The University of Minnesota Transgender Commission is looking for artists to participate in the 8th Annual Transgender Commission Celebration on March 5th.

Here’s the release from the TC:

The University of Minnesota Transgender Commission Is looking for artists to perform/show their work at the 8th At The Whole Music Club, Coffman Union, U of M Twin Cities Campus Annual Transgender Commission Celebration To be held on Wednesday, March 5

Doors at 7:00 PM, show at 7:30 PM

Spring Back: A Cabaret on Resilience

Resilience is a springing back into life. It is renewal, revitalization, regrowth, rebirth. It is flexibility, adaptability, and elastic strength. Resilience is remembering how to stay grounded, and how to come back to our power so that we can take on new challenges. Resilience is what we need so that we can take risks. It is realizing our worthiness so that we can continue to move forward, so we can lean into our lives and our communities. Resilience is a joyful bounce, a lighthearted leap, a face toward the sun.

The University of Minnesota’s Transgender Commission is a coalition of students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members working for equity, access, and liberation for people of all gender identities and expressions, led by trans*, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming people across the U of M and local Twin Cities community.

What We’re Looking For:

We’re looking for new solo and collaborative work from emerging and established artists in a variety of genres: video, theater, experimental performance, music, spoken word, storytelling, puppetry, comedy, fashion design, dance and movement work, drag, burlesque, and more!

Because we know art ain’t free….

For this production, each artist will receive a stipend of $150. (If you do a performance with 4 people, your crew as a whole will receive the same amount of money as someone who does a solo piece.)

We’re open to a wide range of concepts related to the theme of resilience.

To apply, please send the following items to [email protected] by February 14, 2014

A short bio
Phone number and/or email address
Best days/times and ways to reach you
A one-paragraph description of the work you’d like to present & how it connects to the theme of resilience
A work sample (video clip, writing or photographs)