Deadline: 30 May 2012
Savanna Trust in collaboration with the University of Zimbabwe Theatre Arts Department invites artists, media experts, civic society leaders, academics and human rights activist to submit abstracts and performance/exhibition/film/workshop proposals for the 4th protest Arts International Festival. The theme for this year is “Protest Arts, Culture and Democracy: Imagining and inventing the future.”
Festival symposium sub-theme:
· Crisis protest arts and democratic engagement
· Imagining alternative spaces, venues and audiences for protest arts
· Protest arts, innovation and aesthetic excellence for the 21st Century
· The media and protest arts: prospects and challenges for the future
· Aesthetics of protest and the politics of transition and constitution-making process
· Protest arts and the struggle of the everyday: gender, race, ethnicity and classism.
· Artistic/aesthetic dimensions of protest marches and demonstrations: Prospects and challenges
· Globalisation and Protest Arts: The present and the future
· Arts, culture, religion and the prophetic voice for democracy
Submission of abstracts of performance/workshop/exhibition proposals
Abstracts and proposals of between 200 and 350 words should be e-mailed, not later than 30 May 2012 to paifst@gmail.com
Note: Due to overwhelming interest in the festival the organisers are unable to fund travel and accommodation for all successful regional and international participants. However, the festival will assist prospective participants who want support letters etc. to secure own funding.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For enquiries/ submissions: paifst@gmail.com
Website: http://www.savannatrust.org/