South West Artist Call-Out: Present your work at “About Us! Artists’ Scratch Showcase”

DEADLINE: Wednesday 5th October, 2022 (10am).

Counterpoints Arts and Dartington Trust invite you to submit your work (or work in progress) to be screened or performed during an artists' sharing and networking event on Thursday, 13th October (8-10pm) at Dartington’s Great Hall in Totnes, Devon. About Us! Artists’ Scratch Showcase — curated and initiated by AWATE — is presented as part of the public programme for Counterpoints’ Pop Culture & Social Change Retreat at Dartington Hall (12-14 October). About Us! was created as a safe space to uplift and connect artistic experimenters that identify as Black, POC, and/or with lived experience of migration or displacement. 

Each selected artist will perform or present one piece or work to a public audience, including creative peers, in a ticketed sharing session. After each performance, the artists and audience will discuss any shared or contrasting themes, talk about craft, as well as networking and industry advice.

Details:

  • Open to all ‘artists’ over 18 who identify as Black, POC, and/or with lived experience of migration or displacement, based in the South West (Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire).

  • ‘Artist’ is loosely defined to include writers, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, designers, architects (or anything between!). Previous Artist Showcases at Southbank Centre have included comedians, screenwriters, folk singers and performance art.

  • Artists must be available to be at Dartington Hall (Totnes) on Thursday 13th of October, 7-10pm. (All are also invited to join the Pop Culture & Social Change Retreat at Dartington during the day if interested).

  • Up to 5 artists will be selected to share their work (alongside artists from the Pop Culture & Social Change Retreat) and will be notified by end of Friday 7th October. The event will be curated to ensure a diversity of art forms are represented.

  • Selected artists receive £120 to cover their time and expense to present, plus travel expenses to Totnes.

Please submit your application by 10am on Wednesday, 5th October.  All applicants are welcome to attend the Showcase to discuss and feedback, whether they are selected or not, as the event provides an opportunity to network and exchange with artists across art forms.

The About Us! Artists’ Scratch Showcase is curated and initiated by AWATE, inspired by a similar platform by Counterpoints’ partners at TekstLab (Oslo), and developed by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Southbank Centre. The South West edition is a public event held alongside Counterpoints’ Pop Culture & Social Change Retreat at Dartington Hall (12-14 October), bringing together a group of 50 change-making entertainment producers, artists, cultural innovators, activists and philanthropists committing to building long-term narrative power for Black, migrant and refugee communities.


For any questions or further information, contact dijana@counterpointsarts.org.uk. 

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Please confirm you are over 18 years old, identifying as Black, POC, and/or with lived experience of migration or displacement, based in the South West (Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire), and available on Thursday, 13th of October (7-10pm) to be in Totnes.

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Short bio (up to 150 words; if selected this bio will be used to publicise your participation) *
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Short description of the work you'd like to share (work doesn't have to be complete, it can be the beginning of an idea/work in progress). If you prefer, you can instead submit a link to a short video explanation (or send by email to dijana@counterpointsarts.org.uk with the subject - Artist Scratch Showcase submission). If you have images/video or other examples of the work you wish to share at the showcase, please share links.
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Examples of any previous work if available (short description and links to previous creative examples). These can be public links or a link to a private portfolio (e.g. Google Drive or Dropbox folder).
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Counterpoints Arts will work with the venue Dartington Hall to ensure accessibility at all times, i.e. accessible toilets, accommodation, event & meeting spaces and outdoor spaces. In addition to these basic measures, we want to provide further support where required to provide fair access for all participants of this event.

Please use this section to provide details on any access requirements you would like us to be aware of. This might include:
- access requirements for physical disabilities;
- access requirements for invisible disabilities, including neurodiverse conditions (for example: autism, ADHD, ADD, dyslexia, dyspraxia);
- Interpreting & translation services.

We don’t consider this an exhaustive list and understand there are a full range of potential accessibility requirements. Any information you provide regarding personal access requirements will be used to inform access during the course of the retreat, and all information will be kept confidential in line with data protection/GDPR law.
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I understand that my data and the video submitted will be stored for the duration of the project, and I agree to be contacted by AWATE, Counterpoints Arts and the Public Programming Team at Dartington Hall in relation to ‘Artists' Scratch Showcase.' Following the end of this project all contact information and video submissions will be deleted. 

Selected work will be presented to a ticketed audience in the Great Hall on Thursday 13th October 2022 and may be used across promotional material used to promote Counterpoints’ Pop Culture & Social Change Retreat 2022 at Dartington Hall and future About Us! Artist’s Scratch Showcase events.

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