Welcome to the 2013 SLAM SURVEY! 2013 PUPPET
SLAM GRANTS in the amount of $2,000 are available to qualified puppet slams
through the Puppet Slam Network (PSN), administered by Heather Henson’s IBEX
Puppetry.
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| Nasty, Brutish & Short: A Puppet Cabaret #Chicago, Manual Cinema, 2011, Photo: Joe Riina-Ferrie |
To qualify for a 2013 Puppet Slam Grant, you
must submit a completed 2013 SLAM SURVEY
and the 2013 PHOTO SUBMISSION form,
along with three photographs from your Puppet Slam. First time applicants, and applicants who
have switched Fiscal Recipients within the past year, must also provide a
letter from their Fiscal Recipient. Please read through this document as some
guidelines have changed since last year.
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If you have received a 2012 SLAM GRANT and do not intend to apply for a 2013 SLAM GRANT, please treat the SLAM SURVEY as a FINAL REPORT. If for some reason, you have not used previous grant monies, please use the SLAM SURVEY as a PROGRESS REPORT.
Checklist:
1. 2013 SLAM SURVEY (Download)
2. 2013 PSN PHOTO SUBMISSION form (Download)
3. A letter from your FISCAL RECIPIENT
(if you are a first time applicant, or
your fiscal recipient has changed)
2013 SLAM SURVEYS are due by email no later than MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd, 2012 (There
will be no exceptions).
The 2013 PSN PHOTO SUBMISSION form is due by September
3rd, 2012. However, if you have not held your slam by September 3rd,
you have up to one week after you hold your slam and no later than December 15th
to send the actual photos, but the form
will still be due.
For the purposes of the SLAM GRANT, the SLAM SURVEY, and the Puppet
Slam Network (PSN), we define a “Puppet
Slam” as:
“A live puppet
slam, cabaret, or evening of short-form puppetry and/or object theatre for
adult audiences from a variety of artists.”
WHAT WE
DO NOT FUND:
-
Puppet film
screenings
-
Long-Form work / Full-length
productions, Evenings of 1 artist or company
-
Shows for
children, or shows advertised as “all ages” or “family friendly”
-
Workshops or Educational
activities
-
Entire festivals (which
happen to contain Puppet Slams)
-
Festival,
Organization, Theatre Company, Puppetry Department overhead
-
Variety evenings
that are not predominantly live puppet and/or object theatre
-
Parades or
outdoor events
The purpose of the SLAM GRANT is to support Puppet Slams
to help pay for costs directly related to puppet slams, including but not
limited to: publicity materials, programs, flyers, domain name registration, equipment
rental, essential technician fees, small stipends for performers, or a cast
meal the night of the show.
For clarification, if your
Puppet Slam is part of a larger festival, organization, or educational
institution, the SLAM GRANT will
only be funding the Puppet Slam and not the larger festival, organization,
or educational institution. If your slam is part of a larger festival, organization,
or educational institution, please make a clear delineation where the money is
spent. Use these funds directly on costs
of your puppet slam and not for the overall operation of your organization, festival,
or institution.
To qualify for a 2013 SLAM GRANT, your Puppet Slam must
be working with a FISCAL RECIPIENT
in the United States. Your FISCAL
RECIPIENT must agree to receive the Slam Grant and distribute the funds to
your Puppet Slam as to the terms of your particular arrangement. If you are a first time applicant, did not
receive a grant last year, or have recently changed your FISCAL RECIPIENT, we ask that your FISCAL RECIPIENT send us a brief email that documents your
agreement to work together.
If accepted, funding will be sent to your FISCAL RECIPIENT during the first
quarter of 2013. We also recommend that you look for additional sources of
funding, good will, and sponsorship to help support your Puppet Slam.
Email
back the 2013 SLAM SURVEY to puppetslam@mac.com
along with 2013 PHOTO SUBMISSION, by Monday, September 3rd, 2012.
We will only be accepting SLAM SURVEYS returned by email in Word
.doc file format with photos under 1MB sent as Jpegs in 3 separate emails. Please know that we will not be
accepting late SLAM SURVEYS or
materials in any other form besides an emailed Word .doc and .jpg Photo
Documentation.
We will not be accepting
printed Surveys, handwritten Surveys, or Surveys completed in other file
formats. If you do not have Word, you
can download a demo version to fill out the Survey with. If you are not
familiar with Word, please make time in advance of the deadline to familiarize
yourself with it, look at online tutorials, or get help from somebody in your
area if needed.
Do not leave any fields blank. If something does not apply to you, please enter “N/A” and add any additional details, so
we know that you didn’t just decide to leave it blank. If there are any questions, we will follow up
by email and expect a prompt response. Please pick someone to be the main
contact (“PRIMARY CURATOR”), who is
responsive by email and who can be responsible for sending us CALENDAR SUBMISSIONS.
When you save the SLAM SURVEY, please title it “The Name of your Slam (abbreviated)-2013-Survey.doc”.
In the Subject line of the email you send it in, include “Name of your Slam - 2013 Survey”. For example, Nasty, Brutish & Short Puppet Slam would be sending us “Nasty-2013-Survey.doc”
in an email with the Subject line: “Nasty Brutish & Short Puppet Slam 2013
Survey”
Your promptness,
completeness of answers, and returned correspondences are greatly appreciated
and help us to serve the roughly 70 slams we are currently following.
We require you to have an
online presence specific to your slam that is distinct from your larger
organization, festival, or educational institution. Please consider making a website specific to
your slam. PUNCH (NYC), hosted by Drama of Works, is a great example.
Gretchen has a website for Drama of Works at www.dramaofworks.com and a separate website for PUNCH at www.punchpuppetslam.com. If you do not have a website (or the resources
to make a new one), there are a number of social networks that will allow you
to make a page or online identity for free. When we send out our MONTHLY SLAM CALENDAR or post other
marketing information, we want to be able to link back to a page that is
specifically just for your slam. We like to know that you are also making your
own efforts to publicize your Puppet Slam.
We send out our MONTHLY SLAM CALENDAR directly to
roughly 2,000 recipients and repost it on social media to a much wider audience. Sending
us your CALENDAR SUBMISSIONS for our MONTHLY SLAM CALENDAR is a requirement.
A pattern of lateness or failure to send
us complete information can and has resulted in SLAM GRANTS not being awarded to Puppet Slams. In General, submission due dates are 1 week
before the month of the event. Do not submit your organization’s non-puppet
slam events. Please refer to the following Submission Due Dates for the
remainder of 2012 and for 2013.
We hope you will choose to participate
in the greater PSN this year by using the resources of our website and by interacting
with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Blogger with upcoming events, photos, videos,
calls for entry, and invitations. We
hope you will take advantage of the larger Puppet Slam Network
Best,
Marsian
Puppet Slam
Network Coordinator
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