More on Week 8

Staging Work - Arts Council Grants, Self Curation, Fringe Models, Pitch Meetings - How do you get your work on and support other artists to get their work on?

Paraphrasing Deborah from our pitching conversation: 

When pitching, get to the most exciting and interesting thing as quickly as possible.

Tread a strange line between confidence and openness to new ideas.

What words will the venue find poisonous?

Almost like suggesting clothes for friends - cool to offer something they might like but aren’t doing yet.

In our student led practice that afternoon we worked on coming up with a way we could showcase each others’ work - we embraced the idea of a DIY/punk approach.  Quite some time was spent on costuming before we had finalised anything else!  We were envisioning an alternative cabaret with the return of Minnie and the Monotones in a new guise based on the fact that we can all sing.  Bim (AKA Triple A) would research the history of our venue, hopefully The Mermaid in Clapton Pond and make a site specific response.  Monty would either reprise his monologue or do his vampire song (or both).  Dee would MC in platforms.


I was able to sound the venue out initially that night, but didn’t want to make a formal pitch until I knew we were all up for it.