As part of the preparations for 080808 Upstage Festival, there will be Match-making sessions and open training at the following dates and times:

Match-Making Sessions: April 16, 9:00 am UK, 8:00 pm NZ - find your local time here + April 16/17, 10:00 pm (Wednesday) UK, 9:00 am (Thursday) NZ - find your local time here + April 23, 12 noon UK, 11:00 pm NZ - find your local time here. Come to the matchmaking session if you would like to find collaborators for an 080808 performance, or collaborate on someone else’s performance.

If you have an idea for a performance, please prepare a short pitch - no more than 5 minutes long. Don’t worry about visuals at the moment, but think how best to describe your idea in words, and think about what sort of collaborators you are looking for.

To join any of these sessions, email info [at] upstage.org.nz for a log-in (if you have previously used a guest log-in you must still email us, as many people use the guest log-ins and it will not work if more than one person tries to log in with the same username. We will be issuing personal log-ins once we have selected the 080808 performances).

The 080808 Upstage Festival aims to create a participatory space for collaboration, creation, and for the presentation of current cyberformance. The festival provides a platform (and shares the technical expertise) to enable artists to experiment with the new medium, and to have their work seen alongside performances by internationally renowned practitioners - in a celebration of the evolution and diversity of online performance practices.