On Friday, Oct. 16, 80 artists (including 24 from the North Texas area) will come together for Aurora, and they plan to turn downtown Dallas into one big, open and free art gallery — a really flashy art gallery with lots of lights and sounds. If you want to be involved and you have some old photographs lying around, Aurora's founders might have an opportunity for you.
One of the festival's exhibits, titled "Memory Lane," is being created "for (and about) the Dallas community" by artists Veronika Georgieva and Stephen Shanabrook, with curation by Tim Goossens. To capture the lives and memories of Dallas residents, they want to use photos from North Texans' taken between the years 1901 and 2000.
If being part of a local art project isn't enough incentive for you, people who submit photos to the project will be entered to win a pair of Aurora VIP Experience tickets. Since Aurora is a free event, what you're getting as a VIP is two free adult drinks, access to VIP lounges and tickets to the after party in Strauss Square. One "Artist's Choice" will be chosen by the Memory Lane artists while one "People's Choice" will be chosen by, well, the people.
Interested? This is what the Memory Lane artists are looking for photos of:
Births
Weddings
Religious or cultural milestones including baptisms, bar mitzvah, quinceañeras, communions, etc.
Workplace
Block parties and neighborhood gatherings
Vacations and trips
Processions and religious happenings
Secular parties (such as barbecues or evenings with friends)
Daily life in hospitals, army bases, prisons, orphan homes or health facilities
You can submit photos and find more rules/requirements (including photo specifications) on the Memory Lane page at Capture Dallas.
You'll be able to find the exhibit on North Harwood Street, between Klyde Warren Park and Flora Street.
