As the Fringe Festival draws a close, I’m on the hunt for new projects and fun artsy activities to get excited about that aren’t part of my regular life. So far, so good — I scored big time discovering the 24-Hour Zine Thing!
In short, the 24-Hour Zine Thing is a loosely-defined “event” where by the […]
An online songwriting contest that focuses on giving individualized feedback, and comes with prize packs aimed to equip the winners with software, contacts, cash and such for a successful career making music a la indie…
The Indie International Songwriting Contest is a semiannual song competition to give recognition to some of the best emerging songwriters […]
A writing contest with a really sweet prize! This from POP Montreal -
Pop Montreal and Matrix Magazine have teamed up to establish an innovative and exciting new literary competition. We are looking for the most unique and original voices in literary voices in Canada. So if you’re an emerging poet or short story writer […]
Looking for some new music? Pop Montreal has a game up on their website right now called Pop Thumbs that lets you listen to a bunch of songs by different indie bands. You can click “Pop” or “Poop” for each song depending on what you think of it. Listen to all of them, or just […]
If you speak Italian it will be easier for you to do you background reading on this festival then me, but it looks kosher with an interesting set of challenges for artists, and a sliding scale entry price for artists in developing countries:
Here are the different parts of the contest with the associated prizes for […]
VAD call for entries 2008! Check out the winners of last year’s Video and Digital Arts Festival in Girona Spain.
We are pleased to inform you that you can send your videos, digital works, video installations, etc. to VAD, Video and Digital Arts International Festival Competition of Girona (Spain), that will take place from October 15th […]
Montréalité has been at it since 2004, creating t-shirts that showcase some Montreal iconography and this time around, they have created an exciting contest with a pretty simple formula. Whip out your camera and take a picture that you think really represents this little city called Montreal. Send over your picture to jenx.tshirts@gmail.com and […]
New news on the Indyish live show for February - I spoke with the cool eco-designer artist mavens from Moly Kulte today and we joyfully decided that they would take on transforming some of our CVP kits - odd fabric and remainder garments from the consistent variable design project to create re-recycled art for the […]
We love contests out here at Indyish and here’s a good one. While the scheming for the next Monthly Mess is getting finalized, we’ve started recruiting some more performers for the December one. Here’s the part where you take your agendas out and write this down:
-November Monthly Mess, November 24th at the Maxwell Haus
-December […]
It seems that Green may very well be the new Black..
Hot off the presses (a.k.a the Jumpcut Newsletter) -
Submit videos, Win prizes, Help save the planet. Makes sense to me.
Here are the two quotes from the jumpcut website:
SFIFF50 - GreenWorld Contest:
In two minutes, show someone what you see, feel and imagine about the future of […]