Calls for Submissions

If you are looking for Grant or Funding information, check out our Quebec Relations funding search tool. You can use it to find Quebec funding and grant information (in English)! Click here to search for arts funding for your project

General / Not Discipline Specific

The Townships Young Voices 2026 Arts and Writing Competition is now open to artists age 11-29 who reside in the Eastern Townships. 20 prizes totaling $3000 will be awarded to finalists.
→Deadline January 31. Click here for details

The call for projects for the 27th edition of MUTEK Montréal is now open. Digital artists, electronic musicians, and audiovisual performers are invited to submit their projects for presentation at the festival.
→Deadline January 31. Click here for details

Dance

If you are looking for Dance opportunities, check out the Regroupement Québecois de la danse and consider becoming a member of this organization dedicated to working with Dancers in Quebec.

Film & TV

ASIATE EN COURT is an Asian short film competition for Canadians. Organized by the FESTIVAL ACCÈS ASIE, the competition seeks to increase visibility for films and filmmakers of Asian heritage in Canada and Quebec.
→Deadline February 9. Click here for details

Music & Sound

Submissions are now open to play POP Montreal’s 25th Anniversary Edition on September 23–27, 2026.
→Deadline April 1. Click here for details

Performing Arts

Including Performance Art, Circus, Comedy, Interdisciplinary

Cirque Éloize is launching a brand-new project in East Asia in 2026 and is looking for passionate artists and creators to join this incredible journey.
→Deadline ongoing. Click here for details

Theatre

If you are looking for theatre opportunities, check out Quebec Drama Federation’s What’s on Wednesdays page (also available on their social media) and subscribe to their newsletter to stay on top of the latest news.

The West Island Pride Plays Project invites LGBTQ+ adults in Montreal’s West Island to apply for a six-month, community-rooted theatre initiative led by theatre maker Trevor Barrette. Through weekly two-hour group sessions, one-on-one dramaturgy meetings, and workshops participants will build skills in playwriting, creative expression, and collaboration.
→Deadline January 21. Click here for details

Le Basement of Montreal Improv is looking for Stand-up & Storytelling Performers & Producers.
→Deadline ongoing. Click here for details

Visual Arts & New Media Arts

If you want to stay on top of Calls for Submissions in visual & new media arts, akimbo.ca has a newsletter service you can subscribe to which will keep you posted on upcoming opportunities in Quebec as well as other regions in Canada.

100 Mile Arts Network invites proposals from guest curators to develop and present a group or solo exhibition for a two-month run between April 4th to May 28th, 2026.
→Deadline ongoing. Click here for details

Atelier Circulaire invites artists to submit a production residency project for its 2026-2027 programming. Within its production studios, Atelier Circulaire fosters exchange and the sharing of knowledge within its artistic community.
→Deadline February 1st. Click here for details

artch Festival is now accepting applications for the 2026 edition. Applications are open to emerging visual artists with less than five years of their professional experience. Selected artists will recieve $3000, entrepreneurship training, and and exhibition in downtown Montreal.
→Deadline January 26th. Click here for details

Fonderie Darling invites visual artists living in the greater Montreal area to apply for its next cohort of long-term residencies. The Montreal Studios Residencies offers eight spacious, light-filled studios for a period of three years.
→Deadline February 20. Click here for details

Writing/Literary Arts

If you are looking for Writing opportunities, check out the Quebec Writers’ Federation and sign up for their newsletter to stay on top of the latest news, contests, and workshops. For Playwrighting opportunities, look under Theatre.

The Montreal International Poetry Prize 2026 is now open to submissions. Winner will receive $20 000.
→Deadline May 15. Click here for details

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’kéha, the language of the Mohawk—also known as Mooniyang, which is the Anishinaabeg name given to the city by the Algonquin. While we are based in this city, our projects have also taken place in many regions across Quebec.

We acknowledge the colonial origin of English and French in Canada, and recognize that both languages benefit from official status throughout the land. The province that we know as Quebec is an amalgamation of the traditional territories of the Innu and Inuit nations, Algonquian nations, as well as the Mohawk nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kanien’kéha and Anishinaabemowin are but two of the original languages of this province; Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, all well before French and English.

ELAN acknowledges the important work being done by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages.