Calls for Submissions

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General / Not Discipline Specific

Studio 303 Call for Submissions! Studio 303 seeks experienced or emerging artists who share their values and are interested in teaching open-level courses. They are looking for artist-educators to contribute to their vibrant community. Join them to make the 2024-2025 season at Studio 303 dynamic, captivating, and joyful!
Deadline July 15th. Click here for details

MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) invites artists and collectives facing systemic and structural obstacles to apply to Alliance, its unique support program. This initiative aims to eliminate barriers and enhance participation in the arts by offering customized financial support and guidance. The program particularly welcomes racialized artists, Indigenous artists, Deaf artists, artists with disabilities or chronic diseases, neurodiverse or differently-abled artists, and 2SLGBTQQIPAA+ community members.
→Deadline July 31st. Click here for details

The QPIRG-McGill (Quebec Public Interest Research Group at McGill) are looking for workshops, panels, events, performances, and film screening proposals for Culture Shock, which will tentatively be taking place from October 21-31, 2024. Culture Shock is an annual event series on anti-racism, migrant justice, and Indigenous solidarity.
→Deadline August 6th. Click here for details

Dance

If you are looking for Dance opportunities, check out the Regroupement Québecois de la danse and consider becoming a member of this organization dedicated to working with Dancers in Quebec.

Film & TV

Call for Entries: International Festival of Films on Art. Directors, filmmakers, producers, distributors, and artists, submit your projects for the 43rd edition of the International Festival of Films on Art, held from March 13 to 23, 2025. Categories include films about art, biographical films, documentaries, performance recordings, art videos, media art, and videoclips.
→Deadline October 31st. Click here for details

Canada Media Fund has a number of available funding programs with 2024 deadlines.
→ Click here for details

Music & Sound

Le Phoque OFF 2025 Showcases – Call for Applications! It is a dynamic alternative music festival held in February in Quebec City, offering avant-garde showcases, industry networking, and year-round support through its PRO component for emerging artists and professionals. Le Phoque OFF invites musicians to submit their application for the showcases.
→Deadline August 1, 11:59 PM Click here for details

Performing Arts

Including Performance Art, Circus, Comedy, Interdisciplinary

Theatre

If you are looking for theatre opportunities, check out Quebec Drama Federation’s What’s on Wednesdays page (also available on their social media) and subscribe to their newsletter to stay on top of the latest news.

Visual Arts & New Media Arts

If you want to stay on top of Calls for Submissions in visual & new media arts, akimbo.ca has a newsletter service you can subscribe to which will keep you posted on upcoming opportunities in Quebec as well as other regions in Canada.

MFF (My Friend Frankie) has announced a new consignment opportunity in collaboration with Bar Le Jockey! They will be selecting three artists to showcase their paintings and framed prints for a month-long exhibition.
→Deadline July 20th. Click here for details

School Schmool seeks submissions for our next publication themed RESISTANCE! They’re looking for articles, poetry, visual art, comics, and photography that explore thriving despite systemic oppression.
→Deadline July 14th at 11:59 PM Click here for details

MUTEK and the Canadian Centre for Architecture invite submissions for Composite #40, taking place on Thursday, August 22, 2024. Submit your project (ART, RESEARCH, INDUSTRY, OR SOCIAL INNOVATION) for a chance to present a 6-minute Keynote. Projects selected by the committee showcase innovative digital creativity, with priority given to emerging talents and diverse project leaders.
→Deadline July 29th midnight Click here for details

My Friend Frankie (MFF) is inviting creative artists to join Pumpkin Decorating at Fall Markets! Responsibilities include assisting families in creating festive pumpkin decorations using various art tools such as pens, paint, and markers, while ensuring a fun atmosphere for all attendees. Compensation is $75 per market.
→Deadline August 17th. Click here for details

Call for Proposals: Inter-Regional Cross-Residency Program. Est-Nord-Est and Centre d’art et de diffusion CLARK invite cultural workers (authors, curators, researchers) from Chaudière-Appalaches/Bas-Saint-Laurent and Montreal to propose a one-month research-creation project. This residency aims to support cultural workers, promote their practices, and develop new networks between these regions.
→Deadline August 18th 11:59 PM Click here for details

Centre CLARK invites artists, curators, and collectives to submit exhibition projects for its annual programming 2025-2026. CLARK supports innovative artistic practices, presenting exhibitions from emerging and established, local and international artists. Our programming features a multiplicity of languages, perspectives, heritages and experiences that translate into as many forms of contemporary art.
Deadline: October 1st. 11:59 PM Click here for details

Prix Atelier CLARK: Call for Proposals. Centre d’art et de diffusion CLARK is launching the Atelier CLARK Prize to support and recognize excellence in artists and woodworkers in Montreal. The winner will receive unlimited access to Atelier CLARK for one year, 16 hours of technical support, material credits, a feature on Centre CLARK’s platforms, and a public discussion opportunity.
→Deadline August 25th 11:59 PM Click here for details

ESPACE art actuel and Centre d’art et de diffusion CLARK announce the Prix Librairie CLARK to promote critical writing on current art and foster links between university research, publishing, and artist-run centres. Graduate students in art practice, art history, museology, and related fields are invited to submit a critical essay on themes or artistic approaches from the Centre’s annual exhibition program.
→Deadline October 7th, 11:59 PM Click here for details

Artexte 2024-2025 research residency program is now open for submissions! They invite three researchers from all contemporary art disciplines to explore Artexte’s collection and deepen their research. Selected residents receive research support, workspace, and a $1,000 honorarium.
→Deadline October 29th. Click here for details

ArtistsInMontreal.com is on the lookout for Montreal visual artists to have their works featured on the website. As of Jan. 1, 2022, the membership fee is $10 for the year per artist. AIM takes no commission on works sold.
→ Ongoing. Click here for details

Writing/Literary Arts

If you are looking for Writing opportunities, check out the Quebec Writers’ Federation and sign up for their newsletter to stay on top of the latest news, contests, and workshops. For Playwrighting opportunities, look under Theatre.

Metatron Press seeks submissions for their Micro-Meta Series on Instagram, featuring short, impactful poems that blend humor and existential reflection. Submit up to 5 pieces, each with a larger font size (16 pt+), 20 lines or less.
→Deadline rolling. Click here for details

Room Magazine invites submissions for Issue 48.1: Humour. They seek unpublished poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and black-and-white art by folks of marginalized genders. Share your funniest works that explore the power of laughter as resistance and critique.
→Deadline rolling. Click here for details

The Black Screen Office (BSO) has announced the opening of applications for Round 4 of the Rogers-BSO Script Development Fund. Administered by the Canadian Independent Screen Fund for BPOC Creators, this fund supports Canadian BPOC writers in script development.
→Deadline July 15th at 8:59 PM PT / 11:59 PM ET Click here for details

MAI is seeking artists interested in experimental writing in response to performing arts as part of its 25th anniversary. Ten selected artists will attend MAI presentations for free, receive mentorship, and share their work in May 2025 during the anniversary celebrations.
→Deadline July 29th 11:59 PM EST Click here for details

Yolk literary is now accepting submissions to their digital publication and to their “In Transit” series.
→Deadline rolling. Click here for details

Call for Submissions: Japanese Canadian Place & Memory by Japanese Canadian Legacies Fund and Véhicule Press . Submit poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction for an anthology focused on Japanese Canadian place and memory, co-edited by Michael Prior, Kerri Sakamoto, and Leanne Toshiko Simpson. The collection aims to honor histories and create new narratives, with works featured in both a print anthology and a digital mapping project.
→Deadline January 1st. Click here for details

Revue Esse call for papers is now open for submissions!
→Deadline September 1st. Click here for more details

Lantern Magazine is accepting submissions. Established in 2007, Lantern Magazine is a poetry periodical specifically catered to promoting writers in the Montreal literary community.
→ Ongoing. Click here for details

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’kéha, the language of the Mohawk—also known as Mooniyang, which is the Anishinaabeg name given to the city by the Algonquin. While we are based in this city, our projects have also taken place in many regions across Quebec.

We acknowledge the colonial origin of English and French in Canada, and recognize that both languages benefit from official status throughout the land. The province that we know as Quebec is an amalgamation of the traditional territories of the Innu and Inuit nations, Algonquian nations, as well as the Mohawk nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kanien’kéha and Anishinaabemowin are but two of the original languages of this province; Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, all well before French and English.

ELAN acknowledges the important work being done by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages.

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