Theme: COVID-19 in any aspect (lockdown, isolation, medical, social, historical, biological, etc.)

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.

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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.

Read full article from the Globe & Mail here. 

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.

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.

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.

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:

NBMR-Call for proposals