CURATE OPENING ACTS
For the Lively Arts 09-10 Season

Stanford students – undergraduate and graduate – are invited to apply for the opportunity to curate an ‘opening act’ for selected world music, chamber, or jazz events that will be presented by Lively Arts during the 09-10 season. A minimum of three events will be designated for this initiative, with one student curator per event.

Each student curator will:

• select and program Stanford-based performers (i.e. vocal ensemble, theater troupe, poetry collective, etc) to feature in the opening 15-20 minutes of a scheduled Lively Arts performance.
• work with a programming budget of $500 which can be used as a fee for the student performers (to help with a trip, or produce a recording, etc) or to engage a supplementary artist that the group has long wanted to work with.
• commit to working with Stanford Lively Arts throughout the planning and presentation process (with technical, programming, and marketing staff)
• receive an honorarium of $500 (beyond performing budget) and will be credited in program materials and will appear onstage with Lively Arts’ artistic and executive director to introduce the final performance and welcome the student group to the stage.

To apply:

Email Ruth Mikusko with the following:

• Name and contact information
• Year and major at Stanford
• Paragraph (400 words) about your most memorable live arts experience, whether a performance or off-stage event.
• Paragraph (400 words) about why curating an ‘opening act’ is meaningful to you: aesthetically, experientially, professionally
• Best quarter for you to curate an event (please note any extended periods of absence you envision during the 2009-10 academic year)
• Current cultural activity: what do you listen to, watch, what arts do you experience live?
• Contact information for a Stanford faculty reference (name, phone, email)