Call for Entries: Imagine Peace

A call for art and writing for a "visual encyclopedia" about peace, specifically in relation to Gaza from Institute Design2context in Switzerland...

At the Institute Design2context, of the Zurich University for the Arts, we are working on an international and socio-politically highly ambitious educational and creative research project titled "Imagine Peace! A visual and critical encyclopedia". It is at the heart of the project to collect world wide representations and imagery of the peace and to gain the collaboration of well known designers, theorists, writers and critics around the world to discuss and exchange critical visions and visualizations of it, without catering to any specific religious belief/history or sectarian creed.

The publication will be a collection of historical, contemporary, posters, drawings, symbols, signs etc. with representations of peace based on the thesis that today’Äôs discordances and hostilities express the absence of proper imaginations of peace.

We are calling for images about Peace, in the context of the recent Gaza Assault. We would like to know whether you could post our call for it.

Imaging Peace! is aimed as an exchange project, a source and networking knot for everyone active for the cause and creation of peace, be it in a political or personal context.

We'd be happy to answer any concerns you might have. Hereby you will find embedded the link to our database (in progress) for more information about the project. http://peace.zhdk.ch/

(deadline May 2009)

Call for Entries: DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards

If you've made some great video in 2008, there's a contest for you...

Video submissions are now being accepted for the 3rd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards, co-sponsored by NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network and See3 Communications. Nonprofit organizations and foundations are encouraged to submit their videos at www.dogooder.tv/contest2009!

This year's theme, "Everyone's Doing It", is meant to include submissions of all shapes and sizes, from organizational vlogs, to staff-produced web clips, to high-end, professionally produced videos.

According to Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3 Communications, "2008 was a great year for video, and we continue to see incredible growth each year in the number of nonprofits using video. With camera and equipment costs down, organizations have nothing holding them back from using video as a communications tool. We've seen some really innovative, powerful videos this year, and we hope the DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards will highlight that."

Last year, more than 160 entries were received from over 100 nonprofit organizations. The top winning videos were from the Humane Society of the United States, Greenpeace International, and the Center for Constitution Rights. The winning videos receive thousands of views and publicity online and offline.

Video submissions will be accepted until March 26, when a panel of judges will select the finalists in each category. The public voting period will open on April 7 and end on April 26. The winners will be announced at NTEN's annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in San Francisco, which takes place April 26-28, 2009. Winners will be featured on The Nonprofit Times website.

Details HERE

Call for Entries: Repressed IV: May Day

My friends at Gallery 5 are once again looking for artists for their annual socially conscious art exhibition...

Repressed IV: May Day
Exhibition: May 1st, 2009
Submission Deadline: March 6th, 2009

A Socially Conscious Exhibition
This year’Äôs theme: Workers Rights

This coming Repressed IV is more specific in content so we are releasing our call for entries a little sooner to give everyone a little extra time to make some new work!


SHOW DESCRIPTION:
May 1st, International Worker's Day, celebrates an ongoing, worldwide workers' struggle. Originally, the international holiday was in remembrance of the 1880's fight for an eight hour work day during a time when workers were forced to work inhumanly long hours. Nationally, we fail to recognize this holiday, which marks the famous strikes for the right to a reasonable work day by an estimated 500,000 workers. The nationally spread strikes originated in Chicago.

The resilient Chicago workers' rights leaders: Parsons, Spies, Fischer, and Engel, were executed by the United States Government in response to a bomb being thrown at a rally on May 3rd. The rally was in retaliation to acts of police brutality, leading to the deaths of six workers and several wounded during the Chicago May 1st strikes. Their lives are celebrated through International Worker's Day.

This struggle is still relevant today with issues such as: migrant workers' rights, women's equal pay for equal work, sweatshop labor, economic hit men, economic imperialism and outsourcing. People travel to places far from home and their comfort zone to show solidarity with an international struggle for the right to be treated humanly in a collapsing system. We invite all artists who are involved in this struggle to exhibit your work in our upcoming exhibition, Repressed IV: May Day.

All of the galleries in Richmond's Downtown Arts District present special exhibits on the first Friday of every month. Next May's First Fridays Art Walk happens to be on May Day. So in light of this fortuitous coincidence our May exhibition will be a celebration of workers' rights through art, education and action!

The packet with entry requirements and show description is available by
http://www.thereoncewasarebellion.org/uploads/repressedivcallpacket.pdf

Images from past shows may be found in the actions section of
http://thereoncewasarebellion.org/index.php?page=actions

Call for Entries: Good 50X70 2009

The international socially conscious design poster competition Good 50x70 has sent out their 2009 call for entries:

The voice of hope in 2009 comes from America. While we all wait to see whether Barack Obama can turn his fine rhetoric into actions, Good 50x70 aims to follow his example by addressing seven critical issues threatening the earth and all its inhabitants and inviting the global creative community to produce posters on the briefs from our seven charities.

As of today, the 1st of February, our briefs on Child Labour, Climate Change, Healthcare Deprivation, HIV/AIDS, Nuclear Emergency, War on Terror and Women's Rights Deprivation are now online.

We're honoured to be working again with Amref, Amnesty, Emergency, Greenpeace, Lila, Unicef and WWF, whose briefs you can see here. Exactly as before, all you have to do is choose one (or more) brief that inspire you, create a poster, upload it and it'll be entered into the Good 50x70 database. All the posters will be provided to our endorsing charities for their potential use, and the the best 30 responses to each brief, as selected by our jury, will be exhibited around the world and published in a catalogue.

This year we welcome Ruth Klotzel, Santiago Pol and Svetlana Fadina to our jury.
We'd like to thank them, all our jury members and endorsing charities for the time and effort they give to Good 50x70. It wouldn't happen without you. Here's to a successful Good 50x70. We might not change any of the critical issues we're tackling in this year's edition, but together we can start.


Good 50x70 2009 Schedule
1st February 2009 - Call for Entries published. Briefs available to download here.
1st March 2009 - Good 50x70 database open for uploading entries via our website.
1st April 2009 - Midnight (CET) - Good 50x70 2009 closes for entries.


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Guantanamo's dark cloud as manifest by artist Julia Mandle via

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Call for submissions: Essays from Jewish and Arab-Americans on peace in the Middle East. Thanks Mim!