THE 32^nd RHUBARB FESTIVAL

Toronto’s Annual Convergence of Contemporary Performance

Feb 16-27, 2011, Festival Director Laura Nanni

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2011

Produced by Buddies in Bad Times Theatre for over 30 years, the Rhubarb Festival has offered artists a critic-free environment to experiment with new explorations in performance. Rhubarb continuously reconsiders the possibilities for performance – how we create it, how we present it and how we experience it. It is an invitation for artists to take risks, investigate new directions and challenge conventions. It is an opportunity for adventurous audiences to journey off predictable paths. Rhubarb provides artists with a rare opportunity to present work to a large and enthusiastic audience. Many Rhubarb shows have gone on to be further developed and presented in Toronto, across Canada and internationally.

GENERAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS                            DEADLINE: 5PM, Tuesday August 17, 2010       

Rhubarb seeks proposals for new, not previously produced performances (30 minutes or less) for the 32^nd Annual Rhubarb Festival.  Submissions are encouraged from both established and emerging artists working in the areas of contemporary theatre, performance art, dance, music, interdisciplinary and hybrid forms.  Of particular interest are projects, approaches and ideas that are new territory for the artist and the medium. 

Selected projects will be featured during the festival (Feb. 16-27, 2011) and will receive technical, production, administrative, promotional and artistic support. Invited companies will have the opportunity to access free rehearsal space leading up to Rhubarb. In addition to an honorarium, festival artists also receive an unlimited artist pass, allowing them to see work for free by local, national and international artists over the course of two weeks.

New to Rhubarb this year! TWO SPECIAL PROJECT CALLS:

SET IT OFF                                                                  DEADLINE: 5PM, Monday August 30, 2010

Building on the culture of club nights at Buddies, Rhubarb invites DJs and musicians who venture into new and experimental territory of music performance (especially those working in live mixing and sampling) to submit proposals. This may include DJs/ electronic artists collaborating with animators, new media artists, choreographers, etc. to create a short set. Other possibilities include musicians working with non-traditional equipment and instruments (i.e. kitchen appliances, video game consoles, found objects, bicycle powered amps, etc.). Of special interest are proposals that not only suggest experimentation with the instruments themselves, but also consider aspects of the music in relation to staging, conceptual meaning, story and/ or form.

MOBILE WORKS                                                          DEADLINE: 5PM, Monday August 30, 2010

Taking the Rhubarb experience outside the walls of Buddies, the festival invites proposals for works that begin elsewhere and converge at Buddies (12 Alexander Street, Toronto). Performance interventions, performances on the subway, flash mobs, etc. that eventually end at Buddies are encouraged. Participatory projects and online performances that are developed in the lead up to Rhubarb and culminate in another form of presentation at Buddies are also welcome. The proposal should take into consideration not only the festival audiences but also the general public, unsuspecting and accidental audiences who may stumble upon or intersect with the work.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Only submissions delivered by or post-marked by the deadline dates will be accepted. Works submitted must be new and original. Submissions must be submitted in hard copy only and must be accompanied by the 2011 Rhubarb Festival Application Form (available online at www.buddiesinbadtimes.com) and the $20 non-refundable reading fee (payable to: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Fax or email submissions will not be accepted and late submissions will not be considered.

PLEASE MAIL OR DROP OFF SUBMISSIONS TO: Laura Nanni, Rhubarb Festival Director,

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre 12 Alexander Street, Toronto ON M4Y 1B4

For further information please contact: Laura Nanni, laura@buddiesinbadtimes.com or 416-975-9130 x58

Marie Alexander Poetry Series’ Open Submissions Period

The Marie Alexander Poetry Series has an open submission period during the month of July. An award of $500 and publication will be given for a chosen collection of prose poems by an American poet. Submit a manuscript of at least 48 pages, which can include some lineated pieces, along with a cover letter with complete contact information and an SASE for notification only. Postmark must be between July 1 and 31. Entries should also include a simultaneous electronic submission of the manuscript (MS Word or PDF format) sent to <editor(at)mariealexanderseries.com>. There is no entry fee.

Marie Alexander Poetry Series
Attention: Nickole Brown, Co-Editor
P.O. Box 5686
Louisville, KY 40255-0686
<editor(at)mariealexanderseries.com> (replace (at) with @)

July Open Submission Guidelines
http://www.tupelopress.org/july_guidelines.php
Throughout July, Tupelo Press will hold open submissions for book-length poetry collections (48-90 pages) and chapbook-length poetry collections (30-47 pages). Submissions are accepted from anyone writing in the English language (whether in the United States or abroad).

Make sure that your cover page includes the title, your name and contact information, including address, phone number and email address.

There is a reading fee of $25 for each manuscript submitted. Why a reading fee? We are an independent, nonprofit literary press. Reading fees help defray, but do not by any means cover, the significant cost of publishing the many books we select outside of our competitions. Multiple submissions are accepted, so long as each submission is accompanied by a separate $25 reading fee. Manuscripts that have been submitted during this open reading period (July 2010) may not be revised and submitted again unless they are accompanied by an additional $25 reading fee.

To enter and submit manuscripts/entry fees:
http://www.tupelopress.org/july_guidelines.php

Call for Content – Journal of Renga & Renku

Hello

We’re ready to begin accepting offers of content for the first issue of Journal
of
Renga & Renku. While some details remain to be ironed out, the journal will be:

1. published near the end of 2010
2. available in hardcopy only
3. available for purchase online using Paypal

We’re looking for a variety of content along the lines of:

1. Academic/polemic articles on any aspects of the genre

2. Translations of old renga and renku

3. News of renku groups and happenings

4. Book articles/reviews

5. and of course, a showcase of current examples of the genre:

a) in English

b) in any other language, accompanied by an English translation

c) previously published or not (just let us have details of prior publication so
we can
acknowledge properly)

d) simultaneous offers are fine too, again provided you advise us of prior
publication
for purposes of acknowledgement

e) in any of the standard forms: kasen, triparshva, nijûin, jûnichô, shisan,
rokku,
hyakuin, yotsumono, etc.

f) in any explorations of the above forms in terms of experimentation with
one-line,
zip, 5/7/5 or other fixed counts and even rhyme

g) solo and group work

h) with (preferably) or without notes/reflections on the poem/process from
sabaki or
renju or both

6. We are also considering holding a contest, but have not finalised our
thinking on
that. Please send us any ideas you may have and/or indication as to whether
you’d
be interested in entering and/or reading the results

7. We’re open to discussing content ideas we’ve not covered above so please
write

8. All communications will be acknowledged within one week

9. We are regretfully unable to pay contributors for content at this stage

Please send all contributions and other communications to
(RengaRenku(at)gmail.com)

We look forward to hearing from you.

Norman Darlington
Moira Richards
Journal of Renga & Renku

http://tinyurl.com/23n4yl6

Open to national & international submissions.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: July 21, 2010

Chroma, LLC is seeking art for current and upcoming exhibits.

Call for 2D & wall mountable 3D works. Professionally framed &/or presented. Paintings, works on paper, multi-media, wall mountable sculpture, drawings, printmaking, conceptual… Works must be original. No nudity. Edgy, urban, vibrant colors, contemporary/modern preferred.

Size limit: 8 ft vertical x 5ft wide &/or 8ft horizontal x 5ft high

We are a new Arts organization specializing in Art Consulting and Artists’ Consulting services. Art and artists will be kept on file for current and upcoming events, shows. Spaces include but are not limited to high end commercial spaces in the Portland Metro Area.

Submission Guidelines: Please email us as soon as possible with your proposed works to show. New work preferred. Send high resolution jpgs (up to 10 per artist), link to website/blog, and artist documents (bio, resume, artist statement) to info.chromaproject@gmail.com. We are open to ideas~ please email us ideas along with your contact info for us to contact you.

Thank you!

Chroma, LLC
Jennifer Porter & Martha Wallulis, Owners

original note is posted here: http://www.facebook.com/notes/martha-i-wallulis/chroma-call-for-art/406472602797

One Forty Fiction is a website dedicated to stories that stick to a limit of 140 characters (spaces included). Stories told with beginnings, middles, and ends, and characters who want things.

But how to tell such stories in such limited space? How to create love, and want, and derision in 140 characters? How to deliver your heart?

We have no answer for you. We just know that you have 140 characters to make us see, feel, live, & yearn for the world beyond your 140.

Give us all you got. But give it to us wrapped tight, a Big Bang of a universe, a history of life itself, communicated wisely, and with love.

And if you’re feeling saucy, don’t be afraid to bring the jazz & funk.

Submit as many and as often as you like: http://www.onefortyfiction.com/submit-your-own

Quiddity, an international literary journal and public-radio program, is presently reading for its fall 2011 issue. Works accepted may be featured on the public-radio program (NPR member and PRI affiliate). International submissions are encouraged.

Submission Guidelines:
~ Prose: one work (no more than 5,000 words)
~ Poetry: up to five poems (no more than ten pages total)
~ Include complete contact information in the cover letter.
~ Please be sure your name is listed on each page of the work. You may list contact information on each page as well, if you wish.
~ U.S.submissions should include both an email address and a self-addressed, business-size (#10), stamped envelope (SASE).
~ International submissions should include an email address to which an electronic reply may be sent.
~ Work must be previously unpublished. All manuscripts will be recycled.

Submissions should be addressed to either Prose Editor or Poetry Editor at:
Quiddity
Benedictine Universityat Springfield
1500 North Fifth Street
Springfield, IL 62702
USA

We look forward to receiving high-quality prose and poetry from both established and emerging writers. We do not limit general submissions to specific subject-matter or style. Novel excerpts are welcome as long asthe work can stand alone. Translations are welcome.

We accept simultaneous submissions but require notification immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere. Work submitted must fit the guidelines listed above.
Quiddity’s international literary journal is a publication of Benedictine University at Springfield.It is published semi-annually in April and October. Quiddity’s companion public-radio program is produced by Illinois Public Radio’s hub station, WUIS/WIPA, NPR member and PRI affiliate.

Contributors may be invited to read their work for the public-radio program.

General submissions are read year-round. Contest information is available at Quiddity’s website: www.sci.edu/quiddity