Post by tarapeze on Sept 26, 2007 12:05:05 GMT -5
LATEST UPDATE (2/16/2008)
NO skills workshops, jsut discussions, presentations, and performances!
AMENDED LAST: 12/6/07
(*About dates: The CLPP Conference is April 4-6, 2008. March 15-22nd is Spring Break.)
SCRC Event Proposal
Circus Folk Unite!
Fall 2007
The Student Circus Resurgence Conference (Northeast)
Saturday March 29th – Sunday March 30th, 2008
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Description:
The Student Circus Resurgence Conference 2008 will be a two-day-long event for participators in the collegiate circus arts. Its primary purpose is to bring together the next generation of circus enthusiasts in order to enable connections between current and future circus creators, programmers and artists. The event hopes to encourage discussion of the current youth circus movement, to fuel creative collaborations and partnerships, and to inspire and evoke new ideas in this quickly growing performance art.
(Though open to participants all over the country, because of space limitations students this conference is geared to be more regional, Northeast-specific.)
The SCRC will consist of a series of workshops, skills classes, open practices, panels and performances, all taking place side by side at Hampshire College.
The discussion portion of the conference will revolve around issues surrounding the creation and sustainability of grassroots circus troupes. Topics include: defining disciplines; insurance and liability; collaborative show creation; planning a performance tour; circus history and scholarship.
The physical portion of the conference may include classes in: stilting, juggling, acrobatics, dance, clowning, hula hoping, poi-spinning, staff twirling (also possibly aerial skills suck as silk/tissue, lyra, and static trapeze). There will also be informal sessions (‘playtimes’) where any of these arts can be used in conjunction with each other and without formal structure.
There will be one night of performances by professional circus troupes, possibly including. There will also be ‘open performances’ in which SCRC attendees may perform as solo acts, as small groups from within their respective school troupes, as full troupes, or as combinations of people from different schools.
Tentative Schedule:
Saturday
Morning: registration, teaser classes/playtime/mingling
Afternoon: workshops
Evening: featured performances
Sunday
Morning: workshops
Community Lunch
Afternoon: panels
Evening: open stage
Possible breakdown of sessions:
10am - 11am class (or registration)
11am – 12pm class
Lunch 12.30pm
1-2.30pm class/panel
2.30-4pm class /panel
free time/ open playtime/ rest time/ rehearsal time
7pm – performances
*
?Alternate Schedule?
Saturday
Morning: registration, skills classes
Afternoon: skills classes
Evening: professional performances
Sunday
Morning: lecture/demos
Afternoon: discussion panels
Logistics
Projected attendance:
50-75 people from Hampshire, 150-250 people from elsewhere
Limit of registered participants: 300
Registration Fee:
$20 non-Hampshire, $5 Five-College Students, Free for Hampshire students
Spaces:
Robert Crown Center, playing floor (evening performances, skills workshops)
Franklin Patterson Hall, lecture halls & classrooms (lecture/demos, panels)
Funds needed:
Estimated contractor’s fees:
Bindestiff Family Cirkus: 1,000 (tentative)
Paradizo Dance: 1,000 (tentative)
Simply Circus: 1,000 (tentative)
Public Safety (student event monitors in the RCC, officer for parking): 650
Media Services (sound in the RCC both nights): 240
Printing (schedules, posters): 310
Catering: 11/person (x200): 2,200
Bracelet/necklace tickets: 3/person (x200): 600
VERY, VERY ESTIMATED TOTAL = $6,000
Estimated registration fee proceeds
([off-campus, 20x120]+ [five-college 5x20] = $2,500
ESTIMATED BUDGET = $3,500
Sources of Funding:
Financial Committee: 1,300
Committee on Community Activities: 1,950
Special Activities Fund: 250
(Also: House Offices, President’s Office, OPRA?)
Housing:
Off-campus: QualityInn, Hampton Inn (on the bus route, 10 minutes away)
Off-campus: UU Church, Community centers
Catering:
One ‘communal’ meal, provided by Sodexho, Saturday Lunch
Rest of meals are on-your-own
?Vendors:
Dube
Copperhead Fire
Insurance & Liability:
-Short bios from all contractors detailing qualifications, experience, training
-Liability Waivers for all participants
-Certificates of insurance from all contractors
-?Possible purchase of ‘day insurance’ (being researched)
Invited Groups/Troupes
Hampshire College (MA) - Circus Folk Unite!
circusfolkunite.googlepages.com
UMASS Amherst (MA) – UMASS Juggling Club
www.umass.edu/rso/juggle
Olin College (MA) – Antigravity Club/ Butterfingers Club/Fire Hazard/Midnight Riders
core.olin.edu/clubs
Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MA) - Aero-Disastro
web.mit.edu/juggle/www/
Yale University (CT) - AntiGravity Club
yags.sfcave.com/
Bard College (NY) - Surrealist Training Circus
inside.bard.edu/campus/services/tls/popup.php?id=346292
Vassar College (NY) – The Barefoot Monkeys
www.vassar.edu/information/vsa.html
Ithaca College (NY) – ICircus
www.icrecsports.com/Recsports/SportClubs/Performance_Rec/index.php?p=icircus
Oberlin College (OH) – OCircus
www.ocircus.com/home.htm
www.oberlin.edu/stupub/ocreview/2006/03/10/arts/article2.html
University of Chicago (IL) – Le Vorris & Vox
vox.cs.uchicago.edu/
Triton College (IL) – Triton Trouper Circus
tritontrouperscircus.com