A YEAR AT OZ, creates a special partnership between SLANT and OZ Arts Nashville
SLANT is seeking creative, motivated teen applicants for “A Year at Oz,” a unique, year-long artistic opportunity that combines the worlds of literary and visual art. If you like writing and art, check this out. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, and it’s free!
Oz Arts Nashville is a non-profit arts organization that uses a renovated former cigar warehouse to host large-scale artistic performances. Past shows have included musicians, puppeteers, visual artists, dance companies and more. Most OZ performance blend several types of art to create a unique mixture of sights, sounds, and motion.
If selected for the project, you will attend, free of charge, Oz Arts Nashville’s entire 2018-2019 performance season, including works by Phantom Limb Company, New Dialect, Kronos Quartet, and others.
Along with the other teens selected, limited to five writers, you’ll create new pieces of creative writing in response to each performance. Your group will work closely with SLANT director Joe Kane, who will provide writing exercises and background info to help put each performance into context and get your creative wheels turning. We’ll also meet for several group discussions to offer each other suggestions and inspiration.
Work created for this project may take many forms: poetry, narrative, hybrid forms, critical essay, participatory journalism, spoken word, and more. We are interested in discovering what the experience of each performance inspires you to write.
If selected, you must commit to attending the full 2018-2019 Oz Arts season and producing at least one written work for each performance. Here is a list of performances we will be attending. Some performances will be playing for two or three nights, and you can choose which night you’d like to attend; some performances are one night only.
Oct. 12 – 13: Falling Out
Nov. 15: Ghosted
Dec. 14 – 15: Ink
Dec. 19: The Longest Night
Feb. 22 – 24: The Triangle & Girls
March 22 – 23: A Thousand Thoughts
May 8: Papalagui
June 13: The HEARD Live!
“A Year at Oz” is completely free for participants and limited to five writers. Anyone age 13–18 may apply. Deadline for applications: Wednesday, September 5.
TO APPLY, PLEASE SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING TO [email protected] BY SEPTEMBER 5:
1) A statement of interest, max 500 words, that discusses: your background in writing and why writing in response to performing arts appeals to you.
2) A sample of your creative writing. This could be a story, a poem (or several poems), a piece of nonfiction, a piece of journalism, or something else. If you have a piece of writing that expresses your artistic style but doesn’t fit one of those categories, that’s okay. Send it. We have open minds.
Direct any questions to [email protected]. |
