[Cwgrad-announcements] Call to Artists: Sins Invalid Performance Projects 2009 - April 25 deadline

[Ching-In Chen]

     [image: Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of
Invisibility]
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*CALL TO ARTISTS
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Sins Invalid is seeking submissions from performers, writers, visual artists
and other cultural workers on topics of disability and sexuality for
relationship-building and future collaboration.

This call is open to all artists familiar with the experience of disability,
especially artists from queer communities and/or communities of color.
Submissions can include all types of artistic expression – performance art,
video, spoken word, dance, storytelling, song, visual media, and words on
page – whose core expresses sexuality, power, healing, embodiment and
activism.

We define disability broadly to include physical impairments, sensory
minorities, emotional disabilities, cognitive challenges, chronic/severe
illness, and others whose bodies do not conform to our culture(s)’ idea of
“normal” or “functional.”

Sins Invalid began in 2006 as a performance project that incubates and
celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color, queer
and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically
marginalized.   In 2007-2008, Sins Invalid grew to include an annual show,
community-based performance workshops, political education workshops, and
our growing presence online at
www.sinsinvalid.org<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=57975443&msgid=730061&act=XY9V&c=347157&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sinsinvalid.org>
.

Submissions will be looked at for all Sins Invalid projects, including
performances, workshops, online blog, and possible printed media and/or
visual art shows.

Please submit a CD or DVD of your work (those submitting written work for
publication can email or send a hard copy), along with a short personal
statement about why you are interested in working with Sins Invalid, and how
your work relates to issues of sexuality and disability.

Sins Invalid Submissions
c/o 1370 University Ave. #316
Berkeley, CA 94702

Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope if you want your work
returned to you.  We will contact you to confirm receipt of your work. If
you do not have examples of your work on CD/DVD, please contact us for
alternate formats.

*Deadline for entries:  Received by April 25, 2009.
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Please feel free to email any questions to
info at sinsinvalid.org<info at sinsinvalid.org?subject=Call%20to%20Artists%202009>or
call
(510) 689-7198







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Ching-In Chen
THE HEART'S TRAFFIC (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press 2009)
www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp
www.chinginchen.com
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