aren’t used to occupying. Content should dictate form as the proposals are not limited to the confines of Spier Estate or the Spier Amphitheatre. Location/form should be defined by content and audience requirements exclusively.
Proposals that align to the objectives, as defined above, will be favourably considered.
Submission Details:
Companies/groups/ individuals wishing to submit proposals for performances should send invitations, background, photographs and/or videos/ DVD’s, contact information and a one page synopsis of a proposed project with a rough budget to:
Attention :Africa Centre – Proposals Team
Email : info@africacentre.net
Postal address: PO BOX 137 LYNEDOCH 7603 SOUTH AFRICA
Delivery address: R310 Lynedoch, Stellenbosch, Lynedoch Eco Village
Please be sure to include the following information:
• Name (Artist, Band, Company)
• Address
• Telephone
• E-mail
• Web-site (where possible)
• Bio (Artist, Band, Company)
• Project Title
• Project Description (including running time and number of participants; attach one page if necessary)
• Technical Outline Needs (Please keep them simple)
• Accommodation and technical needs
• Rough Budget
For more information about the previous Summer Seasons and the Africa Centre visit
www.spierarts.org.za and
www.africacentre.net ISSUED BY : THE FAMOUS IDEA TRADING CC
ON BEHALF OF : THE SPIER ARTS SUMMER SEASON
CONTACT : GILLY HEMPHILL
TEL : 021 886 4900
CELL : 082 820 8584
EMAIL : grcomm@mweb.co.za
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