PyCon NA arts festival about the experience of programming
As part of PyCon North America 2019, I'm co-leading a one-night arts festival - "The Art of Python", through the Hatchery program https://us.pycon.org/2019/hatchery/artofpython/ - and hope members of our community will consider proposing art to share!
We're seeking many types of narrative, performance, and visual art about the experience of programming and making technology -- both Python specifically and programming more generally.
I hope we can showcase several different artists, including people who have to gather the courage to share their work publicly for the first time, and whose art explores varied experiences -- including ones that we often don't discuss factually in public, because (for example) they're embarrassing or because we have non-disclosure agreements. And I hope we get a range of tones -- humor, awe, melancholy, anger, joy, and so on.
I regret to say that there is no pay involved.
The festival will be Friday, May 3rd. The deadline for submissions is February 28th.
There's a related effort by !!Con (May 11-12, NYC) to also encourage "not-talks" as submissions -- their CfP is open till March 3rd http://bangbangcon.com/give-a-talk.html , and they offer speaker travel funding and a USD $256 honorarium! So you can propose the same "not-talk" to "The Art of Python" and to !!Con.
Please feel free to reply to me off-list if you have questions about art you'd like to share!
Thanks,
Thanks to everyone who submitted proposals!
We have chosen a few performances https://us.pycon.org/2019/hatchery/artofpython/ to showcase at The Art of Python!
Some of our performers are still seeking folks to work with in order to help their visions come to life. In particular, if you are going to be at PyCon North America on May 3rd, and you have a little time to help out, please get in touch if you:
* play a percussion instrument, sing, or play the guitar * are comfortable acting on stage, and live in the Washington, DC area
Thanks and looking forward to a great night.
(Also: several items on the !!Con program this year http://bangbangcon.com/speakers.html are live performances! The last batch of tickets go live Tuesday, April 2 at 12:00 PM (Noon) Eastern, in case you want to try to get one.)
On 4/1/19 8:37 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
Some of our performers are still seeking folks to work with in order to help their visions come to life. In particular, if you are going to be at PyCon North America on May 3rd, and you have a little time to help out, please get in touch if you:
- play a percussion instrument, sing, or play the guitar
- are comfortable acting on stage, and live in the Washington, DC area
To be clear: these are two separate requests. You don't have to be both! We're looking for DC-area actors and we're looking for musicians who live anywhere.
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Sumana Harihareswara