CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Tea & Cookies is a new cabaret-style show that happens on the last Saturday of every month at Project 165.
Each month, we serve a special selection of tea and home-baked cookies to compliment a given performance lineup.
We are looking for spoken word, performance art, music, comedy, weird science, lectures and other fun entertainment.
To be considered, please drop us a line at methinkspresents@gmail.com and tell what you do. If you can, include a link to documentation of your performance. music, etc.
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INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPATING ARTISTS OF WHEN A STRANGER CALLS A FRIEND OF A FRIEND
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THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS CLOSED. THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO APPLIED
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ACCEPTED ARTISTS: POSTMARKED BY AUGUST 4
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
SELECTED ARTISTS will draw from personal experience to create drawings and illustrations on paper that depict narratives, rumors, jokes, myths and popular beliefs of contemporary legend (as the term is defined in this call).
Examples of the kind of subject-matter you may wish to take as your point of inspiration include: the mythical giant alligators of New York City’s sewer system; the tale of the babysitter who gets a series of frightening phonecalls from a stranger, only to find out later that the stranger is calling from inside the house the babysitter is receiving the calls in; rumours of a highly organized crime ring drugging people and surgically removing their organs for sale on the black market; and the long-held belief that the heavy metal music community is a global Satanic cult.
But don’t stop there. Your legend-material could be of the not-so-well-known variety. For instance, there may be a bit of legend that is unknown to anyone outside certain circles of your hometown. Like the mumbling “crazy” person who wanders around town, the one who everybody has a theory about but nobody really knows. Try to remember some of those spurious tales you’ve heard – or told – over the years; examine recurring mass media rumours; or dig up some old legend-spam in your junk email. There’s lots of juicy material to draw from.
ABOUT THE SHOW:
When a Stranger Calls a Friend of a Friend is an international drawing/illustration show that attempts to examine cross-cultural parallels in contemporary legend and the performance, transmission, form and function of modern urban folklore around the world.
In this context, the term ‘legend’ is interpreted as to include narratives, rumors, jokes, myths and popular beliefs that change over time due to repetition and embellishment, and which emerge spontaneously without a traceable source, as they spread from person to person and via mass media and complex communication networks. The terms ‘contemporary’, ‘modern’ and ‘urban’ refer to post-industrial legends that actively circulate in a given community today.
Curated by Ryan Ringer and produced by Methinks, When a Stranger Calls a Friend of a Friend will be exhibited for two weeks at Project 165’s gallery in Toronto, Canada. The exhibition will also be open for the August edition of Pedestrian Sunday, a popular monthly festival in Toronto’s historic Kensington Market district. This exhibition will be thoroughly promoted on the Internet, in print and by word-or-mouth; and complimented by a live story-telling event and cute little exhibition catalogue.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
- Confirmed participants may submit no more than 2 drawing-based works-on-paper, unframed, un-matted
- Each submission should measure 10 inches squared
- Use any drawing media (paint, chalk, pencil, ink, thread, etc)
- Attach a clearly printed label to the back of each submission with: your full name, contact information, date, year and medium employed
- All drawings will be priced at $100.00 CAD. Artists will receive 100% of sales
SHIPPING YOUR ARTWORK:
- For selected artists who applied by the initial deadline, your submissions must be postmarked by July 18, 2010; For selected artists who applied to the Extended Deadline, your submissions must be postmarked by August 4, 2010
- If sending your work by regular mail, you must pay for all shipping costs, including return postage. Please request from your preferred postal service an IRC (international reply coupon) or provide a self-addressed stamped envelop with adequate return Canadian postage with your submission to ensure that we will be able to return your submission
- If you are sending your submission from outside Canada, please confirm with your post office or delivery company that you have covered all costs including duty charges. Failure to do so may result in artworks seized by Canadian Customs and Methinks will not be responsible for retrieving them
- Reinforce your submission and clearly mark DO NOT BEND, so as to prevent it from getting damaged in the mail
DROP OFF DATES (FOR TORONTO ARTISTS):
- Submissions can be delivered in person by you, or someone you know, to Project 165, 165 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, M5T 2L4, ONLY ON the flowing dates:
Saturday July 17
Sunday July 18
12 – 4pm each day
NOTE: If you applied to the Extended Deadline and cannot hand-deliver your work on these dates, you must ship your submission via post. There will be no other scheduled drop off dates.
PICK UP DATES (FOR TORONTO ARTISTS):
- Submissions can be picked up ONLY ON the following dates:
Saturday September 18
Sunday September 19
12 – 4pm each day
RETURN OF WORK (OUTSIDE TORONTO):
- For participants outside Toronto: We will ship all unsold work within 30 days of the show closing
SALES:
- Artists receive 100% of any sales of their work
- If you live outside of Toronto, we will send you a cheque, along with any unsold work (if applicable), within 30 days of the show closing
- If you live within Toronto, you can pick up a cheque, along with any unsold work (if applicable), on the aforementioned pickup dates
CONTACT:
Ryan Ringer
Curator
methinkspresents@gmail.com