FW: Looking for international artists/ collaborations

From: "Marcus Westbury" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:26:46 +1100
To: "me me me" <[email protected]>
Subject: Looking for international artists/ collaborations

Hi,

Next Wave's 2006 Festival will be presented alongside the 2006 Commonwealth
Games and i am actively looking for help finding artists from across the
Commonwealth. The job of finding young, engaged, exciting and challenging
artists from around the world is a big one and i need help, leads and tip
offs. Our job is particularly tricky because we are after the young,
provocative, diverse and exciting not the traditional and predictable or the
usual suspects.

Later this year i will be visiting a stack of Commonwealth countries looking
to meet individuals and organisations who might be interested in getting
involved in our 2006 Festival. I am seeking artists that have an interesting
take on our theme of "Empire Games".Do you know people in one or other of
the cities that i will be visiting who i should meet and may be able to help
me find exciting young artists in the vein of Next Wave?

Specifically do you know anyone in any of the following cities (or places
nearby, it is not entirely locked down at this stage):

Auckland (NZ), Vancouver, Montreal (Canada), Kingston (Jamaica), London
(England), Glasgow (Scotland), Lagos (Nigeria), Johannesburg, Capetown
(South Africa), Nairobi (Kenya), Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata (India), Kuala
Lumpa (Malaysia) and Singapore. Suggestions of people from other
Commonwealth Countries not listed here (see list at the end) or elsewhere in
these countries are also welcome.

The artists that i am looking for could be working in any form (from opera
to hip-hop, from community radio or publishing, digital media to painting or
theatre) as long as they have a take on the world that they live in. If you
know Next Wave what we're after is an international mix of artists in the
same vein. If you don't know Next Wave, have a look at our web site at
www.nextwave.org.au <http://www.nextwave.org.au> . Participating artists
need to be under 30 but I am also very interested to hook up with
individuals, groups, organisations and institutions of any age who might
know where to find such people. We will have some money to fund (or at least
help fund) the costs of bringing them and/or their work here but we are
restricted to artists whose work travels relatively cheaply (i.e.
individuals or small groups without huge sets) or larger groups where their
home country or third party funding sources may be able to help us with some
of the costs.

If you are involved in an organisation in Australia, perhaps there is
someone out there that you are interested in collaborating with and i would
encourage you to talk to us about it.

Please, if you have any suggestions, contacts, tip offs, ideas or whatever
please give me a call on 03 9662 1099 or email me here at
[email protected]. Please get in touch with me if you even have half an
idea. Please forward this on to others who may be able to help -
particularly people in other Commonwealth countries. I would prefer it if
you didn't republish this to web sites or mailing lists at this stage - if
there is somewhere you think we should be posting send me the link to it!

thanks,

Marcus Westbury,
Artistic Director,
Next Wave Festival, 2006.

COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas,
Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Botswana, British Virgin Islands,
Brunei Darussalam, Cameroon, Canada, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Cyprus,
Dominica Roseau, England, Faulkland Islands, Fiji, Ghana, Gibraltar,
Grenada, Guernsey, Guyana, India, Isle of Man, Jamaica, Jersey, Kenya,
Kiribati, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Montserrat,
Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island,
Northern Island, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Scotland, Seychelles,
Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, South
Helena, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent, Swaziland, Tanzania, The
Gambia, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu,
Wales, Zambia

PS Apologies if you get this twice - it is a hastily compiled and one-of
email list!