2024 Multifaith Calendar
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Call for Submissions Deadline: 31 January 2023
Each year artists are invited to submit works of art for the publication of the upcoming Multifaith Calendar.
The Multifaith Action Society (MAS) would like to extend a gracious note of thanks to all artists who submitted pieces for the 2023 Multifaith Calendar - Building Our Future Together.
The theme for the upcoming 2024 edition is: Reclaiming Our Happiness
Theme Overview / Description...
Once again, our theme is intended to be open to the artists imagination.
Over the course of the past few years we have endured a series of unprecedented global urgencies, and many of us now feel a burning passion - whether newfound or reinvigorated - to help affect positive change on a wide scale.
And yet, before we can effectively tackle the many issues of the day, we have a responsibility to check in with ourselves and seek answers to some seemingly simple, yet fundamentally important questions. Perhaps most importantly of all, "What makes us happy?"
Whether it's gazing up a beautiful sunset on a warm summer evening, welcoming a newborn child into the world, or the excitement of exploring a new place, everyone can fondly recall a moment in which they felt truly happy. But how, after having endured the hardships of the last few years, can we bring ourselves to not only inhabit, but ultimately embody that feeling? To elevate ourselves to a place where we can inspire feelings of joy in others, and move forward with assurance that we're ready and able to affect positive the change we so sorely need.
Look inside and see what will make us smile once again and continue to build hope for the future. We hope this gives you an idea of the fertile space we hope to explore in our 2024 Multifaith Calendar. We look forward to your submissions!
2024 Multifaith Calendar - Reclaiming Our Happiness… Please submit your art (up to 5 individual pieces) in any medium that personifies our theme.
We would like to include many different interpretations of Resilience, which together will create a beautiful and visually cohesive Calendar. All artists are invited to contribute, including those who have had their work showcased with us in the past.
General Submission Parameters:
Each year, MAS invites visual artists to submit works of art for publication in our upcoming Multifaith Calendar. Work on this theme can be in any medium. The interpretation of the theme will be determined by the overall collection of images received.
Our aim is to produce a Calendar that will showcase a variety of interpretations on our theme while creating a visually cohesive end product. We encourage all artists to submit images, including artists who have had their work showcased in previous Multifaith Calendars.
2024 MFC submission deadline: 31 January 2023
OPTION 1: .....Submit up to 5 images (JPG) in low resolution (72 dpi) to: artsubmissions@multifaithaction.org
Should your piece be chosen, we will contact you and to request a TIFF (preferable) or JPG of the chosen image with the highest resolution possible (month images are printed at 9” x 9” / 350 - 400 + dpi).
OPTION 2: .....Submit up to 5 images by mail to: Send a seltion of up to 5 images to:
Multifaith Calendar 2023
949 West 49 Avenue
Vancouver, BC • V5Z 2T1
If requested, these images will be returned after the selection process is completed in April.
Selected artists will be provided an honorarium of $250 per image ($500 for the cover image) or $100 for insets (smaller images placed throughout the Calendar) and will also receive a set of complimentary Multifaith Calendars.
2024 MFC: Information for Artists
Information on the image selection process for the MFC: Selection Process
Information on artist honorariums: Remuneration for Artists
Please also feel free to contact the MFC Production Team: mfcproduction@multifaithaction.org
...or call Marcus at the MAS office: 604-321-1302
Look around – what in this world could not benefit from a little more love and compassion? Think about your neighbourhood, office, city, country, world – everyone benefits from an outpouring of love and compassion. No matter where we live, or what the circumstances, we all have emotional, physical or spiritual experiences. But bringing love and compassion to any situation is a balm for body and soul.
Erich Fromm writes: “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” Think about all the places you bring love.
· You can love your garden. And share the harvest with friends.
· You can extend warmth and kindness to a stranger.
· What about bringing tenderness and compassion to someone who is ill by reading to them aloud.
· Or how about when we offer to help a neighbourhood by walking their dog when they are time strapped.
There are so many ways, big and small, we all extend love and compassion everyday.
Show us how you experience and extend love and compassion through your art.
