2012  Puppet  Slam  Survey   Due  Thursday,  September  1st,  2011  by  email  to  [email protected]  

You have been invited to apply for a 2012 Puppet Slam Grant. Grants in the amount of $2,000 are available to qualified puppet slams through the Puppet Slam Network, administered by Heather st Hensonʼs IBEX Puppetry. Slam Surveys are due by email no later than September 1 , 2011 (NO EXCEPTIONS). For the purposes of the Slam Grant, the Slam Survey, and the Puppet Slam Network (PSN), we define a Puppet Slam as: A live puppet slam, cabaret, or evening of short-form puppetry and/or object theatre for adult audiences from a variety of artists. What we do not fund: Puppet film screenings Long-Form puppetry / Full-length productions, evenings of 1 artist or company Shows for children, or shows advertised as “all ages” or “family friendly” Workshops or Educational activities Entire festivals (which happen to contain Puppet Slams) Festival, Organization, Theatre Company, Puppetry Department overhead costs Variety evenings that are not predominantly live puppet and/or object theatre Parades or outdoor events The purpose of the Slam Grant is to support Puppet Slams. In the past, many of the Puppet Slams in the PSN have used the funding to pay for costs directly related to puppet slams, including publicity materials, programs, flyers, domain name registration, equipment rental, essential technician fees, small stipends for performers, or a cast meal the night of the show. For clarification, if your Puppet Slam is part of a larger festival, organization, or educational institution, we will only be funding the Puppet Slam and not the larger festival, organization, or educational institution. If your slam is part of a larger festival, organization, or educational institution, please make a clear delineation where the money is spent. Use these funds directly on costs of your puppet slam and not for the overall operation of your organization, festival, or institution. To qualify for a Slam Grant, your Puppet Slam must be working with a Fiscal Recipient in the US. Your Fiscal Recipient must agree to receive the Slam Grant and distribute the funds to your puppet slam as to the terms of your particular arrangement. If you are a first time applicant, did not receive a grant last year, or have recently changed your Fiscal Recipient, we ask that your Fiscal Recipient send us a brief email that documents your agreement to work together. If accepted, funding will be sent to your Fiscal Recipient at the beginning of 2012. We also recommend that you look for additional sources of funding, good will, and sponsorship to support your Puppet Slam. Please email us back the Survey to [email protected] along with Photo st Documentation, by Thursday September 1 , 2011. We will only be accepting Surveys returned by email in Word .doc format with Photo Documentation sent as Jpegs in 3 separate emails. Please know that although we have made exceptions in the past, we will not be accepting late Surveys or materials in any other form besides an emailed Word .doc and .jpg Photo Documentation.

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2012  Puppet  Slam  Survey   Due  Thursday,  September  1st,  2011  by  email  to  [email protected]  

We will not be accepting printed Surveys, handwritten Surveys, or Surveys completed in other file formats. If you do not have Word, you can download a demo version to fill out the Survey with. If you are not familiar with Word, please make time in advance of the deadline to familiarize yourself with it, look at online tutorials, or get help from somebody in your area if needed. Do not leave any fields blank. If something does not apply to you, please enter “N/A” and add any additional details, so we know that you didnʼt just decide to leave it blank. If there are any questions, we will follow up by email and expect your prompt responses. Please pick someone to be the main contact (“Primary Curator”), who is responsive by email. When you save the Survey, please title it “The Name of your Slam (you may want to abbreviate)2012-Survey”. In the Subject line of the email you send it in, include “Name of your Slam 2012 Survey”. For example, Nasty, Brutish & Short Puppet Slam would be sending us “Nasty-2012-Survey” in an email with the Subject line: “Nasty Brutish & Short Puppet Slam 2012 Survey” Your promptness, completeness of answers and returned correspondences are greatly appreciated and help us to serve the upwards of 50 slams we are currently following. If you have received a 2011 Slam Grant, but have not hosted any slams in 2011 before September 1st, please complete and submit everything in this Survey except for the Photo Documentation section. st You will still be expected to fill in all the other sections of the Survey and submit by September 1 , 2011. In the Photo Documentation section, we will ask you for the “Expected Slam Date” and the “Survey Follow Up Date”. When you resubmit the Survey with Photo Documentation, resubmit the entire st survey. Please note that if you are having your slam after September 1 , follow up information must st be completed within two weeks of the event and no later than December 31 , 2011. This year, we require you to have an online presence specific to your slam that is distinct from your larger organization, festival, or educational institution. Please consider making a website specific to your slam. PUNCH (NYC), hosted by Drama of Works, is a great example. Gretchen has a website for Drama of Works at www.dramaofworks.com and a separate website for PUNCH at www.punchpuppetslam.com. If you do not have a website (or the resources to make a new one), there are a number of social networks that will allow you to make a page or online identity for free. The Wham Bam Puppet Slam (Asheville, NC) has created a Facebook Page at Facebook.com/whambampuppetslam, which is separate and distinct from the website of their hosting organization, the Asheville Puppet Alliance at ashevillepuppetry.org. When we send out our Monthly Slam Calendar or post other marketing information, we want to be able to link back to a page that is specifically just for your slam. We like to know that you are also making your own efforts to publicize your puppet slam. We send out our Monthly Slam Calendar to the IBEX Puppetry Mailing list and repost it on our blogs, social networks, and through puppet interest group lists. Sending us your Calendar Submissions for our Monthly Slam Calendar is a requirement. If you have a separate person handling the calendar (a Publicity Contact), it is your responsibility to explain that getting Calendar Submissions to us on time is a requirement. A pattern of lateness or failure to send us complete information can and has resulted in grants not being awarded to Puppet Slams. In General, submission due dates are 1 week before the month of the event. Do not submit your organizationʼs non-puppet slam events. Please refer to the Submission Due Dates for the remainder of 2011 and for 2012. SUBMISSION DUE DATE For Slams happening in: Submissions due no later than: th August 2011 Monday, July 25 , 2011 th September 2011 Thursday, August 25 , 2011 October 2011 November 2011 December 2011

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2012  Puppet  Slam  Survey   Due  Thursday,  September  1st,  2011  by  email  to  [email protected]  

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We hope you will choose to participate in the greater PSN this year by using the resources of our website and by interacting with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Blogger with upcoming events, photos, videos, calls for entry, and invitations. We hope you will take advantage of the larger Puppet Slam Network

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Please contact us with any questions regarding the Survey, well in advance of the September 1 deadline. Best,

Marsian Puppet Slam Network Coordinator [email protected] Www.PuppetSlam.com Underground puppet slams are popping up everywhere. They feature contemporary short-form puppet and object theater for adult audiences, often late at night in small venues, nightclubs and art spaces. Puppet Slams exist at the nexus of vaudeville, burlesque, and performance art through the intersection of experimental theater, art, music and dance as a viable alternative to the culturally homogenous digital mass media. Spearheaded by IBEX Puppetry, The Puppet Slam Network aims to catalogue, connect, support and raise awareness for the Puppet Slam Nation. The Puppet Slam Network fosters connections in the growing field of independently produced puppet slams, cabarets, and showcases, so that puppet artists know where they can perform, venues can find puppet artists, and audiences can enjoy this intimate, tactile and compelling form of entertainment

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