Playwrights Canada Press invites submissions of English-language one-act plays to be included in a new anthology for publication in 2014.

Specifically we are seeking new or previously published plays suitable for high schools. If previously published, the submission must include information on how to contact the publisher. If the play is unpublished, please indicate where reading scripts can be obtained. Translations into English will be accepted. Only electronic submissions in the form of a Word document or PDF will be accepted.

PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

• A cover page detailing the playwright’s name, address, city, postal code, phone number, and email address for each submission.
• A short biography of the playwright (max 100 words).
• The title, publication information (if applicable), and a brief synopsis (max 100 words) of the play.
• Plays should have a running time of no more than 1 hour.
• A maximum of 3 submissions per playwright will be accepted.
• The name of the playwright and the title of the play as the subject line.

**All submitted pages should include the playwright’s name, the title, and current page number**

Key Dates 
—Call for Scripts: January 2012 
—Submission deadline: May 3, 2013 
—Selection of scripts: July 2013

ONLY THE PLAYWRIGHTS CHOSEN TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PUBLICATION WILL BE CONTACTED. No phone calls please.

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Please help keep us up to date…

Concrete Theatre would like to invite professional actors in the community to submit new resumes and photos for our files. We know your work, now make sure we can find you!

Thanks, Caroline and Mieko

Please send materials to:

Artistic Co-Directors
Concrete Theatre
6-17, Stanley A. Milner Library Building
7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Edmonton, Alberta
T5J 2V5

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Downstage is now seeking submissions for programming for the 2011-2012 season in Motel, a flexible 50-seat black-box performance venue located in the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts. Emerging and established artists and performing arts companies working in all disciplines who are interested in showcasing their work in Motel are invited to submit proposals for consideration. Unfortunately, as demand for the space generally exceeds the time available, we will not necessarily be able to program all submissions.

Upon the successful scheduling of a proposal, artists/companies will be contacted to arrange more specific details of the tenancy. In partnership with the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts, Downstage is committed to ensuring Motel is highly affordable and accessible for Alberta’s arts community. All work programmed maintains its autonomy, with no co-production arrangement with the EPCOR CENTRE or Downstage.

Interested artists/companies are asked to submit a project proposal at least one page in length describing the work to be presented, the artists involved, the ideal presentation dates (please give more than one option) and why Motel is the venue of choice for the project.

Proposals will be accepted on an ongoing basis until all available dates are filled; however, tentative scheduling of projects will begin on May 10th and we anticipate availability to become limited very quickly. We are primarily seeking proposals for one or two week time slots, though shorter projects will also be considered. A weekly booking in Motel runs Sunday to Saturday, unless otherwise noted.

At the time of this posting, available periods are as follows, please select your preferred dates within these date ranges:
Feb 6 (Monday) – Mar 31, 2012 (8 weeks)
Apr 29 – May 19, 2012 (3 weeks)
June 3 – June 9, 2012 (1 week)
June 24 – July 28, 2012 (5 weeks)

Downstage also operates birds and stone, an affordable venue for rehearsals and performance – visit www.downstage.ca/birds.html for more information.

For more information on EPCOR CENTRE’s Motel and to see a ground plan of the space, visit www.downstage.ca/motel.html.

Please send any questions and submit proposals by e-mail to Downstage Artistic Producer Simon Mallett at simon@downstage.ca. Thank you for your interest.

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Canadian Stage accepts unsolicited scripts and previously produced projects for consideration for production.

Founded in 1987 with the merger of CentreStage and Toronto Free Theatre, Canadian Stage is one of Canada’s leading not-for-profit contemporary theatre companies. Led by Artistic & General Director Matthew Jocelyn, Canadian Stage produces and showcases innovative theatre work from Canada and around the world, allowing its audience to encounter daring work guided by a strong directorial vision and a 21st-century aesthetic.

The company prides itself on presenting trans-disciplinary work and work in translation that pushes the boundaries of form and style. The company reinforces the presence of Canadian art and artists within an international context through work that mirrors the cultural diversity of Toronto. Canadian Stage has a long-standing commitment to education and enhancement programs for the public and investing in the art form by nurturing and developing theatre professionals while producing thought-provoking theatre and quality entertainment in Toronto, one of North America’s largest theatre centres. For more information, refer to www.canadianstage.com.

Submissions of both scripts and trans-disciplinary projects will be accepted in hard copy format only (no electronic submissions). DVDs and support materials are welcome. Submissions are reviewed by a reading committee made up of staff, artists and community members, and each project will receive a response within six months. Please note we do not provide a critique of your script or dramaturgical feedback.

Guidelines:

• Please provide two (2) copies of all materials including script or production project details including an outline of the play’s developmental history, artists involved and any other support materials.
• When possible, our committee members read each script blindly before looking at supplementary materials; please do not include your name on each page of your script.
• Please include a large self-addressed stamped envelope if you wish to have your materials returned.
• Our committee will review a script or project once.
• We will only review one script or project per writer per season.

Please send submissions to:

Unsolicited Script and Project Submissions
Attn: Natasha Mytnowych
Associate Director of Programming
Canadian Stage
26 Berkeley Street
Toronto, ON M5A 2W3

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The Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) is currently accepting applications to fill three vacancies on the Board of Directors. This recruitment will focus on a Calgary representative, a southeastern Alberta representative and a youth representative (age 20 to 30).

The AFA is responsible for policy and funding decisions concerning the annual disbursement of lottery funds to eligible Alberta artists and arts organizations. The AFA Board reviews and approves all arts grants, awards and the acquisition of original works of art for the AFA art collection.

Applicants should have knowledge and expertise in board governance and process. Applicants should also have a background of involvement in the arts as a volunteer, an artist, an arts administrator or in some other professional field of endeavour in Alberta’s arts sector. Excellent communication skills are required and experience in policy and program development, financial management and committee leadership would be beneficial

Appointment of each member of the AFA Board is typically for a fixed term of up to three years, with the potential for reappointment based on satisfactory performance. Individuals who are Alberta residents may apply for appointment to the Board or may be nominated by another individual, group or organization. Applicants are expected to provide complete resumes including the names of three references.

Online applications are preferred. Go to www.jobs.alberta.ca/jobs-dynamic.html and visit job#1004240 for the appropriate job link. If you apply online, please ensure your cover letter and resume are submitted as one file.

If you are unable to apply online, please submit your cover letter and resume, quoting the Job ID, to: Alexandra Pfeiffer, Alberta Culture and Community Spirit, 9th Floor Standard Life Centre, 10405 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 4R7. Phone: (780) 644-8850; Fax: (780) 422-2891.

Applicants who apply online will be able to track the status of this competition. An information sheet is also available by calling the above-noted number.

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At Stageplays.com we’ve always been passionate about helping and connecting the community we serve.

But getting started in this business has never been easy – too many publishers won’t even consider work unless it’s had a professional production or sent it’s been in by an Agent. We think this is wrong – there are too many good plays that are never given a chance.
So we’ve decided to do something about it …

We’re now offering you the opportunity to include your play in the world’s largest play database, listing it next to the likes of Neil Simon and Sam Shepard and selling it as an ePlay Download.

The deal is pretty simple – we’re charging a $35 admin fee to cover the cost of entering your play into our database. But when you sell 5 copies – we’ll refund the fee. Future sales will then be split 50/50 between us.

And every week, we’ll be featuring one of the new ePlays in our ezine – so a synopsis of your play could land in the inbox of 35,000 theatre fans across the world.

For too long, too few playwrights have had a platform to promote their art. We’re trying to change that. So give your play a chance – enter it into the world’s largest play database.

Learn more and get started now:
http://action.stageplays.com/Publish-My-Play

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MacEwan’s Arts and Cultural Management is now a 60-credit diploma program!

Study the essentials of arts management in the classroom or online, full time or part time.

Arts and Cultural Management
Every arts or cultural organization needs a trained and creative administrator.
In the Arts and Cultural Management program we will help you develop the skills you need to succeed.

Effective September, 2011:
Choose from a 60-credit diploma or a 36-credit certificate:

Required Diploma core courses: (36 credits)
* Required for the completion of the 36-credit certificate exit

· Foundations of Arts and Cultural Management *
· Introduction to Audience and Resource Development *
· Accounting for Arts and Cultural Management *
· Computer Applications for Arts and Culture *
· Applied Audience and Resource Development *
· Managing and Leading in Arts and Culture *
· Human Resource Management in Arts and
Cultural Management *
· Project Management in Arts and Culture
· Integrated Project in Arts and Culture
· Advanced Resource and Audience Development
· Field Placement *
· Field Placement Integration Seminar *

Your choice of four option courses for diploma studies or two options for certificate exit:
(12 credits)
· Publicity and Media Relations
· Advocacy in the Cultural Sector
· Performing Arts Management
· Museum/Gallery Management
· Managing in the Music Industry
· Independent Study

Electives for diploma students only: (6 credits)
· Your choice of a variety of electives.

English: (6 credits for diploma studies or 3 for certificate exit)
· ENGL 102 and 103 OR
· ENGL 111 * and 211
* Required for the completion of the 36-credit certificate exit.

Technology Integration for Creative Learning (TICL)
All students studying in the classroom must have a laptop computer on which they can complete their assignments. Hardware and software requirements will be made available to admitted students.

For admission requirements, fees or to apply to the program call 780-497-4408, email artsmanagement@macewan.ca, visit www.MacEwan.ca/artsmanagement or attend one of our information sessions.

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Introducing a New City of Edmonton Great Neighbourhoods Event Calendar

You can now advertise your neighbourhood event in the City of Edmonton’s new online calendar.

Go to Submit an Event on Edmonton.ca and send in your information. Please provide the submission at least 10 business days in advance of the event. This allows time to post the event on the calendar and gives your neighbours enough lead time so that they can make plans to attend.

The calendar is part of the City’s Great Neighbourhoods initiative to improve the livability of Edmonton’s neighbourhoods and the lives of the people who live, work and visit them.

How? By giving Edmontonians a convenient, easy to use, on line look at the events happening in the neighbourhoods where they live so that neighbours can better :
Connect with neighbourhood events
Connect with each other
Create a sense of belonging

Why? People are the answer to many issues neighbourhoods face.
Increasing connections amongst neighbours helps build a sense of community ownership. When neighbourhood residents connect they get to know each other better. This is key to creating the clean, safe, attractive and welcoming neighbourhoods we want to live in.

What?
Here’s what’s eligible:

Events at neighbourhood senior centres
Events at faith organizations
Multi cultural events and celebrations in the neighbourhood
Non-profit organization events
Community meetings and events
Neighbourhood block parties and BBQs, etc
‘Rebuild and Renew Events in Your Neighbourhood’
Neighbourhood clean-up events
Neighbourhood Garage/Yard Sales (multiple families/organizations)
Other neighbourhood-building events

Here’s what’s not eligible for the neighbourhood calendar:
Individual garage/yard sales
House/backyard parties (including home business parties/demonstrations)

Go to Submit an Event on Edmonton.ca and send in your information.

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Edmonton Seniors Coordinating Council is developing an information resource on quality community arts programs for seniors. A component of this is a directory of teaching artists. Below is more information about ESCC, the directory, and the toolkit. To learn more about ESCC please visit our website www.seniorscouncil.net

Edmonton Seniors Coordinating Council seeks to assist senior serving organizations to work collaboratively to provide effective and accessible programs to older adults. In an initiative to provide quality community arts programs for older adults that benefit overall health and celebrate their creative potential, an arts and aging toolkit is being developed. A component of this toolkit is a directory of teaching artists.

For the purposes of the toolkit, we’ve adapted the following definition of a teaching artist, a professional artist with the skills and sensibilities of an educator who engages in learning experiences in, through, or about the arts. A professional artist is defined as someone who makes a living in the
field; or the level of their work is seen to be of a provincial/national level (by colleagues), or are of some profile. Emerging artists working in conjunction with professional artists may also be recognized as
professional. If you would like to be included in this database, to learn more, or to provide additional feedback, please contact Sacha Deelstra.

Sacha Deelstra
Program Assistant
Edmonton Seniors Coordinating Council
Phone: 780-423-5635 Email: sacha@seniorscouncil.net

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The Alberta Jubilee Auditoria Society is calling Alberta artists to help contribute to the Community Engagement’s art initiatives across the province.

We are creating a database of artists from various towns and cities across Alberta. Our Community Engagement programs are looking for artists to help facilitate art programs with children, teenagers and adults.

The information you provide will not be sold and will only be given out with artists’ permission. Being on our database will allow you to have early notice of opportunities and events with the Community Engagement at the Jubilee, including call for submissions and workshops.

The Community Engagement programs are looking for a wide variety of artists. We seek artists with experience in but are not limited to: theatre, music, performance, visual art, and dance.

We encourage artists who have worked with the Community Engagement programs at the Jubilee to submit information, because the database is new and we would like to know if previous artists are interested or are not interested in being part of our database.

Please submit:
– Resume (including two references)
– A brief description of artistic work and practice
– Documents relevant to showcase the artist’s work such as photos, CD’s or video
– Not necessary but desired, information about previous teaching experience and a teaching statement

There is no deadline to submit for the database, it is an ongoing search. We will contact artists on an as-needed basis.

Gina Martino
Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
1415-14 Ave NW
Calgary AB T2N 1M4
(403) 297-2841
Gina.Martino@gov.ab.ca

Tarryn Koll
Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
11455-87 Ave
Edmonton AB T6G 2T2
(780) 638-3502
Tarryn.Koll@gov.ab.ca

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Want to promote your event to Albertans and people around the world?

Alberta’s Culture Calendar is a new website promoting the province’s arts, heritage, volunteer and other activities. Our searchable database lists cultural events by location, date and type of activity. The best part is that it’s easy and free of charge!

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http://www.pitchengine.com/free-release.php?id=25907
Also, if applicable, please take a moment to compare your current biography to the one listed on the NeWest Press website. If there are any changes to be made, please email me at the address listed below.

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Will the recession kill the “creative economy movement” or provide the right releasing touch? Has your community seen the arts culture and heritage sector fall off of the political agenda or move to the forefront? Economic recovery will need the resourcefulness of new creativity, but never have statistics been less insightful about what is happening on the ground.

The Cultural Human Resources Council has commissioned the Conference Board of Canada to review the current situation of cultural labour in Canada over the next year, and Roger Martin and Richard Florida have released a major study in Ontario calling for a human resource strategy in stimulative spending.

To track these and other policy developments, the CPCC has been developing a program of research working critically within the creative economy paradigm over the past year, studying the changing nature of cultural work in communities across Canada. Effective June 15, the CPCC is one of 10 consortia asked to propose a Major Collaborative Research Initiative to the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. The final date for the submission is the end of the summer. We would welcome your insight.

In recessionary times, governments need insights and practical tools to contribute to individuals’ well-being, cultural expression and sustainable communities.

Details will be posted on www.cultureandcommunities.ca

How can you help? Let us know what you see is the positive or negative effect of the recession on your community’s arts cultural and heritage workers. Nominate slow growth or high growth communities for the study. Comment on types of research you support or oppose. Bring excellent sources/ideas/people to our attention.

Please reply to: cmnscpcc@sfu.ca

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Edmontonstories.ca is a new website, launched by the City of Edmonton last week.

Edmontonstories.ca is where Edmontonians and visitors can tell their stories to the world. A typical story describes a particular moment or event when it all came together for you – you realized something special, unique or valuable about Edmonton. It’s a story that illustrates what being in Edmonton has helped you achieve or has added to your life. Your story might describe what you appreciate about our city and what you want others to know about how we live and what we do. It’s more than identifying what you like about Edmonton. Sharing your personal experience and insights through a story will illustrate what our city has to offer the world.

There are a few stories on the site now from people you probably know and there’s room for waaaaaaay more. And hey, if anyone has good stories, it’s gonna be the artists, right? Right.

>> Visit edmontonstories.ca…

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The Banff Centre is committed to the commissioning, development, and production of new works in all major performance disciplines. Through the Performing Arts Residencies program, professional artists can utilize the unique resources of the Theatre Arts Department in developing and refining new work. On an ongoing basis, we invite project proposals from artists, artistic collectives, and companies to develop new works of dance, opera, spoken theatre, and lyric theatre in our studios, facilities, and production shops.

Application information

See a sample of photos from past residency projects

For more information and to apply:
The Banff Centre, Office of the Registrar
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Box 1020
Banff, Alberta T1L 1H5, CANADA
1-800-565-9989 or 1-403-762-6180
arts_info@banffcentre.ca
www.banffcentre.ca

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Submission Requests

Calgary Culture Events
Now you can submit your event listings online. The new online submission form makes promoting your events quick and convenient. Click here to access the form.

Events@CalgaryCulture.com Website: www.calgaryartsdevelopment.com

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Alright all you professional and aspiring film actors. FAVA is looking to update its actor database and we need you to help us out. If you would like to be a part of our actor files simply email or snail mail us your headshot and resume.

If you aren’t familiar with the entity that is FAVA here’s a bit of info. FAVA- Film and Video Arts Society- is a cooperative of independent media artists. With approximately 250 members, FAVA serves artists with a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience ranging from veteran artists to those with an emerging passion for video and film. FAVA offers a variety of workshops for artistic and skill development, a resource of equipment, regular information, hosts events and screenings and fosters a sense of community.

As an actor, sending in your information opens up the possibility to work on honing your skills in front of the camera, collect material for your actor reel and get to know other artists in various areas of the industry.

Any questions? You are always welcome to contact us at the office 780-429-1671.

Email or snail mail your materials to the address below:
membership@fava.ca
FAVA Membership Services Coordinator
9722 102 St
Edmonton, AB
T5K 0X4

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Interested in having Magnetic North Theatre Festival come to your region?

Magnetic North is focused on celebrating the maturity and diversity of Canadian theatre. We work closely with the host community in order to promote the profile of local professional theatre in that community, and to offer professional development for that community. The festival also offers through its Magnetic Encounters a range of educational and outreach opportunities for youth as well as local audience development.

Magnetic North Theatre Festival takes place in June/July each year, alternating between Ottawa and a different host community. Normally, the Festival is 11 days long, with a period of approximately five days during which out-of-town visitors have an opportunity to see every show during this time frame.

Timeframe for bids: 27 months before the festival, for instance bids for the 2014 festival should be received by March 2012.

The criteria for placing a bid to host Magnetic North in your region can be found on our website at www.magneticnorthfestival.ca

Timeframe for bids: 27 months before the festival (for instance bids for the 2014 festival should be received by March 2012)

www.magneticnorthfestival.ca