DEADLINE August 1st

Call to artists and arts-based community projects:

Applications are now open for Soup Ottawa’s second event!

“Soup Ottawa” is a micro-grant event that focuses on two things: food, and funding great community projects. We’re looking for creative ideas that would benefit the community, and we want to give you a chance to share your idea with others.

Everyone is invited to the event, whether you’re presenting an idea or just curious to hear and support what’s happening in Ottawa. $10 at the door gets each person a tasty bowl of soup (generously donated from a local restaurant), great conversations with creative people, and one vote for their pick of the best idea presented that evening.

Here’s the clincher: that $10 paid at the door? Every last cent goes to the idea with the most votes. Our last event raised $970 for the community art project Keep Winthrop Beautiful. The prize amount for this summer’s event is dependent on attendance but we expect to award $1000 to directly support a great idea that will benefit our community. For those who don’t win, this will still be a great chance to get your idea out there. This is an opportunity to rub shoulders with other people who might be interested in working with you to help realize your vision.

The theme of this summer’s event will be “The Art of…” We are intentionally trying not to be prescriptive and won’t say much more than that we’re inviting everyone from artists to engineers, social entrepreneurs to community groups, and environmentalists to athletes to present diverse projects inspired by this concept.

Applying for a grant is intentionally simple to encourage broad participation. Visit our website at www.soupottawa.ca/apply and fill out the form to submit your idea. Applications are due by Thursday, August 1 for our August event, date and location TBC.

Feel free to pass this on to your networks.

info@soupottawa.ca

Follow Soup Ottawa:
Twitter: @SoupOttawa
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SoupOttawa

FIGMENT arts event debuts in Toronto August 17 & 18
Artists can submit new and already completed works until August 7

The acclaimed FIGMENT arts event is coming to Toronto on Saturday August 17 and Sunday August 18. This free family-friendly immersive and interactive art experience will occur daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the Olympic Island portion of the Toronto Islands.

FIGMENT is now accepting artist submissions for new works, for already completed works, and for previously exhibited works. Performance art projects are also welcome. Submissions can be done online and will be accepted until August 7.

For more information on the event and how to submit works please visit: http://toronto.figmentproject.org/get-involved/submit-a-project/. Artist submission questions can also be sent totorontocuratorial@figmentproject.org

In 2011 FIGMENT was named New York City’s Best Arts Festival by the Village Voice and since its launch in 2007; FIGMENT has grown significantly each year.

FIGMENT events now occur annually in seven cities in the U.S. with Toronto being the first FIGMENT event in Canada. FIGMENT will feature Toronto artists and their works.

     FIGMENT Toronto

Toronto’s FIGMENT will occur across the North end of Olympic Island, with interactive sculptures of all sizes alongside multiple performance and theatre art experiences.

The goals of FIGMENT are to catalyze and celebrate an abundance of creativity and passion, challenging artists and our communities to find new ways to create, share, think, and dream.

FIGMENT utilizes art installations and interactive art works to create a dynamic collaboration between the artist, the audience and their environment. FIGMENT shows what the arts can be: participatory, bursting with creativity and completely free, born from the desire to share imagination and invention between artists and the public.

As a free, public, non-profit event, FIGMENT aims to advance social and personal transformation through creativity. FIGMENT is uninterrupted by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising.

To find out more about FIGMENT visit figmentproject.org

More details on Toronto’s FIGMENT event can be found at toronto.figmentproject.org and on Facebook atFigmentTO and on Twitter @FIGMENTToronto

FIGMENT NYC 2013 Kathy Creutzburg Sculpture Garden – Photo credit: Nate Davis
Media contact:

Shane Gerard, 416-671-4667, torontocommunications@figmentproject.org

Additional media resources are available at:

Toronto event info: http://toronto.figmentproject.org/figment-toronto/
General press info: http://figmentproject.org/about/press-resources/
Hi-Res images from FIGMENT 2013 events:
http://figmentproject.org/about/photo-gallery/?nggpage=12