Deadline to apply: July 29, 2024 at 11:59pm EST
Timeline: September 2024-May 2025
Number of participants: 10 participants
About the call —
MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) is looking for writers interested in experimental writing that will accompany the MAI’s 25th anniversary programming (season 24.25). This call is for people from various artistic practices who are interested in exploring a writing practice in response and reflection to performance art and dance.
The co-curators of the MAI’s 25th anniversary, Angie Cheng, Lara Kramer, and Alexandra “Spicey” Landé, are recognizing a desire and a need to investigate and expand the relationship and approaches to writing about performing and live arts. Their motivation stems from a recognized desire and imperative to explore the dynamic interplay between writing and the performing arts, the representation of diverse writing styles, and the inclusion of BIPOC writers that presents exciting possibilities to magic making.
The objective of this writing cohort is to generate and foster a thriving ecology of writers with the possibilities of finding new and deepening methods and ways to communicate about performance arts and dance. We want to challenge the current status quo in writing about performance. What are the possibilities to express through words? Who can the different styles of writing speak to? How can we take in, relate to performance and live arts differently?
Each participant will be matched with a mentor of the writing genre and style that they are interested in. The participants will attend at least 6 pluridisciplinary and intercultural projects presented during the MAI’s 24.25 season (dance, performance, music) and will present their work at a public sharing performance at the MAI’s Gallery during the 25th anniversary celebration on May 7, 2025.
Who is this for?
For individuals who have the desire to write about the performing arts and dance and don’t have an extensive professional writing practice.
Timeline
-Four days in Fall 2024. Introduction and group activities. (mandatory)
– Attendance of shows at the MAI between September 2024-April 2025
– 2 days cohort check-in in Winter 2025
– 2 days cohort check-in in Spring 2025
– 3-4 social gatherings post shows
– 10 hours with the selected mentor
– Public sharing of the writing pieces on May 7, 2025 a the MAI’s Gallery
Honoraria
-Tickets offered for shows in MAI’s 24.25 season
-Honorarium for the first week in Fall 2024 for attending the activities
-Honorarium for the four days of group check-in in Winter and Spring 2025
-Honorarium for the public sharing in May 2025
To send your application, please fill out the google form here before July 29, 2024. Only the successful applicants will be contacted. If you have any questions, please send an email to: [email protected]