The call for stories for our March performances is no longer active. We would still love to hear from you. Email us or share your story via the submission button below.
We have collected stories from LGBTQIA2S+ folks who live or have lived in rural Oregon. We have selected 10 of these stories that respond to why a specific song is significant to you and your experience as a rural queer person. Based on these stories and songs, we are choreograph dances which will be shared, along with the stories (anonymously if desired), in online performances at the end of March.
Writers of selected stories will be awarded $100. Writers may be asked to work with our artistic team on story edits and will have the opportunity to read their own story during the online events if desired (and possible future in-person performance events).
Please note that though we will be selecting a few stories to inspire these dance pieces, all submitted stories will contribute to the documentation of Oregon’s queer history by being added to the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN) (with the consent of the writer, of course).
We are putting out this call because we want to hear from you. Yes, YOU.
We invite stories of honesty, vulnerability, fantasy, epiphany, fabulousness, struggle, pain, loss, love, loneliness, alienation, connectedness, togetherness, discrimination, inclusion, confusion, depression, anxiety, clarity, release, communing with nature, surviving 2020 or 1968, or whatever else is inspiring to you.
Writers of selected stories will be awarded $100. Writers may be asked to work with our artistic team on story edits and will have the opportunity to read their own story during the online events if desired (and possible future in-person performance events).
Please note that though we will be selecting a few stories to inspire these dance pieces, all submitted stories will contribute to the documentation of Oregon’s queer history by being added to the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN) (with the consent of the writer, of course).
We are putting out this call because we want to hear from you. Yes, YOU.
We invite stories of honesty, vulnerability, fantasy, epiphany, fabulousness, struggle, pain, loss, love, loneliness, alienation, connectedness, togetherness, discrimination, inclusion, confusion, depression, anxiety, clarity, release, communing with nature, surviving 2020 or 1968, or whatever else is inspiring to you.
WRITING PROMPTS
These are some prompts to get you going. Take them or leave them -- there is no right answer here. This is about you. Use these prompts to get started if it’s helpful and see where the story takes you.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Feel free to reach out with any questions to boomandbust.info@gmail.com.
These are some prompts to get you going. Take them or leave them -- there is no right answer here. This is about you. Use these prompts to get started if it’s helpful and see where the story takes you.
- What’s your favorite song? What do you love about this song? Is there a particular moment you remember when that song was exactly what you needed to hear? Why was it so perfect for the moment? What was going on and how did the song carry the moment?
- Think of a poignant life moment: a landmark, a time of great growth or transformation, something you’ve overcome, a hard time you’ve survived, an ecstatic time you’ve been liberated by...what is the song of that moment and why? How does the song relate to this moment for you?
- What does it mean for you to be a queer or trans person in your community? Is there a story that could help convey those dynamics to someone outside your community? What song would you choose to describe that story?
- Is there a song that has given you hope? What are you hopeful for? Has it delivered you from a limiting life experience? How? Has the song given you a sense of a better world? Describe that world.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
- Use the "Submit" button below to submit your story
- You can choose within the form whether you want to write your story within the submission form, or upload a .pdf, word .doc, video or audio file, OR email us your story
- Stories in pdf/word .doc format should be 1-2 pages, single spaced, size 12 font (~500-1200 words)
- If you submit by email, send your story to boomandbust.info@gmail.com with the subject line “OUT Dance Project story submission”
- Deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2021
- Selected writers will be notified by February 10th, 2021
Feel free to reach out with any questions to boomandbust.info@gmail.com.