Peace Festival seeks potential directors/collectives...

So, some of you might know that my actual paying-job is to co-ordinate *another* festival. Well, here is something about that festival you all might have interest in: theatre, of course! This year, the Gandhi Peace Festival is hoping to have some theatrical performances, and we need proposals for productions! Read on if interested:

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This year's Gandhi Peace Festival & Mac Peace Week seeks to include events from multiple disciplines, including the arts. One goal this year is to include theatre as part of the programme.

We are seeking ambitious students and community members to submit proposals for the inclusion of theatre within the festival.

The proposal can be a theatre production of full or short length, or be in an alternative format. Plays proposed should include themes related the the Gandhi Peace Festival or Mac Peace Week, for example, potential subjects that could be included:

-conflict resolution/transformation
-nonviolence
-Gandhi, or another 'champion of peace' (need not be famous)
-social (in)justice
-effects of war/armed conflict/militarization
-human rights/wrongs
-other social issues

Proposals may be submitted by a single director/facilitator or an entire collective. Please be prepared to provide a copy of any script(s) to be used. Works in progress or collective works will be considered, but must be accompanied by a draft plan and schedule of milestones, assuming a pre-production period of 7 weeks and a detailed outline of the ultimate goals of the piece such as, length, cast size, and any other important goals.

Please also consider where your piece should ideally be performed. No theatre venues have been booked as of yet. Special consideration may be given to pieces that are:

-able to be adjusted for non-theatre venues, such as outdoors, in a lecture hall, etc
-low budget (no guarantee of funding, so fund raising & sponsorship should be considered)
-include subjects that may be of particular interest or relevance in Hamilton or at McMaster University

Proposals are due on July 22, and may be submitted by email to gandhi.peace.festival@gmail.com, or dropped off at the drop-box at Togo Salmon Hall Room 726 at the McMaster Campus.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Robert Porter, Coordinator of the Gandhi Peace Festival 2005 at gandhi.peace.festival@gmail.com or (905) 920-3148.