Light Night - Durational

This year on Light Night we are excited to be introducing Participatory Budgeting to our Expression of Interest process.

The Expression of Interest form can be downloaded from http://www.lightnightleeds.co.uk/8_GettingInvolved.html

We've expanded the form slightly, asking people to detail how their project will meet each of our funding criteria, which are,
Site Specific
Durational
Immersive
New work from Leeds

Once we've got all the EOIs in (deadline 30th April) we'll be calling meetings for everyone who wants to be involved in Light Night whereby you will be expected to score each other's proposals according to these criteria. The amount that each project recieves will be dictated by these scores.

With this in mind, we'd like to use this forum to explain each of the criteria, for you to ask us questions about the criteria, and to discuss with each other how your projects might fit into the criteria. Also we'd like you to use the forum to discuss if you think the criteria are right, whether or not this is what you want from Light Night... All this discussion will serve to help us plan events better in future, more according to what you as artists and audience want and need.

Our definition of 'Durational' is...
Light Night runs from 16.30 in the evening right through until dawn, but with many venues closing around 11pm. Events should fill as much of this time as possible. Try to avoid have a distinct 'beginning, middle and end' so people can turn up at any time and stay for as long or as short a period as they wish. A freeflow of people and no ‘highlight’ times mean we avoid crowd fencing, queuing and many other restrictions common to mass-participation events.

We appreciate this is problematic for some art forms, for example dance. Please talk to us and we can work round this. For example, a dancer being replaced by a projection of a dancer.

What do you think?