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Introducing Fairy Tales: The World’s First Architecture Storytelling Competition

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International Call to Creatives, International Architecture Competition: Fairy Tales

Submission Deadline: January 17, 2014 until midnight

Have you ever dreamed of an architecture competition that would inspire you to create something whimsical, magic and fun? A competition that would excite your fantasy to produce something that can be appreciated not just by your fellow architects and designers, but by all audiences? We did.

Here is what we came up with: Introducing Fairy Tales: The World’s First Architecture Storytelling Competition

Once upon a time, Architecture was at the forefront of social innovation, addressing issues that the entire society felt were worth finding creative solutions for. A curse was then cast on Architecture: the Evil Witch of Banality tricked the architects into believing that their ideas were worthless, that society didn’t care about them, and that the only way to advance their projects was to produce vacuous glitzy renderings.

Only those would lure developers into financing projects, and publications into publishing them. You are the hero that is being given the chance to battle the Evil Witch of Banality. Your magic power is Creativity. Your ace in the hole is Good Communication. Will you accept the call to this epic battle?

Fairy Tales is an open, international, ideas competition that challenges creatives from all professional realms to develop visionary, narrative-based design proposals. The competition is an extension of Blank Space’s mission to uncover the true power of architecture by creating new opportunities for design to engage the public. We’d like you to invent a story for your design. We’d like you to rewrite the way architecture communicates itself to the world, and to do so in the most unconventional way. Procedure of Participation Fairy Tales is a single phase competition.

Participation is open to architects, engineers, designers, illustrators, students and creatives worldwide. Individual or group entries are permitted. Multiple entries per individual or team are permitted, but each submission must be registered and paid for separately.

  • The indication of a group leader is mandatory.
  • Proposals do not need to be generated exclusively for this competition, but they must address the intent of the competition and should not have been published elsewhere before.
  • The official language of the competition is English. All proposals must be submitted in English.

Procedure of Participation

  • All proposals must be submitted in English.
  • Schedule Launching Date: September 9, 2013
  • Early Registration: Until December 6 at midnight Late Registration: Until the Deadline
  • Deadline for Questions: January 10 until midnight
  • Submission Deadline: January 17, 2014 until midnight

Results Announced: February 2014 * note: All the dates and time listed are EST, which is GMT-5 hours – See more at: http://blankspaceproject.com/FAIRY-TALES-1#sthash.uznxLtRL.dpuf

Evaluation System

The entries will be judged on the following criteria:

NARRATIVE: The originality, creativity, and the innovative character of each proposal’s narrative will be taken into account by the jury. The narrative should present a unique architectural fairy tale in the most ambitious way possible. The narrative will be derived equally from both the graphic and text based portions of the submission. A successful combination of graphics and text to form a complete, unique narrative will be at the forefront of considerations.

CONCEPT: The hypothesis proposed by each entry shall be judged on the grounds of its critical and concrete ideals. Entrants are invited to completely define the context and the narrative that their conceptual proposal is situated within. VISION: The jury will review the coherence of the proposal in regards to its formal composition, synthesis, and design sensibility. Architectural innovations, such as new programmatic types, arrangements, and situations, will be highly valued.

– See more Submissions at: http://blankspaceproject.com/SUBMISSION-REQS#sthash.uznxLtRL.dpuf

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UNICEF Voices of Youth & The Guardian Writing Contest

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Have your say and get published on-line by an international newspaper

Q: What’s the contest about?

UNICEF and The Guardian newspaper regularly produce special features about the role that business can or should play in realising the rights of children:http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/child-rights-business.

These features look at issues such as corporate social responsibility programmes and they showcase good examples from around the world. For the next feature – which will be published on The Guardian online at the end of November – UNICEF and The Guardian want to hear your views about the role that businesses can play in the development and well-being of children. By sharing your thoughts on UNICEF’s global youth community – Voices of Youth – the best entry will be published on-line.

So you stand the chance to be published in this next special feature!

Q: Ok, I’m interested. What is the topic that I need to write about?

The question that you should try to answer in your written piece is:

“Why is it important for children & youth to have a voice in business?”

Q: Do you have any tips for me?

· We are looking for your personal views and opinions on this issue.

· Think of any companies whether supermarkets, airlines, phone or internet companies, banks…

· Look for reputable facts and statistics that can help you back up your opinions – for example look up data about how many children there in your country or research successful examples from your country where a business is doing something good for children.

· If you have writer’s block try to think about these questions when you write– they will help you structure it:

– As an online user, in what ways do you think businesses should be impacting/empowering your life?

– As a consumer, how do you think businesses should impact your life and the lives of other children?

– As the next generation of leaders, how do you think technology /consumer based/financial based businesses should be impacting/empowering the lives of children?

– What do you think is the role of businesses when it comes to voicing out children’s needs/concerns?

– If you became a business leader today, what would be one of the first things you would do to make this world a better/safer place for children?

Q: What do I need to know to participate?

· Your piece should be between 300 and 500 words long.

· Your piece needs to be written in English.

· Deadline for submissions is 18 November 2013.

· You must be 24 years old or younger.

· The piece you write must be an original piece written by you. If you use any information from other websites or quotations from people you should indicate who they are from and the sources (name of the book, website URL).

· The winning piece that will appear in The Guardian & UNICEF Sustainable Business Supplement will be selected by a panel of judges from The Guardian and UNICEF. The supplement will appear online-only. Runner-up submissions may be featured too.

· Your name, age, and location will be published in the supplement.

· The editors of The Guardian may edit the grammar of the winning piece for publication purposes.

Q: How do I submit?

· To submit your entry, go to www.voicesofyouth.org. Click on “sign up”.

· Follow the instructions to create an account. Once you have created an account, click on “create a post”.

· Submit your article by creating the post. For detailed instructions consult this section:http://www.voicesofyouth.org/en/sections/featured/pages/what-can-you-th–do-

· Please tag your article “Guardian Submission”.

· At the end of your article please write your name, your age, and where you are from.

· If you experience any problems with signing up or submitting the article please email Kate (kpawelczyk@unicef.org) or Julie (julie@voicesofyouth.org)

Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht

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Deadline: 1 January 2014
Open to: international animation filmmakers of both feature and short films
Award: a Grand Prize will be appointed to the winner of the jury prize for each category

Description

On 19-23 March 2014 the seventeenth international Holland Animation Film Festival will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The festival aims at bringing high-quality animation films to the attention of an adult audience, as well as stimulating screening of these films in cinemas and on television. The festival plans to achieve this goal by screening different types of animation, by organizing competitions and raising publicity for the medium.

The Holland Animation Film Festival 2014 organizes the following competitions:

  1. Competition features
  2. Competition shorts
  3. Competition Dutch animation
  4. Competition European student films

Eligibility

Eligibility criteria vary depending on the category:

  • Competition features. For the fourth time HAFF organizes an international competition for feature-length animation films. The competition is open for all animated films over 60 minutes.
  • Competition shorts. An international competition for short animation films with a maximum length of 60 minutes. The competition is open for all independently produced shorts and television specials or authors animation. The non-narrative section is open for experimental, abstract and cutting edge animation. Films selected for the shorts competition are also eligible for the MovieZone HAFF Award, with a jury of its own, consisting of three youngsters between sixteen and eighteen year old.
  • Competition Dutch animation. HAFF renewed its competition for Dutch animation in 2013. Previously a successful competition for the audience award, now a committed jury watches the contenders as well and grants an award for the best professional Dutch film. Besides the jury prizes an award will still be chosen by the festival audience as well for which student films can compete as well. The competition Dutch animation is open for all Dutch animated film productions such as commercials, promotional films, music videos, educational or information films, film or television leaders, television films, episodes from television series, independently produced films, student films, broadcast design and industrial films. The mixture of all genres in competition showcases an varied and interesting showcase of the finest Dutch animation.
  • Competition European student films. The competition for short European student films is open for all European student films with a maximum length of 60 minutes. Graduation films as well as films from other years’ courses can be submitted. The competition is open for films produced at European art schools and film schools. Films produced at schools from the following countries can be submitted for the competition for students: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland. Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Student films from countries outside of Europe can be entered for the international competition for shorts.

Award

A Grand Prize will be appointed to the winner of the jury prize for each category.

Application

Subscription for these competitions has already begun. The deadline for entry forms and preview tapes is 1 January 2014. The number of entries is unlimited. However, for every entry a separate entry form must be completed. Incorrectly completed or unsigned entries can be excluded from participation.

The standard for screening during the festival will be films on 35mm, both picture and sound on the same support, DCP, digital video (Quicktime Animation Codec, Quicktime MOV ProRes LT). DCP screening copies should be available as non-encrypted DCP for all servers from 10-26 March and CPL should be mentioned (according to DCO norms). The standard norm for selection is DVD video and also a digital file. Note that DVD’s must be playable at universal DVD players. DVD or Bluray will not be supported as screening copy.

To apply a film for HAFF 2014 you need a MyHAFF account. If you already have a MyHAFF account, log on to your account. If you do not have an account yet, you can register now HERE.

The shipping costs to the festival are at the expense of the sender. The cost of return will be borne by the festival.

For further information please see the full regulations HERE and visit the official website HERE.

Student Film Festival on Women’s Issues

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College and high school students can submit their short films and win a US$5,000 cash prize.

The Girls Impact the World Film Festival, presented by the Harvard College Social Innovation Collaborativeand Connecther, is a film festival and scholarship program for high school and undergraduate college students.

The festival accepts short films that either raise awareness or propose solutions to a variety of global women’s issues, including maternal health, microfinance initiatives, child-marriage, sex-trafficking and poverty alleviation.

Films should be 3 to 5 minutes long and can be narrative, documentary, investigative reporting, music video, animation, or curated film (film collage).

The grand-prize winner, first and second runners-up will receive US$5,000, US$2,500, and US$1,000, respectively, along with Adobe Production Premium CS6. An internship will be awarded to the grand-prize and first-runner up winners. Other winners will be awarded cash prizes and gifts.

Applicants must be 25 or under and currently enrolled undergraduates or full-time high school students.

The deadline is Dec. 31.

For more information, click here.

Castello di Duino International Poetry Competition

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Deadline: 8 December 2013
Open to: international young people under 30 years of age
Awards: three prizes of €500

Description

The 10th edition of the International Poetry and Theatre Competition “Castello di Duino” has launched. The competition, which is organized by the association “Poesia e solidarietà” (Poetry and solidarity) addresses young people, is established as an yearly event and was created within the network of the project “Poetry and Solidarity Language of the People.” It has grown over the years to the point that it has become, according to the UNESCO Italian National Committee (under whose patronage it’s organized), the most important International Poetry Competition among those which address young poets. So far, it has involved thousands of young people from 90 countries all around the world. The participation to the event is free. The topic for the 2014 edition is “I / You”.

Eligibility

The competition is open to worldwide young people under 30 years of age.

Awards

  • First, Second and Third Prize: €500. In accordance with the aim of the competition to combine solidarity and poetry, the winners will choose a humanitarian cause to which they will devote a part of the prize (€200)
  • Medal of the President of Italian Republic for a poem with a particular social-humanitarian value
  • “Sergio Penco” Plate for the best poem “under 16”
  • Cups or other minor prizes for other noteworthy poems

Application

Works must arrive before 8 December 2013.
Participants have to send only one unpublished, never prized poem (maximum 50 lines). Poems will be accepted in the mother tongue of the authors. A translation into English, Spanish, French or Italian is required. An international Jury will evaluate the poems as far as possible also in the mother tongue of participants.
Poems should be sent:

  1. by e-mail to valeragruber@alice.it. Please, send the complete Application Form in the message and the poem attached to the message in Format word or rft. Application form can be found at the bottom of the official website (link attached below).
  2. by regular mail to Prof. Gabriella Valera Gruber, Via Matteotti 21, 34138, Trieste (Italy). As far as the deadline is concerned, we will take into consideration the postmark, but no poem will be taken into consideration, which arrives after the jury has started its evaluation process (soon after the deadline)

For further information, please visit the official website HERE.

 

 

 

 

Creatures that live in the garden. Keats Shelly prize winning poem for Castelli International School Rome

Tell Your Story: How Girls Are Changing the World

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Deadline: 31 December 2013
Open to: girls between 12-25 years of age
Prize: $10,000 in funding, training, and equipment to create their own short films

Description

Let Girls Lead is a global movement that empowers girls and their allies to lead social change through advocacy, education, economic empowerment, storytelling, and strategic partnerships. Let Girls Lead improves girls’ education, health, and livelihoods through strategic partnerships that ensure girl-friendly laws, funding, and programs around the world. They enable girls to share their own inspiring stories of leadership through the interactive media platform and powerful short films. They support girls’ economic empowerment and entrepreneurship, and sustainable solutions to ending poverty. The results include laws and policies that improve girls’ lives, and programs that empower young women to develop their own solutions to the obstacles they face.

Girls are powerful leaders and the Global Girls Conversation is their chance to tell their stories, raise their voices, and share their success with the world. Let Girls Lead’s Global Girls’ Conversation video contest is now accepting submissions of 1-2 minute videos that capture how girls are transforming their own lives and the world.

Your video submission will be judged by a panel of experts and girl leaders based on how clearly it shows:

  1. Why you are a leader in your community
  2. How your leadership changed your family or community
  3. Why your important story should be made into a film
  4. Your unique point of view as a girl leader or organization working with girl leaders

Videos should be between 1-2 minutes in length and must be accompanied by a full video transcription in English. The full rules and terms are AVAILABLE HERE.

Eligibility

This contest is open to girls between 12-25 years of age. Enter as either individuals, groups, or organizations.

Prize

A jury of filmmakers, global experts, and girl leaders will select the best videos submitted, and winners will receive $10,000 in funding, training, and equipment to create their own short films. 

Application

Apply online HERE. Videos must be received by 31 December 2013 11:59pm GMT.

Visit the official website HERE for further details.