Announcing NEW EYES: Bridge Songs 2012
This June 15-17, 2012, we are calling artists and musicians to create something beautiful in community on Alberta Ave. Again.
Our annual Bridge Songs event just keeps better, and today we’re taking the wraps off of the next instalment: NEW EYES.
What is NEW EYES? Well, there will be a live concert full of original songs written just for the event, around the theme “NEW EYES”. There will be two art shows with original artwork created for the event. There will be an arts workshop. There will be art and community on Alberta Avenue. Hopefully, you will join us.
Our Theme: NEW EYES
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
We invite artists to look at their world with NEW EYES. In a culture obsessed with the “new”, whether it’s a new iPhone, a New Release DVD or a newly sculpted nose, we forget to visit and value the old. It is often easier to start something new than complete something old, but perhaps the effort is worth it. We are seeking work that wrestles with the ideas of renewal, the tension between novel and traditional, past and future, youth and aging, and the displacement of the old by the new. Artists may also explore revision, both metaphorically and literally. Artists are invited to breathe new life into an old world, and even old work.
NEW EYES is all about the second chance. Revisit. Revise. Recycle. Redeem. Reimagine.
Submitting Your Work
We will have the official Call for Submissions ready in the next month of so, but we wanted to get you thinking now. What can you create around our NEW EYES theme? We’re open to any type of work; visual art, poetry, prose, dance, drama, short film, installations, performance art … you name it.
If you have any questions, send us an email. Help us make the NEW EYES open this coming June 15-17, 2012.
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