2021 Fertile Ground Producer Information

The Fertile Ground Festival of new works will be held January 28 - February 7, 2021.

For more information, on events and Festival Pass Donations please visit www.fertilegroundpdx.org.

This year's Fertile Ground will be a virtual event. Pre-recorded “acts of creation” submitted by producing organizations and artist-producers will be presented. Recorded “premieres” will be live-dropped at scheduled intervals over the course of the 11-day festival, and streamed on Fertile Ground’s Facebook and YouTube channels. 

Diverging from the past 11 years, FG21 will be curated with attention to the inclusion of under-represented communities, a desire to select interesting and culturally relevant “acts of creation,” and projects that pay specific attention to an innovative concept for a recorded piece intended for a digital media platform. Fertile Ground is seeking submissions from a wide range of artists on a variety of topics and welcomes an array of artistic genres and disciplines.

In addition, Fertile Ground was recently awarded Regional Arts & Culture Council Equity & Access Funding. These funds are intended to formalize and expand our initiatives to address equity and access barriers to participation in the festival that exists for underrepresented artists.  Five artist/producers will receive a $500 GROW Award to be used in production of their Fertile Ground project.  Click here for more information and to apply for the GROW Award. 

A curation panel has been formed, comprised of individuals whose identities encompass a spectrum underrepresented voices, along with Fertile Ground and PATA representatives. This decision-making body will curate Fertile Ground 2021.

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