Monthly Archives: June 2010

Call for Submissions: 32nd RHUBARB FESTIVAL, Rhubarb Festival

THE 32nd 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 32nd 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

Announcements: Tribute to Richard Payne, Performing Arts Lodge

Tribute to Richard Payne
Place: Performing Arts Lodge (P.A.L.), 110 The Esplanade in downtown Toronto
Date:         Monday July 5th 2010
Time: 6:00 PM – Doors open for meet & greet and art browse

7:00 PM Presentations (Words of remembrance) to be followed by more time to browse Richard’s wonderful artwork, to reminisce with others who loved him and to have a drink and a nosh in his memory.

Call for Submissions: Invitation for Artist Proposals for HATCH, Harbourfront Centre

Harbourfront Centre

HATCH: emerging performance projects

Deadline for Proposals: July 19, 2010

Harbourfront Centre is pleased to announce an open call for proposals from Toronto-area artists and companies working in the field of performance for HATCH: emerging performance projects for the 2011 season. Companies and artists selected to participate in HATCH will receive a one-week residency in Harbourfront Centre’s Studio Theatre.

HATCH is designed to incubate and foster invention and innovation in the local performance scene. Entering its eighth year, this programme has become an important element in the milieu of local performance development. New to the programme this year, Harbourfront Centre is pleased to welcome artist, performer, researcher and Artistic Director of Public Recordings, Ame Henderson as Guest Curator. Committed to collaborative working structures both aesthetically and politically, Henderson maintains ongoing collaborations with artists from different disciplines and continents and with her collaborators has created works that continue to be presented nationally and internationally.

Full criteria, qualification information and instructions for applicants can be found at http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/whoweare/submissions/hatch.cfm or call Josephine Hunter at 416-952-7969.

HATCH is a key initiative in Harbourfront Centre’s mission to develop local artists and their unique practices. The HATCH residency and mentorship programme provides resources and professional assistance to a new generation of engaging and innovative contemporary artists to reach the next stage in the development in their work and careers.

HATCH is seeking artists committed to the development of contemporary, inventive and creative performance-based work and invites projects from emerging creators and established artists engaging in new collaborations or entering into new artistic territory. Proposals are encouraged from artists working across all disciplines, including, but not limited to, dance, theatre, performance art, music, multi-media, etc. Of particular interest are proposals that can demonstrate how HATCH will benefit the project or the artist during this stage of development.

Companies and artists selected to participate in HATCH will receive a one-week residency in the Studio Theatre located at Harbourfront Centre, an intimate, 196-seat proscenium venue featuring a full lighting grid, raked seating and sprung stage floor. Use of the residency period is at the discretion of the artist and needs of the project (i.e. workshop, rehearsals, performance, etc.) but there must be at least one presentation of the work for the public and/or invited audience at some point in the week.

Please mail proposals to:

HATCH Proposals

c/o Josephine Hunter, Artistic Associate, Programme Coordinator,

HATCH: emerging performance projects Performing Arts,

Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay West

Toronto, ON M5J 2G8

Sorry, applications by fax or email are not accepted.

ABOUT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Harbourfront Centre is an innovative, non-profit cultural organization which provides internationally renowned programming in the arts, culture, education and recreation, all within a collection of distinctive venues on the 10-acre site it operates in the heart of Toronto’s downtown waterfront.

Auditions: RICHARD III, Hart House Theatre

Hart House Theatre is now accepting submissions for its September 2010 production of William Shakespeare’s RICHARD III Directed by: Jeremy Hutton

To request an audition, please email your headshot and resume to the attention of the General Manager, Doug Floyd @
auditions@harthousetheatre.ca

Deadline for submissions: Monday July 12th, 2010 (early submissions are encouraged!)

Only those contacted for an audition will be seen.

Audition dates – July 16 & 17, 2010
Callbacks will be held from July 18 – 20, 2010
The non-equity, non-paying production runs Sept 15 – Oct 2, 2010.
We strongly encourage actors of all ethnic backgrounds to audition.
All roles, including the title character, are available.

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:

  • Please prepare one Shakespearean monologue, no longer than two minutes.
  • Please be familiar with the play; you may be asked to read from it.

All auditions will be held at Hart House:

7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto

About Hart House Theatre
Hart House Theatre, established in 1919, is the University of Toronto’s Performing Arts Leader.  Since its inception, the theatre’s unique mix of young professionals, alumni, and students has garnered the theatre a reputation as not only a cultural destination for the U of T community but one for all of Toronto. www.harthousetheatre.ca

Announcements: Professional Ticket Printer for Sale, Nightwood Theatre

Nightwood Theatre has a professional ticket printer for sale. Here are the details:

  • Practical Automation, UITL 2002 series
  • bought August 2009
  • black
  • 60 w, EDAC power supply included
  • used for Nightwood’s 4×4 Festival season
  • in great shape (looks and performs as new)
  • blank ticket stock included
  • $1000

Also available 2 Aastra 9120 phones with one hands free headset for $200.

If you are interested please contact:

Rebecca Peirson
Director of Marketing & Audience Development
Nightwood Theatre
55 Mill St.Suite 301
Case Goods Warehouse, Bldg. No. 74
Toronto ON M5A 3C4
rebecca@nightwoodtheatre.net

Call for Submissions: The 2010 Canadian Playwrights Contest, Samuel French Inc.

Samuel French, Inc. is now accepting submissions for The 2010 Canadian Playwrights Contest! Don’t Miss This Opportunity!

Playwrights are invited to submit their best, original, full-length stage plays that have not been published.

Any writer with Canadian citizenship is eligible to enter, regardless of geographic location! The winning play will receive publication and licensing representation from Samuel French, Inc.

Submissions must be postmarked no later than
August 31, 2010

Download your application here
Questions? Contact publications@samuelfrench.com

Previous Samuel French Canadian Playwrights Contest Winners

  • WELFAREWELL by Cat Delaney
  • CLOSURE by Ron Blicq
  • SHADOWS ON OAK ISLAND by Garnet Hirst with Deborah L. Preeper
  • $38,000 FOR A FRIENDLY FACE by Kristin Shepherd
  • BINGO BABES by Isabel Duarte
  • KITCHEN WITCHES by Caroline Smith

Event: Giant Surprise Dance, Meagan O’Shea/Stand Up Dance and Harbourfront Centre

Meagan O’Shea/Stand Up Dance and Harbourfront Centre are pleased to be collaborating on an extra special dance like no one is watching as part of The Hot Spot Festival, Saturday July 3, 2010.

Flashmob meets contemporary dance meets mobile clubbing. Think T-mobile and Improv Everywhere with a local twist.

Come and be a part of a Giant Surprise Dance that will take over part of the Hot Spot Festival! We are seeking a number of participants to learn and perform a dance routine amoungst the public that gather at the festival. We need lots of volunteer dancers to participate. The first 40 people to sign up get a free tee-shirt. After that you’ll need to buy one!

There are 4 rehearsals. Please come to at least 2 of them. You do not need to be a dancer to do this. You need to love the idea and have fun. The choreography is simple. The effect will be stunning with many bodies performing choreography moving within a crowd.

How this works:
Imagine you are standing around the outdoor grounds of a festival waiting for the next big act to begin onstage. There is music on the loudspeaker – this is normal – but you begin to notice several people near you moving the same way. (this might be stepping or swaying). As the music continues you realize that all these people moving are wearing a kind of costume. As the music continues, the people, and you now realize there are a lot of them, are doing a dance. A routine! You might join in, you might just watch.

Please participate: sign up and learn the dance, and then come on out and have fun. The more the merrier.

REHEARSAL TIMES at Harbourfront Centre. The exact location is the Redpath Lawn, just West of Lower Simcoe on the South side of Queens Quay West. If people are lost, they can go to the security desk at 235 Queens Quay West.

  • Sunday June 20, 4 – 6 pm
  • Monday June 21, 6 – 8 pm
  • Wednesday June 30, 6 – 8 pm
  • Friday July 2, 2 – 4

PERFORMANCE: Saturday July 3, between 8 and 9 pm – less than 10 minute duration.

MEAGAN O’SHEA/STAND UP DANCE – “Off the wall, impossible to categorize, fun!” Montreal Gazette

Stand Up Dance creates innovative performances that blur the lines between dance and theatre, performance and action. Examining ideas from unexpected angles and engaging audiences on multiple levels Stand Up Dance produces unique and compelling performance experiences.

Artistic Director Meagan O’Shea founded Stand Up Dance in 2007 after conceiving dance like no one is watching – part spectacle, part social action. Spontaneous choreography and improvisation erupt in unexpected locations as pop culture and contemporary dance meet to create public engagement and animate space. dance like no one is watching began in 2007 and has grown each year. Last year it was part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche and featured 30 dancers in 4 teams traveling across the city in a dance-relay over 12 hours. Collaborating with professional, emerging, and community artists, Stand Up Dance engages local, national and international audiences. Based in Toronto, Stand Up Dance also offers movement, improvisation, performance, and creation workshops.

Meagan is founding co-director of hub14 and has created and performed numerous site-specific and improvised works that have been presented at Dusk Dances, Canada Dance Festival, ECITE in Austria, and independently.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO SIGN UP, E-MAIL:
omeagan@gmail.com

Internship: Research and Outreach Assistant, Mixed Company Theatre

Post Updated June 21, 2010

Mixed Company Theatre (MCT) produces innovative, socially relevant drama as a tool for positive change.  For over 25 years, this internationally recognized company has worked in schools, the community and the workplace.  Mixed Company continues to use Forum Theatre and interactive arts to educate, engage and empower audiences.

MCT requires a highly organized Research & Outreach Assistant to support the planning, development and evaluation of community programming.

This volunteer position supports the Outreach & Communications Coordinator & General Manager. Tasks include, but are not limited to:

  • research
  • outreach to help develop new educational and community networks (electronic and telephone)
  • evaluation tabulation and data entry for MCT contact database.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The volunteer will work in a dynamic and fast-paced working environment with a diverse team operating under tight time constraints. Volunteers may be called upon to assist in any aspect of MCT day-to-day operations.

HOURS: MCT is seeking a volunteer who can make a consistent minimum ongoing commitment of 2-3 hours on 2-5 days each week. Scheduling for this commitment can be flexible between the hours of 9am – 5pm; Monday – Friday.

LOCATION: 157 CARLTON STREET, TORONTO (CORNER OF CARLTON & SHERBOURNE)

COMPENSATION: UNPAID VOLUNTEER INTERN POSITION

HOW TO APPLY: Please submit a resume and cover letter as soon as possible outlining what you can contribute to this position:

VOLUNTEER COMMITTEE

Mixed Company Theatre

201-157 Carlton Street

Toronto, Ontario M5A 2K3

Fax: (416) 515-9251  Email: jobs@mixedcompanytheatre.com

Mixed Company Theatre is an equal opportunity organization and encourages applications from people representing diverse ethno-cultural backgrounds.

Job Posting: Musician to Play the Fiddle, Feet, Accordion and Assorted Small Percussion, Roseneath Theatre

Artistic Director David S. Craig invites submissions of musician to play the fiddle, feet, accordion and assorted small percussion for Roseneath Theatre’s production of Spirit Horse by Greg Banks adapted by Drew Hayden Taylor with original music by Anne Lederman.

Spirit Horse premiered at the Luminato Festival and was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding  Production in 2007. Spirit Horse is a 55 minute drama/ adventure which will be directed by U.K. director Greg Banks (Samuel Beckett Award for Theatre).

ROLES

Musician-(Fiddle accompanied with French Canadian/Métis foot clogging & Accordion)

REHEARSALS

October 4 – 16th 2010

TOUR

October 18 – December 11 2010 (Ontario school tour) with a possible extension to December 17th 2010. (Wages are above Equity minimum plus overtime and per diem.)

AUDITIONS:

July 8th at the Roseneath Theatre Space 651 Dufferin St. (formerly Equity Showcase Theatre) on the North East corner of Dufferin and Dundas.

SUBMISSIONS: casting@roseneath.ca

Roseneath Theatre is committed to issues of social equity in all aspects of our society. Casting descriptions are based on text. We welcome applications from all competent artists.  For more information go to our web site www.roseneath.ca.