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(from Tomek:)

Call for Artists: POW! POW! mini performance art festival

Call for Artists: POW! POW! mini performance art festival
application deadline extended!

POW! POW! 2nd annual mini performance art festival in San Francisco is searching for original "cutting edgy" performance art works!

Are you willing to take more risks in your performances? Is there any performance piece you always wanted to do, but couldn’t, because it didn’t fit into your funding organization’s agenda? Did you limit your artistic vision because you thought it might "offend" your politically correct grandmother or someone else? If so, your prayers have been answered! POW! POW! 2nd annual mini performance art festival opens a free expression space for any kind of performance art with "no strings attached!"

The only festival of its type, POW! POW! actually encourages and supports performance artists to do…whatever they want!!! Unlike other funded festivals, POW! POW! is a grass roots festival run by artists and for artists themselves. POW! POW! believes in expressing and/or experimenting with anything artists want without aesthetic, moral, or social limitations. Since POW! POW! is not funded, there are "no strings attached." In spring of 2008 the first POW! mini performance art festival was a huge success. We received press in the San Francisco Chronicle and numerous other local publications, and had sold out nights of our shows. We anticipate the 2009 POW! POW! to be even better!!

Selected works will be performed at The Climate Theater in San Francisco, California during our 2nd Annual mini performance art festival on October 15, 16, and 17th, 2009.http://www.climatetheater.com/

What we are looking for:
- Risky, outrageous, adventurous creative work
-6 hour continuous installations
-30 minute or less performance pieces
-Artists who are not afraid to express themselves

POW! POW! is looking for low tech or semi-low tech body-based performance art.

What we DO want:
Original, out of the box, risky, outrageous, adventurous and creative action work based on body, time and action (s)

What we DON'T want:

Anything that looks like conventional theater, dance (choreography), music or media work.

Wanna apply? Please send us the following:
-One page proposal
-Arty Bio
-E-mail address
-Website link (if applicable)
-Video summary to give us an idea of your work + ideas in the format of VHS, DVD, or working YouTube links
-$20 application fee - check or money order made out to group A

Send all of this and your soul to:
POW! POW!
PO Box 9492
Oakland, CA 94613

IN HAND DEADLINE: EXTENDED TO 07/01/09!!!!
You will be notified by email if your piece has been accepted by the first week of July 2009.

For questions please contact powsf@yahoo.com
www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival

The curators/producers of this show are:
Alyssa Lee of group A, and gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo

p.s. please forward to interested artists!

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thanks, Tomek! I am sending them a proposal right now for "AN ACT OF DIRECT ENGAGEMENT. " it sounds like they are looking for us. But we will see if they want cutting edge or just "edgy! "

In Freedom,
Frank Moore