open call

noun

an audition, especially for actors or dancers, open to anyone wishing to try out.

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Casting director Jennifer Venditti put out an open call, which April Smallwood of Spotlight Development saw and sent to Delbis’ mother, Katy.

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I do an open call where people can send me bags of jewelry, discarded jewelry, jewelry that doesn’t work for them anymore, or it’s broken or they hate it because it’s vintage.

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SO: The thing that you told me last week that still really resonates with me is when you were going through the thousands of submissions from the open call for the big Superchief gallery photo show earlier this year, and you were like, “I never wanna do another photo of a lowrider or a guy holding a gun again.”

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They have been assembled for your fist-pumping adulation from a reported 5,000-plus hopefuls responding to an open call for musicians and dropped into the center of a teenage musical soap opera, also called “The Runarounds,” premiering Monday on Prime Video.

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Envisaged as a citywide celebration, plans for the biennial include open studios, jewellery fairs, heritage tours, a trade conference and a flagship exhibition - shining a spotlight on internationally acclaimed artists and emerging talent, selected through a UK-wide open call.