Paradox Bay is gearing up for its GATHERING 2009 | SHAKING IT UP - taking place in Chicago, June 14-21.

The Gathering is an invitation to experience and dialogue. Its hybrid form of conference, research lab, and think tank creates a supportive setting for taking risk and going beyond notions of success and failure, for sharing intimate space and entering an individual and collective journey of questioning and experimentation.

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The success of Paradox Bay's GATHERING 2009 depends on you!

Submit a proposal for a session or event—workshop, outing, debate, performance, experiment, lecture, etc—you would like to facilitate or present. The week-long program will consist of a variety of artist-led sessions that address this year's theme. We expect 20-30 artists/attendees at GATHERING 2009.


This year’s Gathering aims to investigate three essential aspects of paradox:
confusion, discomfort, and engagement.

Here are some questions that will inform our dialogue:
• what does it mean to be fully engaged?
• when does being comfortable become being complacent?
• what are the dangers of inviting intimacy and risking vulnerability?
• when does confusion and discomfort bring about openings of perception and shifts in
understanding?

To receive an application, or if you have any questions, please email: paradoxbay.chicago@gmail.com

**extended deadline**
Applications must be received by 6pm CST on April 22, 2009

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PARADOX BAY : Founded in 2008, Paradox Bay is an interdisciplinary artistic platform that initiates and facilitates ongoing dialogue about how artists approach their practice, cultivate collaborations, and engage audiences. / www.paradoxbay.org