Close to 40 per cent of Canada’s artists and artistic organizations will need more from government to survive COVID-19: survey

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.

Read full article from the Globe & Mail here.

WFNB 2020 Writing Competition

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.

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Call for Submissions: ROADSIDE ATTRACTION, a collaborative group exhibition by Connexion ARC in partnership with the Beaverbrook Art Gallery

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.

The Sheilas 2020

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 14^th, 2020. Please consult the website for full application details.

Call for applications – Cross-Cultural Creation Residency

Cross-Cultural Creation Residency

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.

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OBJECTIVES OF THE RESIDENCE

To encourage the artistic exploration and the production of new works by providing space and time
To contribute to increasing the artistic quality of the work
To favour the collaboration and the sharing of expertise and experiences
To create significant cultural bridges of different cultural communities in the province.
To provoke encounters between artists and the public and to help raise awareness of the creative process.

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 :

Provide their own working materials
Interacting with the participating artists
Present publicly the work in progress at the end of each week in the form of an exchange with the public.
Submit a final report to the AAAPNB, ArtsLink and Mawi’Art 30 days after the end of the residency.

WHO CAN REGISTER?

This project is open to emerging and professional artists of all disciplines.
This project is open to Acadian artists who are members of the Acadian Association of Professional Artists of New Brunswick, ArtsLink artists and Aboriginal artists.

HOW TO REGISTER?

Artists must register using the form and answer all questions. A detailed description of the creation project is mandatory (minimum 500 words).
Artists must submit, in addition to the completed form, their artistic approach and an updated curriculum vitae.
The artists must be available for the duration of the residency, from March 15 to 28, 2020.

SELECTION CRITERIA

The applications will be examined by a jury of peers. The main qualities sought are:

Feasibility of the proposed project;
Artistic merits and originality of the artistic approach;
The potential impact of the project on the career of the artist.

SCHEDULE

Deadline to submit: Feb. 12, 2020

The candidates will get a reply before Feb. 19, 2020.

WHAT THE RESIDENCY INCLUDES

A fee of $ 2,000
Reimbursement for moving from the artists’ residence to the places of the residences (beyond 50 km)
Accommodation
Per diem of food
Creative premises

SEND APPLICATIONS TO:

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

annik.landry@aaapnb.ca

506-852-3313 ext. 226

www.aaapnb. ca

-or-

Julie Whitenect – Executive Director

ArtsLink NB

89 Canterbury St., Suite 300, Saint John, NB, E2L 2C7

julie@artslinknb.com

506-608-9914

www.artslinknb.com

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.

REGISTRATION FORM

CALL FOR IMAGES

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:

reproductions of works;
Promotional photos from events, performances etc;
school or other workshop photos;
photos of your participation in an event or festival;
other images (fixed or animated gif) related to artistic creation.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

colour or black and white;
in high resolution (300 dpi – large format);
clearly identified with your name, the name of the work, the year of production, the format, a brief description, and the photo credit.

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.

Deadline extended! Call for Artists | Public Art Component

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.

Click here to submit: http://bit.ly/ArtsAtlanticPublicArt

Call for Artists | Public Art Component

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.

Applications for CATAPULT’s Winter 2020 session are officially open!

Applications for CATAPULT’s Winter 2020 session are officially open!

ArtsLink NB’s CATAPULT Arts Accelerator gives artists the tools to be prolific + build sustainable careers. Business skills training, career development, workshops, and mentorship – all in one program.

The details:

WINTER 2020 SESSION (SAINT JOHN)
March 20 to May 15 | Fridays 6-9 pm & Saturdays 9-5

Application deadline: February 23, 2020

For more information, head to www.artslinkcatapult.com or
contact Jeri Knopp, Program Coordinator at catapult@artslinknb.com.

Call for Professional Dance Artists from the Atlantic Provinces

Dear Dance Artists,

We cordially invite you to Strategy Dance 2019. We are proud to announce that this year’s event is organized in partnership with the Acadian Association of Professional Artists of New Brunswick (AAAPNB) and ArtsLink in order to include dancers from both linguistic backgrounds. Through this event, we hope to create strategies and develop the dance community together, since dance is an art form free of language barriers.

During this event, the second edition of Carte Blanche will take place on November 30th, 2019, at the Salle Bernard Leblanc on the 3rd floor of the Aberdeen Cultural Center at 8pm. The event will be followed by a business meeting the next day to follow up on projects launched during last year’s edition and to continue the development of the dance community by including our Anglophone and Aboriginal colleagues. This is a wonderful opportunity to travel to Moncton for a weekend dedicated to the Art of Dance!

Carte Blanche (November 30th, 8PM-10PM)

The aim of Carte Blanche is to offer a platform adapted to the needs of dance artists during which they can present work. Whether the project is in the research stage, in development or about to be completed, the only criteria to participate is to have something to share. Even improvisation (with or without audience participation) is more than welcome. You would only have to specify what you would like to show in the attached application form. The presence of peers and an informed audience will allow you to have feedback on your work whether it is vocal or sensory. Presenting, sharing and discussing in an inclusive environment are the objectives of Carte Blanche.

We are giving you carte blanche in the use of space. Shoes at the door, spectators and dancers will share the dance floor. We want to give you the maximum use of space while breaking the 4th wall. It will be your choice where you would like the audience to be during your performance (maximum of 10 minutes). Standing, sitting, in a circle, moving … it’s up to you.

In addition to a platform to perform, we will be providing a video of your performance that you can use for grants and future applications. The money accumulated at the door (in the form of a voluntary contribution) will be divided equally between the acts and given to the person/company who submitted the project.

As for the selection process, we would like to accept as many projects as possible, but if we do not have enough time, as we will only have 2 hours for the event, we will draw candidates by lottery. Preference will be given for artists from the Atlantic provinces.

The chosen artists will be responsible for covering their own travel and accommodation expenses. Nevertheless, it may be possible to find housing among local artists.

Please fill out the attached application form before October 2nd, 2019, if you wish to present something at the event and send it to the following email: carteblanche.acadie@gmail.com . We will let you know on October 11th if your application was successful.

Business Meeting (December 1st, 1PM – 4PM)

In preparation for the December 1st business meeting, we invite you to think about some of the political issues that you believe are priorities for the advancement of dance in New Brunswick. If you were responsible for one of the projects launched after last year’s meeting, please prepare an update of the project with your committee in order to present it to the group. The purpose of this meeting is to provide the AAAPNB and ArtsLink with the needs we have collectively determined are our priorities as dance artists. These associations will then be able to better represent us and defend our interests on the political level. We will send another email in October with more details and the registration form for this meeting.

Hoping that you are as excited as we are,

Carte blanche 2019 committee:

Jalianne Li

Julie D. Thériault

Monelle Doiron

Sylvia Kasparian

carteblanche.acadie@gmail.com

APPLICATION FORM

Inter: Fuse, Lace, Relate

Elisgenooasig

Entre: Mêler, Lacer, Lier.

Inter: Fuse, Lace, Relate

January 24-February 14th, Galerie Sans Nom

Opening reception: Jan 24, 7pm

The exhibition Elisgenooasig, Entre: Mêler, Lacer, Lier, Inter: Fuse, Lace, Relate groups the work of artists Tara Francis, Nicole Haché, and Indigo Rain Poirier. In March 2019, l’Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick (AAAPNB), ArtsLink NB, and Mawi’art: Wabanaki Artist Collective created the Cross-Cultural Creative Residency that brought together Indigenous, Francophone, and Anglophone artists. During their residency, Tara Francis, Nicole Haché, and Indigo Poirier traveled to the community of Metepenagiag First Nation, Caraquet, and Saint John.

Elisgenooasig, Entre: Mêler, Lacer, Lier, Inter: Fuse, Lace, Relate explores how through the experience of working and immersing in another community and environment it can allow a dialogue around shared experiences, knowledge and understanding.

Tara Francis is a visual artist of Mi’kmaq and Irish descent from Elsipogtog First Nation. In her work, she is reimagining traditional Mi’kmaq teachings with a contemporary sensibility. Tara’s practice includes silk painting, acrylic, and porcupine quillwork. She facilitates workshops, participates in artist residences, and continues to exhibit her work locally and internationally.

Nicole Haché is from l’Île Lamèque and is now based in Caraquet, New Brunswick. Since 2002, she has been actively involved in the effervescence of arts and culture in the province. During her artistic journey, the Acadian artist stands out by participating in several projects of solo and group exhibitions, as well as several artist residencies in the provincial, national and international levels, in Europe, North America, and Africa.

Indigo Rain Poirier is an electronic musician originally from Kingsclear First Nation, now based in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Indigo is an almost entirely self taught musician, learning how to play and write music by way of online resources and communities. In 2018, Indigo was named the Music NB Electronic Musician of the Year and has toured their project Wangled Teb, playing at Flourish Festival, Quality Block Party, Pop Montreal and Sled Island in Calgary to name a few.

Elisgenooasig, Entre: Mêler, Lacer, Lier, Inter: Fuse, Lace, Relate is on display starting September 6th at the Saint John Arts Centre until October 25, 2019. It will be traveling to Metapenagiag Heritage Park in November 2019, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton in January 2020 and at the Galerie Bernard-LeBlanc, Caraquet in March 2020.

This exhibition is curated by 3E Collective.

3E Collective was formed during the fall of 2018 while Emma Hassencahl-Perley, Erin Goodine, and Emilie Grace Lavoie were hired as emerging curators at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery to curate the 50th anniversary exhibition of the New Brunswick Art Bank. While working together, they discovered that they worked well collaboratively, sharing knowledge and experience from their different educational and cultural backgrounds.

This exhibition is supported by:

The Government of New Brunswick, ArtsLink NB, Association Acadienne des Artistes Professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick, Sheila Hugh MacKay Foundation, Mawi’art: Wabanaki Artist Collective, the Saint John Arts Centre and the Metepenagiag Heritage Park.

New Brunswick Museum Call for a Web Content Writer

NBMR-Call for proposals

Join the ArtsLink Team!

Position: CATAPULT Arts Accelerator Coordinator

Location: Saint John

Hours per week: 35-40 (includes weekend commitments)

Term: Annual (renewable) contract, subject to an initial three-month probation period and twelve-month evaluations.

Remuneration: $40,000-45,000/ yr; commensurate with experience

Applications Due: Aug. 2, 2019, 5pm AST

JOB DESCRIPTION

ArtsLink NB seeks an experienced, energetic full-time coordinator to deliver its flagship program: CATAPULT Arts Accelerator.

This intensive, high-calibre entrepreneurial training program is designed to give artists in New Brunswick the skills and networks they need to expand their markets and increase their commercial success. The Coordinator will oversee and implement CATAPULT programming, offer ongoing assistance and coaching to CATAPULT alumni, as well as manage all program administration, report to funders, and development of funding applications for future iterations of the project.

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