Presented by Creeker Films in collaboration with the NB Film Co-op, the Demonic Brilliance Film Festival (DBFF) is a three-day online celebration of horror, showcasing some of the most sinister horror films from around the world and the people who make them.
DBFF welcomes filmmakers’ who understand the importance of good acting, stellar lighting, appealing cinematography, and detailed production design. Does your film have what it takes to be awarded Best Film at the Demonic Brilliance Film Festival?
The festival dates are from September 11 to 13, 2020.
For more information and to submit your film, click here.
The Joy Awards, besides being a recognition of merit, helps emerging filmmakers finish projects which reflect their own creative vision without compromise. These projects help establish their reputation and credibility and provide important networking and contact opportunities, as they build ongoing careers in the field.
The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2020.
For more information, click here.
As part of Craft 2020, the Fibre Arts Network is celebrating with an exhibition at the University of New Brunswick Arts Centre. For this exhibition, any type of fibre project is acceptable (i.e. weaving, felting, quilting, stitching, some mixed media using fibre, and textiles). Work must have been produced within the last two years. Entry is open to members of the Fibre Art Network.
The deadline for submissions is August 21, 2020.
For more information, click here.
Submit your original, unpublished poem or collection of poems, up to 600 words in length. There is no minimum word requirement. The winner will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have the opportunity to attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and have their work published on CBC Books. Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books. The entry fee is $25, which covers the costs of administering the prize. Submissions are read by a panel of established writers and editors from across the country. The shortlist and a winner will be decided by a jury comprised of three prominent Canadian writers.
The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2020.
For more information, click here.
The NB Silver Wave Film Festival (SWFF) screens feature films, documentaries and short films shot in the province and produced by New Brunswick filmmakers. It also showcases some of the best films and videos from Canada and around the world. By infusing a warm glow and setting the town abuzz, the Silver Wave Film Festival is a grand celebration of New Brunswick’s growing presence in the world of film and television entertainment.
The deadline is August 25, 2020.
For more information, click here.
The NB Film Co-op proudly announces the Jane LeBlanc Filmmaker Award for 2020. It exists in honour of a woman who lived life to the fullest and courageously took action in making her dreams a reality, a message that will hopefully inspire the winner of this award in realizing his/her/their dream of making films a reality.
Applicants are asked to submit a 4-7 page script for a video poem, experimental piece, drama, or comedy, alongside a short paragraph talking about their hopes and dreams and what the project and grant mean to them.
The deadline is August 1, 2020. Send application to info@nbfilmcoop.com.
For more info on the award, click here.
Theme: COVID-19 in any aspect (lockdown, isolation, medical, social, historical, biological, etc.)
The Fredericton Arts Alliance is looking for applicants for their nineteenth Artist in Residence Summer Series to be held virtually.
Interested artists are asked to describe how they would plan to have a daily web presence on the FAA website for the seven days of their residency. It should be something that will engage visitors to the site (some slides of recent work with accompanying audio file, a studio webcam, a dramatic reading of recent works, a short dance, etc.). Artists will be selected by an independent jury. Those accepted will receive a $450 honorarium, and the FAA will promote their participation in the program.
Residences will run from mid-June to mid-September. Each residency will last for one week. Interested artists should say how they intend to approach the theme in their written application and how they intend to create their web presence. Applicants must be residents of the Fredericton region.
For more information and application forms visit the Fredericton Arts Alliance website or their Facebook page.
Deadline: Applications must be received no later than 4 p.m. on Friday, May 15, 2020.
Hot Docs, in partnership with The Slaight Family Foundation, is pleased to announce the creation of the Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund. Through a gift of $450,000 from The Slaight Family Foundation, this new film development and production fund is dedicated to supporting Canadian music docs.
The first of its kind in Canada, the Fund is committed to filmmakers telling engaging, high-quality stories that embrace musical forms and artists and demonstrates Canadian music’s role in the world. The Fund also welcomes international music stories told through the lenses of Canadian filmmakers. Each year, the Fund will support three to five documentary projects, both shorts and features, with amounts ranging from $15,000 to $60,000 CAD. Recipients will also receive creative and professional development support.
Applications for the Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund open on June 3 and close on July 29, 2020.
Click here for more information.
Jones Gallery in Saint John, NB is currently soliciting exhibition or representation proposals. They are looking for early to mid-career contemporary visual artists who are based in or have a connection to Atlantic Canada. Artists should have strong conceptual component to their work, and they value a record of public exhibition and a challenging visual practice. Jones Gallery has a rigorous and ambitious exhibition schedule and their programming will focus on painting, sculpture and installation-based work. Artists who fit their mandate are invited to submit a proposal to caleb@jonesgallery.ca. Submissions must include a CV, Artist statement, letter outlining career goals and plans for your practice, five to six artwork images and link to online portfolio. Deadline: ongoing call.
Connexion Artist-Run Centre is now accepting proposals for ISOLATION PROJECTS. We are looking for artists to create content from their homes that can be disseminated online or through alternative physically-distant means, and to share their practices & working methods with the community. Projects may include:
– Digital “residencies” & social media takeovers
– Live streams of media or performance works
– Digital workshops or artist talks
– Creation & documentation of sculpture/installation works on your own property*
* While current physical distancing measures are in place, we will accept proposals for installations made on public-facing properties, but will not publicize their locations or encourage people to attend, other than those already passing by for essential outings. Documentation of the project will not be shared on our social media platforms until the work has been taken down.
Eligibility:
Artists working in any media across Canada, with preference given to members of Connexion ARC and artists working in New Brunswick/Atlantic Canada.
To apply:
Please contact info@connexionarc.org with the following materials or to or request a meeting to talk about your project.
– A short project description that addresses the following:
What is your project? Which platform will you use? (I.e. stand-alone website, Instagram, Facebook Live, Zoom, physical artwork with documentation or printed materials to be disseminated at a later date.) How will you execute the project while respecting current best practices in physical distancing?
– Artist statement and/or bio
– Samples of work: up to 10 images and/or 10 minutes of video/audio
– Optional: CV, social media links, or other materials relevant to your project.
Deadline:
Ongoing. First selections will be made from proposals received by 5pm Wednesday, April 22.
Selections:
Projects will be reviewed by a committee of Connexion ARC staff & board members. Proposals will be evaluated based on their alignment with our mandate, and feasibility/social responsibility under current distancing regulations.
Remuneration:
Connexion ARC is able to offer an honorarium of $200 per project.
Note: we are aware that this does not reflect CARFAC’s minimum recommended project fee. We do not wish to take advantage of artists during this time of need, but rather have made funds available quickly to provide a bit of immediate support in these unexpected circumstances.
Please contact info@connexionarc.org with any questions or assistance with your submission.
Call for Virtual Studio Visits for Emerging Artists
Sign up deadline: April 15th at 11:59pm
Due to COVID-19, there is a shortage of opportunities to discuss recent and ongoing production of emerging artists’ work. In order to best support new-generation and emerging artists whose discussion of work has been affected by this recent pandemic, several curators from regional institutions are collaborating to offer 30-min Skype/Zoom/Google Hangout studio visits over the last two weeks of April. This initiative gives you an opportunity to dialogue with curatorial professionals from partnering institutions to discuss your recently completed work and overall practice via virtual meetings. These are free to sign-up for, and operate on a first come, first serve basis. Selected artists will be given a randomly generated time slot and curator to virtually meet.
Participating Curators:
Leila Timmins – The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Matthew Kyba – Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
Lisa Deanne Smith – OCAD U’s Onsite Gallery
Jaclyn Quaresma – The Durham Art Gallery
Michelle Gewurtz – Ottawa Art Gallery – Galerie d’art d’Ottawa
Xenia Benelovski – SUGAR Contemporary
Available times:
April 20 – 30th
– 8:30am – 9:30am
– 10:00am – 10:30am
– 11:00am – 11:30am
– 11:45am – 12:15pm
– 12:30pm – 1:00pm
– 12:45pm – 1:15pm
– 1:30pm – 2:00pm
– 2:15pm – 2:45pm
If you’re interested, please email “virtualstudiovisits2020@gmail.com” with:
1) Your full name
2) Where your practice is based
3) Artist website
4) A short bio (250 words max)
5) Artist statement (250 words max)
6) High quality images of work (5-8 images, video files must be linked on google drive)
On April 18th, artists will be emailed their timeslot, communication method (Zoom, Google Hangouts, Skype), and Curator. Please make sure to test your microphone/camera and internet connection before chatting, as each participating curator will not be able to go over the allotted 30 minutes to allow for equal time for each artist.
A majority of artists and artistic organizations served by the Canada Council for the Arts believe that they will get through the COVID-19 crisis with the support of emergency measures announced by the federal government. But 39 per cent of survey respondents – primarily self-employed artists and smaller organizations that rely on them – say they will need help beyond the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) and the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) in order to make it the other side of the pandemic.
2020 Writing Competition is Open!
The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick encourages all New Brunswickers to submit their poems, stories or creative essays to its 2020 Writing Competition.
The competition awards $2,600 in cash prizes.
Deadline for entries is February 29, 2020.
All submissions must be made electronically through the WFNB website at wfnb.ca/competitions.
The prize purse includes the David Adams Richards Prize, awarded for a collection of short stories, a novella, or a substantial part of a longer novel, the Douglas Kyle Memorial Prize for short fiction, the Alfred G. Bailey Prize for poetry manuscripts, the Fog Lit Books for Young People Prize, the Sheree Fitch Prize for Young Writers, the Narrative Nonfiction Prize, and the Dawn Watson Memorial Prize for a single poem.
Youth ages 13 to 18 can enter their poems or stories into the Sheree Fitch Prize category, aimed at young writers.
In addition to the prize money, winners will read their work at WFNB’s annual literary festival, WordSpring, being held this year in Fredericton, NB, May 22-24. Many WFNB winners have gone on to publish their work, including André Narbonne (David Adams Richards Prize, 2008), Jerrod Edson (David Adams Richards prize, 2013) Kerry-Lee Powell (Alfred G. Bailey Prize, 2013), and Moncton Anglophone Poet Laureate Kayla Geitzler (Alfred G. Bailey Prize, 2014).
Entries must be received by February 29, 2020. For competition guidelines, visit: https://wfnb.ca/competitions/submission-rules/
About WFNB
WFNB is the only organization devoted solely to the writers of New Brunswick. It is dedicated to encouraging and promoting New Brunswick writers in all genres and stages of development.
Call for Submissions:
ROADSIDE ATTRACTION, a collaborative group exhibition by Connexion ARC in partnership with the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
DEADLINE:
February 16, 2020
Roadside Attraction is a collaboratively created & curated group exhibition that brings together New Brunswick artists, writers, and curators to examine NB identity through the lens of the tourism industry, using the province’s kitschy, nostalgic, unusual, or forgotten attractions as a catalyst. Connexion is seeking emerging & established New Brunswick-based artists working in any media for this collaborative exhibition project, to be presented at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery from July to December of 2020.
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
The Trans-Canada Highway officially opened in 1961 and was completed in 1970, ushering in a new era of car-based tourism and cementing New Brunswick’s status as the “drive-through province” of cross-country travel. This mid-late 20th century tourism boom also coincided with still and motion photographic technology becoming more accessible to the masses; colour film and Super 8 became widely available in the 1960s and ‘70s. This led to the rise of the roadside attraction, and Canada’s “Picture Province,” as was touted on the license plates of the time, became littered with “World’s Biggest”s and natural oddities which now mainly exist on forgotten stretches of two-lane highway and in shoeboxes full of old slides in closets across the country.
This project examines the histories of New Brunswick’s tourism industry – vestiges of the infrastructure that remains from its heyday; the effects of trends in tourism on local communities & the natural landscape; and tourism’s ongoing relationship to colonial power. Roadside Attraction poses questions about New Brunswick identity, art vs. kitsch, and ever-changing trends in public interest. Where does one draw the line between public sculpture and tourist trap? How can we re-imagine the roadside attraction for a 21st century world?
HOW TO APPLY:
Send an expression of interest to info@connexionarc.org.
For full submission guidelines, see https://connexionarc.org/2020/01/22/roadside-attraction-call/
OPEN CALL – IRL: MUSIC LABOUR SUMMIT
Every year in the middle of summer we organize Sappyfest as a staging ground for connection, conversation, and creative brilliance. As an artist- and community-run not-for-profit festival of independent music and art we are involved in ongoing conversations about the health, history, conditions, and environment in which this creative work is made.
As artists and performers, we meet at festivals and performance venues across the country. In too many situations we are underpaid, overworked, and disorganized, often pressured into participating in cultural projects we don’t believe in. Why, at the site of beauty and creative labour, are there so many experiences of suffering, scarcity, and competition? How can we share information and help each other out? Perhaps it is time that we take ourselves seriously by meeting with this expressed purpose.
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?
Over the course of 3 days (July 28 – July 30) preceding Sappyfest 15 we plan to converge in Sackville, NB upon the unceded ancestral lands of the Mi’kmaw people, as musicians and music labourers for a gathering of minds and music, the IRL: MUSIC LABOUR SUMMIT.
Occasion will be given for speakers to present research about the cultural, historical and/or epistemological contexts in which they make their work. Presenters and attendees will listen, discuss and strategize. There will be conversation and there will be music. By examining the context in which our cultural activity is taking place we can begin to move collectively towards more sustainable, healthy, positive and generative ways of creating and living as artists. We hope to establish a network of music and cultural workers, and begin to build a shared body of research.
WHAT IS THIS?
This is a call for presentation proposals. Later there will be a call for registration for those interested in attending.
PRESENTATION PROPOSALS
We are accepting proposals for presentations about anything to do with history, labour contexts, and music. Presentations can be anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, and should be researched. They don’t have to be academic in any way, but they should be the result of earnest inquiry into your topic.
We’re interested in things like: How are you working in your community? How do you experience your labour context and why do you think it exists in that way? How do you experience sound and music?
The following examples of topics are given as potential areas of interest and are not meant to be directly prescriptive.
– Settler Colonial structures and how they impact music making
– Racism and apartheid in Canadian music and beyond
– Beyond representation: the oversimplification of gender and racial segregation in music
– The influence of private and public funding models on the process and results of creative practices
– Funding policies and the environment: How do music funders influence our environmental practices?
– Technocracy: What’s our music working for when it’s streaming?
– Survey of the different presentations of music work, within nations or internationally
For more information, and details on how to submit a proposal, please visit http://www.sappyfest.com/summit
This project is an experiment, and our first attempt at organizing a meeting of this kind. This conference was proposed by musicians Simone Schmidt and Nick Dourado, and is being organized with the assistance of Steven Lambke (musican/Sappyfest Creative Director).
PLEASE CONTACT US if you have any questions or concerns about this submission process. We’re here for it.
In Real Life.
Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation invites applications from visual art organizations or collectives for the 2020 Annual Facilitation Grant Program “The Sheila’s”
In 2020, the focus of facilitation grants will be the publication of well-researched, analytical examinations of the work of New Brunswick artists. These grants are intended to support arts organizations realize a print publication by a reputable publishing house or collective in conjunction with an exhibition. They are awarded on the recommendation of independent assessment panels.
The Deadline for all applications is February 14th, 2020. Please consult the website for full application details.
A francophone artist
An anglophone artist
An indigenous artist
The Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick (AAAPNB), ArtsLink NB and Mawi’Art: Wabanaki Artist Collective, join forces again for the second Cross-cultural creation residency. A community residency between an acadian artist, an anglophone artist, and an indigenous artist in New Brunswick.
This year’s program will take place in two week-long stages, in different NB communities. Through this residency, artists will have the opportunity to create new work while immersing themselves in the artistic process of fellow artists.
The experience of being in another community and creating with people of different artistic backgrounds allows one to go beyond language barriers and discover different cultural environments. Recognizing current debates surrounding cultural and language tensions in New Brunswick, this initiative demonstrates that it is possible to grow by combining strengths rather than advocating division. Art in itself is a means of expression and cohesion and makes it possible to break down the boundaries that all too often isolate us.
OBJECTIVES OF THE RESIDENCE
The work in progress must be presented publicly at the end of each week. The artists will have complete freedom of creation, but will be called upon to open their creation space to allow the community to discover their work through open-studio visits.
THE SELECTED ARTISTS UNDERTAKE TO :
WHO CAN REGISTER?
HOW TO REGISTER?
The applications will be examined by a jury of peers. The main qualities sought are:
Deadline to submit: Feb. 12, 2020
The candidates will get a reply before Feb. 19, 2020.
WHAT THE RESIDENCY INCLUDES
Annik Landry – Responsible for artist services
Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick
140 rue Botsford, bureau 29, Moncton, NB, E1C 4X5
506-852-3313 ext. 226
-or-
Julie Whitenect – Executive Director
ArtsLink NB
89 Canterbury St., Suite 300, Saint John, NB, E2L 2C7
506-608-9914
This project is a collaboration between ArtsLink NB, the Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick and Mawi’Art: Wabanaki Artist Collective and is made possible thanks to the support of the government of New Brunswick.
CALL FOR IMAGES:
ArtsLink NB invites its members to submit images to be included in some of its publications this year. This image bank will serve on the one hand to promote the work of artists, and on the other hand to enhance ArtsLink’s publications visually.
TYPES OF WORKS:
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
You must specify who owns the copyright to the image, as well as the photo credit (if there is credit).
Delivery date: Friday, January 31, 2020
Please send a maximum of three images to: info@artslinknb.com
If you are sending a series of images larger than 10 megabytes (MB), please do so by transfer service (wetransfer, dropbox, or other ftp).
ArtsLink NB will pay the reproduction rights for each image used in accordance with the rates suggested by CARFAC.
Due to the holidays and how busy the artists of New Brunswick have been this year, the deadline for our call for participants in the open-air live art creation component has been extended until February 29, 2020. This is a paid opportunity following the CARFAC schedule.
The Arts Atlantic Symposium is taking place in Saint John, New Brunswick, October 14-18, 2020.
ArtsLink NB is currently accepting applications for the Arts Atlantic Symposium 2020 public art open-air component. As a community, we’re aware of the high calibre art being created here. Our goal is to display that art in a way that the general public have an appreciation for the effort that goes into it. Let’s line the streets of Uptown of Saint John, New Brunswick with as many artists as possible.