And SUBMIT Was Born
Posted by Anthony Moseley on 5/09/2008Every year, SKETCHBOOK is reborn. For this year’s reincarnation, we have introduced the SUBMIT program. SUBMIT is geared to allow our community of artists, audience, patrons and volunteers to contribute their stories, thoughts, and ideas to the experience of the festival. We figured that this was already happening in regards to choosing the plays, directors and actors, so why not just open it up, all the way. To be more specific, this year we received over 400 submissions of short world premiere plays (of under 7 minutes in length), 100 director applicants and 600 actors in building our 14 world premiere short plays. In our eyes, each audience member is also “submitting” their most precious asset, their time, to SKETCHBOOK. Without it (our audiences time), there would be no SKETCHBOOK. So, why not open a portal for everyone to share what’s in their minds and find a way to integrate it into the experience…. And SUBMIT was born.
We started by coming up with 13 core queries about life.
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