Our 2013 Slam Grants have been announced. The Puppet Slam Grant has become more
competitive since it started in 2006. This year we received over 50 Slam
Surveys. PSN has grown to over 70 events encompassing not just the contiguous
US, but also Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Canada. PSN now spans 4 continents and as
far as Copenhagen, London, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem!
These are the puppet slams, which received funding in 2013:
Adult Puppet Cabaret #SanDiego
Adult Puppet Slam #Phoenix
Austin Puppet Incident #Austin
Beady Little Eyes #Portland
Blood From A Turnip #Providence
Cabaret Automata #LA
Café Concret #Montreal /
Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner #NYC
CalArts Puppet Cabaret #Valencia
Dolly Wiggler Cabaret #Calgary /
Professor Willikers Puppet Slam #Arcata
Winnipeg Puppet Slam #Winnipeg
Forbidden Puppet Cabaret #Vallejo
Full Moon Cabaret #Minneapolis
Fussy Cloud #Seattle
KC Puppet Slam #KansasCity
King Friday's Dungeon #Portland #ME
The Late Night Puppet Slam at DragonCon #ATL
Nasty, Brutish & Short #Chicago
National Puppet Slam #Swathmore
Playhouse Puppetry Slam #GlenEcho
The Puckin’ Fuppet Show
PUNCH #NYC
Puppet Manualfesto #Philadelphia
Puppet Meltdown #Chicago
Puppet Pandemic #NYC
Puppet Parlor #NYC
Puppet Playlist #NYC
Puppet Pot Pie #Hartford
Puppet Showplace Slam #Brookline
Puppet Slam Cafe #Huntington
Puppet Slamwich #Baltimore
Puppetsploitation #Houston
Singing Picture Show #NYC
Sobre La Mesa #SanJuan
Spork In Hand #Columbia
Strung Out #Cincinnati
Titeretada - Noches De Cabaret #SanJuan
UConn Puppet Slam #Storrs
Wham Bam Puppet Slam #Asheville
Please read on to learn more about the requirements for funded slams in 2013 or if your puppet slam plans to apply in the future...
2013 Puppet Slam
Grant Requirements:
If you received funding for your Puppet Slam, you must:
1. Produce a minimum of 1 puppet slam
in 2013. We define a puppet slam to include events that
featuring live, contemporary, short-form puppetry and/or Object Theater from a
variety of artists geared toward adults. We encourage you to produce more
than 1 event.
2. Email Calendar Submissions. Send us complete Calendar Submission information
on time. Details on our monthly PSN mailings are below.
3. Get the word out.
Your puppet slam must be advertised to the general public as a puppet slam. We
ask that you maintain a slam-specific website or public social media page that
we can link our audiences back to We recommend getting a Facebook Page, if you
do not have a dedicated website already and posting upcoming events on our
Facebook Page. A Facebook Page will be required in 2014.
4. Complete a Slam Survey
by Tuesday, October 1st,
2013. The Slam Survey will serve as a final report
for 2013 and determine 2014 Slam Grants. 2014 Slam Surveys will become
available in the Summer and will be due on Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
(via email only). We use the Slam Surveys as an annual opportunity to update
information on our websites, directories and social media.
5. Take Pictures. At a minimum, we ask for three photos taken
at your puppet slam. These do not have to be from a professional photographer if
that is all you have access to. Only
include photos, which PSN has permission to publish and distribute. Photos
must be captioned with the slam name, primary artist, year,
and photographer name and will be due in the next Survey. We have used photos on our website,
for presentations, in printed materials, on social media, print ads, and in other marketing
efforts.
6. Be In Touch. From time to time we may ask for follow-up information, we
will need your prompt response to correspondences. Send emails to
puppetslam@mac.com, our preferred
method of communication.
7. Credit PSN. Credit PSN on event invites, slam websites,
posters, and fliers with “Funding made
possible in part by the Puppet Slam Network www.puppetslam.com.” Our logo can be grabbed from our facebook
page or website.
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Funding Restrictions:
Slam Grants are not
intended for:
o Evenings
of films (including presentations of Handmade Puppet Dreams)
o Long-form
puppetry, full-length work, or evenings
featuring 1 artist or company
o Festivals
(unless it happens to be a festival of puppet slams)
o Overhead
for your Theater Company, organization, or educational institution
o Workshops
and other educational activities
o Events
geared toward children, or advertised as “family-friendly”
o Private
parties or events that are not advertised to the general public
Our Calendar:
We put out a monthly calendar with basic
information on Puppet Slams happening that month and also a brief look ahead
into the year. Our calendar is sent via direct email to our contact
list and reposted and tweeted on social media and through community
distribution lists.
To collect information efficiently
and create accurate copy for the month, all funded puppet slams (and slams who
wish to receive funding) are required to
email Calendar Submissions on time. Please also review future
event listings and let us know of any changes, postponements, or cancellations
as soon as possible before the Submission Deadline for that month.
You may download Calendar Submission forms here, but you must email them back in Word .doc format: http://puppetslam.blogspot.com/2011/12/contribute-to-our-calendar.html
Please
make a note of our upcoming Calendar Submission Deadlines:
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Facebook: We encourage you to post invites,
photos, ticket links, calls for performers, and any other information about your
puppet slam on our Page. Many of you
also have created FB Pages and invites for your events. That is fantastic! Please
also take the extra step of posting these events on our wall so that the larger
community will know about them and also link back to us so that your audiences will
know about PSN. www.facebook.com/PuppetSlamNetwork
Blogger: If
you have something longer to say, say it on our blog. Perhaps you would like to interview someone
from the PSN, write a review of a slam, talk shop, or put out a call for
performers. Contact Marsian to be invited as a contributor to our Blog. http://puppetslam.blogspot.com/.
Website:
You can now search Slam Profiles on www.PuppetSlam.com alphabetically, by
city, region, or country. We hope that you will use this resource to find other slams in your area and
to help find a wider range of performers in your area.
Directory:
Our Directory is a spread sheet with each Puppet Slam, Curator,
Curator Email and Slam Website. You can
use this resource to locate other curators and find nearby traveling acts.
Puppet Films: If you received funding this year, IBEX
Puppetry (our parent organization) will make Handmade Puppet Dreams available
for the benefit of your audiences to be screen outside of your puppet slam.
Please contact film@ibexpuppetry.com
for further details.
Thanks
for all that you do and keep on slamming!
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