NOTE: this document is from Get Bent 2007

Calling for submissions! Bands, Musicians, DJs, Workshops, Skill-shares...

Hello lovely people...
Get Bent, Manchester's celebration of queer diversity, is coming up FAST!

For more information on just what Get Bent is, visit:
http://www.myspace.com/getbentmanchesterqueers
We are now ready to accept submissions to share your amazing talents!
(Clear entry forms are to follow, keep checking our website for full details!).
URGENT! For BANDS/ SOLO MUSICIANS/ DJS to perform Saturday September 1st, WE NEED TO HAVE COMPLETE DETAILS FROM YOU AND YOUR AVAILABILITY BY MONDAY 6TH AUGUST, DUE TO FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING DEADLINE!
Please contact us directly:
getbentinforiseup.net
To facilitate a WORKSHOP or SKILL-SHARE for Saturday Sept 1st:
Please contact us directly:
getbentinfo(AT)riseup.net

Please note: if you are interested in performing of hosting a workshop, but are not available these dates, please contact us anyway and we will pass your information on to other members of the Get Bent Manchester collective working on other programming throughout the week.
Remember, Get Bent is a 10 day festival this year and we will try to accommodate you !
To submit a FILM for the GET BENT film festival on Friday Aug 31st and Saturday Sept 1st:
Please contact Mike directly at:
mikewupton(AT)hotmail.com
ON REMUNERATION (that means dosh!):
Because Get Bent is a DiY festival and has yet to receive any major sources of funding, we are unable to pay any of you amazing talented people, and are relying on your big hearts and yer passion to create amazing queer positive spaces. This unfortunately also means that we won't be able to guarantee assistance with travel costs... HOWEVER, we do appreciate that some of you may be coming great distances and we don't want to exclude people based on the ability to pay for travel. So when you email us about performing/ facilitating, please include whether travel costs will be an issue for you. If we do end up receiving funding or make any profit on the festival (and you've kept receipts for yer travel costs) we will try to reimburse you.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS:
Email...
getbentinfo(AT)riseup.net
Websites...
http://www.get-bent-manchester.com

http://www.myspace.com/getbentmanchesterqueers

http://www.youtube.com/getbentmanchester
Why not join our Get Bent Facebook Group?
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2420793556
Or join our logistical/organisational email list by sending a blank email to...
getbent-subscribe(AT)lists.riseup.net
GET BENT COLLECTIVE
www.get-bent-manchester.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Re: Collective forms to plan inclusive summer queer festival
Since the 5th June 2007, a group of activists, artists and community organisers from Manchester’s queer community has been meeting regularly to plan this year’s Get Bent festival.
Get Bent was created in 2005 as a positive and proactive response to the lack of non-commercial queer space in Manchester.
Run by the Kaffequeeria collective, the festival featured live music, spoken word, performance art, film and discussion.
Building on Kaffequeeria’s successes, this year a new collective has formed to create a bigger event.
Get Bent will serve as a safe space for all genders and sexualities to come together in celebration – creating a wide variety of programming by supporting diverse people to create diverse events.
It is open to all ages, all incomes, all abilities, all ethnicities and cultural backgrounds, to all people regardless of HIV status, to those who are comfortable in commercial gay spaces and those who aren’t.
Get Bent will take place at various locations in and around the Manchester area from Friday 24th August to Sunday 2nd September 2007.
"I think it’s unfortunate when people are unable to celebrate their community because of barriers like cost. That’s why creating alternatives is so important." Fergus, a member of the Get Bent Collective
"I want to celebrate the creativity of the queer community – to share in the art and ideas of its members" Gemma, a member of the Get Bent Collective
"Over the years I have become increasingly disillusioned with the commercialisation of gay festivals. Marching in London for the repeal of section 28 made me feel proud; sitting passively in a bar getting drunk certainly doesn’t!" Rachel, a member of the Get Bent Collective

"You’re not the only gay outside the village!" The Get Bent Collective 2007