[NetBehaviour] Pulse Fringe Festival 2008.

[marc garrett]

Pulse Fringe Festival 2008.

http://www.pulsefringe.com/

Call for artists
The PULSE FRINGE FESTIVAL is a multi-disciplinary festival of 
contemporary performing arts providing an annual platform for the most 
innovative and fresh theatre, visual arts, dance, live art, mixed media 
and music. PULSE celebrates new and emerging artists and fresh 
approaches to performance in all disciplines, nurturing artistic 
ambition and excellence and showcasing the most cutting-edge, 
boundary-breaking performing arts from the region and beyond.

As with the performance strand of this year's PULSE the organisers are 
very keen to offer opportunities to emerging artists who intend on using 
the festival to further the development of their career. They are 
particularly interested in hearing from artists with work in development 
that want to put it 'out there' for the first time.

The Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich are looking for artists to participate 
in a 2-week long contemporary art project. The final project format will 
be curated from the applications received with works being considered 
for display across gallery, theatre (main house & studio) and public 
spaces. This flexible approach provides the chance to build a project 
from the submissions. Responding to the breadth of work submitted to 
deliver interesting and surprising outcomes.

Existing work and proposals for new work will be accepted across all 
media however applicants must realise that due to limited financial 
resources there is no financial support available for the making of new 
work and artists fees. Through the opportunity advertising, marketing, 
venue(s), technical and curatorial support will be provided.

Deadline for submissions: Mon 18 Feb 2008.
Confirmation of offers: after Fri 22 Feb 2008.

Notes for applicants:

Applicants are expected to consider the spaces prior to preparing an 
application. It is very important that they think about the limitations 
imposed by the venues as some modes of display and installation might 
pose problematic. Building information, plans and images available from 
the Town Hall Galleries website & the Wolsey Theatre website

Venue description:

The Town Hall Galleries are housed within a Victorian civic building 
located in the heart of Ipswich. The main interior space (Gallery 1) was 
an old courtroom before being used as a Council Chamber. It is defined 
by characteristic high ceilings and a central glass dome, and has some 
architectural features such as columns and plasterwork. There is a 
permanent long plinth that bridges a staged area and the main gallery 
floor (clues to the rooms past as a courtroom). Two other gallery spaces 
occupy the building. Gallery 2 is an exhibition/ retail space for 
Suffolk Craft Society makers, and Gallery 3 is managed by Colchester and 
Ipswich Museums and hosts community heritage projects.
Please note the galleries will be closed from Tue 4 Mar 2008 until the 
opening of PULSE. Those wishing to view should contact the gallery, 
01473 432863 / visualarts at ipswich.gov.uk

The New Wolsey Theatre on Civic Drive is a 400 seat theatre which 
presents a diverse range of work. The theatre is a PULSE performance 
venue and in 2008 the front-of-house areas will be used as display space 
for contemporary art.

The New Wolsey Studio on St George's Street is the central PULSE venue. 
The auditorium seats 100 but the foyer on the ground floor will become a 
display space for contemporary art.
Visit the Wolsey Theatre website

Public spaces. The New Wolsey hopes to use its outdoor terrace as a 
PULSE performance space and as a display space for works of art. If your 
submission is for an outdoor piece please consider security and safety. 
Smaller pieces may be moved indoors at night but ideally outdoor work 
should be in position for the period of the festival.