CBC Canada Writes Competition

Competition opens: September 1, noon EST.
Deadline to submit: November 1 at 11:59 p.m. ET

This prize is awarded once a year to the best original, unpublished, short story submitted to the competition. All Canadians can participate.

The competition is blind. A jury composed of well-known and respected Canadian authors will select a 1st place winner and 4 runner-ups.

The First Prize winner will receive $6,000, courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts, and will have his/her story published in Air Canada’s enRoute magazine and on the Canada Writes website. He or she will also be interviewed on CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers.

The 4 runner-ups will each receive $1,000, courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts, and their stories will be published on the Canada Writes website. Submissions to the short story category must be between 1,200 and 1,500 words.

A fee of $25.00 (taxes included) for administration purposes is required for each entry.

Call for Submission

Open Studio (Toronto, ON): Call to Visual Artists, Deadline September 15

Call for Submissions for Open Studio, Canada's leading print media centre

Installation view of Three Dee Realms Plus, by Yorodeo (Paul Hammond & Seth Smith), Open Studio Gallery, September 16 – October 30, 2010
* Open Studio Gallery Exhibitions Program
* Visiting Artist Residency Program
* Guest Renter Program

DEADLINE: Submissions for all 3 programs must be received on or before 5:00 pm on Thursday, September 15, 2011.

For more information about each program and guidelines on how to apply, including digital submission requirements, please visit
http://www.openstudio.on.ca.

OPEN STUDIO GALLERY EXHIBITIONS PROGRAM

Submissions are being accepted to exhibit in the Open Studio Gallery for the period between September 2012 and July 2013.

Open Studio is an artist-run printmaking centre that presents a wide range of print media-based works from traditional to experimental, including work that, although not produced using traditional printmaking techniques, shares through its conceptual concerns a relationship to printmaking.
Accepted formats include: 2 and 3-dimensional works, bookworks, digital and multi-media installation-based work. Proposals by individual artists, groups and curators will be considered. CARFAC Artist Fees are paid. Please review our submission guidelines by visiting http://www.openstudio.on.ca and clicking on "Submissions."

Mail Application to:
The Gallery Committee
c/o OPEN STUDIO
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 104
Toronto, Ontario Canada
M5V 3A8

Performing Arts Awards - Deadline September 23rd

Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation: Call for Nominations, Deadline September 23

GET INVOLVED. NOMINATE!

How did Bryan Adams, Robert Lepage, Karen Kain, Yvon Deschamps and Buffy Sainte-Marie become laureates of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award?

They were nominated by people like you—members of the arts community and arts fans across Canada, who wanted to see their performing arts heroes recognized for their passion, creativity and inspiration.

You can play a role in Canada’s most prestigious performing arts awards! Your nomination could determine who receives a Governor General's Performing Arts Award in 2012, the 20th Anniversary of the Awards.

The process is simple and you can do it online. A letter of recommendation and a short biography of the nominee are all that are required for your favourite Canadian performing artist to be in the running.

Nominations for the 2012 Awards are being accepted until September 23, 2011. For complete details, visit http://www.ggpaa.ca/en/nomination.html.

Calls for Submission

Calls For Submission

The Banff Centre (Banff, AB): Call to Photographers, Deadline August 29

Banff Adventure Photography Workshop
Program dates: September 23, 2011 - September 26, 2011

Application deadline: August 29, 2011

This workshop provides an opportunity for emerging photographers to work with experienced outdoor professionals during classroom seminars, critique sessions, and outdoor fieldwork. Participants will work towards using existing knowledge of their own photographic equipment and digital software to obtain the best results, and to enhance their skills. The sessions are intense and interactive, with the goal of highlighting personal shooting styles. The intent is to investigate the 'why' and 'what' rather than the 'how'. Participants are expected to have a high degree of familiarity and comfort with their camera and software, and also should have an existing knowledge of the fundamentals of photography.

Tentative Schedule
Friday, September 23, welcome and orientation to the program
Saturday, September 24, lectures, fieldwork, and critique
Sunday, September 25, lectures, fieldwork, and critique
Monday, September 26, critique, screening of the 'best of the workshop', farewell

MAWA: Outreach Coordinator, Deadline August 23

Professional Opportunities

Job Opportunity

MAWA Outreach Coordinator

3 month contract position, approximately 15 hours per week

$16/hour

Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) is undertaking a unique project to connect with new Canadian women who are visual artists or craft artisans.
Working with MAWA’s Program and Administrative Coordinator and Executive Directors, the Outreach Coordinator will plan a series of craft workshops led by new Canadian women artists. The goal is to expand MAWA’s community, to provide employment to newcomer women artists and to share unique craft skills with the larger arts community. The Outreach Coordinator responsibilities will include meeting and establishing relationships with newcomer communities in Winnipeg, meeting with newcomer artists, hiring artists, arranging for translators if necessary, promoting MAWA and the craft workshops within newcomer communities, planning for necessary workshop supplies and coordinating workshops.

This position requires an outgoing personality, and excellent listening, communication and organizational skills.  Experience in public speaking or program coordination is an asset.  Knowledge of visual arts or craft based practices is preferred.  Fluency in spoken English is preferred.  Some travel within Winnipeg will be required.

MAWA is an artist-run not-for-profit organization dedicated to encouraging and supporting the intellectual and creative development of women in the visual arts by providing an ongoing forum for education and critical dialogue.  Founded in 1985, MAWA currently has over 250 members.  MAWA provides mentorships, workshops, lectures, artist talks, reading groups and informal networking opportunities to the visual arts community at large.  Staff is comprised of two half-time Executive Directors, one Program and Administrative Coordinator and one part-time Administrative Assistant.  MAWA is open Tuesday-Friday, 10am to 4pm and is wheelchair accessible.

Deadline for Applications:  August 23, 2011

Start Date:  September 14, 2011

Please apply by sending a letter expressing why you are interested in the position, references and a resume. These can be submitted by email in doc files to dkletke@mawa.ca, or in hard copy to 611 Main St. Winnipeg, MB R3B 1E1.  For further information contact Shawna Dempsey or Dana Kletke at (204) 949-9490.

 

Art City: Call to Visual Artists, Deadline August 15

Calls For Submission


Art City
Request for Proposals
2012 Guest Artist Series

Art City invites local, national, and international artists to submit proposals to lead workshop-based art projects at our studio in 2012.
Art City is located in West Broadway, a culturally diverse and densely populated neighbourhood in the heart of Winnipeg’s inner city. Art City is open free-of-charge and drop-in to anyone who would like to take part, engaging an average of 25 participants per evening. The majority of those who come to Art City are youth between the ages of 6 and 13 years. Older youth, adults, and seniors also regularly participate in Art City programs.

Selected guest artists will be supported in developing, managing, and facilitating their projects by a team of experienced Art City staff and volunteers. The standard guest artist format is a 5-day period, Monday to Friday, 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Artists will receive $1,400.00 for the one-week project. Travel and accommodation for selected visiting artists will be provided by Art City.

In addition to this format, Art City also invites proposals presenting alternative community art projects and formats to be included in our 2012 Guest Artist Series.

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2011 (postmarked)

Mail proposals to:
Art City
616 Broadway
Winnipeg MB R3C 0W8

Incomplete or email applications cannot be considered.

Selected artists will be asked to provide a Criminal Reference Check and Child Abuse
Registry Check that will be paid for by Art City.

For further information about Art City and the Guest Artist Series, please contact Art City by phone: 204-775-9856,

email: mailto:programs@artcityinc.com

or visit our web site at http://www.artcityinc.com/

CALL OUT FOR ARTISTS: MOSAIC DESIGN

For all the details please visit   http://www.ba.ednet.ns.ca/?page_id=20


In this historic town of Lunenburg, the newly constructed Bluenose Academy will open its doors to the students in January of 2012. The Bluenose Academy serving students from Lunenburg and the surrounding areas including Blue Rocks, Riverport, Dayspring, Centre, Northwest and Maders Cove would like to welcome the public again to participate in this exciting journey of our new school.

We invite all the public including artists, designers, students, parents, everyone to submit designs for a mosaic to be installed in the foyer of the school building. The theme of the mosaic celebrates the merger of four schools; Lunenburg Academy, Lunenburg Junior & Senior High, Riverport and District Elementary and Centre Consolidated School. The design must be in the boundaries of the ideas put forward by the students, which can be found below.

The school community will vote on the design submissions and the winning design will be permanently installed on the floor of the entrance lobby of the Bluenose Academy. The mosaic will be made of 3/4-inch square tiles with a limit of 22 colours in an 8 feet diameter circle. Please carefully review the ideas/images and examples of mosaic tile projects of other schools and BE CREATIVE!

Feel free to include description for your design submissions. The winning designer will receive a one of a kind local earthenware platter by the NSCAD-Lunenburg Artist in Residence, George Cho.

Deadline: August 22nd 2011



Please submit designs to:

il (for digital submissions): ba@ssrsb.ca



Via Mail: (please no original work*):



NSCAD Community Studio, P.O. BOX 1823, Lunenburg NS, B0J 2C0



Or Submissions may be dropped off at Centre Schools main office from August 17th – August 22nd.



*Please enclose prepaid and labeled postage for return of hard copies.



**The design of the chosen mosaic will be subject to possible alteration/collaboration upon further committee review.

Bluenose Academy Mosaic Project Idea Summary



1. Nautical (28.4%)



■Bluenose (in full sail, breaking through a wave)

■The dime (with the Bluenose on it)

■Bluenose with whale cresting or water, flying fish and dolphins jumping, jets barrel rolling in sky with fireworks and sunset

■Bluenose vs. Teaser in a race

■Bluenose in the middle with four ships on route toward the Bluenose (representing the new school)

■Bluenose crossing finish line with other boats trailing behind

■Bluenose racing with waves splashing over sides

■Bluenose with navigation star in background

■View of Bluenose from above (looking down on it)

■Dockside, dock in water

■Fisherman, dory, anchor

■Sail from a boat

■Foghorn

■Boat steering wheel with waves

■Life preserver

■Ships wheel

■Compass pointed towards north, compass rose, star compass

■Boat with trophy

■Knot

■Launching the Bluenose

■Picture of Bluenose surrounded by rope

■Sailing

2. Marine Life (27.5%)



■Seagulls, clouds, blue water

■Storm

■Fish, shark, whale, killer whale, lobster, crabs, scallops, starfish, octopus, shells, seals, stingray, big shell, rock lobster, puffins, sea turtle, codfish,

■Scallop dragger

■Waves

■Fishing net, traps

■Fish jumping through waves

■Wooden lobster trap

■Ocean/water

3. Miscellaneous (12%)



■Rainbows

■Boulders

■Underwater scene with marine life

■Sunset

■Treasure chest

■Lots of kids, colourful

■A playground

■Blocks

■Alphabet

■A big book with stuff written in it

■Fisherman with graduation cap

■Big fish teaching small fish

■Books in water with fish

■Colours: shades of blue, red, white/blues and greens/lots of blue/blue, red green/blue, white, red, green/purple, teal

■Forest and fields, Christmas tree lots, lakes

4. Text (10.1%)



■“Welcome to Bluenose Academy”

■“Not blue toes, yes blue nose”/ “we have a school that’s really fine, the Bluenose is on the 10 cent dime”/ “Linked together in education”/ “Caught in education” (wi1th 3 fish jumping into a net)

■“Lunenburg, NS”

5. Town Spirit (8.5%)



■Shipyard, fish sheds

■An old Lunenburg fish trap

■Waterfront/Harbour view with buildings and boats (classic view from golf course)

■Images of Lunenburg (bandstand, museum, churches, buildings,)

■Schooner in Lunenburg waterfront with reflection in water

■Houses with Lunenburg Bump

■Lunenburg waterfront with the Bluenose with Captain Angus Walters waving

6. School (Merger) (4.5%)



■Picture of four schools coming together as one (a piece of each school put together to make one, like Riverport Osprey, Lunenburg Academy Mariner, Lunenburg Jr/Sr High and Center Wave)

■Lighthouse with four beams of light representing four schools

■Bluenose with four dories to represent the schools/families aboard the new ship

■Dime with four boats with Bluenose Academy written on it

7. School (Image) (8.5%)



■Picture of the new school

■A big wave with the Bluenose Academy

■School-house

■Bluenose with the Academy on it

■The new school floating on the ocean like a boat

8. Diversity (1.9%)



■Pictures and symbols of children of native descent, different nationalities coming together, people joining hands

■Globe with kids holding hands

9. Dime; Capt. Angus Walters (1%; 1%)



■The dime (with the Bluenose on it)

■Dime with four boats with Bluenose academy written on it

■Lunenburg waterfront with the Bluenose with Captain Angus Walters waving

Total of 297 Student Suggestions from All Four Schools (Lunenburg Jr./Sr. High, Centre Consolidated School, Riverport and District Elementary & Lunenburg Academy)