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VISUAL AND
PERFORMING
ARTS APPLICATIONS

Kia Ora,

Earth Beat is the synthesis of the creative juices of all its participants. It’s this communal aspect that gives its uniqueness and diversified flavour. Hop on board, take the ride, cos we’re always looking for people to get involved. You can build strange installations, offer out-of-the-ordinary performances, or interactive art shows. Come and join the arts community at Earth Beat that make all of this beautiful eccentricity possible.

If you would like to discuss your application before submission, please contact the Arts Director on community@earthbeatfestival.com.

As this area of the festival is growing rapidly, we are no longer working on one arts application form. Please select the form relevant to you below.

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Performance Arts

We welcome performance artists of all kinds to apply. Whether you are a circus act, large cultural performance group, dancer, comedian, poet or roving artist… what ever the act — we’d love to hear from you.

Large groups that don’t fit on stage or prefer performance on the grounds amongst people should apply here.

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Arts Installations

Installation Art will be given priority at EB2024 We will consider all installations.

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Live & Exhibit Painting

Earth Beat features a live arts gallery that includes a silent auction. There are limited spaces and we are looking for a cross section of artists using a range of mediums. Each year we receive a lot of applications for live artists, so it is strongly encouraged that live artists apply early for consideration.

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Photo & Video

If you like to help us capture the essence of our festival, enabling the nostalgic experiences to be relived beyond the week at Ātiu Creek, then we’d love to hear from you. We are looking for a team of videographers and photographers to apply to our media team to capture the magic we co-create together at the festival.

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Projection / VJs

Visual Projection Artists or anyone who uses light as a work of art, apply here. This can be for stages or around the festival grounds. Please note, this is not the space for recruiting a lighting team, but if you are someone passionate about lighting our environment creatively, we’d love to hear from you.

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Fire & Flow

Fire and Flow dancing is always a popular part of our Arts Programme. We have a fire circle every night, and run fire and flow workshops by day. Each year we receive a large number of applications for this section of the festival, more than we can accept, so we strongly encourage fire, flow and LED performers to get their applications in early.

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Other (multi-disciplinary)

Does your act not fit any of the above categories, or perhaps you can’t choose which because you’re a mixture of a few? Then we would definitely love to hear from you! We particularly love innovation and creation so if you have something that is really out there, beyond our wildest imaginations, you’ll likely have a high chance of success with your application.

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Arts Village

The heArts Village is separate zone at the festival focused on arts activities. With many different art forms in an inclusive and nurturing environment, we will focus on a journey into sustainable community development through the use of recycling and repurposing in our crafts. The heArts Village includes workshops and immersive activities. We welcome creative facilitators interested in offering interactive arts-based activities and workshops to apply. We are looking to compile a broad, holistic program of activities that enables people of all ages to nourish their inner child and enjoy creative expression and play.

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