Note: dead­line is now passed.

Thank you to everyone who responded to our open call for proposals.

In July 2015, the Cana­di­an New Music Net­work launched a CALL FOR PROPOSALS for the 7th nation­al FORUM being held Jan­u­ary 14 to 17, 2016 in Ottawa.

We received 19 appli­ca­tions from all around the coun­try, rep­re­sent­ing a great vari­ety of cre­ative inter­ests. The com­pe­ti­tion was very strong.  A bilin­gual inde­pen­dent jury com­posed of a diverse group of five new music pro­fes­sion­als from across Cana­da reviewed every appli­ca­tion, and they remarked on the con­sis­tent­ly high, pro­fes­sion­al qual­i­ty of the sub­mis­sions. After the jury made their short list of top rec­om­men­da­tions, the steer­ing com­mit­tee took this list and tried to inte­grate as many of them as pos­si­ble into the sched­ule. Faced with only so many time slots avail­able, and so many won­der­ful pro­pos­als, it was a dif­fi­cult task indeed.

The fol­low­ing peo­ple were invited:

• Sarah Albu – Vocal­ist (Mon­tre­al, QC)
• Ruby Kato Attwood – Vocal­ist Artist (Mon­tre­al, QC)
• Erin Bar­d­ua and Mau­reen Batt – Co-Artis­tic Direc­tors, Essen­tial Opera (Hal­i­fax, NS)
• Sandeep Bagh­wati – Com­pos­er Direc­tor, matral­ab (Mon­tre­al, QC)
• Jonathan Gold­man – Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Musi­col­o­gy, Fac­ul­ty of Music, Uni­ver­sité de Mon­tréal • Edi­tor-in-chief, Cir­cuit, musiques con­tem­po­raines (Mon­tre­al, QC)
• Kiya Tabass­ian – Artis­tic Direc­tor, Con­stan­tino­ple Com­pos­er • Setar (Mon­tre­al, QC)
• Tim Crouch and Mon­i­ca Pearce – Toy Piano Com­posers (Toron­to, ON)
• Frank Hor­vat – Com­pos­er Pianist (Toron­to, ON)
• Robert Tay­lor and Edwin Lai – Toron­to Lap­top Orches­tra (TOLOrk) (Toron­to, ON)
• Simon Mar­tin – Com­pos­er Artis­tic Direc­tor, Pro­jec­tions libérantes (Mon­tre­al, QC)
• Char­lotte Mundy – Sopra­no (New York, NY)
• Luke Nick­el – Com­pos­er Co-Direc­tor, Clus­ter: New Music + Inte­grat­ed Arts Fes­ti­val (Win­nipeg, MB)
• Juli­et Palmer – Com­pos­er Artis­tic Direc­tor, Urban­ves­sel (Toron­to, ON)
• Jer­ry Per­gole­si – Artis­tic Direc­tor, Con­tact Con­tem­po­rary Music (Toron­to, ON)
• Isabel­la Ste­fanes­cu – Visu­al and Media Artist Artis­tic Direc­tor, Inter Arts Matrix (Kitchener/Waterloo, ON)

The Cana­di­an New Music Net­work has launched a CALL FOR PROPOSALS for the 7th nation­al FORUM being held Jan­u­ary 14 to 17, 2016 in Ottawa.

THE CONTEXT

Pro­pos­als should build around the under­stand­ing of the following:

(1) We’re look­ing for pro­gram­ming pro­pos­als from every­one! The goal of our FORUMs is to cre­ate greater net­work­ing and devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties for the entire new music com­mu­ni­ty – artis­tic direc­tors, per­form­ers, impro­vis­ers, com­posers, edu­ca­tors, pre­sen­ters, researchers, arts admin­is­tra­tors, artist man­agers, pro­duc­ers, pub­lish­ers and all oth­er new music practitioners.

(2) The FORUM is nei­ther an aca­d­e­m­ic con­fer­ence nor an arts market/showcase; it’s a hybrid that seeks to cre­ate con­nec­tions for every­one work­ing in the new music field. Con­sult our web site for infor­ma­tion on pre­vi­ous FORUMs.

(3) The FORUM 2016 theme is New Music and the Main­stream, which can be tak­en in many diverse direc­tions: the inter­sec­tions between the pop­u­lar and the not-so-pop­u­lar; the mech­a­nisms and process­es behind the dis­tri­b­u­tion, con­sump­tion and pro­mo­tion of main­stream and new music; ques­tions about soci­ety as a whole, and much more. Con­sult the front-page sec­tion for fur­ther ideas relat­ed to the theme. If you have a burn­ing issue, demon­stra­tion, work­shop or oth­er type of activ­i­ty along the lines of the theme to pro­pose, please send it in. Even if you have a fab­u­lous idea that’s not theme-relat­ed, shoot that our way too. We’re very open and are look­ing for a wide diver­si­ty of proposals.

THE OPPORTUNITIES

15 min., 30 min., or 45 min. time slots are available.

What for­mats to use for what time slots? Here are just some ideas:

15 min. slots:

• A pas­sion­ate mini-talk – about your research, expe­ri­ences or ideas.
• A pub­lic con­ver­sa­tion or inter­view between two inter­est­ing people.
• A per­for­mance-demon­stra­tion (but not a concert).
• Guide a quick & sim­ple bond­ing activ­i­ty that pro­vides atten­dees oppor­tu­ni­ty to get to know each oth­er in a dif­fer­ent way oth­er than talk­ing. A great way to refresh everyone’s ener­gy between the “blah blah blah” that takes place. This could include musi­cal improv or some­thing entire­ly different.

30 or 45 min. slots:

• A hands-on work­shop that teach­es atten­dees some­thing interesting.
• Mod­er­at­ing a group activ­i­ty that encour­ages direct par­tic­i­pa­tion of FORUM atten­dees around a spe­cif­ic goal.
• Facil­i­tat­ing a net­work­ing activ­i­ty for atten­dees to get feed­back or engage oth­ers regard­ing their projects or interests.

Note:

• Include time for Q & A or open dis­cus­sion, when appropriate.
• No panels/round tables: these are already being programmed.

THE TERMS

• Slots are lim­it­ed. The FORUM 2016 steer­ing com­mit­tee makes pro­gram­ming deci­sions – all deci­sions are final.
• Activ­i­ties involv­ing mul­ti­ple peo­ple: all par­ties must con­sent and take part in the application.
• Appli­cants whose pro­pos­als are accept­ed will be required to reg­is­ter for the FORUM.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Sub­mis­sion dead­line Sep­tem­ber 4, 2015

Email your sub­mis­sion to Emi­ly Hall – admin@reseaumusiquesnouvelles.ca
Include, as ONE PDF FILE:

• Con­tact information
• 1‑page out­line (indi­cate time slot dura­tion as well as format)
• 200 word bio(s)
• List of tech­ni­cal require­ments (equip­ment you will need, how much space, how much set-up time)
• Equip­ment & pro­duc­tion bud­get (if applicable)
• IMPORTANT: We do not accept oth­er attach­ments or down­loads. If nec­es­sary, pro­vide direct links to stream­ing audio or video (Sound­cloud, YOUTUBE, Web­site, etc.). ie. NO drop­box link or MP3 email attachment.

Accep­tance noti­fi­ca­tion: Oct. 15, 2015.

p.s. Please help spread the news. Share this web page URL through email, social media, newslet­ters, etc.. A bilin­gual print-friend­ly announce­ment is avail­able — FORUM 2016 OPEN CALL (PDF) — for doors, notice boards, etc..