LiveWire is proud to announce the winners of our VisionFest 4 image search... Breanne Duffy's Rockets and Josephine Ferorelli's Untitled. Rockets was the winner of our online poll and Untitled won the in-person voting. Thanks to all the great artists for submitting their pieces, and thank you for showing your support and lending a voice to this year's festival. You can still view all the images here.
VisionFest 4: Where the image meets the stage will be presented June 14-30, 2012 at the Envision Gallery in Flourish Studios, 3020 North Lincoln Ave. More detais coming soon.
PLAY SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (NOW CLOSED):
Play submissions were required to use either image, Rockets or Untitled, as inspiration. The images should not appear in the play. Submissions were open to local, regional, national and international playwrights.
- Only original material may be submitted.
- LiveWire will ONLY be accepting online submissions.
- Submissions should be formatted as a PDF (.pdf) or Word Doc (.doc) with the title of the play as the name of the file (i.e., My-Awesome-Play.doc).
- Do not include playwrights' name on any of the pages in the document.
- In the body of the email, please include: Playwrights' Name, Title of Play, Email Address, Phone Number and Current City of Residence.
- Submissions were open February 13 through May 5. (Any submissions sent outside of these dates will be discarded.)
- Plays must be between 1 to 10 minutes in length; 1 to 10 pages depending on density of material. (Any scripts over 10 minutes will be discarded.)
- One submission per playwright will be considered.
- Previously produced scripts will NOT be accepted.
VISUAL ART SUBMISSIONS (NOW CLOSED):
LiveWire is seeking an Image to guide this year's festival. There are no specific content guidelines for images, but please be mindful that we are looking for visual art that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Playwrights will be using the winning image to inspire the plays they write for VisionFest 4: Where the image meets the stage.
LiveWire established VisionFest is 2008 to expose new works to the community and get the community involved in new works. VisionFest begins each year by offering the community a chance to help establish the guidelines for submissions.
For our inaugural festival, we asked the community to help chose a theme. Through an online poll that offered 12 suggestions from the Collective, the theme of Control was chosen for VisionFest 2008. In 2009, we sought suggestions for Environments that plays would take place in. From those suggestions, the Collective chose 12 for the online poll. The community voted and chose a Street Corner as their preferred Environment. Last year, LiveWire chose the theme of Feast for VisionFest3 and asked for suggestions of a line or phrase that all playwrights would have to include in their play. Again, we chose a dozen of those suggestions to place in an online poll. "I can't remember the last time we were all together," won the community vote.
Once the unique guidelines are chosen, LiveWire opens submissions to playwrights to write plays that meet the requirements. Each year, we have received more than a hundreds plays from writers around the world. From those plays, the Collective chooses 6 to 10 plays to present. At the festival, programs are provided with ample space for the community to offer feedback to the playwrights. LiveWire collects the feedback and sends them to the playwright at the end of the run... The community truly has a hand in shaping these plays and we hope they will continue to help shape the festival for year's to come.
Check out photos from our VF4 Gallery Opening
More info on VisionFest3: Feast
VisionFest 2008 Info
VisionFest 2008
Preview Article in NewCity Chicago
Questions and/or comments should be directed to livewirechicago@gmail.com.
