With the goal of developing puppetry, bringing together and exchanging contemporary practices between puppeteers from various backgrounds, Casteliers, the Montr\u00e9al Arts Council (Conseil des arts de Montr\u00e9al-CAM) and Puppet Showplace Theater are partnering to offer a creative cross-residency for professional puppeteers. For the third edition of this project, the selected Montr\u00e9al artist will stay in the United States, in the city of Brookline. In return, Montr\u00e9al will host an American puppeteer.<\/p>\n
Applications are due November 5, 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n Casteliers is the project leader of the Montr\u00e9al residency, while Puppet Showplace Theater is the project leader of the American residency.<\/p>\n The creative research residency will last for twenty-eight (28) days. It will take place in Montr\u00e9al from March 3 to 31, 2019 and in Brookline (MA) from mid-March to mid-April 2019.<\/p>\n The cross-residency was developed with the following objectives in mind:<\/p>\n This project will receive submissions from professional puppeteers [1]<\/a> from Montr\u00e9al and\u00a0New England who have worked in professional puppetry arts for a minimum of five (5) years and whose experience is recognized at the national or international levels.<\/p>\n Montr\u00e9al candidates must:<\/p>\n American candidates must:<\/p>\n [1]<\/a> A \u201cprofessional puppeteer\u201d is an artist that has acquired his or her basic training and whose qualifications are now recognized by his or her peers. Such an artist also creates and performs creative works in a professional setting, devotes most of his or her creative time to the art form and receives compensation for the works created and performed.<\/p>\n Applications will be evaluated based on the following criteria:<\/p>\n Applications will be assessed by a six member committee composed of three (3) artists from each country whose expertise is recognized in the field of puppetry arts.<\/p>\n Deadline for applications<\/strong> submitted by Montr\u00e9al-based puppeteers who wish to participate in a creative research residency in New England: Monday, November 5, 2018<\/strong>, before midnight. Applications must be submitted by e-mail\u00a0to Casteliers at: direction@casteliers.ca<\/a><\/p>\n Deadline for applications<\/strong> submitted by US-based puppeteers who wish to attend a creative research residency in Montr\u00e9al: Monday, November 5, 2018<\/strong>, before midnight. Applications must be submitted by e-mail to Puppet Showplace Theater at: artistic@puppetshowplace.org<\/a><\/p>\n Incomplete applications or applications received after the November 5\u00a0 deadline will not be considered.<\/p>\n Decisions will be announced at the end of November 2018.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Casteliers<\/strong>\n
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\nLouise Lapointe
\nGeneral Artistic Director
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