Call for Submissions: FRONT Magazine

FRONT Magazine is seeking new submissions for our fall and winter issues.We are looking for artist projects, short text pieces, images and any other interdisciplinay projects that will fit on the printed page. The upcoming themes are Resolutions, due by Oct 1 and Averages due by Nov 10th. You can mail or email your submissions, please send theme related projects as low res jpegs and please keep text pieces to no more than 1000 words max. Visit our website

www.front.bc.ca/frontmagazine for more submission details.

The next themes for FRONT Magazine are:

Resolutions. Make one now to submit by October 1.

Resolutions:

A strangely fuzzy term: Is it a smoothing, or a sharpening? Or the

promisory note to self? Viewed from any angle, it points into the

future, wherever that might be these days: be it resolved then that

it is temporal. Cost is a factor, as always. And while it is insisted

that higher is greater, some things are unsavory when viewed from any

distance. Unsharp that!

Upcoming

Averages. If it's better than ... you better send it in by November 10.

A series of related or unrelated points, sifted into one thing that may or may not describe them as a whole. We're looking for a new set theory or an unset theory. Sometimes you play them it's hard to beat them. Do your worst or your best, just don't be them.

email:

frontmagazine@front.bc.ca

Contemporary Art and Ideas

Call for Submissions: Pivot Launches Housing Solutions Contest

Vancouver - Pivot Legal Society announced today it will award $2,000 for the winning essay in a contest to find the best and most practical solutions to the housing crisis in Vancouver .

The top six papers, judged by a panel of professional developers, government planners, and academics, will be published by Pivot in a Special Report on Housing Solutions for the Downtown Eastside. The report will be presented at a public meeting to discuss solutions to the housing crisis in Vancouver in the Fall of 2007.

Winning 4,000-word research essays focusing on progressive international best practices on issues facing the Downtown Eastside, and policy proposals based on that research, will receive an Award for Policy Innovation.

"Homelessness is one of the most challenging issues facing today's Vancouver ," says SFU Professor, Nick Blomley, one of the panel judges. "These essays will hopefully allow us to think outside the box a little, and offer practical as well as innovative ideas and solutions."

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside provides low-income housing and a network of social services to more than 5,000 of the Vancouver’s poorest residents. However, the neighbourhood is facing rapid erosion of that housing as a result of development and gentrification pressures.

The housing solutions contest is looking specifically for policy proposals that:
- have been implemented and are successful in other jurisdictions;
- involve partnerships between government and developers; and,
- respect the needs of the existing low-income community in the area and do not displace, either directly or indirectly, that community.

The essay contest deadline is Monday April 30, 2007. For more information about the contest, visit http://www.pivotlegal.org/pdfs/PolicyInnovationAward.pdf

For more information call Pivot Legal Society on (604) 255-9700 or e-mail policy@pivotlegal.org.

Music BC Showcase Opportunity - Act Fast!

We're Looking for 4 Acts:

Music BC is organizing another Showcase at New Music West (May 2-6, 2007)and we are looking for the hottest acts in BC to perform. THIS MEANS YOU!!

Only 4 spots available! Open to all genres! Date & Venue To Be Announced!

How to apply:
1)Click Here to access the online form or copy the following link into your browser:
www.musicbc.org/form_showcase.html
2) Email 1 MP3 file to Nathan@Musicbc.org
3) $10 Application Fee

Deadline for submission is Friday March 30th at 5PM (We told you to act fast!)
If you have any questions, please contact us at 604.873.1914 or Nathan@musicbc.org

Now celebrating its' 16th anniversary, New Music West is the largest and most influential new music festival on the west coast. Past event performers have included Matthew Good, The Flaming Lips, Liz Phair, Nickelback, Run DMC, Gene Simmons, Marilyn Manson, Hot Hot Heat, Sam Roberts, My Morning Jacket, Stars and The Lowest of the Low. May 2-6, 2007
www.newmusicwest.com

Call for Short fiction Submissions

Ottawa literary publisher Chaudiere Books is seeking submissions by Canadian writers of short fiction of no more than 1,500 to 2,000 words for an upcoming anthology project. Seeking vibrant, engaging works perhaps more language than narrative, but not exclusively. Please send works no later than August 15, 2007 to Chaudiere Books, c/o 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa Ontario K1R 6R7 (include s.a.s.e. if you expect work returned) or over email to rob_mclennan@hotmail.com

For more information on Chaudiere Books, check out www.chaudierebooks.com or www.chaudierebooks.blogspot.com

Call for Poetry Submissions

New Call for Submissions

Celebrating the International Poetry Day, the Arabesques Review is now accepting submissions for two upcoming special issues:

Vol 03, Issue 02 Contemporary Women Literature

>>> Submissions Deadline: April 30, 2007

Vol 03, Issue 03 Globalization

>>> Submissions Deadline: June 30, 2007

We would be very honored to read and consider your contribution for these upcoming anthologies

To SUBMIT TO THE ARABESQUES REVIEW

Click here
to check out our submission guidelines.

For more details, see our web site at: http://www.arabesquespress.org/

or email us at: submissions@arabesquespress.org

PARADE OF ANIMALS

A global collage

YOU are invited to pARTicipate in the Kootenay Region’s 2nd International Mail Art Exhibit: The Parade of Animals: a global collage. Gail D. Whitter, coordinator.

All visual/verbal forms of Correspondence Mail Art welcome, including letters; concrete/visual poetry; postcards; artist books; artworks; collage; photographs; newsletters; project invitations; rubberstamp art; artist stamps; and artist trading cards.

THEME: Animals – can be four-legged; two-legged; winged; finned or other. Can be extinct – near extinction; mythological; symbolic – take the theme in whichever direction you wish to go.

TECHNIQUE: Open.
SIZE: Maximum A4 (8.5 x 11 inches MAX)

No jury. No entry fee. No returns. No suggestive or pornographic works – children will be pARTicipating. Entries must be mailed in. Artists: Please ensure your name; email address & snail mail address are LEGIBLE. Works received will be posted at: http://paradeofanimals.blogspot.com/
Deadline: August 31st, 2007

ATC Artists: ORIGINAL CARDS ONLY. If you wish to have us trade for you at the close of the exhibit, you must send an SASE or IRC of sufficient return postage. Send entries in a plastic 9-up sheet with your name & contact information on the back of EACH card.

Send to:

The Parade of Animals
Gail D. Whitter, Coordinator
Unit 2 – 1735 Riverside Avenue
Trail, B.C. Canada V1R 3Z3

For more information: gahlil2006@hotmail.com

Check out some of the artworks received for our first exhibit: Shadow and Evil in Fairytales at http://shadowandevilinfairytales.blogspot.com/

PLEASE PASS THIS INVITATION ALONG.