After celebrating 10 years, this year Vines Art Festival welcomes a new decade of (re)creation, resistance and ceremony. As we are thrust into worldwide chaos, we continue to invite our communities to dream up the future with us through art that holds us, challenges us, and inspires us. We are humbled to witness QTBIPOC and Disabled artists once more for our 11th festival!
We invite artists of all disciplines interested in creating outdoor site-specific works at local Vancouver parks to apply. In addition to performances, we are looking for visual artists to create work that can be temporarily installed in parks. Site specific work can be in architecture, landscape, history or story. To better understand the places we present work in please visit our accessibility videos. We believe that when artists are present in public space we are actively reshaping these spaces and redefining who they are for. Vines is led by and prioritizes the lived experiences of people who are queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, of colour, disabled, sex workers, drug users, migrants, houseless and who are otherwise marginalized. We encourage people living within these intersections to apply!
GUIDELINES
Collaboration is encouraged. Make sure that your collaborators have consented and agreed to work with you. Interactive art that allows audience participation is also recommended. We love experimental work and both durational and shorter pieces are accepted*. In other words—we are very open! The only stipulation is the theme of work should be connected to the earth, community and/or systemic change.
Although we have access to sound equipment and some necessary technology, Vines is a low tech festival hosted on public space. Most events take place in the daytime. Things like projections are not within our capability. If you’re curious about if your piece’s tech needs can be fulfilled, don’t hesitate to check in!
Keep in mind that your work should speak from your own experiences. If you or your collaborators are not a part of a cultural group, please don’t submit a piece about that cultural group. Nothing about us without us!
We strongly recommend those in intersectional and marginalized communities to apply including folks who are disabled, Blind, have low vision, are Deaf, hard of hearing, neurodivergent, Black, Indigenous, racialized, migrants, houseless, low income, queer, and trans. We prioritize voices often pushed out or erased.
*Staged pieces are from 10-25 minutes and durational pieces are 30 min-2 hrs and are works that audiences can come and go to or pass by.
OTHER IMPORTANT INFO
Application due:
February 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM PST
Results released:
March 2025
Paid:
Honorarium, project dependent. If you have questions about fee, email info@vinesartfestival.com
Dates of festival:
August 6-16, 2024
Possible locations:
Trout Lake Park (south end), Dude Chilling Park, Stanley Park, Oppenheimer Park, Pandora Park, Grandview Park, Sunset Beach
SUBMISSIONS IN ASL
We invite d/Deaf and hard of hearing artists who are most comfortable in ASL to submit your application in video form in ASL answering the application questions. Please submit your video through a Youtube or Vimeo link sent to marcelo@vinesartfestival.com. If you have questions about the application and festival that cannot be communicated by email, let us know that we need to arrange a phone call via relay service or on zoom with an ASL interpreter. Please include your name, email, phone number, mailing address, and english pronouns in the body of the email.
ACCESSIBILITY
We will discuss accessibility with artists early in the curation process to meet the needs of blind, d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent audience members and artists. To do so we will work collaboratively with you to identify how to best curate the festival to support diverse access needs, including your own. Keep in mind throughout your application that for works including spoken word, music and theatre, you will need to provide a transcript one week before your performance at the latest to allow for ASL interpreters’ preparation.
ALTERNATIVE APPLICATION PROCESS
We are accepting video applications (max 15 mins) through a Youtube or Vimeo link sent to sunkosi@vinesartfestival.com from any artist for whom it is challenging to submit a written application. You do not have to worry about editing or being visible in the video, just make sure that we can understand your voice and ideas, and please enable auto captioning. Please include your name, email, phone number, mailing address, and pronouns in the body of the email.