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Announcing a new PushPush initiative: The Creating a New Work Project
You have to learn how it works in order to truly mess with it.
This ongoing, long-term project is set up to provide film and theater artists a chance to stop talking about doing something and actually get to work. Experience, partnerships, travel, production and training are all available in this new project. No observer-ships.
The goal is to actively pursue funding for original content creation and production.
Along with The Creating a New Work Project, there are a variety of production opportunities connected with the writing, directing and acting sessions this year:
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In the Works
CHANNEL 4: This is a long-term stage and screen series that is being co-produced by PushPush in partnership with Ballhaus in Berlin. The project will involve various directors, dramaturges, video and film people along with actors taking part in productions in both Atlanta and Berlin.
Channel 4: Call for Writers
Lucky’s Run Out: This small cast feature film will be storyboarded on video tape and shot with little to no financial and/or technical obstacles. This is an exercise in creating a feature film without the years of waiting for someone else to give a “green light.”
The Working Masterpiece Series: For the entire year, PushPush will produce a series of low-budget, classic plays to give theater and film people a chance to gain experience with some of the greatest writers of stage and screen. A new production for dark nights will begin every month.
Robin Hood, MD: This project, led by Susan Keith, is an original stage play about healthcare issues. Robin Hood, MD will start with a series of readings, a re-write of the script, and pre-production pending identification of dates and director.
The Reader and Hudson Sprayer: Billy Carithers heads up two short film scripts in a series. Cast and Production crew to be finalized in October for shooting in November.
Slamical: Written by Robert Soloway, Slamical is a play incorporating slam poetry like songs in a musical, the project is TBA pending identification of a director, cast, and run dates.
Carrying Cathy: Tim Habeger heads up this new movie/play about how we judge the quality of one another’s work. This work in progress will continue with script work to be completed in December of 2009. Readings of first draft will be held between Christmas and New Years.
Training Supplements: Along with the variety of production opportunities New Street Arts will also host a wide range of professional workshops designed to improve real life skills in film and theater.
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Ongoing
We Are Pleasing to Meet You
A long-form improv show featuring a collection of Atlanta's most respected improvisers.
First Wednesday of every month,
9pm (Pay-What-You-Can $5-$15 at the door)
Georgia for Democracy 1st Tuesday and 3rd Sunday Documentary Night*
Screening some of the most influential and illuminating documentaries for our times.
1st Tuesday and 3rd Sunday Documentary Night, 7:30pm (Free)
*Dates and times subject to change, check www.georgiafordemocracy.org for latest updates..
Also this Year
On New Year’s Eve 2008, our co-production of copyME with Berlin’s Gutes Tun Kollective premiered in Bordeaux, France at the Les Grandes Traversees Festival.
In February, we a premiered The Extremists in Berlin, a co-production between PushPush, 7 Stages, and English Theater Berlin. The show returned to in March to Atlanta where it ran for three weeks at 7 Stages.
During the Berlin Premiere of The Extremists, copyME also had its Berlin premiere at Ballhaus Ost, one of Berlin’s top independent theaters, and now a collaborating partner with PushPush. Simultaneously, we joined Ballhaus Ost in a partnership around open-source strategies designed to increase the impact of individual artists. Berlin critics called copyME’s timely topic “a new direction” and openly welcomed and encouraged the partnership of Atlanta and Berlin. The show returned to Berlin’s stages in April and then to the U.S. later this season.
In May and June, we brought back our popular Spring Play Festival featuring a range of work by a notable playwright. This was our first to be produced with open-source thinking at the heart of the process. This year took on the late, Nobel Prize winning writer for stage and screen, Harold Pinter with Pinter Fest. A variety of productions were featured throughout May and June, and for the first time, we were joined by our own Dailies Filmmakers. Pinter, who passed away last year, was himself equally an artist in both Film and Theater.
In May we hosted five international artists to work on three touring projects: Action, Carrying Cathy, and copyME. This residency’s primary focus was Action, a new collaboration and production between PushPush and Total Brutal, a German/Israeli company headed by provocative new artist, Nir de Volff. This production premiered at Berlin’s famous Neue Synagogue in July 2009.
The spring residency of international artists also begun our most ambitious project to date, Carrying Cathy. Six artists from Iceland to Argentina will join forces with artists from Atlanta to present a mini-tour of four shows in three American cities, while simultaneously using the experience of the tour to create a new work focused on the controversial subject of “how we measure quality when viewing the work from various cultural perspectives.” The tour will be comprised of dance, theater, film and music, and will connect several of Europe’s most respected emerging artists and companies with hundreds of emerging artists in America. The associated venues’ partners will share global resources and bring four European premieres to Atlanta, LA and New York, a brand new American/European collaboration (Carrying Cathy), and finally, a documentary about the project and the spirit of exchange in the 21st Century.
Turner Broadcasting has partnered with PushPush to create the first annual, “New Distribution” workshop. In this day and age of internet broadcast and new digital means of getting work out to a world-wide audience, this gathering will help us keep our fingers on the pulse of new developments in arts’ distribution and marketing.
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