ENCOUNTERS
A one-day micro-festival of public interventions
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
DEADLINE: 11:59 P.M. 09/12/2013
Encounters is one day micro festival of public interventions taking place within Lancaster city centre, outdoors as well as within the premises of partner businesses on Saturday 22nd February 2014.
The project will seek to animate various city centre locations with performance pieces that utilise the concepts of generosity, gift giving, conversations and exchanges as tools for exploring social change and alternative economies.
It is our hope that Encounters will also create an accessible, friendly and playful environment within which conversations might take place between artists, passers-by, and the partners involved in making the project happen around the various topics the performance works may explore.
In addition to this, Encounters will attempt to disrupt the daily flow of residents, commuters and visitors in an enjoyable way through facilitating interactions between people in busy city centre locations normally mostly used as rush hour thoroughfares.
A successful Encounters would contribute to depict a vibrant urban centre that reflects its users as social beings rather than consumers and encourage similar activity to take place more often.
We are currently seeking expressions of interest from artists to take part in this micro-festival. To propose a piece, please fill in the following form and send it back to encounters@talkwithleap.com by 11:59 P.M. on 9th December. We will endeavour to get in touch with all applicants before the start of the festive season.
For an informal discussion about your project, please contact Leo Burtin via email leo@talkwithleap.com or phone on 07584 177591. Please address general enquiries to the Encounters team at encounters@talkwithleap.com
