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The APN Emerging Artist Playwriting Mentorship - DEADLINE EXTENDED

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Emerging playwrights are paired with an experienced playwriting mentor to support the development of their chosen project.

DEADLINE: February 28, 2026 - 11:59 pm

Open For Submissions: 61st Annual Alberta Playwriting Competition

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The Alberta Playwriting Competition, presented in association with Theatre Alberta, is the longest running provincial playwriting competition and offers the largest cash prize of any playwriting contest in Canada.

DEADLINE: March 15, 2026 - 11:59 pm

Call for Poetry Anthology Contribution

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This anthology project, Black Psalms of the Shivering Ones, calls on Afro-Canadian poets to reflect and produce new images of how winter experiences shape Afro-Canadian lifeworlds.

DEADLINE: April 14, 2026 - 5:00 pm

ArtsHub 118 Co-operative is looking for a new member for March 1 2026!

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Discover ArtsHub 118 living! We are currently looking for a new member for March 1, 2026. Applications are taken at all times.

DEADLINE: March 1, 2026 - 5:00 am

Call for Submissions: ENVIRON

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Alberta Craft invites submissions for ENVIRON, a curated exhibition exploring how craft artists reveal the environments—ecological, industrial, digital, cultural, and lived—that shape their materials, processes, and meaning.

DEADLINE: February 27, 2026 - 5:00 pm

Beacon Original Art: Call for Submissions

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Now Accepting Artist Submissions. Join our spring art exhibition and sale April 25 and 26, 2026.

DEADLINE: March 28, 2026 - 4:30 pm

The Common Ground Festival is Looking for Submissions - All Performing Arts Welcome

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The Common Ground Festival is back this year and we're groovier than every. We are looking for submissions for performing arts of all kinds!!! If you've got a thing we've got a stage.

DEADLINE: July 31, 2025 - 11:59 pm

ChamberFest West (CFW), Calgary-based Music Organization, Board Recruitment Opportunity

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CFW presents a major international summer music festival and is building its Board. Candidates with governing experience, community connections a plus.

Residential Schools Memorial - government is seeking Indigenous Artists

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Indigenous artists can submit a Expression of Interest for a memorial on legislature grounds to honor residential school students who never came home.

DEADLINE: July 29, 2022 - 12:00 pm