Call for Poets

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Call for Performers

Horse Protection Canada is accepting applications from performers for a variety show to raise awareness and gather support to end horse slaughter in Canada.

The Dark Horse Show will showcase poets/musicians/storytellers who will present pieces related to horses: magical, mystical, strange, enchanted, earthy, aggravating, lovable, wild or tame.

Material and performers must be polished and have stage experience. Each performance will be 10-15 minutes.

All promotional and staging support will be provided by Horse Protection Canada. The promotional campaign is headed by an experienced PR and media relations volunteer. It consists of releases to all mainstream and community media, as well as a postering campaign. The Dark Horse Show will take place in East Van, September 2010.

Please note: HPC is a grassroots, strictly volunteer organization that receives no grant money or other subsidies. Performers will be compensated with a percentage of door. Donated performances are gratefully accepted.

How to apply:

1. Write a cover letter outlining your performance experience, and a short description of the material you intend to present. Write the blurb as if it was going on a flyer: 2-3 sentences.

2. Include links to video and/or audio of you performing. MySpace, YouTube or ReverbNation are fine.

3. Attach a bio or press kit.

4. Include your full name, address, phone number and alternate contact information.

5. Indicate whether you wish to donate your performance, or wish to receive a percentage of the door.

3. Attach text of material you wish to perform. Include length of performance, in minutes.

Either video/audio and/or text must be what you will present at the show.

This is a grassroots campaign to enact a federal animal cruelty law. Our volunteers view heart-wrenching, graphic evidence of torture every day. Material that clearly makes light of animal cruelty or horse slaughter will be immediately discarded. After it's turned over to "the loonie list"; frenzied spammers with whom we otherwise do not network.

Application Deadline: 5 pm, August 25th, 2010. Send all applications to: alphamare@horseprotection.info

Visit Horse Protection Canada to view evidence and documentation of horse slaughter, and efforts to end this atrocity.

You may sign petitions in support of ending horse slaughter at Sophie's Pet Palace on Commercial Drive, or at any Tisol location. We chose these pet stores because they do not support mills or wild capture. They are very kind to support these petitions.

Funds raised go directly to HPC expenses: printing anti-slaughter petitions, delivering and picking up petitions/flyers to pet stores throughout the Lower Mainland, long distance calls, computer expenses, postage. We are new. We are in debt, and have not yet even reached the point we can rescue individual abused or slaughter-bound horses. We do not pay salaries. We are not a registered charity.

Thank you for your interest. We hope to meet you soon.

For the love of horses,
Alpha Mare

[RCW]

Barbara could perform "Gluepot!"

[Shannon]

Lucia would be perfect for this.
I just sent her the link, maybe she could write something new.