CHICAGO, IL (April 2012)-- Babes With Blades Theatre Company (BWBTC) - a theatre
company specializing in telling women's stories using the art of stage combat
-announces the launch of their second Inspiring Sword & Pen (IS&P)
competition. Designed by BWBTC to connect artists of both the performing and
visual arts, IS&P is looking to engage members of the visual arts community
to create the inspirational spark for a new play.
The competition, which begins April 1st, 2012 and closes July 31st, 2012,
seeks pieces of any medium of visual art to inspire a story for BWBTC's
international playwriting competition, Joining Sword & Pen (JS&P). The
winning piece of the IS&P, announced in September of 2012, will come to life
on stage in the spring of 2014 through the full production of the winning
JS&P script.
For additional information, or to see IS&P winner Victoria Szilagyi’s
painting, Erinyes, please visit
http://babeswithblades.
IS&P 2012 Submission Requirements
Submission REQUIREMENTS:
1. U.S. and international, male and female artists’ submissions will be accepted.
2. If you wish to submit created art:
a. It must be within your power to surrender rights to the submission.
b. The work must NOT be submitted elsewhere for the duration of the competition.
3. If you wish to submit “found” art:
a. We will ONLY accept “found” images of artworks already in the public domain.
b. You must include the title and location of the source, and be able to
produce verification that you took the picture of the artwork that you
are sending. If we have any doubts as to the origin of the image, we
will not consider it.
c. If more than one person submits a photo of a public-domain work, the
first-received photo will be considered the only entry of that image.
Please Consider:
1. The previous winners, rules, and guidelines of the
JS&P Playwriting Competition.
2. The
mission, members, past productions, and interests of BWBTC.
3. We typically perform in small, black box theatres – and the laws of
physics do apply to us! Small casts & simple settings will be
favored, and any hi-tech hijinx depicted will need to be reproducible on
stage (that said, keep in mind that theatre is capable of wondrous
flights of fancy and illusion… we have yet, however, to see convincing
lightsabers in a live venue).
4. We are looking for art that will inspire writers, and be appropriate
for this theatre company. Story and character are important.
Sensationalism is not. Keywords: Conflict, Engage, Interruption, Power,
Relationships, Consequences, Imbalance, Intimate, Story, Unexpected
5. If no entry seems sufficiently evocative of story, we may elect not to choose a winning entry this year.
1. Submissions are due NO LATER than July 31, 2012.
2. Only DIGITAL submissions will be accepted, to protect your original
work (the winner may later choose to ship the original piece for display
and potential sale). Submissions must be under 2MB (if we need to see
the image in greater detail, we may request a higher-resolution file).
Email to
swordandpen@babeswithblades.org
IMPORTANT: This will be a BLIND SUBMISSION PROCESS. This means your email submission should contain:
In the body of the email, full contact information (name, phone numbers, email, mailing address) and the title of the work.
A digital attachment with no reference to the producing artist’s name, signature, or contact information of ANY kind.
This is to ensure that when the selection committe reviews your
artwork, it is a blind review. An artist’s identity will only be
revealed once a selection has been made.
3. The original incarnation of
work submitted will be considered the original creation of the artist,
not Works for Hire. The artist will retain all copyright rights and
privileges granted thereto.
4. Babes With Blades retains all rights to the photographic representation
of work submitted, including the irrevocable and unrestricted right to
use, reproduce, and publish said photographs for editorial, trade,
advertising, or any other purpose and in any manner or medium; to alter
the same without restriction; and to copyright the same.
Additional questions?
Please email
swordandpen@babeswithblades.org and we’ll help you out!
