[Fwd: Canadian Play Jury at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin]

[Luella Massey]

Dear theatre friends and colleagues,

(my apologies if you have already received this through a different source)

please find below the official invitation from the Canadian Embassy in 
Berlin and its Cultural Attachee, Gabriele Naumann-Maerten, to take part 
in promoting Canadian drama internationally: This is the second season 
of the pilot project that facilitates the translation and production of 
Canadian plays in Germany's theatrical landscape. So please feel free to 
send your recommendations, directly to the address below (or to my email 
address and I will forward them), BEFORE March 31, 2007.

Thank you so much for your contributions.

Best wishes,
Birgit  


FORWARDED MESSAGE:

Dear friends and colleagues,
 
in collaboration with Canadian Heritage, the Embassy initiated in 2006 a 
pilot project for Canadian plays. Aim was and still is to introduce, to 
promote and to export new Canadian drama in Germany.
As you know, a jury of German theatre experts was installed. Jury 2006: 
Frank Heibert, translator and president of jury, Stephanie Graeve, Chief 
of Dramaturgy/ Theater der Bundesstadt Bonn, Bastian Häffner, Pegasus 
Berlin/agent .Andrea Zagorski, dramaturge/ International Theater 
Institute, German Section and Gabriele Naumann-Maerten, Cultural 
Attaché-Performing Arts.
Canadian partners, such as playwrights Guild Toronto provided plays, 78 
in total. Plays were pre-selected, read and evaluated by the jury 
members, according  it's potential for the multi-facetted German theatre 
market.
In 2006 six plays were chosen. Outreach to 430 [professional contacts 
across Germany showed very promising results.
This initiative has build awareness and interest by German theatre 
professionals, such as dramaturges, artistic directors, directors, 
translators, agents.
The collaboration between Canadian and German theatre professionals is 
essential to the success of this project. Therefore it is not only to 
build access to information on new Canadian plays in German speaking 
countries, but also to create substantial networks and future 
collaborations.  
The complexity of the German theatre system demands new ways to access 
the market to decision makers.
We would very much appreciate your support and substantial contribution 
to this process. Your expertise in Canadian theatre and it's 
decentralized landscape is very valuable to us. Your expertise in 
interesting new, upcoming plays, styles and playwrights would certainly 
be a substantial contribution to the promotion of Canadian plays.  
Therefore we would very much like to invite you to participate in this 
important process, which is preparatory for jury on new Canadian drama 2007.
 We hope this projects meets your interest.
 
To prepare the process 2007, please take note of the following criteria:
    •    Plays proposed should not be older than three years.
    •    Material send should include a) short synopsis  b) play
    •    It is not obligatory that the plays has been staged already in 
Canada.
    •    According to the German theatre markets the jury is also 
interested, among well made plays and new writing, in plays dealing with 
the challenges of today's life (private and political) as well as 
relevant social issues, i.e. among others migration
    •    plays for theatre for young audiences are welcome
    •    no adaptations based on novels or films will be accepted
    •    playwrights should not be represented by a German publisher yet
    •    We kindly ask to send all material/ synopsis/ plays (preferably 
in PDF format) to Gabriele Naumann-Maerten email 
gabriele.naumann-maerten at international.gc.ca
    •    latest by  March 31st, 2007
1st Jury meeting will be hosted in April 2007
 
 We're happy to announce
 Jury members 2007:
 
Stephanie Graeve, Chief of Dramaturgy/ Theater der Bundesstadt Bonn
Bastian Häffner, Pegasus Berlin/agent .
Andreas Jandl, translator Berlin
Simone Kaempf, theatre critic, Berlin
Andrea Zagorski, dramaturge/ International Theater Institute, German 
Section -  president of jury
 
and Gabriele Naumann-Maerten, Cultural Attaché-Performing Arts. Embassy 
organises and facilitates the process.
 
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to come in touch with 
me. Feel free to distribute this information to partners who also might 
be interested in this project .
 
Best regards
 
Thank you very much for your collaboration.Gabriele
 
Gabriele Naumann-Maerten 
Cultural Attaché - Performing Arts 
Attachée 
culturelle - Arts de la Scène 
Kulturreferentin - Darstellende 
Künste
Canadian Embassy 
Ambassade du Canada 
Botschaft von 
Kanada
Leipziger Platz 17
D-10117 Berlin 
Tel: (+49-30) 20 312 274 
Fax: 
(+40-30) 20 312 121 
gabriele.naumann-maerten at international.gc.ca 

www.kanada.de
 

-- 
Birgit Schreyer Duarte
Dipl.-Dramaturge, M.A., PhD Candidate
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama
University of Toronto

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