VAMP (Video Art, Music, Performance) Showcase
A highly produced multimedia variety showcase, VAMP (visual art, music, performance) presents artists and their workshopped material in a polished monthly show.All participants are chosen by blind online submission, all pieces are given a free workshop to further improve the material, and then the final product is curated in a featured capacity. Currently hosted at The Whistle Stop bar in Southpark, VAMP has been likened by Pacific Magazine to a, “This American Life without begging for money,” and has been packing the house and treating writers like rockstars since 2009.
Writers are encouraged to submit a 5-10 double-spaced page story related to the theme through the “submit” link on our website. We highly encourage the use of images in power-point style presentation during the writer’s final performance, but these do not need to be submitted up front.
VAMP 2013 themes
January: “Still Here”
Submission deadline: 1/7
Rehearsal: Thursday, 1/17
Performance: 1/31
February: “Dirty Talk vol. II”
Submission deadline: 2/4
Rehearsal: Thursday, 2/14
Performance: 2/28
March: “Me vs. Me.com”
Submission deadline: 3/4
Rehearsal: Thursday, 3/14
Performance: 3/28
April: “It Was Just a Phase”
Submission deadline: 4/1
Rehearsal: Thursday, 4/11
Performance: 4/25
May: “America’s F*&$% City”
Submission deadline: 5/6
Rehearsal: Thursday, 5/16
Performance: 5/30
June: “That’s My Jam”
Submission deadline: 6/3
Rehearsal: Thursday, 6/13
Performance: 6/27
July: “They Had It Coming”
Submission deadline: 7/1
Rehearsal: Thursday, 7/11
Performance: 7/25
August: “Selling Out”
Submission deadline: 8/5
Rehearsal: Thursday, 8/15
Performance: 8/29
September: “Trouble in Paradise”
Submission deadline: 9/2
Rehearsal: Thursday, 9/12
Performance: 9/26
October: “Mob Rules”
Dates TBD
December: “Re-VAMP’d! Best of the year’s stories”
Dates TBD
- Have a theme suggestion? E-mail us and let us know.
