Latitude 53

Call for Submissions

Afterfound 2025

Call for Artists

Deadline May 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM MST

 

Common Ground Arts Society (CG) and Latitude 53 (L53) are jointly seeking expressions of interest from visual/installation/multimedia artists to design a performance space at CG’s 2025 Found Festival July 9-13, 2025.

The selected artist/collective will be tasked with the installation design for the Festival’s new AfterFound Night Club, where nightly performances of music, drag, theatre, and more will welcome Festival audiences. AfterFound will be placed in the Fringe Grounds Café, also known as the lobby for the Westbury Theatre at the Fringe Theatre Arts Barns.


Space Specifications:

  • One approximately 12’x12’ stage (provided by the venue)

  • Cabaret tables and chairs (provided by the venue)

  • Approximately 500sqft floor space

  • Some infrastructure for hanging décor/instruments above the floor space

The artist will be tasked with designing stage décor, table dressings, and other room activations to transform the space into an immersive “club” design.

Artistic Inspiration:

  • The space will act as a late-night cabaret club.

  • The space will be host to playful, high-energy performances from many backgrounds of artists.

  • The artist is asked to use entirely recycled/repurposed materials (or as close to entirely as possible) as opposed to new materials.

Project Schedule:

  • May 19, 2025: Call for artists closes at 11:59pm

  • May 24: Offer to selected artist sent

  • May 26 – 29: The artist will be expected to attend a project onboarding meeting between these dates to receive space details, tech specs, and direction from CG and L53.

  • June 15: Initial concept sketch from artist due

  • June 20 – July 6: Build dates

  • July 7 & 8 from 9am-5pm: Installation in the space

  • July 9-13: Found Festival & AfterFound Events

  • July 14: Strike

Contract Details:

  • The artist will be contracted by Common Ground Arts and receive support from both Common Ground and Latitude 53.

  • The artist will receive $2,500.00 inclusive of artist fee and materials budget.

  • The artist will receive professional photography of the installation (both while activated by performers and not) for future portfolio use.

  • Common Ground Arts will provide:

  • Latitude 53 will provide:

    • Build support, labour, space, and equipment

    • Creative & technical consultation

    • Additional technical equipment as needed (cameras, TVs, projectors, etc)

To express your interest, complete the expression of interest form:

Click here for the AfterFound submission form!

We will respond to all applicants no later than May 24, 2025.

For any questions, please contact Found Festival Director Whittyn Jason at whittynjason@commongroundarts.ca.

Latitude 53 is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion within our own organization and strives to provide and maintain a fair and equitable environment for all by valuing and respecting individual differences for our enrichment and that of the community we serve. Latitude 53 encourages applications from individuals who identify as visible minorities, women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities.

For more information about Latitude 53’s priorities, values and approach to supporting artists, please see: ​​https://www.latitude53.org/about