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The It is Apartheid Collective and Stop the Wall have announced the launch of the ‘Israeli Apartheid video contest’. Cash prizes will be awarded to winning submissions, which will also be screened at select film festivals. The contest is open for submissions. Ideally, videos will run under five minutes and should reflect ‘the nature, realities, [...]
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See3 Communications and YouTube have launched the 4th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards. The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation, to the best videos of 2009 found in the YouTube Nonprofit Program—a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions. The winners will be featured [...]
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I love comics, graphic novels and animation so am well happy that Ctrl.Alt.Shift have recognised their potential in social activism. I posted recently that they were running a competition in collaboration with Lightspeed Champion, well now you can check out their exhibition at the Lazarides Gallery on Greek Street in Soho, London. I am just [...]
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is running two competitions to raise awareness of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The competitions, both photographic and video, are themed around ‘Changing Lives’. For contest rules click here. Submission deadline for both comps is 31 October 2009.
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OK, it may look like Ctrl+Alt+Shift are paying me today but it is just that I haven’t checked them out for so long, and they are such a breath of fresh air. Anyway, this is a bit late but worth a mention as you don’t see many comics for social activism. They are running a [...]
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Some admirable short films make up the winners of the Ctrl+Alt+Shift film competition. Of particular note are ‘War School’ and ‘No Way Through’ (below) that use the technique of placing the violation in the audiences world. I think this may be just as more powerful in ‘constructed’ still images, and wonder why it is not used more? I like it as it tries to tackle the gap between the audience’s world and that of the ‘distant other’ we can so readily ignore, even though we may extend our pity.
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Launched in 2007, Good 50×70 is an independent, non-profit initiative aiming to ‘promote the value of social communication in the creative community, provide charities with a (free) database of communication tools, and inspire the public via graphic design.’ Good 50×70′s work revolves around an annual contest to design posters confronting seven of the critical issues [...]
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CGAP, who produce research and policy on financial access for the world’s poor, has launched a photo contest focussing on how micro finance has touched people’s lives. Click here for details. Deadline 14 September.
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To mark the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child UNICEF has organised a video contest. Click here for more details. Deadline is 30 August.
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Search for Common Ground is launching a photo slideshow contest in partnership with Animoto, the online video producer. Photos should focus on themes that exemplify the idea of common ground. For example: • bridging racial divides • intergenerational relationships • teamwork • communities working together • interfaith harmony • diversity • multiculturalism • cooperation For [...]
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