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How It Works.
OK, so you're one of the 30 groups or artists who have been selected to recieve funding from Light Night, via our new Participatory Budgeting process.
We'll now be holding three meetings to decide who gets how much funding, and we would very much like you to take part in the decision, at the meetings.
The three meetings will be...
Monday 14th June, 2pm at Leeds Town Hall
Wednesday 16th June, 5.30pm, the Carriageworks
Friday 18th June, 2pm at Venue tbc
Please let us know which meetings you can come to. We'd really love it if you can come to all three, but if you can only come to one we will try to make sure that your project gets voted on at the meeting you can come to.
Before the meeting, a summary of all the ideas will be sent to everyone attending at the meeting.
At the meeting, you will get five minutes to present on your idea. Then there will be five minutes for people to ask questions, then five minutes for the idea to be scored.
The ideas will be scored according to the four funding criteria (detailed below) from 0 (does not meet criteria) to 5 (fully meets criteria).
We will then do something baffling with a spreadsheet, whereby the £10,000 funding for artists is allocated according to how much your idea is scored, along the lines of...
Amount Awarded = (£10,000 / total points scored across all projects) x points your project has scored.
Your project will NOT be awarded any more than you asked for in your Expression of Interest Form.
You will get to vote on your own project, so, unless you suddenly decide that you hate your own idea, everyone who comes along to the meetings is guaranteed to get SOMETHING.
Confused? Yeah, well, we are a bit, too... We won't be able to tell anyone exactly what they have got until all three meetings have happened! We really hope that this will be an opportunity for you to contribute to the event, & to understand the process that we have been doing (behind closed doors) for the last five years. We'll do our best to make the process clear at the meeting itself!
Please familiarise yourself with the four funding criteria before you come to the meeting, so that you are better equipped to vote on other people's ideas.
What your idea will be scored on...
The four funding criteria are as follows:
- Site Specific
- Durational
- Immersive
- New work from Leeds
Site Specific
Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Take the location into account while planning and creating your artwork and think about how to use that space to make people think differently about it. (The Light Night strapline for 2009 was 'See Things Differently'.
Durational
Light Night runs from 16.30 in the evening right through until dawn, but with many venues closing around 11pm. Events should fill as much of this time as possible. Try to avoid having a distinct 'beginning, middle and end' so people can turn up at any time and stay for as long or as short a period as they wish. A freeflow of people and no ‘highlight’ times mean we avoid crowd fencing, queuing and many other restrictions common to mass-participation events.
We appreciate this is problematic for some art forms, for example dance. Please talk to us and we can work round this. For example, a dancer being replaced by a projection of a dancer.
Immersive
Where possible, try to avoid a separation between the 'audience/stage' and 'artist/audience'. We prefer pieces to be interactive or responsive to the audience, or be participatory in the sense of more than one artist being involved in the piece. This could literally mean a theatrical performance where the audience can walk or sit in amongst the performers as they perform. Or it could mean a piece which is activated by audience interaction (for example encouraging people to have conversations with strangers using yoghurt pot and string telephones).
Again, this is harder for some art forms than for others, but do talk your ideas through and we suggest different ways for it to work. It is difficult for projections to be immersive, for example, but the projection could include work developed from participatory workshops, or sharing the projection infrastructure with other artists who would respond to a shared theme.
New Work
We try to avoid including work that has been designed and completed before the artist thought about Light Night. Work that has simply been packed, stored, and brought out again for another event is also not likely to be responsive to its new space so is likely to score zero on 'Site Specific' too. We want Light Night to reflect what is happening now in Leeds.
It might not make sense for you to produce a piece only for one night. If your work is in development, and taking part in Light Night forms part of that development then that is OK. Performances of classical music, for example, are not new, but the 'new' element could be its performance in a new or unusual space (for example opera in a library).
So... please email us to let us know which meetings you can come to on james.hill@leeds.gov.uk, or call us on 0113 2478234 if you have any questions.
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- 005a Little Big Bang
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