1-7 November, Odisha, India
Deadline: 31 July 2011
The Green World Art & Culture Festival (GWAF) –Odisha is a world initiative led by a Group of Artists and has become an auspicious space for artists across the world that nurtures creativity and imaginative art practice. The GWAF –Odisha seeks to promote cross cultural exchange within the visual practices of the world.
The Festival has been the destination for performing artist around the world for being open and welcoming to artists and has been a venue for participation, exchange, discourse, dialog, debate and a space that is an incubator for contemporary art experimentation that focuses on the process.
The Festival provides space for slide lectures, small conferences, installations, performances, screenings and informal gatherings for artists and the alternative art community.
The Festival has actively been a host for alternative art practices, from the city of Bhubaneswar along the Culture villages and Green luster of the Rural Odisha.
The 2011 Edition will focus on Tree and Life and social issues. The artistic fields concerned by this call are visual art, performing art and music.
Application process
They aim for artists who are looking for a stint in a culturally and environmentally rich state like Odisha, to complete or complement a particular art project. The precise reasons underlying the desire to pursue an artistic project in Odisha should be specified. It is not essential that the project should be completed during the duration of the Festival, but in any case the GWAF –Odisha is mandatory at the end of the Festival. This event should provide the first glimpses into the outcome of the Festival.
As well as pursuing his or her own project, the incumbent will be expected to interact with the local art world.
Find the application procedure here. The application should be sent to: greenworldartfestival@gmail.com
Deadline for application: 31 July 2011. The festival will take place on 1 - 7 November.
For further information, contact GWAF per email at
greenworld.artfestival@gmail.com
http://www.greenworldartfestival.com
