Looking for participants

backyart is looking for artists!

We are always looking for any artists who are interested in submitting any form of creative expression- be it puppeteering, writing, singing, drumming, saxophoning, guitaring, painting, funny face making, etc...

For this upcoming summer season, we are looking for some specific acts as well. If you are a musician, performance artist, or dancer and would like to participate at backyart this summer please let us know. We would love to incorporate more of these types of art and would love to have YOU be who we incorporate.

Also looking for visual artists of all kinds- particularly those artists interested in creating site specific installations in our backyard and using the space as creatively as possible.
Please e-mail backyart@gmail.com if you are interested.

Love as per usual,
Lia

What a great night we had!

Hey all!

Just wanted to thank everyone who came out on Saturday for our Film Frenzy and give a special thanks to everyone who participated in both NYC and Dublin. It was a really fun night.

J. Anthony Roman read his third chapter of "Belated Apocalypse" in which we met Leah, Mikey's mom and learn about her interests in Mikey's education. We also learn more about Gerald, his jaded look on life and his ability to kill if need be.

We spent the rest of the night eating popcorn and awarding paper plates to participants of The backyart/Attic film festival. We learned a couple of things about these 2 places:

1-Dublin values production value more than we do.
2- NY somehow values bizarre sexuality.
3- Everyone thinks of bravery differently.
4- They don't get drunk in Dublin until after their festivals- CRAZY!

Make sure to check us out next month for April's OpenHouse Art Attack. It will be an all day festival with our first art opening showing off the talents of some boys from Boston and with a DJ, rapper and hopefully some krump dancers. Does anyone know any krump dancers?

More info coming soon.

Lots of love
Lia

March backyart Film Frenzy!!1

And don't forget, next month is our International Film Fest. Let us know if you want to participate cause we want you to. Here's the info:

Backyart Film Frenzy!!!

Backyart and The Attic Studio in Dublin, Ireland are teaming up for FilmFest in March and want YOU to be a part of it!
Shoot us an e-mail NOW to register yourself or a team!

Here's how it works:

- Teams from New York and Dublin are signing up now. At a predetermined time on March 19th, an independent 3rd party will supply a common theme and image that must be used in all the films.

- All teams will then have approximately 78 hours to put together a film using the given criteria.

- All films must be between 20 seconds and 7 minutes.

-Teams can be comprised of as many or as few people as possible.

- Films can be narrative, abstract, live-action, stop-action, animation or any other thing you can think of!

If you're a film maker, film lover, simply have a camera you've never used and want to see what you can do with it shoot us an email to sign up! No previous film making experience necessary.

If you want to participate but don't have a team, let us know and we'll see if we can set you up with some other folk.

ALL of the videos made will be shown both at backyart's March 28th event as well as at The Attic Studio.

Hope you'll join us!

Here are some details about The Attic Studio...

The Attic Studio

The Attic Studio is a community of actors, directors, writers & producers who have been meeting since early 2002 to explore drama, share ideas and network. The studio is run on a membership basis, with new attendees invited by existing members. We hold a workshop once a week and our priority is to explore and create new work.

http://www.theatticstudio.net/

February 2009 backyart

Thanks to everyone that came out last weekend. We had a great night with "Dark Heart of Meteorology" and chapter 2 of Anthony J. Roman's novel "Belated Apocalypse". Love it! Neurotic weathermen and Valentine's Day breakups. That's what I call backyart. Anyway thanks to our wonderful participants and guests. We had a great night with cupcakes, crafts, friends(new and old- silver and gold), and wonderful art. Pictures will be up very soon!

Love
Lia (and Max and Maria in spirit)