Application for Spoffin OFF 2012
Spoffin OFF is the showcase part of the Spoffin Festival in Amersfoort (The Netherlands), an annual multi-arts festival with more than 40 performing acts from all over Europe, with a special focus on innovations from the northern and eastern regions. The festival takes places on squares, streets, parks and some specific sites in the mediaeval city centre of Amersfoort.
Spoffin Festival consists of three parts:
- Spoffin IN: innovative outdoor and site-specific performances of professional artists (on invitation only)
- Spoffin OFF: showcase of new work and up-coming professional artists (selected after application)
- Spoffin PRO: international meeting of promoters, festival programmers, agencies, journalists and other professionals in the field of arts in public space (on invitation only)
Application deadline and selection criteria
You can apply to participate in the Spoffin OFF program from February 1 until March 30, 2012. A committee will thoroughly study all the applications and make the selection. Final decisions will be made before May 2012 and are formalized in a contract.
Spoffin will do its outmost to organize an exceptionally good OFF program, as a consequence the quality level of the selection is high. Please note that only a limited number (15-20) of artists/groups can participate in the Spoffin OFF program, due to limitations in space, time, budget and production capacity. The first selection will be mainly based upon artistical criteria: originality, expressiveness and professionality. However, practical criteria (e.g. technical requirements, group size and travel costs) can also influence the final selection.
Spoffin OFFers:
- Opendoors performance venue (meeting your technical needs)
- High profile publicity in print, on the web and elsewhere
- Quality meetings with theatre professionals (Spoffin PRO) and other artists.
Click here for a full list of the Spoffin PRO 2010 attendants (PDF). - Good hotel accommodation
- Delicious meals
- Nice ambience
- Reasonable compensation for travel costs
- All the money raised ‘on the hat’ belongs to the artist!
You OFFer Spoffin:
- Your time and effort to showcase an exceptional good performance at Spoffin!
- Everything you need to perform (including all light and sound equipment, rigging, etc.), apart from the venue and the power
