Call for Submissions: Budding Artist Showcase Project
Teesri Duniya Theatre is proud to announce our Budding Artist Showcase Project. This is a project that will showcase emerging and student artists. Teesri exists to produce and present bold, groundbreaking and culturally diverse works that encourage conversation. We are dedicated to amplifying and supporting diverse plays that encourage conversation. We are dedicated to amplifying and supporting diverse voices, both through the arts and community engagement. With our gallery we strive to provide young, emerging artists with visibility and a platform to showcase their art to a wide community. We are seeking submissions that reflect and push our values as a community.
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
12 artists will be selected to read one of the 3 scripts from our shows this season, and respond with a piece of art in a medium of their choosing. Each participant will be provided with an honorarium, ticket to the show they’ve created for, a showcase in an online gallery and artist spotlight, as well as in the performance space. The gallery will be launched early 2022.
If you have any questions or require any assistance submitting contact Riel (Outreach Coordinator) at outreach@teesriduniyatheatre.com
PRIORITIES
Student/emerging/youth artists; Indigenous, and People of Colour identifying artists; Gender Non-conforming Identifying artists; Social or Politically active art.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Deadline: December 21st 2021
To submit please read the play descriptions below and fill out the google form provided here; https://forms.gle/BHQUzMAeoNicmLWA8
Counter Offence by Rahul Varma:
When Shapoor, an Iranian with immigration issues and parental problems, is accused of beating his wife, he’s arrested by Sgt. Galliard, a white police officer, who, in the same instance, is both racist yet dedicated to preventing violence against women. Ms. Clarinda Keith, a Black social worker, and activist committed to zero-tolerance on violence against women, comes to Galliard’s defence despite the prevalence of police racism against Black people.
The play skillfully counterpoints racism and spousal abuse to show how the intersections of two issues can be used to mislead the public, while the establishment and politicians go their own self-serving ways.
Pyscho Six by Oliver Koomsatira
Psycho 6 was developed in Teesri Duniya Theatre’s Fireworks program. Psycho 6 follows the journey of K, a young man who’s been in and out of foster homes and youth centres since the age of 9. His broken home, fiery temper, and financial destitution have all led him down a path of increasingly more dangerous criminal activities. The play talks about a subject that is rarely addressed in the theatre community: youth gangs, pimping, and the prison system. It takes a deep look into how specific socio-economic factors create a context in which marginalised people of colour are vulnerable to delinquency, out of sheer necessity.
Meet Me by Julia Ainsworth and Rosaruby Kagan, in collaboration with the Live Action Theatre Project
Meet Me is an audience interactive theatre designed to engage audiences with the subject of sexual consent and misconduct in the post- #metoo era. As a site-specific production, the play takes place in three locations in the McGill Ghetto: a campus bar, an academic office, and a private residence. The play centers on three characters: a tenured female academic, a male full-time professor, and a female adjunct professor. All characters have vastly different experiences as a romantic situation leads to allegations of sexual misconduct.
