Commission for four spoken word artists

As part of Phrased & Confused outing, the hub is looking to commission four spoken word artists to create new material for our Phrased & Confused festival tent, which will be part of this year's Summer Sundae Weekender in Leicester between 8-10th August. As many of you know, Phrased & Confused (http://www.phrasedandconfused.co.uk explores the creative common ground between lyrics and spoken word, so we're very excited to be part of one of the UK's best boutique music festivals.

Each commission is worth £1000. In addition all our commissioned artists will receive a weekend pass for themselves and a guest plus camping space in the artist field and travel expenses to and from the festival. You'll also receive a stand-alone video of your commissioned festival performance for you to use in your own promotional activity after the festival and the chance to workshop their material at a creative sharing day, facilitated by Stuart Silver, one half of Perrier Award winners, Noble and Silver. The artists we commission will be asked to create at least 15 minutes of new material, and be given the opportunity to perform it at least once at the festival.

We hope that these commissions will be provide a real professional development opportunity for the artists we select. One of Phrased & Confused's primary aims is to develop audiences for spoken word, and we anticipate that around 2000 people - most of them new to spoken word - will visit the tent during the Festival. As such, the commissions will open up a whole new audience to our commissioned artists.

The deadline for applications is the 11th June 2008 and you can find out more by either visiting our website  or by downloading the Commission Pack by clicking here < http://www.phrasedandconfused.co.uk/files/Phrased-and-Confused-Commission-Brief-2008.pdf>. If you have any questions or get stuck, please email us: info@phrasedandconfused.co.uk