Calls for participation
Watch this space for calls to submit your work and participate in your local hello stranger events!
hello stranger North West
Calling all North West designers to be part of a touring exhibition. We are looking for performance designers from any discipline to contribute hexagonal panels that will be part of our 'Shed' exhibition structure. We invite you to be as free as you like with how you might present content on these panels, you might wish to simply send us a panel with an important design phrase, share images of a significant project that left a lasting impact with you or a rough sketch of a project that never came to fruition.
‘The Shed’ will tour LIPA, The Yard in Manchester and Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, between 27th February and 13th April.
hello stranger South West
We are asking if any designers in the region have model boxes/design work/sketches etc of any projects from 2019-2023. We are particularly interested in unrealised, postponed or streamed/online shows as a result of the pandemic. These will be displayed in exhibition at Bristol Old Vic focusing on the impact the pandemic has had on the industry. The exhibition will run 20th-22nd March.
We are also reaching out to find designers that would be willing to give up a few hours to either host a meeting or run a workshop during this week.
Submission deadline: 11:55pm 26th February. Click here for full details
hello stranger Scotland
Calling all designers and creative practitioners across Scotland to meet, collaborate, connect and create together. We are planning a coming together of designers and practitioners at all stages of their career to create together an installation made from costumes kindly donated by our theatre wardrobe departments.
The event will serve as a provocation for discussion and debate amongst theatre designers, students and practitioners working in Scotland. The idea is to work collectively to suspend, tie and connect the costumes across the width and depth of the sculpture court, then using recycled, donated items we will reconstruct to make physical connections with the old and new.
The event will take place on Saturday 25th February. Click here for full details
hello stranger North London
Calling North London based designers and practitioners that have created work in this region to collaborate, create and discuss the future. Designers are invited to submit responses, participate in workshops and submit images of work created in the last four years.
We are calling for the following:
Audio or video recordings of designers’ responses to a set of provocations
Workshop participants for a workshop on 4th March
Sketches and images of work created in the last four years
Submission deadlines:
Audio/video responses - 6pm 19th March
Workshop sign-ups - 12pm 3rd March
Sketches and images - 6pm 18th March
hello stranger East Midlands
East Midlands theatre and performance designers, we invite you to send up to three images of your design work to be displayed as part of a video, showcasing East Midlands performance design at Nottingham Playhouse as part of hello stranger from 16th - 18th March.
Please send up to three images (Image Layout: Portrait. Image Formats: JPG, PNG, BMP of a design (set, costume, installation, performance, lighting, prop, making etc.) realised between 2019-2023 with Title of the show, venue, name of the playwright (where applicable) and a 100-word blurb (optional) of your design (please credit the photographer where applicable).
If your work is in the Hello Stranger catalogue, feel free to send us the image(s) and blurb(s) you have already submitted there.
By sending this/these image(s) you agree that Hello Stranger, SBTD have the right to use these images for the exhibitions (Nottingham and Prague) and publicity purposes (please let me know if you need further information on this).
Submission deadline: 10th March. Email submissions to:
hello stranger South London
Calling workshop participants for Spaces & Places: The Trans Gaze and Designing Multiplicities. The workshops run over two days on the 7th and 8th March. Full attendance over the two days is not mandatory, but encouraged as the work will be cumulative. Workshops are free to attend, but spaces are limited. Open to sound, set, lighting, video and costume designers working in live performance. The work will inform an installation at Deptford Lounge.
Workshop dates: 7th and 8th March. Click here for details
hello stranger East London
Designers who live, work, or have worked in East London are invited to submit projects for display at the theatre. We ask designers to choose one or two pieces of work produced in the past four years. The exhibit will feature two spaces in the foyer: "work-in-progress" showcasing sketches and white card models, and the "finished outcome" displaying one or two A3 images. If you would like to display any artifacts, please let us know. We also welcome unrealised projects that may have been postponed or developed during the pandemic. Join us in this exciting celebration of design for performance.
Submission deadline: 11:55pm 20th February. Click here for full details
hello stranger Wales
hello stranger Wales - helo ddieithryn invites submissions from Wales-based designers and makers across all disciplines in design for performance – scenic, costume, properties, lighting, sound, projection/video, puppetry, etc.. – created since November 2019. Work may be of a realized production or of an unrealised project cancelled/postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Submission deadline: 5pm 8th February. Click here for full details
hello stranger Yorkshire
We invite designers and makers who have worked on live performance that has taken place in Yorkshire over the last 4 years to submit their work for exhibition at Leeds Playhouse. This may include designs for events that were cancelled/postponed due to the pandemic. We would love to receive submissions from costume, set, sound, lighting and props. All creatives working on live performance are welcome.
Alongside the professional call out, we are running a student costume/textile project that will feature in the exhibition. If you work with young people in Yorkshire and would like to know more about how they can get involved, please get in touch and we can have a brief and materials pack sent out to you.
Submission deadline: 11:55pm 19th February. Click here for full details