Open Call ⠏ctober Surprise

http://www.theoctobersurprise.org/

What:

- October Surprise will converge artists, activists and the community to celebrate our neighborhoods and strengthen creative, grassroots power, using site-specific installations, interventions, art, monuments, performance, and other events.


- Projects will be situated throughout the neighborhood.


Where:

-We are calling for projects throughout Northeast LA… along the boulevards and arroyos; in the public spaces, community places and private homes.


-The Arroyo Arts Collective at 135 N. Ave. 50 in Highland Park will serve as a convergence, or meeting space, where participants can present and discuss their work. Additionally, we are interested in hosting pertinent lectures. And though the gallery space can be used to present documentation of projects and ideas, we are specifically looking for site-specific projects throughout the neighborhood.


When:

-Projects will occur on the long weekend of October 8, 9, 10 and 11, 2004. Documentation of the events will remain in the gallery through October into the first week of November and Election Day. (Ongoing projects are encouraged.)


Why:

-We hope to help reveal a city to itself and energize its communities. One month before the election, we are organizing this event to show where democracy really lives–in our neighborhoods, streets and homes. Now is as good a time as any to strengthen political and cultural discussions where it really counts–at the grassroots.


How:

-Send us a proposal by August 18th. This is a non-juried exhibition but we would like to have a basic participants list for organizational purposes.


Contact us with questions and proposals:
email: [email protected]
ph: 323-449-9019 (English)
ph: 323-227-5861 (Espanol)


or mail proposals to:
October Surprise
c/o Flor y Canto
3706 N. Figueroa Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90065

http://www.theoctobersurprise.org/