QUARTERBRED at TINA 09

Quarterbred at TINA 2009!

We are excited to announce that we will be chatting about Qbred and TINY STADIUMS at The Crack Festival as part of TINA 2009.

We will discuss what we are about and how to be a part of our hybrid arts festival. We will share our experiences of running an artist run initiative, putting on live art events and most of all want to hear from you about your experiences and practice.

Check the Crack Festival online~!
http://cracktheatrefestival.com

Download a TINA program at http://thisisnotart.org

See you all there in down town Newcastle! Thanks TINA and thank you to the Crack Festival for having us share what we are about.


WHEN: Saturday Oct 3
WHERE: House of Crack (5 Auckland St, in the Pan Building)
Use this map to find us! this is not art google map
TIME: 1pm -2pm...

Grouse.

NEW DIRECTORS ANNOUNCED!

Quarterbred warmly welcomes four new directors to the front line:

Tim Maybury is a musician, writer, curator, broadcaster and educator in art theory.

Sarah Rodigari is a live artist who creates performance, video and installation through public encounters and social exchange. She is also one half of Panther.

Matthew Kneale is a Melbourne-based project director focused on making live performance/installations in public spaces. He is also a set and costume designer who has worked nationally on opera, dance and theatre. www.matthew.collabo.net

Jade Markham is an artist-in-general who also works at the library, studies and performs collaboratively. She makes super 8 films and slides too.

The involvement of these new directors may see quarterbred activities extend to Victoria and Wollongong...

Ahoy.

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

In Early March 2010 Quarterbred will be curating
PACTS second Tiny Stadiums Festival
throughout Erskineville.

For the Tiny Stadiums Festival Quarterbred will
program projects that have innovative audience relationships their core.

The overall festival aims to include: a season of two performance/ live works
at PACT theatre, a video library, a rooftop cinema, artist talks, a launch
party and a weekend of site-specific live and visual artworks in Erskineville village.

Check out our website www.quarterbred.blogspot.com to get a sense of what the 2009 festival entailed. Interactive, site specific and cross-artform projects are particularly encouraged. All projects must take place in Erskineville.

You may like to respond to one of these spaces in your idea: PACT theatre, A primary school, A railway station, Erskineville town hall, A church. A vacant lot, An empty shopfront, A Laundromat, A pub, A bus stop, A café, A playground, A small park, A parking lot, A street tour of Erskineville, A post office.

Your idea need not be themed around these spaces but be flexible to fit within these public spheres. Please note not all of these spaces are confirmed as available at this stage.

In your application please include:

- Your contact details and paragraph bio
- A description of your idea
- The audience experience your project
- Basic technical requirements.

You will be asked to present a development or talk about you idea in late October 2009.

Artists will receive:
- An artist fee
- Inclusion in a large marketing campaign for the festival
- A project manager
- Access to a production manager and pact resources.

APPLICATIONS DUE AUGUST 15th and must not exceed two pages. Please send via email quarterbred@gmail.com