11/15/2017
Open Call for Modern Artistic Latinx Performances:
The National Park Service and Los Paisanos de El Chamizal seek individuals/small companies that perform modern period, Latin artistic productions - plays, dance, music, to be staged at Chamizal National Memorial, El Paso, Texas during the International Siglo de Oro Drama Festival, April 7 to April 15, 2018.
The Siglo de Oro will be celebrating its 43rd continuous year in 2018. The Festival brings theatre companies from all over the world to perform works from the 16th and 17th centuries, known as the Golden Age of Spanish art and culture; however, this year we are expanding the festival to include modern works.
Chamizal National Memorial, a unit of the National Park Service, commemorates the peaceful resolution of a long standing border dispute between the United States and Mexico. The park is dedicated to its mission of international understanding and cooperation through artistic, cultural and historic programming. It is not only an ideal place for theatrical classics to be performed, in order to discover and explore the richness of the Spanish heritage of our bi-cultural, bi-national community, but, with this expansion into Latinx performance, it will also provide insights to our world today.
Additional Information on Chamizal National Memorial and Los Paisanos de El Chamizal:
www.nuevosiglo-elpaso.org
www.los-paisanos-chamizal.org
www.nps.gov/Cham
Applications must be sent to [email protected] and be submitted by December 15, 2017. Selections will be made by January 10, 2018.
Application:
Contact Information:
• Name of contact person:
• Telephone number for contact person:
• Email for contact person:
• Address where documents can be received:
Company Information:
• Name of company or creator:
• Artistic genre:
• Title of proposed production:
• Name of Playwright, Choreographer, Composer, etc.:
• Synopsis (3 lines)
• Number of Company Members
• Requested payment
• Webpage or Facebook address
Submission of Costs:
• Transportation costs to El Paso, Texas, and return
• Per Diem expenses
• Other costs (please itemize)
What the Chamizal National Memorial Offers:
• Payments to be made post Performance
• Travel costs (please include with your application)
• Travel to and from El Paso Airport
• Housing will be provided in El Paso, Texas for the night before and the night of performances and should not be included in your submission of costs
• Theater technicians will be provided (Lighting, Sound, etc.)
• Assistance with props and staging
• Contracts must be signed and returned prior to incurring any costs.
• Limited green room hospitality
• Festival sound and light plot (shared)
Obligations of the submitting Companies:
• Travel arrangements to and from El Paso, Texas
• Visa requirements for companies coming from outside the United States
• Preference will be given to historic themes highlighting cooperation between the United States and Mexico.
• Costumes
• Props which can not be easily obtained with Chamizal assistance
• The decisions of the committee on the selection of productions will be based on the experience of the company, the cost of the production, and the preferences listed. The committee will include the Chamizal Superintendent, scholars in Hispanic Classical Theater, and members of Los Paisanos de El Chamizal
• The decision of the committee will not be subject to appeal
Image Rights:
• Those selected accept and authorize that they may appear in images (videos, photographs, etc.) taken in the spaces of Chamizal National Memorial for the Chamizal’s educational, informative and promotional dissemination.
Data Protection:
• In order to manage this call and to provide documentation, the participants accept that the personal data provided in connection with this call are incorporated into a file at Chamizal National Memorial and Los Paisanos de El Chamizal.
Chamizal National Memorial
800 S. San Marcial Street
El Paso, Texas, 79905-4123
915 532-7273
www.nps.gov/Cham
