[spectre] Futuresonic EVNT Showcase and Competition

[Drew Hemment]

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Futuresonic 2006 EVNT Showcase and Competition
20-23 July, Manchester

Futuresonic announces the launch of its showcase and competition for 
events, artist groups, promoters, programmers and curators.

Submissions now open via http://10.futuresonic.com/evnt

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The Futuresonic EVNT Showcase is a city-wide programme of affiliated 
events, which forms one part of the Futuresonic festival. It enables 
new and ground breaking events and artist groups from around the world 
to appear within the festival. Futuresonic is looking for innovative 
events of international calibre, and will help ‘matchmake’ promoters to 
venues.
Deadline for proposals: 22 May 2006

The Futuresonic EVNT Competition offers cash prizes for events staged 
as a part of the EVNT Showcase. Awards of GBP 2,500 and GBP 1,000 are 
available, as well as three smaller amounts of GBP 250 for runners up. 
Open to any programmer, curator, promoter, label or artist group 
anywhere in the world, with the focus on ground breaking and new events 
as well as one-off or adventurous events by established groups. 
Proposals will be judged by an independent panel of music, arts and 
industry figures.
Deadline for proposals: 1 May 2006

Learn more and submit a proposal: http://10.futuresonic.com/EVNT
Contact: EVNT2006 at futuresonic.com

The Futuresonic EVNT Showcase is a semi-open festival strand. It is 
intended to enable more people to participate in the festival. 
Participating events in the EVNT Showcase benefit from being included 
in all the festival publicity, on the website and in press releases, 
but do not receive any other support from Futuresonic.

The Futuresonic EVNT Competition offers cash prizes to enable the 
staging of groundbreaking events that would not otherwise be possible 
to present. Those who enter the competition but are unsuccessful will 
automatically be invited to take part in the EVNT Showcase without 
financial support.

Futuresonic now invites anyone working in music or media arts to take 
part in the 2006 EVNT Showcase, with the EVNT Competition an added 
incentive for those who would like financial support in doing so.

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The EVNT Showcase was launched in 2005, with more than thirty events 
over one weekend featuring artists from as far afield as New York, 
Moscow, Berlin and Dallas. In 2005 it took place across the Northern 
Quarter at venues including The Roadhouse, Night & Day, The Basement, 
Bierkeller, Centro, Cord, Common, My Goodniss, Oklahoma, The Chinese 
Arts Centre and Taurus, each venue adding a distinctive character to 
the festival.

EVNT came out of a collaboration in 2005 with an event mapping project 
of the same name supported by Arts Council England.

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Futuresonic this year celebrates its 10th anniversary, and 7th edition. 
The three-day festival, which runs 20-23 July at venues across 
Manchester, also features an extensive programme of live music by 
headline acts; an exhibition strand featuring internationally-renowned 
artists; an extensive programme of workshops; plus the Social 
Technologies Summit and PLAN: The Pervasive and Locative Arts Network. 
Futuresonic was established in 1995, and has an international 
reputation for presenting leading-edge music and media arts. The 2005 
festival featured 211 artists in 44 events at 15 arts, music and club 
venues, and was attended by 6,000 people.

Futuresonic is presented by Future Everything, a not-for-profit 
creative organisation at the forefront of electronic arts and culture.

http://www.futuresonic.com