IGNITE! Festival of Emerging Artists
The submission deadline for this opportunity has passed.
Sage Theatre’s IGNITE! Festival is now accepting applications for each of its 6 performance series in the upcoming 2019 IGNITE! Festival of Emerging Artists.
Dates: June 12 – 15, 2019
Series include:
- Theatre
- Interdisciplinary
- Dance
- Club
- Improv
- Provocation
Read the Call for Artists for full details.
Theatre Series
The IGNITE! Festival is accepting project proposals and scripts as part of the theatre series, as well as looking for individual emerging theatre artists to work on productions. The theatre series is curated by Jason Mehmel, Artistic Director of Sage Theatre.
Interdisciplinary Series
The IGNITE! Festival plays artistic matchmaker!
We are calling for emerging artists of any discipline (e.g. literature & poetry, music, burlesque, theatre, dance, film & animation, visual arts, and anything else) who would like to be paired with an artist from a different discipline to create an eight to 10 minute new creation that will be performed on the IGNITE! main stage.
We’re working with Loft 112, a creative hive where ideas are given space to develop, a place where established and emerging writers, readers, artists and poets are supported, a place where unheard voices are given a platform and a place of collaboration.
Dance Series
Calling emerging choreographers interested in creating original eight to 12 minute works for the 2019 IGNITE! Festival. Curation and support with Springboard Performance!
Club Series
The IGNITE! Club Series will be an art party during the festival. A multi-disciplinary performance party/clashing together audience and artists in an exploratory, off-the-wall, never-before-seen, might-not-ever-be-seen-again performance experiences.
The Club Series is open to open to artists of all disciplines—music (solo & bands) performance art, installation art, roving performers, poetry, prose, music, comedy, burlesque, theatre, dance, media art & film, and absolutely anything else! This is an opportunity to perform, create or install your wildest ideas for an engaged and bizarre-hungry crowd.
Provocation Series
Details Coming Soon
Improv Series
Details Coming Soon
Who Can Apply?
The IGNITE! Festival is geared towards early career artists under the age of 30 or within 3 years of graduating from post-secondary, working in any discipline, who are pursuing a professional career in the arts.
Application Deadline: March 16, 2019
About the Ignite! Festival of Emerging Artists
IGNITE! is a festival dedicated to supporting, mentoring and presenting early career artists of all disciplines. IGNITE! allows artists to embrace risks in a supportive environment while providing resources, a bridge to the professional arts community, and meaningful opportunities for collaboration and community building with their peers.
The festival accepts applications from artists of all disciplines. Artists of colour, indigenous artists and/or artists from LGBTQ+ communities are heartily encouraged to apply to all streams of the festival.
If you are interested in applying but the application process creates a barrier, please contact us via phone 403.264.7243 or email info@sagetheatre.com
