Components:
1. 24-hour play-writing competition
2. new poetry and short fiction competition
3. writing workshops
4. graduate student Pecha Kucha competition
Tentative Program
Thursday, March 8
6pm: play-writing competition participants arrive at chosen venue
Friday, March 9
6am: participants complete first draft of play
8-12 am: play workshopping
12-4 pm: working with the actors
6-9 pm: performance of the plays, judging
Saturday, March 10
9-12: concurrent workshops on poetry-, fiction-, and play-writing
1-4 pm: Pecha Kucha competition and judging
5-7: dinner for participants at downtown restaurant?
7-10: readings by local authors and writing competition award-winners
Organization: 4 sub-committees for the 4 main components
- Writing Workshops Committee:
- Finding writers to lead workshops
- Putting out call for participation
- Question: should there be a registration fee?
- Venues
- 24 Play-Writing Competition Committee:
- Putting out a call and deciding how to choose 5-6 participants
- Gathering judges and actors to participate
- Choosing a venue
- Organizing food for the period
- Performance location and tech set-up
- Poetry and Short Story Competition:
- Putting out a call (where to publicize?)
- Choosing judges, number of prizes
- Organizing Saturday night readings (venue, participants)
- Pecha Kucha Competition (see http://www.pecha-kucha.org/):
- Putting out CFP to other graduate departments
- Finding a venue
- Organizing tech
- Putting together a judging committee?
Expenses
-travel support for graduate students and participants coming in from out of town
-honoraria for writers participating in Saturday night readings
-venue for play-writing competition to take place, for the performances, and for Saturday night readings; on-campus venues for workshops and Pecha Kucha competitions?
-Saturday evening dinner for all participants (registration fee?)
-food for the play-writing competition participants
-snacks for during other events (coffee breaks at workshops, Pecha Kucha competition)
-prizes for all award winners (contributed by local businesses?)
Potential Sources of Funding and Partnerships:
GSA
TESS
SETS
TCI
City of Guelph
Local businesses
