brand new mountain speeches

letting everyone know that wednesday, april 30th is the deadline for visual art submissions and live performance sign-ups for the brand new mountain speeches art show on may 3rd.  you can bring in the work to bridgeway, or email me or delia to let us know you’re planning on submitting something.  we’ll have blank forms to fill out once you turn in the piece.  thanks so much for being involved!!

i’ve had a few questions about live performances for brand new mountain speeches, so i’ll clarify here… on saturday, the gallery will be open from 6-11pm where people can walk around and see all the different visual art pieces created. during that time, we’ll have a time for live performances while people check out the art work. these performances will cover a wide range of styles (poetry, drama, dance, music, etc.). most likely, it’ll probably be about 2 hours of live performances. we did want it to be work that was created in response to the sermon on the mount. i know it’s limiting, but i guess that’s the point…

we’ll have the stage set up for a full band to be able to play, so each person playing must do the following:

1) coordinate how you want to present that piece (you solo on an acoustic guitar, or with a full-fledged 22 piece band). 2) email me and let me know they’re playing and what they will be playing, as well as sound needs for the night (so we can be as prepared as possible). once i get this list, i’ll email everyone and let them know what time they should show up.

we’re basically considering it a glorified open mic. i know some people have already coordinated who they want to play with them and what. i’m open to whatever, just let me know if you do want to play. i’d love to have as many people play as possible. your performance doesn’t have to be perfect. your song might feel half done. i’d say just perform it and continue to develop the song after the art show.

hope this all makes sense! can’t wait to see/hear/experience all of this on saturday with you guys!!

Tonite Levi and I (Sam) filmed Joel, Chris and Dustin working on a couple songs, in the birthing stage (their words)… it was a really productive shoot as I feel like we got some good shots, and audio clips of the collaboration.  Afterwards Joel and I sat down with each of the guys and interviewed them about the art collaborative as a whole and specifically about the process of creating a song in response to a passage.  They all agreed that it is not an easy task taking Jesus’ words and trying to write something that is incarnational in nature (lyrically and musically).

It was a great start, we just need more people to call us when you are creating in your groups (or by yourself) so we can document some more projects.  Hopefully leading to a videomentary with all sorts of visual processes… we want to use all sorts of clips for the videomenatry, so even if you write poetry or are painting, et cetera… footage is footage that can be edited and included in the final dvd.

if your creating and don’t mind a fly on the wall (we are not invasive filmers…), call or email me:  Levi or J.Leigh can post their phone #’s in the comment section (if you want).

Sam - 405.301.2349 or sam@duregger.net

cool.

wanted to give everyone a heads up as far as deadlines for submitting work:

1) music - sunday midnight, april 13th
2) visual art / framed poems - april 30th

i know it’s soon, but we need to work on crafting/arranging songs. most likely we’ll be tracking drums and music stuff from april 22-26, doing pre-production before that… talk to chris clark or dustin ragland about setting up a time for that. let us know if you have any questions!