Subject: Spier Contemporary 2010 open call: Ambassador Collective

The Spier Contemporary 2010, the largest visual and performance art biennale in South Africa, is launching on the 14th of March at the City Hall, Darling Street, Cape Town. As part of this extraordinary exhibition we are organising a pool of energised people to debate, encourage, facilitate and promote conversations about the role of art in society. We want to to deal with questions like: Who has a voice, who is included and who is left out?; What role does and should art play in helping to shift our gaze and understand the world in which we live from a new and enhanced perspective?; and much more.

We’d like to invite you to come and join us in this conversation and become part of the Ambassador Collective. We need diverse voices to shout for an open attitude toward art in our country - to broaden the discussion about how creativity can fundamentally change our everyday lives. We will be starting with a one-day event on the 13th of February at City Hall. If you’re keen to learn more about the Ambassador Collective and the Spier Contemporary just hit reply to this email (now or before 3 Feb) with “I’m open for art” in the subject and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.