Residencies – Annual Call
Deadline : June 8th, 2023
LA SERRE launches its annual call for resident artists for the 23-24 season.
Intended for emerging local artists, the residencies are closely linked to other projects carried out by the organization. During a whole year, the 10 artists supported will benefit from multi-faceted accompaniment, rooted in a research and creation environment that favors experimentation, free from production expectations.
SUPPORT & ACCOMPANIMENT
Framed by the Nicolas-Viel Park and the Rivière des Prairies, LA SERRE’s studios offer a research environment at the edge of the city, conducive to movement of imagination.
A 2-week residency is offered in the big studio. The support also offers a minimum of 4 meetings regrouping the cohort during the year. These meetings bring together the artists and the LA SERRE team to share organizational and dramaturgical tools, designed to allow the supported projects to flourish. LA SERRE also offers preferential access to its activities throughout the year.
This year, artists will also have the opportunity to use the small studio for about 2 hours per week, and unlimited access, by reservation, to the writing room. Through this initiative, we offer the possibility to modulate creative work in various densities.
Format
- 2 weeks of residency hosted in the “big studio”
- About 2 hours per week in the “small studio” and access to the writing room
- Preferential access to various initiatives proposed by LA SERRE and its partners
- 4 + half-day meetings
- Coworking space all year long
We seek to create lasting and nurturing relationships with the artists who make up our annual resident cohorts. Our home becomes your home, and you are welcome to join us throughout the year in our work spaces above the studios. We look forward to meeting you and enjoying sunny coffees, hearty lunches and focused time with you. We are also open to facilitating outings or exchanges around your residencies.
Projects will be considered regarding their alignment with LA SERRE’s artistic vision, their feasibility, and a consideration of equity in terms of diversity of gender, and communities represented, as well as a balance in artistic disciplines.
LA SERRE values diversity among the artists it supports. We therefore encourage you to voluntarily indicate in your application whether you define yourself as a woman, an indigenous person, a person with a disability, a member of a visible minority or any other marginalized community.
YOU ARE HERE 2023 – Call for proposals
Deadline: June 11th, 2023
In partnership with the Théâtre Aux Écuries, VOUS ÊTES ICI / YOU ARE HERE is an intensive multidisciplinary creation residency dedicated to graduates of the various performing arts programs in the Montreal area. Bringing together young creators in both the francophone and anglophone communities in dance, theater, performance and circus, this event is designed to enable the participants to meet and discover each other’s artistic work. This event is an opportunity for young creators to experiment and deepen their artistic practice through the development of a performance project. YOU ARE HERE is both a meeting place and a panorama of what is to come.
NEW!
- In a spirit of openness, the invitation is open to artists at the start of their career whose path has not been academic.
- Special attention will be paid to “offstage” approaches. This edition will welcome 2 proposals out of the 10 chosen projects, which will take place outside the black box of the theater (cafe, corridors, stairs, elevators, etc.)
COURSE OF ACTION
An initiative of LA SERRE – arts vivants, YOU ARE HERE takes over the various spaces of the theater for a week of intensive residency dedicated to the ideation, research, creation and dramaturgical development of a performance project. The 9th edition will be held from October 29 to November 5, 2023. LA SERRE’s team accompanies the participants all week, at the end of which will take place three evenings of performances, between November 2 and 5. Audience members are invited to walk around and discover the different 10 minute forms. Feedback sessions will be held so that the artistic teams can gather constructive feedback for the continuation of their work. A preparatory day will take place on Tuesday September 12th.
PROCEDURE
This call for applications is open to graduates of performing arts programs in the Montreal metropolitan area. Applicants must explain their artistic approach and their residency project (500 words max). 10 projects – including 2 “offstage” will be chosen to participate in the event. The selection committee is made up of the artistic team of LA SERRE – arts vivants and former participants of VOUS ÊTES ICI/YOU ARE HERE. The committee will choose projects based on their artistic quality and feasibility. It will be attentive to presenting a variety of artistic disciplines and to the equity offered (capacity, cultural and gender).
Eligibility Criteria
- To be a graduate of an art school in the metropolitan area in 2023 or have an equivalent alternative experience
- To be fully available from October 29 to November 5 + 1 preparatory day (September 12th)
- To complete the online form before June 11, 2023 at 11:59 p.m.
OFFTA 2024 – Call for proposals
Upcoming
The OFFTA team is currently seeking proposals for the programming of its 17th edition, which will be held in late May/early June 2023.
This festival allows artists to share performances that displace festival-goers and open up new artistic spaces. The works which will be supported will question, transform and resist preconceptions. OFFTA offers a platform to emerging artists who, neither seeking consensus nor speaking with one voice, deploy their pluralities and contribute to the renewal of established models.
Following a reflection on our resources and the needs of the milieu, we are taking the decision to further distinguish 2 types of projects presented.
Read more about the call
On the one hand, we will welcome finished projects, that are ready to tour. These projects will be presented as completed. Their creation periods will have been fully realized. They will be presented in the appropriate technical conditions to appreciate their full potential. Fees offered per finished project range from $1,400 to $3,000 for the full series of performances. The size of the teams involved in the performances and the agreed number of performances will inform the final fee offered per project.
In a second part, the festival will present works in progress. These projects, still in development, will have the chance to be shared with festivalgoers, peer artists and professionals of the milieu in a benevolent context. These first stages of work, open studios or tests could be presented during grouped programs. They will have light technical means. It is the opportunity to test, experiment, share one’s approach and to find feedback and support from the communities involved. Fees offered per work in progress projects range from $300 to $800 for the full series of performances. The size of the teams involved in the performances and the agreed number of performances will inform the final fee offered per project.
This formula, which was in place but more discreet in the last editions, will enable, we hope, a renewed audacity, while still respecting the distinct development phases of live arts projects. It will allow OFFTA to reaffirm its pioneering and irreverent nature while connecting emerging practices to eager festival-goers. This orientation was taken to respect the resources available to the organization and recognize the artistic teams’ work in a more equitable way.
The call is therefore open to all forms: “atypical projects that don’t fit anywhere”, completed shows, reruns, first stages or creations, laboratories, indoor or outdoor site-specific performances, remote, online and offline performances, conferences etc.
Our call is open to all Canadian projects. However, travel and accommodation costs to Mooniyang/Montreal/Tio’tia:ke cannot be covered by the OFFTA.
A committee of peers appointed by the Artistic Director, Claudel Doucet, will select the projects to be supported. The committee will give a particular consideration to projects that demonstrate:
- Transformative experiences that stand out in advancing the practices and careers of the artists and collaborators in question.
- Audacity and innovation.
- Disciplinary merging, or proposals with distinctive compositions.
- Collaborative methodologies and respectful dialogue.
- Practices that are informed by and engaged with their communities or contemporary realities.
- Projects that are compatible with the festival’s mission and resources.
- Diversity of art forms, realities and cultures represented.
The OFFTA affirms its support for historically underrepresented voices and marginalized identities.
To foster an inclusive selection process, LA SERRE is available to accompany artists who may face accessibility barriers in submitting their application.
Rules and regulations of the applications
OFFTA 2023 | Call for proposals | Form
Complete the form by November 1st, 2022 at 11:59 pm.
Make sure your application includes the following:
- A description of the project
- In 750 words (maximum) or in the form of a short video/audio recording (5 minutes) introduce your artistic process and project.
*Supported formats: pdf; jpg; links to online video and audio platforms. - We invite you to present, for example:
- The origins of your process: From what anchors is it articulated?
- An explanation of where you are at in your creative process: What are the stages already completed and those that are remaining to complete your project?
- The themes and/or techniques that flow through your work: What materials do you work with?
- The way you plan to engage with the public: What sort of experience do you want to foster? How does it take place concretely?
- Your philosophical approach to artistic creation and its processes, particularly in relation to this project: How does it find its relevance and/or meaning?
- A contextualization of this project at the OFFTA: In what way would this platform be favorable to it? What would you like to test, experiment and share?
- The support (financial, institutional, etc.) that you already have for the project, if applicable.
- Any other information that you consider essential to the understanding of your project!
- In 750 words (maximum) or in the form of a short video/audio recording (5 minutes) introduce your artistic process and project.
- Visual material: photos and video of the project (for video, attach a YouTube or Vimeo link to your application in section “02. Title – Screener”; if the clip is longer than 5 minutes, include viewing notes and specify which parts to watch.)
- Short biographies of the participating artists and a brief history of the company (if applicable.)
- Preliminary technical specifications (rider), including: stage/room ratio; dimensions of the stage space; dance floor and black or white box; use of projections, microphones, lighting effects, live instruments and/or live camera, set elements, etc.
- If your project includes text, please attach a synopsis or excerpt of no more than 5 pages.
Terms and conditions
- Only one project per submission (no double bill)
- The form must be completed before November 1st 2022 at 11:59 pm
- Only fully completed applications are accepted
- Only applications from artists or companies based in Canada are accepted
- The management and the selection committee reserve the right not to comment their decisions
- The decision will be communicated by the end of January 2023
- A fee of $20 (taxes included) per project submission is applicable, to cover the administrative costs related to the use of the platform. *Note that we are working to find an alternative to reduce registration costs.
*Make sure your application is complete before submitting your project.
OFFTA 2024 – Call for proposals
Deadline: Upcoming
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