A Social Event for Artists and Art Lovers in Maine!

Date:             Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Time:             6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:        The Frontier Cafe
Street:           14 Maine Street
City/Town:      Brunswick, ME
Phone:           207-725-5222
Email RSVP:   erin_underwood at hotmail dot com

Artists and enthusiasts are cordially invited to the first Brunswick Interstitial Salon for an evening devoted to the pleasures of conversation among boundary-crossing artists, writers, musicians, and creators. What better place to gather than in the thriving artistic community of Southern Maine?

The Brunswick Interstitial Art Salon will meet at The Frontier Café, which “is very much an evolving, creative canvas for visual storytelling. Our Beyond Gallery wall is a vibrant opportunity to exhibit contemporary visual stories produced collaboratively with storytellers from Maine and around the world.” – Frontier Café’s Web Site

We’re lucky to have authors from both of our anthologies at the Salon. Will Ludwigsen from Interfictions 2 and Catherynne Valente from Interfictions will both give a short reading from their stories, which will be followed by a general social hour.

So, bring your laptop and show off your portfolio or your tunes. Bring your art-loving friends, and bring a willingness to mingle with strangers — who might turn out to be colleagues, friends, or even artistic soul-mates!

And help spread the word by forwarding or linking to this invite!

The Interfictions 2 Auction, sponsored by the Interstitial Arts Foundation, is well underway, with over twenty artists already committed to creating original pieces of art based on the Interfictions anthology series of original interstitial writing. We have a great team of volunteers working on every aspect of the auction, from sending out stories to maintaining databases to photographing incoming work.

We are seeking a Project Manager to coordinate & oversee the Auction committee.

The IF2 Auction Project Manager is a non-paying volunteer position that should only require a few hours per week from now through December 2009. It can be performed from anywhere as long as you have reliable Internet access. In addition, the Project Manager will have a volunteer assistant to help on an as needed basis.

The position responsibilities for the Project Manager include:

• Maintaining communication with auction volunteers and the IAF Board
• Coordinating efforts between auction volunteers
• Keeping people on task
• Setting goals for the project
• Being an organizational god or goddess for which you will be worshipped

The Interstitial Arts Foundation is a non-profit organization. The role of IF2 Auction Project Manager is a critical position for the Auction as well as the IAF itself. Please send an email introducing yourself along with your resume to volunteers@interstitialarts.org

Related Links:

• Interfictions 2 Auction Announcement
• Auction Call to Artists
• Interfictions Auction FAQ
• Interfictions 2 Table of Contents
• IAF Fundraising Announcement
• The IAF Mission

To celebrate the release of our second anthology of interstitial fiction, the Interstitial Arts Foundation is planning an auction of portable art to coincide with the book’s release. But since we’re interstitial artists and know no borders, we didn’t want to leave musicians, DJs, and vocal artists out of the party.

Auctioning a piece of music won’t quite work; instead, we’re asking that musical artists donate a song or mix to the IAF that we sell exclusively during the auction (in November and December 2009) and non-exclusively through our website afterwards. Songs will be sold individually as downloads and grouped as an EP or LP for download and as a limited edition CD.

As with the auction, we’re asking for songs and mixes based on one of the stories in the Interfictions anthologies. Please submit original works or mixes that use publicly available music (to avoid any sticky legal issues!).

Interested?

 DETAILS HERE

Jay Lake identifies himself as an “interstitial” writer in the latest post on John Scalzi’s “Big Idea” interview on Whatever:

“… my short story career has practically been the definition of eclectic, as I’ve played with styles ranging from straight Robert E. Howard pastiche to high interstitial weirdness.  And pretty much everything in between you care to name, with the possible exception of nurse romances.”

Update! ** Small Beer Press has extended the date to 7/31/09 for publishing donors’ names in the printed Interfictions 2 anthology. Please help spread the word. http://www.interstitialarts.org/donate

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We live in a world of niche marketing. The Interstitial Arts Foundation brings artists together to tear those barriers down.

We are asking you now to join us in our next adventure in storming the barricades: Interfictions 2: a New Anthology of Interstitial Writing, edited by Delia Sherman & Christopher Barzak. Interfictions 2 will be published in November 2009 in collaboration with Small Beer Press.

The first volume of Interfictions, published in 2007, was hailed as “A phenomenal collection…engrossing and provocative” (Hipster Bookclub) that “belongs on the nightstand of anyone interested in the development of contemporary short fiction” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

This second volume features original work by a whole new set of writers who joyfully explore the big imaginative spaces between conventional genres. And this time, we’ll be reaching out to even more readers by publishing a series of free stories on the new Interfictions 2 Annex online!

What can you do to help? This extraordinary collection of interstital fiction needs your financial support. We’re asking you to sponsor not just a book, but an idea - the idea that artists need to be able to express themselves freely and directly to their audiences, without the restraints of conventional genre limitations.

Here are some ways you can help us publish Interfictions 2:

SUPPORT AN INTERFICTIONS 2 STORY

• $500 pays one author for a 10,000 word short story
• $375 pays one author for a 7,500 word short story

SUPPORT THE INTERFICTIONS ONLINE ANNEX
8 stories will be available only online, with one appearing every week from August until November 2009.

• $400 covers author honoraria for the entire Annex
• $50 pays one author for an Annex story

SUPPORT THE NUTS & BOLTS OF ACTUAL BOOK PRODUCTION & PROMOTION

• $400 covers typesetting fees
• $200 buys Interfictions 2 a magazine ad
• $100 prints up promotional postcards
• $25 sends out five copies to reviewers
• Your Choice: Gift amount of your choosing supports the IAF’s General Fund

Become an Interfictions 2 Sponsor with a gift of $500 or more, and we’ll list you as a Sponsor on our Friends of Interfictions 2 web page. And if your gift of $500 or more is received by June 30, 2009, your name will be published in the printed anthology!

Your gift of $499 or less will get you listed on a Friends of Interfictions 2 web page as a Booklover, and Booklovers who donate between $375 and $499 by July 31, 2009 will have their names published in the printed anthology. Individual supporter names will not be linked to specific stories or work.

SUPPORT A STORY, GET A BOOK!
We’ll also send signed copies of both Interfictions and Interfictions 2, signed by editors Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak, to supporters who contribute $375 or more. In addition, Sponsors of $1,000 or more can choose to receive a signed limited edition print of Connie Toebe’s “Moonlight“, the art used on the cover of the first Interfictions.

The easiest way to contribute is on our Web site at http://www.interstitialarts.org/donate.

Or you can mail your check along with the 2009 Gift Form to P.O. Box 35862, Boston, MA 02135. Contributions of any size are most welcome.

The IAF is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, so your contribution will be fully tax-deductible. But more importantly, when you make a gift to the IAF, you can bask in the knowledge that you are helping to build a new work of literature that can change people’s lives.

Thank you for your continued support. Please feel free to link to or pass on this page to anyone else you think might be interested in art without borders!

Warmly,
Ellen Kushner
Vice President & Co-Founder,
Interstitial Arts Foundation

Artists and enthusiasts are cordially invited to the first NYC Interstitial Salon – an evening devoted to the pleasures of conversation among boundary-crossing artists, writers, musicians, and creators.

The Conceit: The origins of literary and artistic salons go back to 17th century France,  when inspiring hosts and hostesses gathered “stimulating people of quality” together to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation. Today there may be fewer wealthy patrons willing to host an event in their townhouses, but there is always a need for artists to meet other artists, to explore other circles of creative influence, to cross borders.

The Hosts:  The Interstitial Arts Foundation is a not–for–profit organization dedicated to the study, support, and promotion of interstitial art: literature, music, visual and performance art found in between categories and genres — art that crosses borders.

Want to host an Interstitial Salon in your town?  Post a comment here, or write to INFO(AT)interstitialarts D*T*rg  and let us help you get started connecting with other interstitial artists.

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