We must have heard the philosophical lines that Life is the best school and experience is the best teacher but we hardly ever join the school of life. Our primary source of education is our family, society and early age schools that educate us about life which we are experiencing for the very first time but these primary systems of life education seem to be broken nowadays and its consequences are shocking in the form of the rising number of life-failures every day. Our education system is no longer making us life ready so here is the best alternative: Mindselo – The School of Happiness.
Mindselo is India’s fastest-growing personal growth company that seeks to Transform Ideas into Wisdom. We want to create conscious minds connected to the world by our education system.
Young Creators Program 2021 is a Mindselo initiative where we aim to bring young visionaries to talk about personal growth, human transformation, the art of living and the future of education. The true purpose of this initiative is to spread great ideas, lively inspiration and effective solutions around the planet to teach people the essential lessons of life that our school and colleges forgot to teach and push humanity forward.
Mindselo wanted to create a dynamic content moment to spark a conversation around Love, peace, compassion, personal development, emotional wellbeing, mental health, economy, passion, relationships, humility, joy, happiness, human values, gratitude, resilience, universal brotherhood etc and inspire the viewers to take action. We are inviting video entries from all around the planet by young creators to apply for this unique impact program. Please find the video guidelines on the application submission page of this program.
Benefits:
Opportunity to get selected for the Mindselo Creators Team
The best videos will be featured on the Mindselo Social Media & Blogs
Monetary Rewards for the selected creators
Get Recognised by Mindselo for your work & Impact
Mindselo Sponsored participation in our various other programs
Certification & Special Invitation for our Invite-only events
Eligibility:
The applicant should be aged between 15 to 35.
Applicants should be available for a minimum period of 3 months if they get selected.
No Regional Restriction.
Application Process: You can apply for this program using the apply now button. Remember that you need to submit your video in the application form so be ready with that. Kindly find the video guidelines on the application submission page of this program.
For Further Queries: In case you have any queries, contact at aman@mindselo.com with “Query MYCP 2021” mentioned in the subject line for easier communications.
Greenhouse is a 2-day paid intensive for a cohort of 100 local artists across disciplines who bring together a diversity of climate experiences. Held outside in small groups at UBC Botanical Gardens, Greenhouse is a place to tend to the growth of ideas and understanding:
What is the art-shaped hole in the climate problem? What is the work of ‘Reauthoring the World?’ What is the artists’ role in transforming a Culture of Consumerism to a Culture of Stewardship?
After participating in Greenhouse, the cohort of 100 artists will have paid opportunities with the Artist Brigade, which brings arts and artists to the heart of the climate crisis. These artists will be invited to come on field trips to places where they can experience the climate emergency firsthand. They can pitch ideas for artistic projects, some of which will be commissioned and produced.
The Only Animal believes in a living wage for artists. With the support of our funders, including Vancouver Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, City of Vancouver and the Province of British Columbia we are pleased to be able to offer the following to the 100 cohort members selected for the Artist Brigade:
$200/day for Sept 23rd & 24th | Greenhouse
$200/day for a field trip to a site where artists experience the climate crisis first-hand and come up with a pitch for artistic engagement
$100/half day to develop the pitch and submit in written or short video form
Some other paid Artist Brigade work may become available during the year at a similar day rate.
We are currently accepting applications from BC based artists. To apply for Greenhouse, go here. Apply by August 1, 2021. Â
If you have questions or accessibility requests, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at lisa@theonlyanimal.com
Through ‘Visualizing Climate Change: An Open Call for Photography’, TED Countdown is partnering with Climate Visuals to build a new robust, accessible collection of evidence-based photos that document the reality of climate change around the world.
We’re seeking submissions that communicate positive climate solutions in five key areas:
The visual narratives in circulation must move from illustrating climate causes and impacts to climate justice, solutions and positive change. The online submission and licensing process will consider a broad range of diversity, equity and inclusion factors to ensure that the opportunity is global, accessible, fair, representative, illustrative and impactful. The goal is to provide both a platform, voice and visual tools to people and communities not yet represented in the mainstream climate change narrative.
The photographic and wider creative sector has been significantly impacted by Covid-19. Selected photographers will be both fairly remunerated and have the opportunity to be profiled, exhibit their work virtually and physically at Countdown events and COP26 in Glasgow, and featured in a global media campaign. This will be a deliberately inclusive space for photographers who may lack the opportunity to showcase their work and ideas in such a global project with a meaningful route to impact.
‘Visualizing Climate Change: An Open Call for Photography’ aims to ultimately support climate change photographers, educators, communicators and campaigners by the creation of a new free-to-access collection of the world’s most impactful photography.
Read the full photography brief and image examples – all based on our research into people’s response to climate change imagery as well as insights developed across our practical partnerships and projects.
The open-call will source, license and promote 100 powerful images of climate change taken by both professional and amateur photographers from around the world. This initiative will distribute a total licensing fund of US $100,000 directly to the chosen photographers – with the final 100 images all selected by an independent jury:
Include a minority of images depicting causes and impacts
Provide a global sense of people, place, geographic and cultural context
Show solutions and narratives across all sizes, scale and reach
Document realistic well-known solutions, but also reveal new, innovative ideas
Show a human connection to technology, infrastructure or geography
Consider related or inter-related topics such as environmental justice and the role of business
Consider the people, places, communities, sectors and areas of society that are not normally featured in the media or climate change conversations
Illustrate a broader story, rather than focus on a small individual detail of it
Images will be judged on their inherent visual, not technical, quality but must meet our requirements:
Be accompanied by a detailed caption of what, where, when and why
Be accompanied by a short bio and social media links from registration form
NOT be manipulated to change the visual content of the image, beyond basic editorial photo industry standards such as balancing of brightness, contrast and colour *
Be of sufficient photographic quality for clear digital communication
Be at least 2,000 pixels longest length in resolution – no upper pixel limit
Be below 25MB file size- but using jpg compression only if required
Be in a .jpg file format
Submissions between 1 and 20 images maximum
For more information on what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable image manipulation in professional photography please refer to the guidelines as published and defined by the expertise of World Press Photo Foundation.
Accessible Terms and Conditions:
Photographers must own the images submitted and be prepared to show ownership if required
Climate Visuals is a project of Climate Outreach. Countdown is an initiative by TED Conferences, LLC
Climate Outreach and TED can use submitted images to promote this open call
Our diverse jury will select the 100 images that best match our brief. Photographers will each receive a $1000 fee per selected image
In exchange for the $1000 fee, the photographer grants to Climate Visuals Countdown and TED an irrevocable Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) worldwide and in perpetuity license for that image
Climate Outreach and TED will not sell or modify the images.
Climate Outreach will then supply the 100 selected images under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) to other non-profit organizations, educators and editorial media communicating about climate change.
Climate Outreach and TED may make additional promotional use of the 100 selected images by their own respective organizations.
Selected photographers may be asked to provide additional information, so they can be promoted and showcased them
Broto: Art-Climate-Science is an emerging art-sci collaboration conference and community pointed at successful climate endgames. The transdisciplinary organization is asking for proposals for a single paid collaboration team. Each team must include at least one of each of the following — artist, scientist and observer — who will work together on a new project to test our Collaboration Blueprint.
Broto has evolved as a unique opportunity for artists and scientists to collaborate in substantive, real-time, mutual and credible processes without the burden of outcome. The Broto inspiration is to add into the collaboration an “observer†role — the collaborator tasked with communicating, synthesising and mainstreaming the findings of the collaboration. In this model, artists and observers are equal to scientists in their contributions, sharing knowledge, co-creating innovations and experimenting freely.
Applications will be vetted by art-sci peers and the selected team will:
Test the model for strengths, weaknesses and improvements,
Be documented as they move through their process and
Communicate their experiences in a forthcoming Broto conference panel. The collaboration period is up to one year and budgets and stipends, inclusive, will be capped at $5,000.
Submissions via the submission form HERE. Details include project team, scope, goals, timeline and use of funds.Â
Inspire the conversation on the climate challenge with Climanosco
Climanosco’s mission is to make climate science accessible to everyone.
We support researchers and citizens around the world in paraphrasing climate research so that it is readily understandable to a broad audience, and we collaborate with artists and activists who create work that inspires and elevates the conversation on climate change and related societal challenges.
Now, we are pleased to announce our second call for artists and activists in concert with our call for scientific manuscripts. We invite you to join our efforts with this year 2021 call “Oceans on the rise†around the effects of climate change on the oceans.
We welcome art works of all styles, artistic, artivist and activist initiatives, art & science collaborations and everything in between.
Participation offers:
The opportunity to share your art work with a new, diverse audience
The presentation of your art work in this year’s DEAR2050 exhibition
The sale of prints of your art work in our online shop
The chance to have an impact on the public discourse about the climate challenge.
The chance to win exciting prizes (jury selection)
The deadline for finalizing works is 31 August 2021. Please notify us of your intention to participate with your proposal as soon as possible but no later than 25 March 2021.
We look forward to hearing from you! The Climanosco team
Who can participate?
We welcome participants across all forms of arts and activism and across all career stages.
First, notify us of your intent to participate (deadline 25 March 2021)
a description or a sketch of your project for this call;
your portfolio or an example of your art work or activist work.
The selection for the exhibition will be based on the submitted proposals.
By sending a notification of intent, you indicate that you commit to create a piece of art by the due date (see below) that will satisfy the following conditions:
it is original and signed by you;
it is specifically created for this call;
its format reasonably allows digitalization and shipping;
Climanosco is granted the right to produce and sell copies of the work.We will be in touch with you within a few days of receiving your proposal.
Send your original work (deadline 31 August 2021) We suggest that you keep us updated as you progress on your project and we expect that you finalize it by 31 August 2021.Once your art work is finalized, please get in touch with us at dear2050@climanosco.org. We will organize shipping and digitization with you.
Prizes After reception of all works, a jury will be elected by the Board of Directors to choose the winners and award prizes for the best works. The prizes are as follows:
First prize: CHF 1000
Second prize: CHF 500
Third prize: CHF 500
The cash prizes will be sent to the winners by bank transfer. It is the responsibility of the participants to make sure that they have access to a bank account where the prizes can be deposited. It is the responsibility of the winners to declare the prizes to the tax authorities in their country.
Climanosco was launched in 2015 with the vision that we can all play a part in addressing the climate challenge – and that a first step towards doing so is to make the best knowledge about climate science accessible to everyone. Find out more at www.climanosco.org/about/.
We work with climate scientists and citizens to create collections of accessible and reliable climate research articles. Browse through our research articles at www.climanosco.org/research-articles/. Further, we collaborate with artists, activists and scientists on creating interdisciplinary projects to raise awareness to climate change and to develop visions of a sustainable world.
Disclaimer
We might have to adjust the deadlines for the submission of the notifications of intent and the submissions of artworks depending on the responses we receive. All participants will be notified in due time of any such adjustments.
Climanosco will make all efforts to sell in its own capacity the original and prints of the art works submitted for this call for artists. However, this comes without any warranty of any kind. Climanosco does not take any responsibility and cannot be made liable in the event where it may be unable, for any reason, to sell a piece of art submitted for this call for artists.
I’m beyond excited to announce the official launch of Fix’s writing contest, Imagine 2200: Climate fiction for future ancestors. After a year few of us could have imagined (not to mention a tumultuous start to 2021), my team at Fix is looking, optimistically, to the future. And we hope you’ll help us spread the word about this contest far and wide!
I’d like to share a quick note about how this project came to be. In the spring of 2020, just after the pandemic had hit the United States, Fix convened (virtually) a group of New England Fixers to foretell the next 180 years for their region. They visualized a complete societal transformation and a path to a clean, green, and just future: A dissolution of political parties and borders. Reparations. The return of land to Indigenous and Black stewardship. Restorative justice replacing prisons. Food sovereignty triumphing over monoculture farming. An economy built on ecological restoration, mutual aid, and care work. Out of their visions grew the idea to launch a climate-fiction initiative at Fix.
Check out our media kit (below) for graphics and sample social copy to spread the word about this new project.
Imagine 2200 draws inspiration from Afrofuturism, as well as Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, disabled, feminist, and queer futures. The contest is also grounded in hopepunk and solarpunk — literary genres that uplift equitable climate solutions and continued service to one’s community, even in the face of despair.
In the contest’s inaugural year, we’re calling for short stories that envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress. What will the world look like in the year 2200 — or anywhere between then and now? Submissions open today (January 12) and close on April 12. Stories will be judged by a board of literary experts including authors Adrienne Maree Brown, Morgan Jerkins, and Kiese Laymon. The first, second, and third-place winners will be awarded $3,000, $2,000, and $1,000 respectively, and nine additional finalists will each receive a $300 honorarium. Winners and finalists will be published in a digital collection on the Fix website and will be celebrated in a public-facing virtual event.
We hope you’ll help us get this opportunity out in front of the world. Together, we can fix the future with fiction. Join this creative uprising of imagination. In your story lies our collective liberation.
Tory Stephens Imagine 2200 Project Director & New England Network Weaver, Fix
Stay in touch Did a friend forward you this newsletter? Drop me a line and I’ll add you to the list so you can get more updates from the Imagine 2200 crew.
(Top photo: Carolina RodrÃguez Fuenmayor)
Grist is an independent, nonprofit media outlet covering the climate crisis and the many facets of life it touches. Our award-winning journalism elevates solutions, exposes inequity, and gives our readers the context, knowledge, and tools to make a difference.
Fix is Grist’s solutions lab. We combine solutions-oriented storytelling with gatherings that bring together a growing community of Fixers to create a planet that doesn’t burn and a future that doesn’t suck.
The City of Culver City will implement a permanent Public Art Program for the Washington/National TOD (Transit Oriented Development) District. The Washington National TOD Gateway Public Art Program will inspire artists in the creation of world-class, aesthetically rigorous artwork(s) that respond to the natural, cultural, and infrastructural resources present at the site. Formerly the site of the Hal Roach Studios, the Washington National TOD gateway has continued to be a site of artistic and entrepreneurial activity. This Public Art Program will offer artists the opportunity to aesthetically respond to the past, present, and future of this unique cultural site.
Deadline to submit SOQuals is March 4, 2021 at 11:59PM (PST). Please visit our website to access all RFQual Documents and Resources.
Questions concerning this RFQual should be submitted by e-mail to Dyson & Womack at info@dysonwomack.com by Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 4:00 PM (PST). All Artists or Artist Teams registered for the RFQual will receive responses to the questions and any other addenda that may be released via e-mail on Thursday, February 18, 2021.
Could you create a piece of public art that helps people walking and cycling to find their way?
Sustrans, in partnership with Perth and Kinross Council, is looking for an ambitious artist who creates high-quality, innovative public artwork with community engagement at its core. Due to current physical distancing guidance, we are particularly interested in local artists who can travel safely and sustainably to Perth, or who can suggest a reasonable alternative method for researching and installing the project.
The team is looking for a site-specific piece of public art that helps people walking and cycling to find their way. The art should draw on the comments and ideas gathered through the Craigie Pocket Place public engagement process and help to point out important local places, as well as the National Cycle Network route. The artist should consider how the new artwork can be accessible ‘for everyone’, including blind and partially sighted people.
Notes of interest should be submitted by 31st January 2021.
Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.
In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.
We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.
Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:
Changing their own behaviour; Communicating with their audiences; Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.
The British Council is delighted to announce the A.R.C Challenge Malaysia Grant in response to climate change and COP26.
The British Council in Malaysia is inviting applications for the A.R.C. Malaysia Challenge Grant, which brings together stakeholders from the arts and creative industries, education, science and civil society sectors to collaborate on a common challenge in response to climate change and offer innovative and interdisciplinary solutions that create awareness and enhance resilience among youth. The A.R.C. Malaysia Challenge will be part of the cultural programme activities in the build up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), which the UK is hosting on 1–12 November 2021.
The A.R.C. Challenge Malaysia Grant provides seed funding for collaborations between stakeholders in the UK and Malaysia, which respond to a common challenge in the field of climate change through shared solutions that empower young people to take positive action which can cascade awareness and create greater resilience amongst others in their generation, as well as influence policy making.
The British Council Malaysia is offering three seed funding grants of up to £10,000 each to kick-start innovative, joint UK-Malaysia responses to a shared climate change challenge involving young people aged 18–35. We encourage cross-sectoral collaboration in our grant applications. Ideally, we would include projects which are from the arts and creative industries, education and science sectors in our final awards.
Successful grants will be announced during the first A.R.C. Challenge Malaysia Forum on 4 February 2021. Awardees will then have the opportunity to pitch their projects during the second A.R.C. Challenge Malaysia Forum on 25 March 2021 to an audience of diverse stakeholders including potential funders, policy makers, research, academic and youth organisations, in the hope that their project will spark further interest that may lead to scaling-up and sustainability.
Successful applicants will be awarded a grant of up to £10,000 and are expected to deliver their projects from 15 February 2021, complete all activities by 15 November 2021 and submit the project report to the British Council by 30 November 2021.
Eligible applicants are invited to complete and submit the application form via email by Friday 22 January 2021 (5 p.m. Malaysia time / 9 a.m. UK time).
For further information on the grant, eligibility, application process and contact details, please refer to our website.
Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.
In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.
We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.
Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:
Changing their own behaviour; Communicating with their audiences; Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.
Can you reimagine a future where we put nature at the heart of our decisions?
WWF has launched a nationwide competition calling on creatives to produce artworks that reimagine a greener, thriving future – where nature is at the heart of our decisions. The initiative, titled ‘Just Imagine’, hopes to spark conversations about the solutions to the climate and nature crisis and drive positive change through art.
Now open for entries, the competition welcomes submissions across a variety of disciplines, including visual arts, illustration, fashion and textiles, poetry, creative writing, and other art forms. Entrants are encouraged to use their artistic explorations to capture how we can best live in harmony with our planet and what our rebuilt future could look like.
The competition follows the release of Sir David Attenborough’s new film, ‘A Life On Our Planet’, in which he reflects on the changes to the natural world during his lifetime and presents his hopeful vision for the future. WWF, who co-produced the film, is encouraging individuals, arts collectives and artist networks from across the UK to take inspiration from Attenborough’s powerful witness statement and respond to the competition brief with their own ‘reimagined’ future.
Entries will close at 5pm on Monday, 25 January 2021. A panel of judges – including award-winning graphic designer Greg Bunbury, painter poet Judy Ling Wong CBE and award-winning Anthropological Future Designer Stacie Woolsey – will then select 12 winners to feature in a virtual exhibition, hosted by WWF-UK.
The exhibition aims to inspire and influence local communities, while illustrating the power of the creative community in shaping new ways of thinking.
Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.
In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.
We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.
Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:
Changing their own behaviour; Communicating with their audiences; Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.
