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Fishamble: The New Play Company and Arts & Disability Ireland in association with VSA arts (Washington D.C.) present Turning Point

Submission Deadline 

Date: Friday 29th January 2010 

Time: 5pm

Submissions should be emailed to Gavin Kostick at gavin@fishamble.com

Fishamble and Arts & Disability Ireland are seeking artists with a disability to write new short theatre pieces for a new writing initiative entitled Turning Point.

A selection of short pieces of writing for the stage will be presented to the public at a Dublin city centre venue in April, and a number of these will then be presented at the 2010 International VSA arts Festival in Washington D.C. between 6-12 June 2010.

This is an opportunity for artists with disabilities to develop a short play for presentation on the theme of change. It may be a moment when everything changed, a moment when you realised there was no going back, a moment when you knew something about yourself deep in your heart, a moment when the future opened up.

Fishamble and Arts & Disability Ireland will provide resources and dramaturgical guidance to a series of six short pieces, a number of which will be commissioned and some which will be selected to develop on submission.

An information and workshop session took place on the 10th December workshop for artists and individuals interested in submitting work for consideration. Audio documentation from this session is now available for download:

Audio 1: Jim Culleton, Director of Fishamble & Padraig Naughton, Director of Arts & Disability Ireland, introduce their respective organsations and the Turning Point project.

Click here to listen

Audio 2: Guest speaker, playwright and dramaturge, Kaite O'Reilly speaks about her experience of writing and disability in the mainstream, from a D/deaf and Disability Cultural perspective. Biographical information about Kaite can be found on her website www.kaiteoreilly.com

Click here to listen to Kaite's presentation

 

Terms & Description of Submissions Sought:

• New writing for the stage, with a duration of 10 minutes in performance or less • Submissions will only be accepted by artists with a disability

• Submissions will be accepted from artists based on the island of Ireland only

• Scripts should be developed, on the basis that only 2 actors will be available for presentation of the work (the writing may also be presented by the writer as appropriate)

• Writing must be submitted to Gavin Kostick at gavin@fishamble.com by Friday 29th January at 5pm

• A small fee will be paid for the plays selected for development.