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Scripting Aloud! Mon Aug 26: AGM

Join us for our Annual General Meeting on Monday, August 26! This season, Scripting Aloud will be back to reading live, in-person, with local creators in attendance.

AGM AGENDA

DATE: Monday, August 26

TIME: 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm

VENUE: Cafe at Urban Fare, 177 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2V4 (Google Maps) 

There is an annual $2 Membership*** fee to attend.

  1. Welcome and land acknowledgement
    • Elect chair, if necessary
    • Determine that there is a quorum
  2. Approve the agenda
    • Amend agenda if/as applicable
  3. Approve the minutes from the last annual general meeting
    • Deal with unfinished business from the last annual general meeting, if/as applicable
  4. Receive directors’ reports
    • On the financial statements of the Society for the previous financial year
    • Any other reports of directors’ activities and decisions since the
      previous annual general meeting
  5. Elect or appoint directors
  6. Deal with new business, if/as applicable
  7. Conclude the meeting

Cross-cultural scripts and writers — for our cross-cultural community, and a borderless audience. If this is your reality (or you want it to be), this event is for you!

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*Congratulations to the nominees and winners of the 2024 Scripting Aloud! Best Screenplay Award at Vancouver Short Film Festival!*

WINNER Michael Makaroff, Hugh Allen – The Dog – A Rapidly Condensed Guide to Treading Water

NOMINEES

Kiarash Dadgar, Ali Narimani – The Steak

Andrew Gillingham, Aleita Northey – Cups

Jasmin Mozaffari – Motherland

Ben O’Neil – Heap

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***Scripting Aloud is a registered BC non-profit, producing script development and live staged reading/table read events for 19+ attendees (same idea as film festival society membership fees).
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And if you’ve been “here” before: You know what this is, you know what to do! After a decade hiatus (something-something Life Happened), Scripting Aloud — Vancouver’s “reading diversity” public staged script development platform — returns. Our reading season typically runs fall through spring annually.

Script submissions are always open (rolling deadlines)

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Scripting Aloud! Tue June 28: AGM + LUPE Q AND THE GALACTIC EARWORMS by Javier Badillo & Nat Marshik

The truth is…in here. Join us for our Annual General Meeting (delayed from 2021) followed by an out-of-this-world reading of LUPE Q AND THE GALACTIC EARWORMS (underdog-buddy comedy-space opera) by Javier Badillo* & Nat Marshik. Scripting Aloud is back to live in-person gatherings!** Local creators in attendance.

About Javier Badillo / About Nat Marshik

Cross-cultural scripts and writers — for our cross-cultural community, and a borderless audience. If this is your reality (or you want it to be), this event is for you!

*Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Scripting Aloud! Best Screenplay Award for “Baba” at Vancouver Short Film Festival, Javier Badillo and Jay Kamal!

**All current provincial, venue, and producing partner health and safety guidelines followed and respected.

SIGN UP TO READ / ATTEND***

***Room capacity is 30 (restriction set by the venue) – walk-ins and late sign-ups will be on a wait list to ensure we don’t exceed capacity.

AGM AGENDA

READER PRE-CALL: 5:30 pm
AGM: 6:00 pm – 6:15 pm
INTRO / READING: 6:15 pm – 8:15 pm (includes 10 minute break)
Q&A: 8:15 pm

— Performers for Lead/Supporting Lead/Large Principle Roles will be pre-cast from the reader sign-up list. Some additional roles cast on the day. All roles open to non-binary.
— There is an annual $2 Membership*** fee to attend.

VENUE: Suite 400 (Conference Room), 1788 W Broadway, Vancouver, BC V6J 1Y1 (Google Maps) 

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***Scripting Aloud is a registered BC non-profit, producing script development and live staged reading/table read events for 19+ attendees (same idea as film festival society membership fees).
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SCRIPT ON THE TABLE:

FEATURE (Underdog-Buddy Comedy-Space Opera, 101p) — LUPE Q AND THE GALACTIC EARWORMS: by JAVIER BADILLO & NAT MARSHIK

Full breakdown+logline+synopsis on the day, prelim below (all roles open to non-binary):

LEAD: 1 Role (1 Female)
1 Female, Latinx – 16 (can cast older)

SUPPORTING LEAD: 2 Roles (1 Female, 1 Male)
1 Female, Caucasian/OE – 15 (can cast older)
1 Male, Latinx – 15 (can cast older)

SUPPORTING/LARGE PRINCIPLE: 3 Roles (2 Female, 1 Male)
1 Female, Latinx – early 60s
1 Female, Caucasian/OE – 40s
1 Male, Caucasian/OE – 50s

PRINCIPLE: 3 Roles (2 Any Gender, 1 Male)
1 Any Gender, OE – 50s
1 Any Gender, OE – Any Age
1 Male, Caucasian/OE – 18 (can cast older)

ACTOR: 14 Roles (9 Any Gender, 1 Female, 4 Male)
9 Any Gender, OE – Any Age
1 Female, Caucasian/OE – 30s-40s
1 Male, Latinx – 30s-40s
2 Male, OE – Any Age
1 Male, Caucasian/OE – Child/Tween (can cast older)

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And if you’ve been “here” before: You know what this is, you know what to do! After a decade hiatus (something-something Life Happened), Scripting Aloud — Vancouver’s “reading diversity” public staged script development platform — returns. Our regular season runs fall through spring annually.

Script submissions are always open (rolling deadlines)

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Scripting Aloud! Sat May 14 reads ENTITLEMENT by Sugith Varughese

Creative courtesy Vancouver Asian Film Festival

It’s Asian Heritage Month! Scripting Aloud returns for explorASIAN festival 2022 at our first IN-VENUE event* since the “before times.” See you Saturday, May 14 for a reading of ENTITLEMENT, an original TV pilot teleplay (comedy) written by Sugith Varughese. Thanks to event presenter and co-producer, the 10th Annual VAFF Industry Insight Series: “Celebrate Representation, Opportunity and Evolution.”

Want to read one of the roles? Sign up here. Want to watch and listen? Register to attend. This is a FREE event! Audience always welcome – the writer needs your feedback!

Creator in attendance. Doors/check-in at 10:00 am. Script reading (table read) and Q&A from 10:30 am.  Our usual seasonal $2 Membership** (good from now until August 2022) is waived for this special event!

Cross-cultural scripts and writers — for our cross-cultural community, and a borderless audience. If this is your reality (or you want it to be), this event is for you!

*All current provincial, venue, and producing partner health and safety guidelines followed and respected.

**Scripting Aloud is a registered BC non-profit, producing script development and live staged reading/table read events for 19+ attendees (same idea as film festival society membership fees).

SIGN UP TO READ (PERFORMERS ONLY)

REGISTER FOR THIS FREE EVENT (AUDIENCE ONLY)

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DOORS/CHECK-IN: 10:00 am
OPENING REMARKS: 10:15 am
READING/Q&A: 10:40 am – 11:30 am

— Performers will be pre-cast from the reader sign-up list (open to non-binary).
— $2 Membership** fee is waived for this reading.

VENUE: Brix Studio, 211 Columbia St #102, Vancouver, BC V6A 2R5 (Google Maps) 

SCRIPT ON THE TABLE:

TV PILOT (Comedy) — ENTITLEMENT (full, 26 p): written by SUGITH VARUGHESE

BREAKDOWN: 11 roles. Full breakdown, logline + synopsis on the day, prelim breakdown below:

LEAD: 1 Role (1 Male)

1 Male, South Asian,  mid-40s – open to non-binary

SUPPORTING: 4 Roles (2 Female, 2 Male)

1 Female, Black/BIPOC, late-30s – open to non-binary
1 Female, Caucasian, 20s (to play 20 – early-20s) – open to non-binary
1 Male, Caucasian, 20s (to play 19 – early-20s) – open to non-binary
1 Male, Caucasian, late-20s – open to non-binary

PRINCIPAL: 3 Roles (2 Female, 1 Male)

1 Female, Black, late 20s – open to non-binary
1 Female, Open Ethnicity, early-40s – open to non-binary
1 Male, Open Ethnicity, Any Age – open to non-binary

ACTOR: 4 Roles (1 Male, 3 Any Gender)

1 Any Gender, Open Ethnicity, 10/Tweens (will cast any age)
1 Male, Open Ethnicity, 20s – open to non-binary
2 Any Gender, Open Ethnicity, Any Age

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Have a script you want to hear read aloud? Want to work your performance skills through reading scripts cold? Interested in experiencing a creative vibe that’s welcoming and cross-cultural? Scripting Aloud is for you. We’re a not-for-profit public cold-read script development platform and live staged reading event that helps develop original short- and long- form scripts for multiple channels and platforms — focusing on cross-cultural content, writers, and performers. Produced by Pan Asian Staged Reading Society.

Script submissions are always open (rolling deadlines).

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Scripting Aloud! Online Edition Sat Oct 10: AGM + A Wicked Whisper Comes

All treat, no trick: Scripting Aloud returns in Halloween month for its third season in a special year, with its Annual General Meeting followed by a spook-tacular reading of Arran Crawley’s A WICKED WHISPER COMES (feature, uncanny horror).

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arrancrawley/

READER PRE-CALL: 1:30 pm
AGM: 1:45 pm – 2:00 pm
INTRO / READING: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
(5 minute break)
Q&A: 4:00 pm

Whether you want to read, or watch/listen and give feedback afterward – we’d love you to be with us.

SIGN UP to get the private Zoom meeting link: https://forms.gle/dE3xcqfodeGYyx8PA Registration closes at 1 pm Saturday October 10.

— Interested to read? Sign up at the link above! PERFORMERS WILL BE PRE-CAST FROM THE SIGN-UP LIST and contacted latest the FRIDAY before the reading, for a 15 minute pre-call on the day from 1:30 pm. AGM starts from 1:45 pm. Reading event starts from 2:00 pm.— Local creator in attendance.

— $2 Membership* fee is waived for this reading.

Cross-cultural scripts and writers — for our cross-cultural community, and a borderless audience. If this is your reality (or you want it to be), this event is for you!*Scripting Aloud is a registered BC non-profit, producing script development and staged reading events for 19+ attendees (same idea as film festival society membership fees)

See our event on Facebook

AGM AgendaDownload


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WHAT’S ON:

FEATURE (Uncanny Horror, 75p) — A WICKED WHISPER COMES: by ARRAN CRAWLEY

Full breakdown+logline+synopsis on the day, prelim below:

LEAD: 1 Role (1 Female)
1 Female, East Asian – 29

SUPPORTING LEAD: 1 Role (1 Female)
1 Female, Caucasian/OE – late 30s

SUPPORTING: 2 Roles (2 Male)
1 Male, Caucasian/OE – mid 60s
1 Male, Black/OE – 30s

PRINCIPLE: 3 Roles (3 Male)
1 Male, OE – early 20s
1 Male, OE – early 80s
1 Male, OE – 40s

ACTOR: 1 Role (1 Female)
1 Female, Caucasian/OE – child (will cast older)

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And if you’ve been “here” before: You know what this is, you know what to do! After a decade hiatus (something-something Life Happened), Scripting Aloud — Vancouver’s “reading diversity” public staged script development platform — returns. Our regular season runs fall through spring annually.

Script submissions are always open (rolling deadlines)

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Scripting Aloud! Holiday Edition Monday, December 16: Reading+Social

It’s beginning to look a lot like…the last reading of the year PLUS a Holiday Social! Hilarity ensues at our staged reading Monday, December 16 of NETWERQ [Ep. 1-4. 9, 13], an original web series (comedy) written by Alesandria Mentari, story by Alesandria Mentari and Alison Chang. Festivities follow, at our annual Holiday Social right after the reading at Juniper (a block away from reading venue), with comp appies and door prize(s)!

Just want to watch and listen? Audience always welcome – the writers need your feedback!

Local creators in attendance. Reader casting on the day from 5:30 pm (arrive early/on time!). Script reading from 6:15 pm.  $5 at the door, cash only (includes $2 Membership* good through the Sep 2019-May 2020 season + Holiday Social with comp appies/door prize entry).

Cross-cultural scripts and writers — for our cross-cultural community, and a borderless audience. If this is your reality (or you want it to be), this event is for you!

*Scripting Aloud is a registered BC non-profit, producing script development and live staged reading events for 19+ attendees (same idea as film festival society membership fees)

See our event on Facebook

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DOORS/CASTING: 5:30 pm
READING/Q&A: 6:15 pm – 7:30 pm
SOCIAL: From 7:30 pm (at different venue, see below)

SOCIAL VENUE: Juniper, 185 Keefer St. (at Main), Vancouver. Comp appies, cash bar, door prizes!

READING VENUE: BC Artscape, Suite 308 (3rd Flr), 268 Keefer Street, Vancouver (between Main and Gore, where Hon’s Chinatown used to be). Elevator access to 3rd floor from street entrance/lobby on Keefer. Street parking and parkades adjacent. (Note: The Impark Parkade in the building closes at 7 pm and after that your vehicle will be locked in for the night.)

ACTORS: Reader casting starts from 5:30 pm, performers please arrive for then if you’d like to be considered. You’re welcome to bring a headshot/resume (reclaim at end of event).

SCRIPT ON THE TABLE:

WEB SERIES (Comedy) — NETWERQ (Ep. 1-4, 9, 13, approx 36p): written by Alesandria Mentari, story by Alesandria Mentari and Alison Chang

BREAKDOWN: 10 roles. Full breakdown, logline + synopsis on the day, prelim breakdown below:

SERIES REGULAR: 4 Roles (3 Female, 1 Male)

1 Female, Open Ethnicity, early/mid 20s
1 Female, Open Ethnicity, early 20s
1 Female, East Asian, early/mid 20s
1 Male, East Asian, early/mid 20s

RECURRING: 2 Roles (2 Male)

1 Male, Open Ethnicity, mid/late 30s
1 Male, Open Ethnicity, 40s

GUEST STAR: 4 Roles (1 Female/3 Male)

1 Female, Open Ethnicity, early 20s
2 Male, Open Ethnicity, mid 20s
1 Male, East Asian, early/mid 20s

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And if you’ve been “here” before: You know what this is, you know what to do! After a decade hiatus (something-something Life Happened), Scripting Aloud — Vancouver’s “reading diversity” public staged script development platform — returns. Our regular season runs fall through spring annually.

Script submissions are always open (rolling deadlines).

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