[NEohioPAL] Reminder: Tri-C Creative Arts seeks artist submissions for "Project Gilgamesh"

[Gloor, Fred]

Greetings Neohiopal!

 

Artists throughout Northeast Ohio are invited to submit original work
for consideration for the April 5 performance of Songbook Unbound: II, a
program being created by the Tri-C Creative Arts Division and the Tri-C
Presents Performing Arts Series.  Deadline for submissions to Songbook
Unbound II is Friday, Feb. 24. 

 

Songbook Unbound will use the world's oldest story, "The Epic of
Gilgamesh," and new music from the Gilgamesh on the Crooked River
Songbook as a launching point for new work. Artists throughout Northeast
Ohio are invited to submit original work including, but not limited to,
dance, music, theater, spoken word/poetry, art/photography and video.
Artists can download the Songbook sheet music and recordings for free to
use as a base to create their own work.  For more information and to
download music and entry guidelines, visit www.projectgilgamesh.com  or
call 216-987-4193. 

 

The work selected will be presented during an April 5 evening
performance hosted by New York City-based composer and violinist Daniel
Bernard Roumain (DBR).  At the performance, three winners, chosen by a
panel of judges and audience feedback, will be announced.  In addition
to cash prizes, winners will receive professional recording sessions,
photo sessions and professional career counseling. 

 

Tri-C commissioned DBR to compose the Gilgamesh on the Crooked River
Songbook, a collection of 14 contemporary songs inspired by the epic.
DBR, a composer-in-residence at Tri-C throughout the 2011-2012 school
year, worked last fall with local professional musicians, Tri-C faculty
and students in various departments to record the songbook at Tri-C's
Center for Creative Arts.  Cleveland writer Margaret Lynch provided the
words, which draw from the epic and stories from her experiences in the
region. 

 

Project Gilgamesh is sponsored by Cuyahoga Community College and made
possible in part by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts
Presenters Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program, funded by the
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council.

 

 

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