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2014: The Finding Alice Project

Attention Deaf and Allied artists: Submit your monologue today!

Deadline: July 15th, 2013

In preparation for a public presentation in May 2014, SPiLL and Picasso PRO are seeking bold, authentic and creative expressions of human need found in our attachment to specific objects.  Everyone has a life story sprinkled with memories of people, symbols and objects that give it meaning. We want a story from you. Tell us a story about an important object that you are (or were) attached to - it could be a shoe, a dried flower or the smell of a cigar. Imagine this object. Tell us your positive or negative experience with this object. Tell us your story in a dynamic, theatrical and creative way.

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EXAMPLE MONOLOGUE: My little red suitcase

``As a kid I would pack my little old fashion red suitcase and run away or threaten to run away in order to feel love at the level of potency I craved. It meant being called back – that life couldn`t go on unless I was there. This old fashion suitcase was the symbol of the journey I was about to embark on. It was a visual symbol of my departure. It was real and full of dare, possibility and promise…`

For your application to The Finding Alice Project, you must create your story’s beginning, middle, and ending. You must include the time, setting and explain what conflict occurred. In this example the monologue can begin with a child packing a “little red suitcase” in her bedroom. What does the bedroom look like? What does she pack? The little girl is happy to know her mom will be upset when she realizes she has left and has run away. Where is she running away to? What is she running away from? For the ending tell about the moment when the mother finds the little girl sitting in the driveway making the hard choice to stay or go. What does the mother say trying to  convince her to stay?

 

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We invite Deaf/HOH artists and professional hearing artists from Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal to submit their proposed monologues.  Professional hearing artists must have an expressed interest in working alongside Deaf community members and artists. What object are you (or were you) very attached to? Why? What influence did this object have on your life?

Seven monologues will be selected for workshop and exploration with the goal to build a play woven from the stories and shown in both Toronto and Ottawa in May 2014.

WHO WE ARE

SPiLL (spill-propagation.ca) and Picasso PRO (picassopro.org) have collaborated on the Finding Alice project since 2011. Both organizations are committed to increasing the presence of Deaf culture within the Canadian arts and cultural landscape. This project specifically engages Deaf and Allied artists in play creation, development, production and presentation.

We are seeking authentic, original and imaginative stories. Submit your monologue today!

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

·      Only unproduced and unpublished work will be considered

·      Submissions may be sent by email only.

·      Submissions may be sent in a video (ASL or LSQ) or written text (English or French)

·      ALL submissions MUST include a written cover page and a written outline.

·      The cover page includes the title of the monologue, applicant's full contact information (i.e name, mailing address, phone numbers, e-mail address)

·      The outline includes the description of the time period, setting, the object, the beginning-middle-end of the monologue, the conflicts posed or the insights gleaned because of the attachment. The outline can be in bulleted or narrative form.

·      Video Formatting Requirements: 5-8 minute video (.MOV, Quicktime) titled with the last name of the applicant (ie. Smith – Finding Alice Submission).

·      Text Formatting Requirements:  1 page maximum for outline , 12 pt font

·      Text only submissions: if you are not submitting a video version of your monologue you may add a page of narrative text 12 pt. font

·      Individuals may submit more than one monologue proposal. Each submission must be presented separately.

·      When submitting by email please use subject heading: “Finding Alice Submission”

·      Monologues will be accepted until July 15th 2013 at midnight.

This Call for Submissions is also available in signed LSQ on video

ASL users who have additional questions may communicate in writing by email

or Skype with Paula Bath at the Skype address below

ALL submissions and inquiries directed to:

Paula Bath

Assistant Director, The Finding Alice Project

The SPiLL Collective

Skype Name: spill.propagation

Email: Spill.propagation@gmail.com