Calls for Submission December 2016

General/Multidisciplinary

Sign up for CALQ’s webinar to find out all the details on the new programs for organizations before DECEMBER 5. The webinar takes place on DECEMBER 6.

MainLine Theatre and Revolution They Wrote are accepting submissions for the upcoming Short Works Feminist Theatre & Performance Festival. Submit by DECEMBER 15.

Eastern Bloc is looking for interactive installation/performance, Net art, bio art, audio/video installation, A/V performance, and sound performance submissions for its winter residency. Submit by DECEMBER 16.

The Banff Centre for the Arts is seeking applicants from leaders of arts and culture organizations for it’s Social Innovation Residency. Apply by DECEMBER 16.

Studio XX call for proposals for the 2017-2018 artist in residency program in research & creation for interdisciplinary works. Apply by JANUARY 15.

CALQ, & CAM in collaboration with Culture Montréal are launching a call launching a call for projects from Aboriginal artists, writers and Aboriginal organizations. Apply by JANUARY 16.

Spark Box is seeking Canadian visual artists, printmakers, photographers, performance artists, and filmmakers of all levels for a national residency. Apply by FEBRUARY 1.

Nuit Rose, Toronto’s annual festival of queer-focused performance and art is accepting submissions from artists, performers, writers, curators, cultural organizations and community businesses. Submit by FEBRUARY 10.

Music

Instruments of Happiness is seeking professional and amateur guitarists to participate in a 100 guitar tribute to Jimi Hendrix. Audition on DECEMBER 3.

Call for Musicians: School of Music Montreal (SoMM) is looking for musicians of all genres for a fundraising concert on JANUARY 13. Apply by DECEMBER 30.

Theatre

ARTISTA, Imago Theatre’s FREE theatre mentorship program for women and women-identifying youth aged 16-21 is seeking submissions. Apply by JANUARY 11. Want to support the ARTISTA program? Donate to the Indiegogo campaign before DECEMBER 23.

Thanks to the support of the Evenko foundation, the Geordie Theatre School Bursary, for youth from families in lower economic backgrounds, is back for the Winter Session. Apply by JANUARY 13.

The Quebec Drama Federation is seeking designer submissions from past, current and upcoming productions for the upcoming winter calendar launch and designer vernissage! Apply by JANUARY 13 by e-mailing workshop@quebecdrama.org.

Writing

The Montreal Review of Books is looking for new publications for its next issue. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, graphic novels, criticism, children’s & YA are all welcome. Submit by DECEMBER 14.

Disquiet is currently accepting contest submissions for The Disquiet Literary Prize for writing in any genre. The top winners in each genre will be published in Guernica (fiction), Ninthletter.com (nonfiction) and The Common (poetry). Apply by JANUARY 31, 2017.

The SLS 2017 fiction/poetry contest is now open to submissions! Winners will have the choice of attending a writing program in Georgia or Kenya, all expenses paid. Apply by FEBRUARY 28.

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.