UpStage

The call for proposals for the 080808 UpStage Festival closes today, Friday 16 May. More information here. We look forward to receiving your proposals!

The next open walk-through will be held on Wednesday 7th May at 9pm European time (which is 7am Thursday 8th May for those in New Zealand). Find your local time here.

At this walk-through we will unveil a number of exciting new features that have been implemented as UpStage V2.01; these include clickable hyperlinks in the chat window, the ability to move your avatar in front of and behind other avatars on the stage, and an audio palette which allows you to play MP3 files. Thanks very much to the AUT students and Douglas Bagnall for their work on these features and the implementation : )

Anyone who is planning to submit a proposal for an 080808 show should come to this session to find out how you can use these and other new features in your performance.

Please note that if you have previously used a guest log-in, you MUST contact us for a new log-in as the passwords have been changed to avoid multiple people trying to log-in with the same guest username.

Email info@upstage.org.nz to register and receive a log-in. The walk-through will take place as usual on the Swaray stage: http://upstage.org.nz:8084/stages/swaray

We have just discovered an issue with the latest Flash player plug-in, which is preventing users from accessing stages. It is something to do with policy file changes in the plug-in, and we are in the process of working out what we need to do in order to avoid any problems.

If you have upgraded to the Flash player version 9.0.124.0, you may find that you can’t access UpStage stages. Reverting to version 9.0.115.0 will solve the problem, and until we work it out at our end, that is what we recommend that you do.

Download the Flash Player plug-in v.9.0.115.0 for Windows at:
http://www.oldapps.com/Macromedia_Flash_Player.htm
or http://www.soft32.com/download_500.html

Download the Flash Player plug-in v.9.0.115.0 for Mac here (4.7 MB).

Download the Flash Player plug-in v.9.0.115.0 for Linux here.

Cherry Truluck, Suzon Fuks, James Cunningham and Liz Bryce - now operating as activelayers will be presenting their new project, “Calling Home“, as part of the Mediatised Sites festival in Newcastle, UK.

Four people, four geographies, one site. Meet Heather, Esme, Michael J Finch and Grand Uncle; they want to talk about where they come from and where they are going. Aren’t we all just trying to find our way home?

The project will go live at midnight (UK time) on 18th April 2008 and you will be able to meet and interact with Michael Finch, Grand Uncle, Heather and Esme at 9pm (UK time) on 19th April (find your local time here).

Click here for links to the live stages.

“Calling Home” is the first performance to be selected for the 080808 UpStage Festival; we’re announcing its selection early because the performance involves a build-up over the next few months up to the 080808 performance.

As part of the preparations for 080808, we are holding Match-making sessions to enable individuals to find collaborators for their 080808 shows. So far we have had four pitches and some collaborations beginning to form, but don’t panic if you couldn’t make the sessions. There is one more session:

Wednesday 23 April: match-making session
12 noon UK, 11pm NZ - find your local time here.

If you have an idea for a performance, please prepare a short pitch - no more than 5 minutes long. Don’t worry about visuals at the moment, but think how best to describe your idea in words, and think about what sort of collaborators you are looking for.

And if you couldn’t make any of the sessions, still don’t panic : ) and we will try to help you find someone to collaborate with.