red, yellow or green FRUIT

I’m up to my eyeballs in tomatoes.  I’m not a morning person, so I don’t always get to the farmers market early.  So, I often have a smaller number of locally-grown options, but this time of year there are always tomatoes — sliced tomatoes, tomato pie, tomato sauce, tomato soup & even sun-dried tomatoes.  This next Call boasts a locally-grown & produced meal as the bonus to possible project funding.  Take a look…

Check out this Call for Proposals from VisArts (Rockville, MD) for Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics (F.E.A.S.T.), a public meal designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund projects that use art & creative thinking to impact the community. Have a project that needs funding?

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CALL for PROPOSALS:
Future Framers F.E.A.S.T.
from VisArts

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ELIGIBILITY:  Open to all artists, thinkers and organizations.  You & your collaborators do not have to live in Rockville to submit a proposal.

MEDIA:  Open to performances, community events, visual, sonic, tactile, olfactory discoveries, documents, parades, paths, maps, participatory actions, poetic data analysis, interviews, stories, games… No project or medium is incongruous with F.E.A.S.T.

THEME:  Future Framers: Envisioning 2040 – Imagine & implement creative actions, events & experiences. Explore alternative economies, architectures, or modes of transportation that might be present in 2040 & beyond. Transform the ordinary into the extra-ordinary. Think long term! Put creative thinking into practice. Give a glimpse of what the future will be or could be. Help envision a sustainable world in the future!  Projects that blend the human and non-human environment with projects that will help frame, visualize & shape the future.

DEADLINE:  August 1, 2017

NOTIFICATION: September 1, 2017.  If you are chosen as a finalist, you must be present in Rockville, MD on September 24th to present your project.

ENTRY FEE:  None

JUDGING:  F.E.A.S.T. is a public meal designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund projects that use art & creative thinking to impact the community.  The meal will take place on September 24th. Patrons will give a donation for which they receive a locally-produced & prepared meal & a ballot. Diners listen to & review project proposals & converse with the thinkers behind each idea.

AWARDS:  F.E.A.S.T. attendees cast a vote for their favorite proposal, and by the end of the event, the artist who garners the most votes is awarded a grant comprised of the event ticket money. 

For complete details, Read the Full Call!