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Grant Deadlines – July 2018

Looking for grant writing help? Check out ELAN’S grant writing resources and notes from our CALQ information session!

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)

Funding for individuals:

SODEC (Info in FR only)

SODEC provides funding primarly to organizations. Please check your discipline for specific deadlines.

Canada Council for the Arts

Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples components

Supporting Artistic Practice components

Arts Across Canada components

Arts Abroad components

Frankfurt 2020 (purchasing translation rights and publishing in Germany)

Conseil des arts de Montréal

General Funding Programs

Cultural Exchanges and Special Projects (for organizations receiving operating grants only)

Fiscal Sponsorship

Mécènes Investis Pour Les Arts (Patrons Invested in the Arts)

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Workshops – July 2018

Artisan / Crafts

  • École d’ébénisterie d’art de Montréal is offering a Woodworking Workshop: Introduction to cabinetmaking power-tools. This course will be taking place on SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 from 6 PM – 10 PM and SEPTEMBER 29, 2018 from 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM. Deadline to register: SEPTEMBER 20, 2018. Click here for details.
  • École d’ébénisterie d’art de Montréal is offering a Woodworking Workshop:  Introduction to traditional cabinet making. This course will be taking place on NOVEMBER 15, 22, and 29, 2018 from 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM. Deadline to register: NOVEMBER 8, 2018. Click here for details.

Film / Media

  • Surplace Media presents: Guerrilla Filmmaking 101 with Paul Shore from JULY 9 – AUGUST 20, 2018. Click here for details.

Multidisciplinary / General

  • YES Montreal is offering a free workshop on how to make a living with your art: Jump Start Your Art & Financing Options on JULY 9, 2018. Click here for details.
  • YES Montreal is offering a free workshop with the Legal Information Clinic at McGill: Learn@Lunch: Consumer Protection Act on JULY 10, 2018. Click here for details.
  • YES Montreal is offering Business Skills for Creative Youth, a free program to help young artists of all disciplines develop their artistic careers. Summer session begins JULY 13, 2018. Deadline to apply is JULY 8, 2018. Click here for details.

Music

  • Orford Music is offering a series of free courses, lectures, and master classes in English throughout the month of JULY, 2018. Click here for details.

Visual Arts

  • Atelier de Brésoles is offering drawing and painting classes for all levels in a stimulating small-group environment. Learn new skills to improve your drawing and painting process. Two locations: Old Montreal and Hudson, Quebec. Click here for details.

Writing / Literature

  • Surplace Media is offering a poetry workshop: Tentacular Thinking & Writing with Sarah Burgoyne on JULY 8, 2018. Click here for details.
  • Surplace Media is offering a poetry workshop: Fail Better: Reading Group & Poetry Workshop with Domenica Martinello on JULY 12, 2018. Click here for details.
  • Surplace Media is offering a writing workshop: Promiscuous Forms: Reading and Writing Across Genres with Kasia van Schaik on JULY 22, 2018. Click here for details.
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Calls for Submissions – July 2018

Artisan / Crafts

  • ELAN Member Marilynn Vanderstaay is seeking jewellery artisans who work with silver to create unique pins / brooches for an exciting new cottage industry community project to be launched in SEPTEMBER. Contact Marilynn Vanderstaay (marilynn@regardsmarilynn.com). Click here for details.

Film & Media

  • The National Film Board of Canada’s Quebec / Atlantic Studio is seeking proposal submissions from emerging and established filmmakers. Deadline is AUGUST 8, 2018. Click here for details.

Multidisciplinary / General

  • YES Montreal is hosting What the Pop! A pop-up boutique featuring performing arts, music, writing, visual arts, ceramics, jewelry, clothing, and multimedia! Want to participate? Deadline to submit is JULY 22, 2018. Click here for details.

Music

  • Founded by ELAN member Aaron Saloman, aaronmusic productions is a new music publishing company focusing on sync licensing. Aaron is seeking submissions from all artists in all styles, who have existing music (new or old) and lack time or insight in sync placements. Submissions should be professionally recorded. Send them to MusicForTV@gmail.com.

Visual Arts

  • Journeys Through Health is an annual community-based visual arts exhibition offering a space of reflection for all who are touched by illness. The exhibition will be displayed at the Montreal General Hospital. Artists are invited to submit their artworks exploring the transformative potential of illness and healing. Deadline is SEPTEMBER 10, 2018. Click here for details.
  • Diagonale is accepting open submissions from artists and curators. Deadline is OCTOBER 15, 2018. Click here for details.

Writing / Literature

  • Vallum Magazine is seeking submissions for The Vallum Award for Poetry 2018. Submit to win $750.00 and a publication in an upcoming issue of Vallum. Second prize is $250.00 and publication in Vallum. Click here for details.
  • War. Colonization / Decolonization. Displacement. Safety. Welcome. Home. ELAN Member Jan Jorgensen is seeking poetry and flash fiction for a chapbook anthology to be sold as part of a fund-raising effort to benefit a Syrian family sponsored by Christ Church Cathedral. Contributors based in Montreal are invited to read their accepted submission. Payment: contributor’s copy. Authors retain their respective copyrights. For more information or to submit your poem or flash fiction, send a PDF attachment and a word or .odt document to Jan at lawnchairsoiree@gmail.com. Deadline is AUGUST 1, 2018. Click here for details.
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Job Opportunities – July 2018

Circus Arts

Film/Media

  • Wapikoni Mobile is hiring a Youth Outreach Worker and Filmmaker Mentors for a four-week contract between MAY – OCTOBER 2019. Click here for details. 
  • Wapikoni Mobile is hiring a Financing & Partnerships Manager. Deadline is JULY 30, 2018. Click here for details.

Multidisciplinary / General

  • Folie / Culture is hiring an Administrative Assistant. Deadline is AUGUST 3, 2018. Click here for details. Please note that this posting is only available in French.
  • Centre Phi is hiring a Digital Content Coordinator. Deadline is JULY 7, 2018. Click here for details. Please note that this posting is only available in French.
  • CJLO 1690AM is hiring a Station Manager. Deadline is JULY 19, 2018. Click here for details.

Theatre

  • Silk Road Institute is casting for its independent production of The Domestic Crusaders, by Wajahat Ali, directed by Deborah Forde. Auditions will be held JULY 12, 2018 from 1PM – 5PM at the Black Theatre Workshop. Deadline to apply is JULY 9, 2018. Click here for details.
  • Centaur Theare is hiring an Administrative Assistant. Deadline is AUGUST 8, 2018. Click here for details.

Visual Arts

  • FOFA Gallery is hiring a Curatorial Intern. This is a full-time, temporary position. $16.00 / hour. Deadline is JULY 22, 2018. Click here for details.
  • Articule is hiring a Communications and Events Assistant. Deadline is AUGUST 6, 2018. Click here for details.
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Grant Deadlines – June 2018

Looking for grant writing help? Check out ELAN’S grant writing resources and notes from our CALQ information session!

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)

Funding for individuals:

SODEC (Info in FR only)

SODEC provides funding primarly to organizations. Please check your discipline for specific deadlines.

Canada Council for the Arts

Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples components

Supporting Artistic Practice components

Arts Across Canada components

Arts Abroad components

Frankfurt 2020 (purchasing translation rights and publishing in Germany)

Conseil des arts de Montréal

General Funding Programs

Cultural Exchanges and Special Projects (for organizations receiving operating grants only)

Fiscal Sponsorship

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Job Opportunities – June 2018

Circus Arts

Film/Media

  • Wapikoni Mobile is hiring a Youth Outreach Worker and Filmmaker Mentors for a four-week contract between MAY – OCTOBER 2019. Click here for details. 

Multidisciplinary / General

  • ELAN is hiring a Project Manager for State of the Arts III. Join our team! Position will begin sometime in JUNE, 2018. Click here for details.
  • OBORO is hiring an Administrative Assistant. Deadline is JUNE 10, 2018. Please note that details for this job offer are only available in French. Click here for details.
  • Canada Council for the Arts is hiring a Web Strategy and UX Specialist. Deadline is JUNE 14, 2018. Click here for details.

Theatre

  • Infinithéâtre is accepting applications for the position of Box Office &
    Sales Manager for their 2018 – 2019 season. Apply as soon as possible. Click here for details.
  • Infinithéâtre is accepting applications for the position of Youth & Community Groups Outreach Coordinator for their 2018 – 2019 season. Apply as soon as possible. Click here for details.
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Calls for Submissions – June 2018

Artisan / Crafts

  • ELAN Member Marilynn Vanderstaay is seeking jewellery artisans who work with silver to create unique pins / brooches for an exciting new cottage industry community project to be launched in SEPTEMBER. Contact Marilynn Vanderstaay (marilynn@regardsmarilynn.com). Click here for details.

Film / Media

  • fliQs queer film night is seeking submissions of short videos, films, animations, and experimental shorts. Deadline is JUNE 13, 2018. Click here for details.

Multidisciplinary / General

  • North Media Arts Centre (NAISA) seeks submissions for Off the Beat(en) Track. Artists of all ages and nationalities are encouraged to submit works on the theme Off the Beat(en) Track. Deadline is JUNE 4, 2018. Click here for details.
  • Studio 303 are seeking submissions for their third Curator-in-Residence program 2018/2019. The residency aims to provide a framework for developing ideas through research, discussion, and practice. Studio 303 will help the resident curator with many aspects of programming, including: artistic direction, budget, fee policy, communications, funders, venues, etc. Emerging curators have the opportunity to imagine and program a live performance event to be held at Studio 303 on APRIL 13 or 14, 2019.  Deadline is JUNE 20, 2018. Click here for details.

Music

  • Founded by ELAN member Aaron Saloman, aaronmusic productions is a new music publishing company focusing on sync licensing. Aaron is seeking submissions from all artists in all styles, who have existing music (new or old) and lack time or insight in sync placements. Submissions should be professionally recorded. Send them to MusicForTV@gmail.com.

Visual Arts

  • Diagonale is accepting open submissions from artists and curators. Deadline is OCTOBER 15, 2018. Click here for details.

Writing / Literature

  • The Quebec Writers’ Federation is accepting submissions for their QWF Literary Prize for Young Writers. This prize will be awarded to an emerging writer residing in Québec and is between the ages of 16 – 24. Short stories, poetry, and non-fiction are all accepted! Deadline is JUNE 15, 2018. Click here for details.
  • Vallum Magazine is seeking submissions for The Vallum Award for Poetry 2018. Submit to win $750.00 and a publication in an upcoming issue of Vallum. Second prize is $250.00 and publication in Vallum. Click here for details.
  • This summer 9 Montréalers from 9 different cultural communities will participate in the creation of Montréal’s first Poesie dans la cité event. Local poets, Fortner Anderson and Geneviève Létarte, are looking for 9 participants of all ages and backgrounds (who are not artists) to spend an afternoon this summer observing the events that occur around them in one of nine iconic locations in Montréal. In OCTOBER, 2018, the 9 participants will present a public reading of their lists, in a choir directed by Kathy Kennedy. ELAN is happy to partner with Poesie dans la cité in this unique cultural event celebrating English culture in Montréal. Click here for details.
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Workshops – June 2018

Artisan / Crafts

  • École d’ébénisterie d’art de Montréal is offering a Woodworking Workshop: Introduction to cabinetmaking power-tools. This course will be taking place on SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 from 6 PM – 10 PM and SEPTEMBER 29, 2018 from 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM. Deadline to register: SEPTEMBER 20, 2018. Click here for details.
  • École d’ébénisterie d’art de Montréal is offering a Woodworking Workshop:  Introduction to traditional cabinet making. This course will be taking place on NOVEMBER 15, 22, and 29, 2018 from 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM. Deadline to register: NOVEMBER 8, 2018. Click here for details.

Music

  • Orford Music is offering a series of free courses, lectures, and master classes in English through JUNE and JULY, 2018. Click here for details.

Theatre

  • Imago Theatre‘s annual workshop series Atelier will take place over two weekends in JUNE (JUNE 2-3 and JUNE 9-10, 2018). Click here to learn more.
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