From jobs, residencies, open calls and fellowships: here is an updated list of opportunities this October for artists, writers, and creatives.
For more consistent updates visit our opportunities page here.
EMPLOYMENT
Mid to Senior Copywriters at Machine_
Machine_ is looking for copywriters. Delivering a clear text message that supports the execution materials, managing timetables, finances, and strategic planning, as well as the ongoing needs in the creative department, are the main areas of concentration. Candidates will need a competitive combination of technical knowledge, skill, education, and field experience.
Qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree required and/or 3+ years’ experience with an advertising organisation, with at least 3 years’ previous experience in a high-volume environment.
For more information, click here.
Marketing Manager at Sonae Arauco
The Marketing Manager will be based in Sonae Arauco’s Woodmead corporate office and be responsible for leading the design and implementation of an integrated communication plan that is in line with Sonae Arauco’s global marketing strategy and positions Sonae Arauco as a “decorative solutions partner,”.
A key component of Sonae Arauco SAF’s Marketing strategy to create & sustain pull for its strategic portfolio of value add decorative products, “The Innovus Collection”
Ideal candidates have a marketing degree or equivalent qualification and a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar field.
For more information, click here.
Intern/Junior Project Manager (Remote Project Management Internship)
Brainnest is looking for a Project Management Intern to join them in the upcoming weeks. This position is great for an aspiring project management professional looking to work on business-critical projects and gain relevant work experience.
You will learn how to:
- Use different PM technologies and tools to support the delivery of high-quality projects
- Adapt different approaches depending on project requirements
- Accomplish complex business projects and cooperate with an international client
- Assist the Project Manager in developing, tracking, updating, and writing reports on project progress to stakeholders
And more.
For more information, click here.
TotalEnergies Young Graduate Programme
The Young Graduate Programme is an extended innovative programme that is offered over a period of 18 months after the completion of the 6 months of a local short-term contract. It then offers further workplace exposure internationally to the previous graduates who have already served their tenure in local short-term contract.
The aim of this programme is to
- Rotate the individuals to countries outside their own, for a rewarding professional international working experience.
- Integrate academic preparation, local and international with professional challenge
- We offer the programme to discover our three main business line
- Commercial (Sales & Marketing, Business Management)
- Finance (Accounting, Finance Management)
- Technical (Engineering, Mining, HSEQ)
Candidates must be Bachelors Degree graduates with technical, finance or commercial backgrounds and must not be more than 25 years of age.
For more information, click here.
RESIDENCIES
Late Winter Writers Residency Online 2023
A small cohort program, the Late Winter Writers Residency Online offers you the ability to learn from teachers and fellow students, hear exclusive sessions, ask questions, and advance your work.
This two week online residency provides broad thematic teaching from faculty members, Dani Spinosa and Kate Siklosi, Q&A sessions and workshopping. Instructors will discuss ideas, experiences, and obstacles that you may be encountering with your writing of both poetry and fiction. One-on-one mentorship will allow you to receive direct mentorship on craft and professional development.
Deadline: 23 November 2022
For more information, click here.
Cuturi Gallery – c/residency
Cuturi Gallery is proud to introduce c/residency, an artist-focused programme which supports two types of artist residencies: local and international. The programme is dedicated to fostering and sustaining artistic talent, offering artists-in-residence a supportive atmosphere to concentrate on their creative endeavours and get fresh perspectives on their craft.
Residency artists will be able to interact with fellow artists-in-residence, as well as artists and creatives in the local community from various backgrounds and practices.
C/residency allows national and international artists to work in the studios housed within the gallery’s grounds as part of its program offerings. A solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring the works produced throughout the residency, will serve as the program’s capstone.
Artists interested in residency openings are encouraged to submit their expression of interest, alongside their portfolio of sample works.
Deadline: Applications for c/residency are evaluated on a rolling admission basis
For more information, click here.
BlueCanvas Studios Residency 2023
The 2023 BlueCanvas Studios Residency is open to emerging and established creators everywhere in the world.
To apply submit all required materials through the email: bluecanvasstudios@gmail.com
Deadline: 30 November 2022
For more information, click here.
OPEN CALLS
#CreateCOP27
#CreateCOP27 invites artists of all racial, ethnic, gender, and religious backgrounds, between the ages of 14 and 30, to submit work that sparks discussions about the urgent need for climate action and spreads awareness of the significant decisions being made at COP27, the yearly climate summit hosted by the United Nations.
Applicants can apply with any medium, including – but not limited to – photography projects, docu-style and experimental film, performance art, spoken word, musical compositions, fashion design, new media, and social media projects.
Eight finalists will be awarded cash prizes of $10k, $5k, or $2k, and an additional 20 creatives will receive honorable mentions by a globally recognised jury of industry experts.
Deadline: 16 October 2022
For more information, click here.
Arte Laguna Prize
The Arte Laguna Prize is an international competition for visual arts and design that features international jurors. It offers artists the chance to join a broad network of partnerships, gain free exposure, sell their creations online, take home a cash prize of €10,000, and exhibit their work in Venice, Italy at the Arsenale Nord.
The Prize is open to the following artistic disciplines: painting, sculpture and installation, photographic art, video art and short films, performance, digital art, digital graphics and cartoon, environmental and land art, urban art and street art, art design.
For more information, click here.
Deadline: 31 October 2022
TAF Paper Open Call
Turbine Art Fair presents Paper, a series of accessible contemporary work on paper by independent artists from Southern Africa. TAF invites artists who are currently not represented by a Southern African gallery to submit works on paper for consideration. Accepted work will be shown in a dedicated OVR on the TAF website and at a pop-up exhibition.
Works can be submitted in the either or all of the categories; drawing, photography, watercolour, ink, print, painting, or collage. Provided all works are paper based. Works submitted should not be priced above R7000 incl. a 30% commission for TAF. TAF will also add on VAT to each sale.
TAF Paper 2022 will take place in February 2023.
Deadline: 30 November 2022
Click here for more information and to apply.
Call for solo artists for Copenhagen Photo Festival 2023
The festival’s “Rewilding” concept invites creatives, talents, and photographers to “think wildly” and liberate their photography. The call’s winner will have a solo show in June at the Copenhagen Photo Festival 2023.
The open call is for artists and photographers who want to break new ground and challenge the idea of what photography is and can be, now and in the future.
In addition to focusing on sustainable development, solo shows at the Copenhagen Photo Festival seek to push the frontiers of photographic exhibition while showcasing fresh viewpoints and up-and-coming photographers. This is especially important given the festival’s location.
Deadline: 1 November 2022
For more information, click here.
Joburg Film Festival Youth & Audience Development Programme
The Youth & Audience Development Programme is an outreach programme focused on assisting the youth in disadvantaged and underdeveloped communities who are interested in the film industry. The programme conducts and hosts a series of skills development and empowerment workshops and masterclasses for film enthusiasts across two days with the aim of providing access to the filmmaking process and its different disciplines. The two-day workshop culminates in a free film screening open to the broader community. The 2022 programme will also incorporate an additional element in the form of acting workshops for aspirant young actors and actresses who also wish to sharpen their skills and talent. The workshops will take place between October 2022 and January 2023 across the five regions of Gauteng.
Furthermore, budding filmmakers have the opportunity to submit a 5-minute video themed, “what inspires you about your township” to stand in line to win one of a number of fantastic prizes including a scholarship to study a film-related course.
For more information, click here.
un/fund
Not-for-profit, film & photo production company un/produced, would like to announce the launch of their new international funding platform; un/fund.
Based out of the Netherlands, the funding is purposed to discover, promote and reward un/der-represented visuals artists.
By sponsoring and creating the platform, un/produced, wants to help inspire and finance the recovery of all un/supported visual creatives affected from the current climate.
The competition will feature numerous awards of up to €10,000 per project (including production support, financial management and exhibition).
For more information, click here.
