OPEN CALL for SARDAM festival’s 9th Edition (23-26 Sept 2021)!
Application deadline: 31 May 2021!
Addressed to writers, writers-performers and other artists interested in experimenting with words/texts, from Cyprus and abroad!
Send:
a) a short bio (max 250 words, paragraph style)
b) a photo (in high resolution)
c) a sample of relevant work (poem, short story, novel excerpt, flash fiction, experimental text, visual writing, sound poem, word collage, video, artwork, music/sound piece etc.)
d) links/videos of previous performances/collaborations (optional)* we no longer accept descriptions of videopoems/videotexts but only the actual proposed videopoems/videotexts
e) a website or other link which includes more info about you and your work (optional)
f) a short description of your proposal for SARDAM 2021
*Please describe in detail how you plan to present your work and whether you will cooperate with another writer, artist or other professional. If you are proposing a collaboration, also send a short bio, a photo and work samples or links of your collaborator(s). The festival may also propose collaborators from Cyprus for selected acts.
Send all materials to arttitudecyprus@gmail.com (SARDAM 2021 APPLICATION and your Full Name as email subject). All text attachments should be sent in both word and pdf. Please send all materials in one email.
Some applicants may be offered a place for SARDAM 2022 edition.
Priority will be given to applicants who haven’t participated in the festival’s previous editions.
The applications will be evaluated by a selection committee which includes writers and artists from Cyprus and abroad.
The results will be announced in June 2021.
Good luck! 
SARDAM, meaning “verbal slip” in Greek, is an annual, out of the box, interdisciplinary literature festival based in Cyprus (founded in 2013 – EFFE LABEL QUALIFICATION 2019-2020). The festival presents the work of writers, writers-performers and other artists from Cyprus and abroad, through hybrid and interdisciplinary acts/collaborations (eg. text and sound/music, slam poetry, live reading and contemporary dance, videopoetry, interactive literary installations, sound poetry, visual poetry, site-specific readings/acts, and so on). Besides presenting evenings full of alternative literary readings and interdisciplinary performances in different cities of Cyprus, the festival also presents exciting creative writing and performance workshops, a writer’s Residency, as well as parallel events.
