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Oakland Stock: April 24 Call for Proposals & Diners

Come eat a lovely meal, meet your community, vote on and support artist projects, and have a swell time.

Sunday, April 24, 6pm-8:30pm

Humanist Hall, 390 27th St, Oakland, CA 94612

Artist Deadline- Sunday, April 17, 11:59 pm

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DINERS:

Tickets- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oakland-stock-tickets-22534128184

Cost- $15-$25 sliding scale Menu: Soup, of course! Hearty salad, artisan bread & dessert will accompany the meal. Chefs + Hosts: Lexa Walsh & Maggie Lawson Who’s Invited: You are! Soup lovers, artists and those interested in supporting them.

Oakland Stock is part of the Sunday Soup network, supporting artists’ projects one bowl of soup at a time. Diners pay a small dinner fee, feast on a gourmet meal, and listen to artists propose new projects that need funding. The diners vote on their favorite project to support and the winning artist takes the money to use for her/his work. The winner presents their project’s progress at the next meal. Sometimes success in the art world seems pretty random. Oakland Stock offers an opportunity for community members to support the cultural production they find important through Food, Funding, Feedback, & Followup.

PRESENTING ARTISTS:

Apply as a LOCAL (Bay Area) ARTIST or PROJECT- It’s easy!:

Submit a simple proposal following the directions below to [email protected]

*The first 6 proposals that meet the requirements (below) will be included in the running*. Please be prepared to pitch your project with a brief Powerpoint presentation (assembled by Stock staff with your application materials). If funded, you will be responsible for making a presentation to the Oakland Stock community regarding your progress on this project at the next Stock dinner (date TBD).

*This round, we are giving preference to projects accepted by or related to Open Engagement 2016. www.openengagement.info

Artist Deadline- Sunday, April 17, 11:59 pm. These guidelines let us know that you know how to present your project to the public.

1. Name of Project

2. Briefly (100 words) describe what your project is

3. Briefly (200 words) describe the cultural, historical, aesthetic, etc. context of your project. Why is this work important here and now?

4. What will you do with the winnings? i.e. “I will buy editing time at the local video lab…”, etc.

5. Write a brief slogan for your project to make it memorable to the audience electorate!

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Open September 2–November 2, 2015

Open Engagement (OE) is an annual, three-day artist-led conference dedicated to expanding the dialogue around and creating a site of care for the field of socially engaged art. Founded in 2007, OE has evolved into an unparalleled hub for practitioners and audiences of socially engaged art to assemble. OE is the only conference on this subject of this scale that operates on an inclusive open call model that supports emerging and established artists and collaborates closely with national institutions to further the networks of support for socially engaged art.

We are currently accepting proposals for Open Engagement 2016 — POWER. Local, national, and international artists, activists, academics, cultural producers, administrators, curators, educators, writers, thinkers, doers, and makers of all ages are encouraged to propose programming for OE 2016.

Open Engagement 2016 — POWER will take place April 29–May 1, 2016 at the Oakland Museum of California and additional sites throughout the Bay Area. The conference will explore the centralized theme of POWER, guided by the curatorial vision of René de Guzman, and will feature keynote speakers Angela Davis and Suzanne Lacy. Open Engagement— POWER marks the first year of a three-year cycle will situate the conference in the Bay Area (2016) in partnership with the Oakland Museum of California and the California College of the Arts, Chicago (2017 — JUSTICE) in partnership with University of Illinois Chicago, and in New York (2018— SUSTAINABILITY) in partnership with the Queens Museum.

OE is a site that supports multiple forms of knowledge and encourages non-traditional conference forms. Potential participants are invited to contribute by submitting proposals for presentations, panels, discussions, workshops, events, interventions, and more. Logistical support projects and social gatherings are also welcome. Proposals that can respond to specific spaces and that take into consideration the context of the host site, Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), are encouraged. OMCA brings together collections of art, history, and natural science under one roof, featuring indoor venues with capacities ranging from 6 – 260, including a hot tub lounge and a partial airplane, and outdoor spaces that can accommodate 50 – 500, including the garden and Peace Terrace.

OE works to honor multiple ways of engaging in dialogue and to build up the community surrounding socially engaged art. Open Engagement is ADA and family welcoming.