2007 ArtSpark Festival
ArtSpark seeks participants for 12 week experiment in creativity. This experience involves collaboration, cross disciplinary interactions, new work development, and unexpected incidents. No electrodes will be used.
This time of year people always talk about new beginnings, new opportunities, and new directions. In that vein, the HBMG Foundation is proud to announce its Call For Applicants for the 2007 ArtSpark Festival. For the past two years, the ArtSpark Festival has seen eleven theatrical world premieres and two brand spankin' new video games. Since 2005, about two hundred artists threw themselves into the creative fracas that engulfed the ArtSpark building. It's been a great two years, and now the HBMG Foundation is looking for new guinea pigs...err, I mean participants for this year's imagination shakedown.
The 2007 ArtSpark Festival is a twelve week creative hullabaloo, beginning May 21st and culminating on August 12th. Teams of theatre artists and video game designers join forces with visual artists to develop new work in a pressure-cooker environment. Collaboration and creativity explode in this boundary breaking experiment that celebrates the creative process. Public performances and showcases provide a forum for the participants to present their work and talk to their audiences about their experience. The winners of the ArtSpark Festival will walk away with a cash prize to fund the continued development of their new work.
Applications are now available at www.hbmgfoundation.org. Completed applications must be postmarked to the HBMG Foundation (PO Box 15226 ATTN: ArtSpark 2007 Application Austin, TX 78761) by the deadline of March 31, 2007 with a $25 application fee.
Visual Artists apply as individuals and will be matched with a Theatre or Video Game team once they are accepted into the! festiva l. Theatre and video game folks can apply as a complete team or as an individual as a Talent Pool applicant. The Talent Pool is a way for people who don't have a complete team to meet with other creative persons and find enough co-conspirators to form a team.
For more information about the ArtSpark Festival or the HBMG Foundation, visit www.hbmgfoundation.org.
Posted by QuocTran on February 7, 2007 05:53 PM
