arts competition
Designer dreams up best beer label
The next case of beer you buy may feature the design of Armstrong native Jen Crane. Crane, a graphic designer working at Vernon’s Sunshine Autographics, put in an entry to Kokanee’s Crank the Can contest last year. “It took me about an hour,” said Crane of designing a can that features a mountain biker flying [...]
PMAC puts out call for Wearable Art Awards
Artists who want to enter the 2011 Port Moody Wearable Art Awards should get their submissions ready by Dec. 10. The show, with performances scheduled for Feb. 18 to 19, 2011, offers $5,000 in cash awards. It attracts about 100 entries from artists throughout Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere. The entries will be shown by [...]
Shore’s Song of Summer narrowed to 10 finalists
The Shore 104.3 FM moved one step closer to crowning its official Song of Summer 2010 on Monday when the radio station announced the 10 finalists in its Sounds of Summer contest. The B.C.-centric songwriting competition will award $20,000 in development funds to its winner, which will be announced at the end of July. The [...]
Campbell River: ‘Transformations on the Shore’ set for next week
Registration starts Tuesday for the 14th Annual ‘Transformations On The Shore‘ carving competition and organizers are expecting artists from across the country. “It’s going to be an amazing event,” said Barb Sunday-Bitner, vice president of the Campbell River Shoreline Arts Society. “There are going to be close to 30 carvers and they’re coming from across [...]
Young Writers Cup Contest Now Accepting Submissions
The Great Little Publishing Company (GLPC) is proud to announce its Young Writers Cup Contest. From now through September 15, 2010, writers, elementary school age through high school, are encouraged to submit their poems, short stories and short novels to www.greatlittlepublishing.com/young-writers-contest. Every young writer who submits a piece of writing is a winner. Entries will [...]
Bowen Island: There are two Bowfest contests to enter
The date for this year’s Bowfest is August 28 and various organizers and committees are busy working to ensure that the Safari-themed event will be a memorable one. The singer/songwriter contest was a big success last year. There were many contestants who submitted high quality musical compositions that showcased the wealth of local talent. It [...]
Arts Summit 2010: Register Now!
The Alliance for Arts and Culture, with the support of 2010 Legacies Now and the City of Surrey, is pleased to present Arts Summit 2010, Thursday, June 24 and Friday, June 25 at Surrey’s Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre. This beautiful new facility is 30 minutes from downtown Vancouver by Skytrain, one block south of the Gateway Skytrain [...]
Peak Performance pops 2010 top 20: Music contest lures veterans and newbies alike in its second year
For some, the second instalment of the Peak Performance Project will be an opportunity for a second chance. Consider singer-songwriter Adaline, who last year finished in fourth place, just shy of snagging one of the music contest’s three top prizes. This year, along with fellow 2009 Top 20 finalists Kuba Oms and Bodhi Jones, Adaline [...]
Duncan: An artistic success
The Warm Land’s hosting of Performing Arts B.C. ended with Thursday’s big Cowichan Theatre finale that drew deserved kudos from all corners of the province. “It was the best of the best,” Langley visitor Jacki Ashworth summed after the 24-act highlights night. Her comments followed a week of stiff competition among 500 provincial finalists from [...]
The prize is right: Music contests and competitions offer much more than big cash
When Kelowna rockers We Are The City won top honours at the first instalment of the Peak Performance Project music competition earlier this year, they quite literally hit the jackpot. As the trio stood dumbfounded on the stage at the Commodore Ballroom, the enormity of the oversized cheque being handed to them and also the [...]
Deadline May 24 for juried visual arts competition, ‘Green: ON THE EDGE’
The San Juan Islands Museum of Art & Sculpture Park (IMA) is sounding the call to Washington, Oregon and British Columbia artists to enter IMA’s juried visual arts competition, “Green: ON THE EDGE.” The upcoming summer exhibition asks artists to tackle the question, “What does green mean to you?” “ON THE EDGE” is IMA’s way [...]
Williams Lake: Festival honours concert Saturday
The Cariboo Festival 2010 wraps up this Saturday evening with the Honours Concert starting at 7 p.m. at Cariboo Bethel Church. The Honours Concert includes performances by some of the top award winners of the festival and those who have been chosen by the adjudicators to participate in the B.C. Festival of the Arts coming [...]
Prince Rupert: BC Annual gets underway Sunday
The B.C. Annual Dance Competition will be held in Prince Rupert from May 2 until May 8, with the City of Prince Rupert and several local businesses donating approximately $55,000 to the event. This year there will be two adjudicators at the B.C. Annual Dance Competition. One of the adjudicators will be Everett Smith who [...]
Vancouver: Young artists hope to help stop crime, put an end to violence
Recreations of bloody crime scenes, weeping relatives and young people behind bars. Those are just some of the images that more than 300 secondary students from across B.C. used to create anti-gang posters for a provincewide contest sponsored by The Vancouver Sun and the Gang Task Force. Some entrants said they had seen gang violence [...]
Contest pairs producers with scientists: Gen Screen BC gives filmmakers chance to make plots more accurate
A new initiative, which kicks off tonight, will not only give at least three filmmakers money in their pockets, it will go a long way to make their films more accurate when it comes to scientific details. Gen Screen BC, organized by Genome BC and the BC Clinical Genomic Network, is a film competition that [...]
