Residency: Roberts Street Social Centre (Halifax, NS)
Call: Critic-In-Residence, Canadian Women in the Literary Arts (Anywhere)
Call for Submissions: DIY Games Room at Canzine
(Toronto, ON)
Call: Struts Gallery Artist-in-Residence (Sackville, NB)
Call for Submissions: Ghost Hole IV at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto, ON)
Call: Hard Liquor and Porn Festival (Toronto, ON)
Call for Submissions: Inch Magazine
Residency: Roberts Street Social Centre (Halifax, NS)
We’ve had a cancellation from one of our residents, and so we’re giving you the opportunity to apply for the October 3rd – 16th residency! Since 2007 we have hosted two week long residencies in the summer and fall. Residents are provided with space, equipment and support for their project as well as living space in a garden shed in the backyard of the Centre.
We are interested in proposals for projects that embody the same sort of do-it-yourself spirit as the Social Centre, and that contribute in some way to the community and/or the space. Take a look at our website for examples of residents from past years.
To apply please send us your name and contact information, a brief description of the project you want to work on while you are here, and how you plan to share your work with others (an event, launch, workshop, show, etc. that you’d like to hold).
Applications should be sent to [email protected] by Thursday September 27th (today!) and we will make our selection that weekend.
Call: Critic-In-Residence, Canadian Women in the Literary Arts (Anywhere)
CWILA seeks to support a female Canadian writer (poet, novelist, storyteller, scholar) as its resident critic for a calendar year. The aim of the residency is to foster vital criticism that promotes public awareness of women’s literary and critical presence in Canadian letters. The critic-in-residence will work on critical essays and/or book reviews and submit them to one or more Canadian review venues (print or web). This work will also be archived by CWILA and will become available through its website following publication elsewhere, copyright permitting. If time allows, the critic-in-residence is encouraged to support a climate of critical responsiveness in Canadian letters through a collaborative or community-based project of her choice. The writer will be free to work from home.
Criteria: Applications should include a letter of intent describing the project or projects the applicant wishes to undertake, the venue or venues to which they plan to submit, a one-page CV, and a short sample of critical work.
We encourage applications from genderqueer writers, Indigenous writers, as well as other women and/or genderqueer writers of colour.
Stipend: $2,000
Applications: Applications can be sent to [email protected] and must be received by November 1, 2012.
Call for Submissions: DIY Games Room at Canzine (Toronto, ON)
Broken Pencil magazine and their DIY tech columnist skot deeming (aka mrghosty) are planning something special at this year’s Canzine. Toronto has a rich creative community of DIY game makers working with various formats. We want to show them off at Canzine Toronto 2012.
We’re looking for a number of people who have made DIY games to come down to the games room and demo them, allowing Canzine attendees to experience DIY game culture first hand.
If you’re a board game, card game or a digital game maker, we want to bring you in, share your work and come play with us on October 21st! Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2012.
Send all inquires and registration info to [email protected]. Please include your name, the title of your game and a brief description. All those selected to demo games at Canzine will get free admission and the latest issue of Broken Pencil magazine.
Call: Struts Gallery Artist-in-Residence (Sackville, NB)
Each year Struts Gallery hosts a series of artist residencies in our Open Studio Program. Each artist-in-residence spends five weeks in the gallery continuing their practice in a public venue. The artists present talks on their work, studio visits and other public presentations as well as workshops related to the work they are engaged in. The artist is paid an artist fee and provided with a per diem and accommodations in Sackville; travel costs are covered by Struts. There is also a budget for advertising, workshop supplies and documentation of the residency.
TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL, PLEASE SEND:
Project proposal: a brief description of your Exhibition, Performance, Residency, or other event. Specify which program you are applying to. 2) A brief bio. 3) Documentation of your work: up to five images or five minutes
of audio visual material. All images and audio visual material must be Mac compatible. 4) Current curriculum vitae. 5) Other supportive documents or weblinks. 6) Technical needs or site specifications. 7) Self-addressed stamped envelope Please Note: All applications are reviewed by our membership at open programming meetings.
All submissions must arrive at the gallery before 5pm on October 1st. Email submissions are accepted.
Call for Submissions: Ghost Hole IV at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto, ON)
Its that time of year when the light begins to fade and the shadows come out to play. Through painstaking hours of divination and communing with spirits, this year’s premonition is that Ghost Hole IV will reveal itself in Toronto Island’s “Haunted” Public School. (aka Artscape’s Gibraltar Point Art Residency)
Ghost Hole IV will be opening between these dates: October 26th and 27th, 2012.
This October 2012, we are looking for creative ghosts and ghouls to activate the old public school by presenting artworks, photographs, installations, performances, dance, storytelling and other ritualistic means of activating the space.
Also this year, art-psychics and their mediums will be welcomed to rent spaces in Artscape and participate in the Ghost Hole for a two-week residency prior to the event.
Submit: Name, Brief Bio, Contact Information, Project Title, Project Description, Supporting Material: (Maximum 5 photos or videos), Interest in Residency: (yes?/no?)
Send Submissions to [email protected]. Deadline: October 7th at Midnight.
Call: Hard Liquor and Porn Festival (Toronto, ON)
Attention Filmmakers: Send us your funny, dirty, sexy short films. The Hard Liquor and Porn Film Festival is a comedy short film festival about sex. It’s not a porn festival (well, mostly not). After a two year break The Festival is back for its 11th year.
The next Festival is November 17, 2012 in Toronto. Screenings in other cities may be announced later.
We encourage all film makers to have fun and make films they enjoy. We are looking for films that are sexy, creative, fun and well done. Raunchy or racy, dirty or demure, taboo or tame, anything but lame. Films about sex, porn, nudity, swearing or something else naughty. Any genre or style is accepted: live action, animation, music video, mobile phone movies, etc.
Films should be 5 minutes or less. International entries accepted. Earlybird deadline: Oct. 1, 2012. After October 1, 2012 there will be a $20 entry fee. Films may be submitted directly on our website.
Call for Submissions: Inch Magazine
Inch is a quarterly magazine devoted to tiny poems and tiny fiction. We believe that good things come in small packages, so we focus our eight pages on poems of one to nine lines, or fiction of 750 words or fewer. Don’t send us a few good lines or paragraphs–send us complete poems and stories that bite, resonate, or sleep with giants. We’ve published work by acclaimed authors, such as Betty Adcock, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Daniel Wallace, but we are equally committed to publishing the work of emerging authors.
Nonfiction: Our Fall 2012 issue will be dedicated to short memoir. Submit by November 1, 2012. Our theory is, if life is too short, as most agree it is, you shouldn’t need more than 700 words. Include a cover letter. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please note in your cover letter if your story is submitted elsewhere. We do not accept previously published work. All rights revert to the author upon publication. Pays three copies. We prefer electronic submissions. Submit your work online, and you will be able
to log in and check the status of your submission at any time.