The Social Distancing Festival

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Listen to the "Meet the Artists" conversation featuring collaborative works of artists.
So important to keep our artists connected & share their stories!
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Consulate General of Canada in Minneapolis Connect2Canada / Lien Canada The Social Distancing Festival

Join us and Consulate General of Canada in Minneapolis on August 5th for a "Meet the Artists" conservations featuring collaborative works of Floridian musician Don Soledad Music & Canadian visual artist Prashant Miranda along with Minnesotan songwriter Kashimana & Canadian choreographer Reequal Smith from of Oshun Dance Studios! So important to keep our artists connected & share their stories! 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 &

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The Social Distancing Festival

Together with the Consulate General of Canada in Denver and The Social Distancing Festival, the Embassy of Canada Connect2Canada / Lien Canada is excited to co-host the second : Meet the Artists event this Thursday, July 22, 1pm EDT!

RSVP at bit.ly/connpers2 to hear how four artists collaborated across distances and disciplines to create new artworks:

"Wait Up" ➡️ Inspired by the mountains and forests of their childhood, -based songwriter Neffy and -based choreographer Mellisa Murray explore their connection to the natural world as adults in a time of limited human interaction. https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/waitup

"Silent Scream" | "Antidote" | "Outgrown Labels" ➡️ These pieces by -based Jozer Guerrero and -based Clea Anaïs were woven together from shards of sharp emotions, present visions, and rememberings. Jozer and Clea Anaïs let these sentiments rise from deep pools, then sorted them like puzzle pieces and distilled inherent themes. https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/jozerandclea

Moderated by Nick Green, Founder of the Toronto-based Social Distancing Festival.

Jozer and Clea — The Social Distancing Festival  "OUTGROWN LABELS" - Clea Anaïs & Jozer Guerrero"SILENT SCREAM" & "ANTIDOTE" - Jozer Guerrero & Clea Anaïs     These works by Clea Anaïs & Jozer Guerrero, were created for Connecting Perspectives, a collaborative interdisciplinary series, produced and presented by the Social Distancing Festiv...

The Chaos Conversation - Kimmy Kat and Chancz Perry — The Social Distancing Festival  THE CHAOS CONVERSATIONChancz Perry and Kimmy Kat Multi-disciplinary artist Chancz Perry (Regina) and singer/songwriter/artist Kimmy Kat (Cleveland) explore femininity, freedom, and living in a state and place of unknowingness. This project is presented by the Consulate General for Canada in Detroi...

Oh Yes FLOW

We are so pleased to share “Oh Yes Flow”, a mesmerizing spoken word, song, and movement work from Kashimana of St. Paul, MN and Reequal Smith of Charlottetown, PEI.

You can view it here: https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/ohyesflow

The Social Distancing Festival

Wait Up - Neffy and Mellisa Murray — The Social Distancing Festival  Wait UpMellisa Murray and Neffy Inspired by the mountains and forests of their childhood, Songwriter Neffy and Choreographer Mellisa Murray explore their connection to the natural world as adults in a time of limited human interaction. This work is presented by the Consulate General for Canada in ...

Connecting Perspectives — The Social Distancing Festival Connecting Perspectives is a cross-border art initiative produced by the Social Distancing Festival and the Consulate General of Canada in New York. Drawing inspiration from the theme “Art Today,” 26 artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour from Canada and the United State...

Joanne Roberts — The Social Distancing Festival Winnipeg, MB, CANADA - Click over to CBC to see Winnipeg Artist, Joanne Roberts’, piece about confronting the internal nuances of colourism with a nod to her traditional cultural dishes.

Stephanie Chou — The Social Distancing Festival New York, NY, USA - Hit play on this submission from New York Artist, Stephanie Chou. Her song, Millennial Woman , will give you some hope and light to help with this next stretch of distanced life.

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Join us tomorrow from 1-2 PM as we tackle the theme of Technology Before, During and After with moderator Heidi Strauss! Tap the link in our bio to learn more: https://bit.ly/3kkyE6r

Moderator Heidi Strauss creates dance-based experiences to examine human behaviour from different perspectives. A multi-Dora Award winning choreographer and the Artistic Director of adelheid, Heidi is a recipient of the KM Hunter Award for Dance.

Nick Green is a Dora and Sterling Award-winning playwright and the creator of The Social Distancing Festival. Nick has been a part of the Stratford Festival’s Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program; Factory Theatre’s Natural Resources unit; Nightwood Theatre’s Write from the Hip; and Sheridan College’s Canadian Music Theatre Project.

Ian Garrett is designer, producer, educator, and researcher in the field of sustainability in arts and culture. He is the director of the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts; Associate Professor of Ecological Design for Performance at York University; and Producer for Toasterlab.

Driven by a deep commitment to the primacy of sound in creative expression, Debashis Sinha has created numerous audio- and music-centred projects across Canada and internationally. Sinha is a committed educator and is currently researching sound production using machine learning and AI, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Sagan Yee (they/them) is an artist working in indie and experimental animation and videogames. From 2016 to 2020, they were the Executive Director of Hand Eye Society, a non-profit dedicated to the exploration of games and playful media as an artform.

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/10-canadian-heroes-who-have-used-arts-and-culture-to-help-us-through-the-pandemic-1.5945480

10 Canadian heroes who have used arts and culture to help us through the pandemic | CBC Arts We look back at some of the folks we've highlighted the past year and ask: who's your pandemic art hero?

Tomorrow is the last day to apply for this incredible international collaboration between Canada’s Paprika Festival and Thespo in India. Emerging artists! Check it out!!!

http://paprikafestival.com/cosmocabaret/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS- Emerging Artists (16-25).

Introducing COSMOCABARAET - a live-streamed international cabaret showcase created by Theso (India) and the Paprika Festival (Canada), in association with the Social Distancing Festival.

COSMOCABARET will bring together 12 emerging artists (16-25) to share in a creative process and cross-cultural exchange. Participants will have the opportunity to explore performance styles including drag, dance, spoken word, stand-up comedy, singing, and more!

The facilitator for this program will be acclaimed actor, director, and visual artist Tsholo Visions Khalema.

Click the link below for more information:
http://paprikafestival.com/cosmocabaret/

Call for Submissions: COSMOCABARET – Paprika Festival Thespo (India) and the Paprika Festival (Canada), in association with the Social Distancing Festival, are looking for emerging artists aged 16-25 to participate in the COSMOCABARET: a live-streamed international cabaret showcase! This collaborative creation process will take place over 5 weeks and c...

CALL TO ARTISTS- PAID OPPORTUNITY!! I’m so excited to introduce Connecting Perspectives. This new interdisciplinary art project is being produced in a partnership between the Consulate General of Canada in New York, along with all 12 other Canadian diplomatic missions across the United States, and The Social Distancing Festival, with Artistic Associate Tawhida Tanya Evanson.

This project will see 26 artists in Canada and the United States paired up and paid $1000USD to create new, collaborative work. We are looking for professional visual artists, poets, choreographers, composers/songwriters, and spoken word artists who are enthusiastic about the creation of innovative, interdisciplinary work.
We are hoping to get submissions from all across Canada and the United States, so any shares will be hugely appreciated! The deadline for submissions is January 22, 2021. Check out the site for more information and to apply!

www.socialdistancingfestival.com/connectingperspectives

CONNECTING PERSPECTIVES — The Social Distancing Festival Drawing inspiration from the theme “Art Today,” 26 artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Colour (13 artists in Canada and 13 artists in the United States) will be selected, paired up and tasked with creating new, collaborative works of art for presentation on the Social Distanc...

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📢 CALL TO ARTISTS

We are proud to partner with The Social Distancing Festival to launch : A Cross-Border Art Initiative, which will bring togehter artists in 🇨🇦 & 🇺🇸 to create collaborative projects.

Selected artists will receive $1,000 USD for their participation!

Apply today!! Open to ➡ , , , , & artists.

Applicants must identify as Black, Indigenous &/or People of Colour, & live in 🇺🇸 or 🇨🇦.

For more info: bit.ly/ConnectingPerspectives

Artists are encouraged to apply early!

Share your art with the world! The Social Distancing Festival is taking submissions again. Head to our submissions page for details, and spread the word to the artists in your life!
*textile art by Jane Sanders
https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/submit

Round 2 of Long Distance Art has LAUNCHED on The Social Distancing Festival!

We match-made artists from cities including Zebbug, Tallinn, Mexico City, Ojai, Toronto, Newcastle Upon Tyne, and London. Each pairing collaborated on creating a new artistic piece for exhibition on the site, and the works are INCREDIBLE!

So happy to have Toronto's own Quarantrio (Joel Cumber, Kelsey Verzotti and Georgia Bennett) involved with this!

Check out the work at the link below, along with the stunning work from Round 1 of this project!

https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/longdistanceart

Long Distance Art — The Social Distancing Festival Long Distance Art   Long Distance Art is an international inter-disciplinary project created here at the Social Distancing Festival. After being match-made by creator Nick Green, artists around the world have collaborated to create work that speaks to our time, and is meant to be exhibited online. ...

This page showcases many black artists who have had work cancelled/disrupted due to COVID-19. Do what you can to support their great work by purchasing, programming, following, sharing, or whatever else you're able.

https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/featured-work-by-black-artists

Featured Work by Black Artists — The Social Distancing Festival Tekikki Walker (Cleveland), Simone Saunders (Calgary), Jacqueline B Arnold and Anastasia McCleskey (New York), Tadhi Alawi (Dar es Salaam), Artists for Social Justice (US), Sonia E Barrett (Italy), uKhoiKhoi (Johannesburg), and more

Want to start your Sunday with a good cry? Check out this submission from Spain, where a choir recorded this song for a member who was hospitalized due to COVID-19. Gorgeous, touching, inspiring work from Coro Los Peñascales

https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/music/coro-los-peascales

Coro Los Peñascales Sings “The Lamb” by John Travener  — The Social Distancing Festival Madrid, SPAIN - This gorgeous piece begins with a reading in Spanish of Willian Blake’s poem, “The Lamb,” followed by a choral rendition of the poem by British composer John Travener, who died in 2013. The piece was recorded individually by the choir members of Coro Los Peñascales from home a...

Exciting news! The Social Distancing Festival has been selected for the United States Library of Congress web archives! So proud the site will be part of the historic record of these times.

We are still taking submissions!

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This gorgeous dance video, created by Dancers Kristin Draucker and Michael Trusnovec, features some astounding dancers from dance companies across New York in support of the .nyc Covid-19 Relief Fund.

https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/featured/greaterwhole

The Greater Whole — The Social Distancing Festival New York, USA - THIS IS SO GOOD! Dancers Kristin Draucker and Michael Trusnovec put this gorgeous piece together along with a hugely talented selection of dancers from professional dance companies in New York.

Long Distance Art has officially launched!

About three weeks ago, I paired up three teams of artists from different artistic disciplines in cities around the world, tasking them to collaborate on a new artistic piece for exhibition on The Social Distancing Festival. I am so, so proud to share the results in this first round of this series.

Please check it out, and if you love anything you see, support these incredible artists by sharing the work far and wide. Also don't be shy about commenting!

www.socialdistancingfestival.com/longdistanceart

Thank you to Tadhi Alawi, Simone Saunders, Anika Johnson, Barbara Johnston, Suzannah Wilde, Charlie Rauh, Liza Merkalova, and Tekikki Walker for your brilliance and for diving right in on this project.

Long Distance Art — The Social Distancing Festival Long Distance Art   Over the past few weeks, SDF creator Nick has been busy “matchmaking” artists from different artistic disciplines in different cities around the world, tasking them to collaborate on a new piece of art that will be exhibited on The Social Distancing Festival. For this first ...

Check out this great article from CBC about Long Distance Art - launching on April 29 at noon EDT!

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/tanzania-to-toronto-calgary-to-cleveland-teams-across-the-world-are-making-long-distance-art-1.5547377

Tanzania to Toronto, Calgary to Cleveland: Teams across the world are making 'Long Distance Art' | CBC Arts This initiative is playing global art matchmaker, and these three teams are about to show you the result.

This post is very special. Last year, artist Virginia Mallon began organizing a nationwide tour of shows for a collaboration of artists entitled ‘Artists for Social Justice 2020’. This collaborative and expansive show was set to launch this past March at Queen’s College of the City University of New York.

https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/featured/artists-for-social-justice-2020

Artists for Social Justice 2020 — The Social Distancing Festival Last year, artist Virginia Mallon began organizing a nationwide tour of shows for a collaboration of artists entitled ‘Artists for Social Justice 2020’. This collaborative and expansive show was set to launch this past March at Queen’s College of the City University of New York. Unfortunately ...

The show that started it all. Please check out the music video (created all online!) of the opening number of In Real Life - the new musical I was working on with composer Kevin Wong before the arts were shut down due to the need for distancing.

I hope you like it, and please share if you do!

https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/featured/in-real-life

In Real Life — The Social Distancing Festival Toronto, CANADA - Ok, this one is special to me. This is the project that led to this entire site being created. On March 13, I was at the end of the first week of rehearsals for In Real Life, a new musical - book and lyrics by me (Nick Green), music and lyrics by (the amazing) Kevin Wong.

am really, really excited to share this with you all:

Over the past couple of weeks I have been pairing up artists from different disciplines in cities all around the world to create a new piece of art to be exhibited as part of Long Distance Art on The Social Distancing Festival. This project has warmed my heart and inspired me so much, and I'm hoping it'll do the same for others.

Artists include dancer Tadhi Alawi in Dar es Salaam paired with Toronto musical theatre powerhouse trio Barbara Johnston, Anika Johnson, and Suzy Suzannah Wilde; musician Charlie Rauh in New York City with a painter Liza Merkalova in Perth, Australia; and a multimedia artist and designer Tekikki Walker in Ohio with Calgary fibre artist and overall star Simone Saunders.

The works are underway and will be presented soon. Find out more information about the project and how to support it here:

https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/long-distance-art

Long Distance Art — The Social Distancing Festival Long Distance Art   We are so excited to tell you about Long Distance Art, the newest project on The Social Distancing Festival. We think that this work is exciting, rigorous, and important, and we cannot WAIT to share it with you!Over the past few weeks, SDF creator Nick has been busy “matchmaki...

5, 6, 7, 8! Watch cast members from A Chorus Line around the world doing the opening number in this amazing video. It started out as a joke among colleagues, and it has become something very special. Thanks Heather Parcells for sharing the story with us!

https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/featured/a-chorus-line-in-quarantine

Chorus Line in Quarantine — The Social Distancing Festival INTERNATIONAL - Heather Parcells, who was in the Broadway revival of The Chorus Line, shared with us this super inspiring and fun video, as well as the incredibly touching story of its creation. It’s sure to be EVERYWHERE on the internet in like ten seconds, so check it out!

Singer-songwriter, actress, and author Jann Arden sent us a beautiful video, offering words of encouragement and support to all.

We've also added a bunch of new content. Check it out!

https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/featured/jannarden

Jann Arden — The Social Distancing Festival Canada - Singer-songwriter, actress, and author Jann Arden sent a message to The Social Distancing Festival, offering some words of encouragement and love to all the artists out there. My favourite part is “jumping jacks on the bed!” Thanks so much for this heart-warming message Jann! It means a...