CALL TO ARTISTS - DIVINE RIDICULOUS PRESENTS - THE MARCH HARE

CALL TO ARTISTS!!!

A Workshop for the artsists will take place on Friday 28th of Feb 4-8pm at MIC.

22 Artists are called on to research and create an immersive theatrical experiment for a live audience at the MIC - in Buckfastleigh, Dartmoor - for one night only - on the night of the 1st March 2025. No performance experience or artistic training is required. Self-motivation, independence, a good dose of humour, and a desire to develop your capacity to improvise and flex in a co-creative atmosphere, will be essential, for this night will be unrehearsed, and totally 'emergent'. Each performer will work with a topic of their own choosing that is resonant with what they are feeling in their heart right now. The players will be assigned an archetype to help guide their process and give the event a certain coherence and architecture. Please read the full description below for more details, and apply.

Support will be available online in the build up to the event.

Proposed Mediums:
- Installation Art, Video Art, Digital Art, Sound Art, Painting, Sculpture, Collage, Set and Costume

- Table-Based one on one interactive experiences

- Walk-Around/ Promenade performances

- Butoh, Embodiment, Trance, Contact Improv, Movement, Performance Art

- Activism, Protest, Ecology, Nature-Connection

- Ritual, Celebration, Myth and Story-Telling, Ceremony, Durational Performance, Medicine-Work and Magic

- Talk, Workshop, Farce, Facilitated Session, Barn Dance

- Puppetry, Cabaret, Burlesque, Poetry

- Live Music, DJing

- Clownery, Foolery, Mask and Masquerade

- Videographery, Photography, Documentary and Journalism.

- Whatever else you can think of...

This ‘scratch’ performance night is a pre-amble and R+D for a longer-run immersive piece planned to take place at MIC towards the end of 2025. We pray The March Hare will help us to form our company and work together to accomplish a more in depth devising and performance process further down the line.

We will meet on the afternoon of 28th Feb for a 4 hour lab/exploration of MIC, then dive into our emergent mytho-poetical performance night the next night.

All profits raised will be put towards the next event. Some limited expenses can be paid.

TO APPLY*
CONTACT: DIVINE.RIDICULOUS@GMAIL.COM *AND...

1: SEND A QUESTION FROM YOUR LIFE IN THE FORM OF A RIDDLE, HAIKU, POEM, WORD-STRING, MANTRA, PRAYER, JOKE OR ENIGMA

2: SEND A PICTURE OF OR BY YOU THAT YOU DON'T MIND SHARING ONLINE

3: SEND A DONATION TOWARDS FACILITATION, VENUE HIRE AND ADMIN BY BUYING AN "ARTIST/PARTICIPANT" TICKET HERE…

*Anyone can apply, there is no 'audition' or application process, once you have registered you will be part of the group.
Full Event Description continues below…     

WowHaHaHa!
Daniel Hernandez
 linktr.ee/divine.ridiculous

Audience Tickets for The March Hare are sold HERE
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Divine Ridiculous Presents…

THE MARCH HARE - MARCH 1ST 2025

For one evening only, ticket holders will take a trip down the rabbit hole into a fools journey that will never be repeated. The Tarot, an ancient tool of self-exploration, cosmic discovery and heartfelt communication, is our natural companion in this paradoxical pocket theatre. Our immersive theatrical experiment aims to colourfully kidnap our participants and lead them towards an encounter with the unknown, in an improvised chaos in which synchronicities and moments of epiphany thrive. This compendium of living archetypes and numerology, intimate moments and poetic acts, radiates with rambunctious new resonances created in community, in the moment…

The audience are invited to clown with us inside the Divine Ridiculous realms of The Embodied Tarot, and meet ritual performers and artists in a setting where we treat our creative participation as a devotional offering to reality, as a necessary nutrient for the wellbeing of self, community, place and planet.

The game is yet more ingenious, and begins as soon as you buy your ticket - every audience member will also be invited to embody a card of the Tarot’s minor arcana. Thus we will collaborate to form a living tarot masquerade, what we like to call "Quantum Burlesque".

In order to play this ridiculous game, after buying a ticket, you should ask your own life question to the Divine Ridiculous: the email to send your question to will be revealed to you once you have bought your ticket. Once purchased your opportunity to play with and embody your very own tarot card begins, you are invited to adorn yourself with costume or accessories that allude to it's mysterious insights.

You might meet with a card within the space, watch psychomagic performances, or get sidetracked by other games on this unusual evening when the entire tarot is foolishly embodied throughout the MIC space. Each clown you meet will have games and performances that could resonate with your quest and bring idiotic insight for your delight.

In this event we are all fools and we are all on a journey, we might be there looking for answers or simply to enjoy the ride. Will this be your playful journey of clown awakening as you explore, encounter and enjoy ‘wisdom’ from the cards?

Please enter into the spirit of the unexpected, as this experimental night has never before been attempted.

TICKETS: https://dandelion.events/e/o7lrs