Voting With The Underground (artist submissions)

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VOTING WITH THE UNDERGROUND
http://www.votingwiththeunderground.org/

Download (.pdf)
Artist Submission Form (protect your work!)
http://www.fluttermusic.com/images/flyers/CopyrightFormArtists.pdf


SHOUT OUT YOUR DESIRE FOR CHANGE!
Do you have a literary or audio work that showcases your right to
expression and emphasizes freedom of speech? A work that highlights the
power of voicing yourself through voting or encourages others to take
action? Maybe a work that celebrates the democratic power of the
individual? We would like to use that work and your voice - in order to
help others speak up!

We are Voting with the Underground (a division of the Creative America
Project), a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to turning up this
generations political volume by promoting voter registration and the need
for free expression. We hope to achieve this through words and verse in
the distribution of a CD and literary booklet of local independent artists
(ahem: you), culminating in a pre-election live show in September 2004.
Local businesses who share in our goal of a democracy for and by the
people, will be funding the media and show, joining their logos with our
voices in the product.

Contributors include a variety of talented local thinkers; musicians,
poets, essayists, wordsmiths of the page, the stage, and the studio. The
core of our mission is to get our voices off the page and into the ears of
those in office. Therefore, the booklet, filled with powerful and
provocative pieces, will also include a mail-in voter registration form
that works to raise the readers voices, too! If you would like a louder
platform for your voice to encourage a platform for others, this is the
way to do it:

DEADLINE: July 31st, 2004. Firm.
SEND TO: Flutter Music P.O. Box 4544 Chicago, IL 60680
ALL text-based submissions: [email protected]

FORMAT: Literature for the booklet: Must be received in completed typed
form, the way it would be seen on the page, preferably in a computer
friendly format. The easier it is to read and use, the more efficiently
your vision can be published. Booklet will be 5.5 width X 8.5 height.
Audio recordings: Must be mixed down into a usable mp3 or .wav format.



GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR EFFICIENCY: Please keep in mind two things: 1) We
have a limit to what we can use on this project. Some of you may be turned
down, simply due to lack of space. 2) In order to be effective
in promoting our cause we must keep it clear: this project is about
voting. Effective voting comes from informed voters. Information comes
from free expression. Free expression needs protection.


GUIDELINES FOR CONTENT: Wash. Rinse. Repeat: Stick to the issues! The last
thing we want to do is confuse or alienate people. We are looking for art
that most effectively motivates people to speak up. At its best, art can
speak its message in a myriad of tongues to a myriad of people, without
being overly pedantic or offensive. Were looking for that art. If you want
to give a particular office-holder pointers on satisfying himself or
herself, go ahead! but we probably wont use it, even if we like it. This
is about emphasizing the power of a voice and a vote, not about outright
trashing someone else.

TALENT: Love it, use it, treat it nicely and then show it to us! We want
the underground music and literary scene to be showcased as the talented
and professional people that we are. Make sure your recording is the best
it can be. We want people to say Damn, thats a nice thinkin, fine soundin
underground we have there! (You get the point)


PROTECTING THE PROTECTION OF SPEECH: The compilation will be copyrighted
as a whole entity and your rights will be protected. You will be given
copyright credits for your particular contribution. We assume you own the
copyright and, if you dont, we will fully direct any inquiries to you.
Save the arguments and our project!

COMPENSATION: The exposure of your thoughts and art and the knowledge that
you have made a difference.


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