Call to Filmmakers - Deadline May 1

Thurrock International Film Festival (UK): Call to Filmmakers, Deadline May 1

Thurrock International Film Festival

Call For Entries: Thurrock International Film Festival

Submission deadline: 1st May   Festival runs from 24th - 30th June 2012


The first Annual film festival, open, competitive. (more info. in the press release)

Email: info@thurrockfilm.co.uk
Address: Thurrock International Film Festival,
Orsett Road,
Grays,
Essex,
RM15 5DX
UK

http://www.thurrockfilm.co.uk

Call for Submission - RBC Canadian Painting Competition

Calls For Submission

RBC Canadian Painting Competition: Call to Painters, Deadline May 9

2012 RBC CANADIAN PAINTING COMPETITION OPENS CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

RBC, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, today announced its call for entries for the 2012 RBC Canadian Painting Competition. With a total of $55,000 in prize money, it is one of the largest competitions of its kind in Canada.

Entries must be submitted by May 9, 2012 and winners will be announced in Toronto on November 29, 2012, with the national winner receiving $25,000 and two honourable mentions each receiving $15,000.

“RBC works closely with the Canadian Art Foundation to recognize and showcase emerging painters and provide them with opportunities to gain national exposure,” said Ann Webb, executive director, Canadian Art Foundation and publisher, Canadian Art Magazine. “Each year, we look forward to this competition so we can support, celebrate and uncover new Canadian talent.”

Details and rules of the competition may be found at rbc.com/paintingcompetition. The submitted works will be short-listed to 15 finalists by independent panels of regional judges. All regional jurors come together in November to determine one national winner and two honourable mentions to be announced on November 29. All 15 paintings will be on exhibit at the Power Plant in Toronto. All finalists will be featured at rbc.com/paintingcompetition.

About the RBC Canadian Painting Competition

Established in 1999, the RBC Canadian Painting Competition recognizes and supports Canada’s emerging artists. The competition nurtures Canadian visual artists early in their career by providing them with a forum to display their artistic talent to the country and hopefully open doors to future opportunity. The competition will award one national prize of $25,000 and two honourable mentions will receive prizes of $15,000 each. Along with past winners, the winning paintings of 2012 will become part of RBC’s Canadian art collection comprised of more than 4,000 works of distinguished art collected over the past hundred years.


For more information, contact:
Sandy Kwong, RBC Public Affairs, 204-988-3511, sandy.kwong@rbc.com
Liz Redston, RBC Public Affairs, 204-988-3516, liz.redston@rbc.com

Artist contact:
Deborah Dexter, Advisor, RBC Canadian Painting Competition, 416-277-4068

Call for Submission by Writers

Calls For Submission

Rhubarb Magazine: Call to Writers, Deadline May 1

RHUBARB “MONEY”LITERARY CONTEST – Deadline MAY 1, 2012

Rhubarb announces its first literary contest with a total of $1,500 in prize money. Fittingly enough it is for a future Rhubarb issue with Mennonites and money as its theme, in the three usual categories published in the magazine. Like the loosely defined Mennonite voices we publish, any creative variations on the theme are welcome. The contest is open to anyone with preference to those submissions with Mennonite references, which will however, not be the final criteria.
The prizes are $300 and $200 each in poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction, and publication in the magazine. All honourable mentions will also be published and receive the standard $50 payment for publication. All entrants will receive a subscription to Rhubarb magazine beginning with the money issue.
The judges are: Armin Wiebe – Fiction, Aiden Enns –  Non-Fiction, Maurice Mierau – Poetry.
The entry fee is $30.00. Three poems of up to 30 lines can be submitted as one poetry entry, fiction and non-fiction are limited to one submission with a maximum of 2,500 words.

Entry Details
Please provide all contact information including your name address and email on a cover sheet, without your name appearing on the entry itself. Submissions will be accepted by email and surface mail. Email entries won’t be logged until a cheque for $30 arrives in the mail. Please address surface mail entries and cheques payable to “The Mennonite Literary Society” to:
 The Mennonite Literary Society
Money Contest,
 606-100 Arthur Street,
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 1H3. 

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