Calls for Submissions / Auditions - Friday, April 24, 2009

A great list for you this Friday! There are opportunities for writers and poets, actors and performance artists, and visuals artists of all kinds. Definitely something for everyone!

Good luck!

Calls for submissions:

Call for Submissions: Queen West Art Crawl (Toronto, ON)
Parkdale Liberty Economic Development Corporation is currently accepting submissions from artists, artisans and craftspeople who wish to participate in the Trinity Bellwood's Outdoor Art Show & Sale and the Parkdale Crafters Market, as part of the 2009 Queen West Art Crawl.

Call for Submissions: 2010/11 Programming Year @ Modern Fuel (Kingston, ON)
Modern Fuel programming reflects the diversity of contemporary visual and time-based practices in Canada. Proposals are selected according to their exploratory character - exploratory insofar as they pose significant questions (formally, conceptually, and politically) within current artistic and broader socio-cultural contexts.

Call for entry: Art in the Park - Harrison Estate parkland @ Scarborough Arts Council (Scarborough, ON)
Art in the Park is a juried one-day outdoor community arts festival held in the beautiful Harrison Estate parkland surrounding the Scarborough Arts Council. Artists will have the opportunity to connect with the community to sell their work and discuss ideas and practices.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: HYSTERIA: A FESTIVAL OF WOMEN - BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE (Toronto, ON)
The largest multi-disciplinary showcase of its kind in North America. Hysteria is a vital forum for presentation, discussion and exchange unlike any other in the country. Moynan King, Festival Director, is seeking submissions for the 5th incarnation of this international showcase of female talent from the worlds of theatre, dance, film, music and visual and performance art.

CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS - The Deleon White Gallery (Toronto, ON)
Home to an international slate of contemporary works dealing with environmental and ecological issues.

Call for Submissions - The Toronto HIVE Project (Toronto, ON)
Seeking submissions from interested visual/installation/media/performance artists for a multi-arts event taking place in Toronto in November, 2009.

Call for Submissions: Seeking writing on 'advancing toward senility'
Poetry and art zine Variations (ON) is currently looking for poetry and music on the theme "Rapidly advancing towards senility"

Call for Submissions: Vancouver prose and poetry contest
The North Shore Writers' Association (BC) invites entries for their 13th Annual Writing Contest.

Calls for Submissions: Writing for Children Competition
The Writers' Union of Canada invites entries for their Writing for Children Competition

Calls for Submissions: DIY mag seeks poems under 25 words
Homegrown literary publication Sub text underground (ON) seeks works that "hold a poetic panorama of power and voice in under 25 words."

Call for Submissions: Seeking postcard stories about Halifax
The Coast seeks fictional postcard stories inspired by Halifax, its landmarks, people, mood, weather, or style.

Call for Submissions: Be the next Canadian 'literary darling'
Pop Montreal and Matrix Magazine invite fiction and poetry entries for the Matrix Litpop Award.

Calls for Submissions: Online Canadian mag seeks writing
Quarterly journal The Writer's Block is looking for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash fiction, reviews, photography, and artwork for its third edition.


Auditions:

Audition: Actors Needed - Knockabout Theatre Co. (Toronto, ON)
Seeking actors for their production of Dirty Girls at the Toronto Fringe July 1-12, 2009.

Auditon Notice: Actors - THE MIRACLE WORKER (Vancouver, BC)
ROLES: ANNIE SULLIVAN - 20-40 yrs old; KATE (Helen's Mother) - 20-40 yrs old; CAPTAIN KELLER (Helen's Father) - 35-50 yrs old; JAMES (Helen's Brother) - 18-30 yrs old; VINEY (The Keller's Servant) - 20-50 years old; PERCY (Viney's Son) 8-20 years old; AUNT EV - 30-60 yrs old; DOCTOR