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How To Sign Up For Different Skies | |||||
How To Sign Up
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WHAT IS DIFFERENT SKIES? Different Skies is part musical collaboration, part working vacation, and part charity event. To participate in Different Skies, you must be able to make the full week-long commitment. We travel to Arcosanti on a Monday, practice together and develop material during the week, and then perform on Saturday night. All proceeds from the dinner and the concert go to Arcosanti. Typical expenses at Arcosanti are $300-$400 for the week, which includes room, board and theatre rental. You may sell CDs or other materials during the show. Arcosanti is located about an hour's drive north of Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix is a good sized city (over 3 million people in the area - one estimate has Phoenix as the sixth largest city in the United States) and it has an international airport with many daily connections. All major car rental companies are represented. The roster for Different Skies is automatically populated with members who have attended in previous years, and new members are added as old members drop out. We expect there to be several cancellations over the course of each year for various reasons, so we're able to accommodate some but not all waitlisted artists. The waiting list for Different Skies does not carry over from year to year. To be on the waiting list for next year's event, if you were NOT present at a previous DS, you must rejoin the waiting list. Doing so promptly assures better placement on the list. The list officially opens when announced on the Different Skies Group, usually in November or December. GET INVOLVED! BECOME A PARTICIPANT! Different Skies is a growing event. If you are interested in participating in Different Skies, either as a perfomer or as production staff, and can make the week-long commitment, there are four steps you must take to be considered: First, join the Different Skies discussion group list serve on Yahoo Groups: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/differentskies/ Second, please contact the founder, Mike Metlay, and tell him of your interest, contact information, and background. His email address is metlay at atomiccity.com and his web page is Atomic City. Third, send him samples of your work. Send to: Atomic City, P. O. Box 17083, Boulder, CO 80308-0083 USA Fourth, follow up with Mike via the Different Skies list and make sure he has received your materials and contact infomation, and reaffirm your wish to be on the waitlist. Fifth, READ THE ARCHIVES of the discussion group on Yahoo. When ALL of the above are done, the artist is added to the waiting list. Artists who don't join this Yahoo Group don't get added; neither do people who promise to send Mike a CD and don't. MP3 files do not, repeat, NOT count; Mike must have something tangible in his hands to listen to. If he's in the hot seat, he gets to make the rules. (No soup for you.) One other note: It is unclear whether bands actually perform as bands at Different Skies. There is an undercurrent of "let's make up new bands, rather than giving the established acts stage time" in the aftermath of the first Different Skies event. This does tend to lean in favor of the spontaneous improvisers rather than composers, but more importantly for this topic, it means that Mike signs up PEOPLE rather than BANDS. Once you've done this, you'll be slotted into the list and eligible for a place in the roster as vacancies open up. There are other factors that can affect eligibility on a case-by-case basis; you'll be notified if any of those affect your placement either positively or negatively. | ||||
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