We invite our members and the New Brunswick music community to submit applications for the 2023 Prix MNB Awards, slated to take place in October.
You can either:
Submissions close May 4.
Details here.
The Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts recognizes the highest level of artistic merit and distinguished career achievement by a Canadian professional artist in music, theatre or dance. The prize is awarded on a four-year cycle in dance, theatre, dance and music.
Deadline: 30 April 2023
Annual Prize amount: $50,000
By nomination.
Who created this prize?
Walter Carsen established this fund with a generous $1.1 million donation to the Canada Council for the Arts in 2001.
Full details are here.
Email: altercarsen-prizes@canadacouncil.ca
Phone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, ext. 5265
New Indigenous Artist Award to be part of the prestigious Lieutenant Governor’s Awards for High Achievement in the Arts.
The New Brunswick Arts Board (artsnb) is pleased to announce the creation of a fourth Lieutenant Governor’s Award for High Achievement in the Arts: The Indigenous Artist Award.
Starting in 2024, the New Brunswick Arts Board will add a fourth award created specifically to celebrate the achievements of an Indigenous artist working in New Brunswick. Working closely with Indigenous partners, including a Circle of Elders, artsnb continually strives to better support the growth of Indigenous artists’ practices in New Brunswick through a variety of programs, projects, and structures. The creation of this fourth award echoes the goals of artsnb’s 2022-2027 Strategic Plan.
Read the entire news release here.
Nominations from across Canada are welcome!
Nominations are now open for the 2023 Sobey Art Award. Nominators have until 8 p.m. EST Friday, March 10, 2023, to submit their applications.
With a total of $400,000 in prize money to contemporary visual artists, the Sobey Art Award’s mission is to champion and propel the careers of visual artists of all ages from across Canada onto the national and international stages.
The overall winner is given $100,000, $25,000 is granted to each of the shortlisted artists, and $10,000 is given to the remaining 20 long-listed artists. In addition, the five shortlisted artists will be featured in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC), with the winner announced at an evening ceremony this fall. Last year’s winner, representing the Prairies and North region, was Divya Mehra.
An independent jury consisting of curators from Canada’s five regions—Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairies and North, and West Coast and Yukon—as well as an international juror, will oversee the selection process.
The Sobey Art Award Nomination form is available here.
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2023 Playhouse Honours. The public are encouraged to nominate an individual or individuals from our community who have made a significant contribution to the community through their work in music, theatre, dance, spoken word, or multidisciplinary performing arts.
Established in 2008, the Playhouse Honours annually recognizes and celebrates the important work by members in the performing arts community in Fredericton. We believe in the value people can bring to the community through their work in the performing arts, and the Playhouse strives to foster a deeper appreciation of such contributions. A permanent display in the west gallery of the Playhouse recognizes each honouree.
Nominations can be made by any person or organization. Underscoring the personal contribution that they have made in the community, recipients must be individuals, not companies or organizations. Recipients may be a professional or amateur artist, administrator, volunteer, educator, philanthropist, advocate, organizer, etc.
The deadline for nominations is Friday, March 31, 2023. To nominate a candidate, please submit a written submission describing the reasons this nominee should be considered.
Full details about nominations for the Playhouse Honours program are here.
Screenwriting Award: $500
Deadline: February 28, 2023
The Jane LeBlanc Screenwriting Award is done in partnership with the Writer’s Federation of New Brunswick. The
award seeks to spotlight talented New Brunswick Screenwriters and is open to emerging and experienced screenwriters of
short film scripts up to 15 minutes in length. Un-produced or produced scripts will be accepted, but must have been
written within the last two years. The Second Prize is a 1-year Writer‟s Federation of New Brunswick membership.
Details are here
Errol Williams Filmmaker Award: $1,100
Deadline: March 1, 2023
Errol Williams was a pioneer and award-winning international filmmaker who was introduced to filmmaking at the NB
Film Co-op in the late 1980s. He produced dramas and documentaries. After his untimely death in 2007, a special award
was set up in his honour.
Details are here.
Theatre Organization Award: $1,500
Deadline: March 1, 2023
This is an award for small, independent theatre organizations in Fredericton to cover office and administrative costs,
theatre Artist-in-Residence, educational materials, and costs associated with the creation and presentation of new theatre
productions.
Details are here.
The call for nominations is for the 2024 Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for high Achievement in the Arts is opening on January 1, 2023 and closing on July 1, 2023.
The Lieutenant-Governor’s Awards for High Achievement in the Arts are designed to recognize the outstanding contribution of New Brunswick artists.
One award of $20,000 may be conferred every 2 years, in each of the following four categories:
Visual Arts Award: including architecture, fine craft, media arts and photography
Performing Arts Award: including dance, music and theatre
Literary Arts Awards*: including literary translation, literary performance, spoken word and storytelling
Indigenous Artist Award: including visual arts: architecture, fine craft, media arts and photography; performing arts: dance, music and theatre; and literary arts: literary translation, literary performance, spoken word and storytelling
* Please note that awards in Literary Arts alternate between French and English from year to year. The next nomination period (2024), nominations in English language literary arts will be considered.
Details are here.
Have you applied for the inaugural WIM Canada Honours?
This program is designed to celebrate and support women and gender diverse Canadian innovators and creators who have outstanding success in their field in the eligibility year (December 2021 through December 2022 for annual based categories).
Applicants must submit interest through WIM Canada’s application form by the deadline (Monday, January 16, 2023 at 11:59 PM ET). This may be done by the prospective honouree or another Canadian colleague. The honours will be presented at a dinner March 8 (International Women’s Day) to cap off our IWD programming.
Women in Music Canada values diversity, equity and inclusion, and welcome applications from innovators and creators from diverse backgrounds.
Learn more and apply today here. Have you applied for the inaugural WIM Canada Honours?
This program is designed to celebrate and support women and gender diverse Canadian innovators and creators who have outstanding success in their field in the eligibility year (December 2021 through December 2022 for annual based categories).
Applicants must submit interest through WIM Canada’s application form by the deadline (Monday, January 16, 2023 at 11:59 PM ET). This may be done by the prospective honouree or another Canadian colleague. The honours will be presented at a dinner March 8 (International Women’s Day) to cap off our IWD programming.
Women in Music Canada values diversity, equity and inclusion, and welcome applications from innovators and creators from diverse backgrounds.
Details here.
The Fiddlehead‘s 2022 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest is now open for submissions and we’re excited to announce that Dominique Bechard, shalan joudry, and Michael Prior are the talented poets who will be judging this year’s entries!
Dominique Béchard is the author of the poetry collection One Dog Town (Gaspereau Press, 2019) and the chapbook Infinity Mirror (Frog Hollow Press, 2022). She currently lives in Fredericton, on unceded Wolastoqiyik territory.
shalan joudry is a Mi’kmaw mother, poet, playwright, oral storyteller and ecologist. Using her theatrical background, shalan brings Mi’kmaw stories to a new generation of listeners, as well as recounting personally crafted narratives. The author of three books, her most recent book, Waking Ground (2020) was shortlisted for the J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award, the Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award, the 2021 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Poetry in English. She lives in her home territory of Kespukwitk (southwest Nova Scotia) with her family in their community of L’sətkuk (Bear River First Nation).
Michael Prior is the author of two books of poems: Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart, 2020), which won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the BC & Yukon Book Prizes’ Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Model Disciple (Véhicule Press, 2016), which was named one of the best books of the year by the CBC. Prior was a 2021-2022 Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library and is currently a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow with the Jerome Foundation. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, the Kenyon Review, Narrative Magazine, PN Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, and elsewhere.
$2000 prize for best poem!
Read the contest submission guidelines for more information.
Good luck to all entrants. This year’s contest deadline is Thursday, December 1, 2022 (postmarked for mailed entries and 11:59 pm Pacific Time for Submittable entries).
Click here to submit.
Regulations & Eligibility
Any Indigenous musician, artists, designer, producer, or dancer etc… that meets the following criteria:
You are a Canadian or American Indigenous Citizen or International Indigenous person from such countries & continents as Australia, South America, New Zealand, Mexico, Caribbean Islands & Pacific Islands – Canadian or Native American Inuit, First Nation, Metis or International Indigenous is defined by Indigenous Hip Hop Awards to be: holding a Canadian, American or International birth certificates, passports during the eligibility period; Such groups as deemed by Indigenous Hip Hop Awards, solo/duo/group rappers, spoken word artists, writers, video producer(s) being the creative force behind the group label and/or designer in fashion, deejays, R&B singers, reggae artists, break dancers/crews, painters/graffiti arts, music video producer/directors and music producers.
Your urban content must be available for sale or just online – You have products available for sale or content online for fans or consumers to view your work. This means your single, EP, design work, events, videos, works of art or album is available online for all the world to enjoy!
Our eligibility period – The eligibility period for the Indigenous Hip Hop Awards & Festival Location: New Westminster BC, Canada, Submission Are Now Open, Deadline April 1, 2023.
By submitting your content to the Indigenous Hip Hop Awards, you grant. The Indigenous Hip Hop Awards the permission to use submitted content for promotional purposes.
Voting
Your music & bios will be reviewed by music judges and the music industry insiders made up of producers, deejays and other artists professionals. Nominees will be posted online at www.indigenoushiphopawards.com Voting will open on July 1, 2023 and will close on August 1, 2023. Fans and peers will also be able to vote for your work! After the review process, only groups as deemed by Indigenous Hip Hop Awards, solo/duo/group rappers, spoken word artists, writers, video producer(s) being the creative force behind the group label and/or designer in fashion, deejays, R&B singers, reggae artists, break dancers/crews, painters/graffiti arts, music video producer/directors and music producers. Selected by the music judges and music industry insiders will be displayed for the online voting.
Apply here.
The Her Music Awards (Sponsored by Bandzoogle) are designed to celebrate and support female-identified Canadian mid-career music creators who are on the verge of taking their creative careers to the next level.
Applicants must submit an application through SOCAN Foundation’s application portal by the deadline.
Value
Award Recipient(s) will be selected to receive a grant prize of up to CAD$5,000.00 each.
Selection Process
All genres of music are welcome. Eligible applications will be considered by a jury of prominent Canadian music creators selected by SOCAN Foundation, in consultation with Bandzoogle. Excellence demonstrated through Artistic Merit will be an overriding consideration in the adjudication, in addition to thoughtful demonstration of how the Award would help advance the applicant’s career. The jury’s decisions are final.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to be considered for the Award, an applicant must:
A group of individuals (such as a duo or a band) may apply for the Awards together as one applicant, but all individuals in the group must meet all the eligibility criteria above for the group to be eligible to be considered for the Awards. If selected as an Award recipient, the group will receive one award prize.
Full details are here.
Submissions for Awards and Showcasing at the 2023 East Coast Music Awards: Festival & Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 3 – 7, 2023.
Submissions will open September 01, 2022 at 12 PM ADT and closes September 30, 2022 at 11:59 PM.
All 2023 Manuals for submissions are available in the “ECMA Manuals” tab.
Details here.
The award assists New Brunswick composers who want to develop and strengthen their craft. Open to music composers who are emerging and seasoned.
Apply by September 15, 2022
$800 Cash Award
Eligible activities:
Submission Guidelines
Please include the following:
All submissions can be emailed to catmaryleblanc@gmail.com
Artist bio.
Samples of work.
Letter describing why financial assistance is needed.
Email submissions to: catmaryleblanc@gmail.com
Details here.
The award is for New Brunswick emerging visual artists to help them further their artistic development. Specific to the following art forms: drawing and painting. No formal experience is required to apply.
Eligible Activities:
All submissions can be emailed to catmaryleblanc@gmail.com
The annual Silver Wave Film Festival features something for everyone. The event offers a showcase of multicultural, international, French and English programming of all genres and lengths and a comprehensive industry series which brings experienced and emerging producers and filmmakers together.
Silver Wave is jam packed with exciting events and programming with diversity and depth. The Festival is the brainchild of the board and staff at the New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative and is the staff’s volunteer labour.
1) Best NB Short Film (open to eligible short NB films/videos)
2) Lex Gigeroff Excellence in Screenwriting in a NB Short Film (open to eligible short NB films/videos
3) Excellence in Cinematography in a NB Short Film (open to eligible short NB films/videos
4) Excellence in Art Direction in a NB Short Film (open to eligible short NB films/videos
5) Excellence in Sound Design in a NB Short Film (open to eligible short NB films/videos
6) Excellence in Picture Editing in a NB Short Film (open to eligible short NB films/videos
7) Excellence in Music Composition in a NB Short Film (open to eligible short NB films/videos
8) Outstanding Performance by a NB Actress (open to eligible short NB films/videos
9) Outstanding Performance by a NB Actor (open to eligible short NB films/videos
10) Outstanding Performance by a NB Supporting Actress (open to eligible short NB films/videos
11) Outstanding Performance by a NB Supporting Actor (open to eligible short NB films/videos
12) Best Documentary Short (open to eligible documentaries under 60 minutes)
13) Best Documentary Feature(open to eligible documentaries 60 minutes and over)
14) Best Experimental OR Animated Short Film (open to eligible short films/videos
15) Best Student Short (dependent on number of submissions, open to eligible student films
16) Best Canadian Short (open to eligible Canadian shorts outside of NB)
17) Best International Short (open to eligible International shorts)
18) Best Genre Short (non-drama films including comedy (open to eligible short NB films/videos
19) Jane LeBlanc Filmmaker Award (for first and second time filmmakers
• $200 in workshops/training from the NBFC (2023)
• $800 cash from The LeBlanc Family and generous donations
• $1000 in equipment and post services from NBFC
• $80 (full membership two years) from the NBFC
• Workshopping of winning screenplay Presented by the New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative, Tony Merzetti & the LeBlanc Family
20) CBC/New Brunswick Joy ($8,500)
• $2,500 in cash from CBC
• $1,000 in cash from New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative
• $5,500 in equipment or facilities from the New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative
21) Brian Carty Film Volunteer Recognition Award
22) Jim Lavoie Film Professional Recognition Award
23) Silver Wave WIFT-AT Salute
24) Viewer’s Choice Award
Chosen by the fest audience online.
Mentors to choose from depending on what you are looking for in a mentor:
Cat LeBlanc (Click Here for Cat’s background) – Awarded Mentee – Anne Lebans
Kylie Fox (Click Here for Kylie’s background)
Jason Anderson (Click Here for Jason’s background)
David Somerville (Click Here for David’s background)
Short paragraph or resume showing your emerging training and development in music.
Brief letter or email expressing why you think you would benefit from being mentored and specifics on what you want to get from the experience OR short iPhone video (2 min).
This mentorship experience also includes grant-writing consultation with the Jane LeBlanc Legacy Fund and other mentorship and performance opportunities.
Deadline is July 15, 2022
All submissions can be emailed to catmaryleblanc@gmail.com.
The Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation is a champion of the visual arts in New Brunswick.
Through its annual juried award programs, we celebrate of artists who have achieved career milestones and who continue to push the boundaries of their creative practices. Currently the Foundation is inviting nominations and applications for two major awards:
The Marie Hèlène Allain Fellowship Award
The Foundation encourages input from the community in recognizing important artistic talents in our midst. The deadline for submission is June 30, 2022.
Please consult the website for full application details.
Click this link for more information about the TNB Foundation awards.
Stephen Graham Bird Award
(Acting, Directing or Playwriting)
DEADLINE June 10, 2022
The Stephen Graham Bird Award is designed to recognize and encourage New Brunswick students who have demonstrated exceptional talent and potential, and who are pursuing a career in the theatre. The Stephen Graham Bird Award is for full-time study.
Objectives
To assist New Brunswick students who intend to pursue, or are presently pursuing, a career in theatre as a professional.
To increase the number of professional theatre artists in New Brunswick.
To encourage the development of New Brunswick talent in theatre arts.
Eligibility
To be eligible for consideration an applicant must intend to pursue, or be currently pursuing, full-time studies at a recognized institution, at an undergraduate level or professional training program, for the purpose of pursuing a career as a professional theatre artist. This career may be in acting, in directing, or in playwriting. Only New Brunswick residents are eligible to receive funding. A resident is defined as a Canadian citizen or permanent resident who has resided in New Brunswick for at least one year immediately preceding the application deadline.
Level of Funding
One award in the amount of $3,000 will be awarded per annum. An individual may receive up to a maximum of 4 awards, which must be applied for annually.
Apply here.
J. Patrick Clark Award
(Design, stage management or technical production)
DEADLINE June 10, 2022
The J. Patrick Clark Award is designed to recognize and encourage New Brunswick students who have demonstrated exceptional talent and potential, and who are pursuing a career in the theatre. The J. Patrick Clark Award is for full-time study.
Objectives
To assist New Brunswick students who intend to pursue, or are presently pursuing, a career in theatre as a professional.
To increase the number of professional theatre artists in New Brunswick.
To encourage the development of New Brunswick talent in theatre arts.
Eligibility
To be eligible for consideration, an applicant must intend to pursue, or currently be pursuing, full-time studies at a recognized institution, at an undergraduate level or professional training program, for the purpose of pursuing a career as a professional theatre artist. This career may be in design, stage management or technical production. Only New Brunswick residents are eligible to receive funding. A resident is defined as a Canadian citizen or permanent resident who has resided in New Brunswick for at least one year immediately preceding the application deadline.
Level of Funding
One award in the amount of $3,000 will be awarded per annum. An individual may receive up to a maximum of 4 awards, which must be applied for annually.
Apply here.
All entries and submissions to the Prix MNB Awards must be received by 23:059 pm (Atlantic) on May 2, 2022.
The eligibility period for the 2022 Prix MNB Awards is May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2022, inclusive.
Except for the Recording of the Year and Enregistrement de l’année, all entrants must be Music·Musique NB (MNB) members at the time of application to be considered eligible.
Eligible entrants must have lived in New Brunswick during the full eligibility period. For groups, at least fifty percent (50%) of members must have lived in New Brunswick during the full eligibility period.
Instrumental recordings are eligible. Compilations are ineligible for nomination.
All submission requirements must be met. Incomplete entries are not accepted. Any occurrences of questionable eligibility are dealt with at the discretion of the Prix MNB Awards Committee. No refunds will be given for ineligible entries or entries made to categories which do not open.
Music·Musique NB encourages submissions from members of diverse communities, including Indigenous people, people of colour, people with disabilities, people from the LGBTQ+ community, and people who identify with other intersectional and equity-seeking groups.
Entries must be filled out online and received by 23:059PM (Atlantic) on May 2, 2022. For all categories in which a recording is being considered, a physical copy must be sent to the MNB office (140, rue Botsford Street, suite 30, Moncton, NB, E1C 4X4). If the recording is only released in a digital format, a download code must be provided.
For full details and eligibility requirements, please visit the MNB website.