Radical Vulvas: General Performer Call-Out

[simone]

Radical Vulvas: General Performer Call-Out



Hey!
Are you interested in performing in, contributing to, or attending the following? If so, please email radicalvulvasottawa@gmail.com – we would love to have you!



"The Radical Vulvas" originated in 2007 in Halifax, at the Dalhousie University Women's Centre. It is a community response to the Vagina Monologues: a play that started a necessary dialogue about what we experience as women, but a dialogue that should absolutely not end there, or be limited only to a certain kind of woman, or limit itself to women at all. The Radical Vulvas aims to be a multi-disciplinary art and discussion forum, enabling further discourse about women's experiences and gender issues. As such, we are inviting anyone and everyone to express themselves, through any medium (song, monologue/dialogue, poetry, theatre, visual art, dance, performance, etc.) on the subject of women. As a "write your own" production, the Radical Vulvas is whatever the community makes of it. Since its original performance in Halifax, it has been performed in Victoria, BC., and in Montreal for International Women's Day. We hope that this fourth incarnation in Ottawa will be an empowering evening of respectful communication and a celebration of women everywhere.



The event itself will take place on Sunday, August 10th at Club SAW, 67 Nicholas Street. If you would like to perform or participate, wonderful! We are accepting submissions by email until July 25th. Please send either a copy of your text or a sound recording to radicalvulvasottawa@gmail.com. If your piece does not include text, or if the bulk of your piece is made up of some other element, a description of your piece and what you are communicating would be ideal. You can perform original work or someone else's work, or they can perform yours; whatever makes you comfortable. We would also like to emphasize the visual arts at the Ottawa show, and are looking to display paintings, photography, etc.



Performance submissions should be under ten minutes. If you are interested in performing but are unable to meet the July 25th submission deadline, please contact us anyway, as soon as possible, so that we can do our best to include you! Questions or comments can also be directed to us via email.



Thank you!



Andrea deBruijn and Allison Chick