• Deadline: Friday, 28th February 2025
• Type: Fundng/Opportunities
• Award: IMMA is offering €10,000 grant to the three winning proposals.
  
• Link to application details: https://imma.ie/whats-on/earth-rising/

We are delighted to announce an Open Call for Proposals for the Earth Rising Festival 2025. This annual festival is dedicated to sparking climate conversations and inspiring action through art and culture.

The 2025 edition of Earth Rising will align with “Staying With the Trouble”, a ground-breaking exhibition at IMMA inspired by Donna Haraway’s seminal book. Opening in April 2025, the exhibition invites audiences to rethink their relationships with humans, animals, and ecosystems, fostering imaginative new ways of seeing and acting.

Haraway’s concept of “making kin”—collaborating across species and communities—guides this call. In the same spirit, we are seeking projects that bring visual artists, ecological groups, and communities together to respond creatively to the Earth Crisis. Selected projects will culminate in presentations, activations, or installations at the Earth Rising Festival in September 2025, demonstrating how collaboration can inspire meaningful change.

About the Open Call
We invite proposals for innovative, community-focused projects that combine artistic creativity and environmental action to inspire hope, dialogue, and transformation. IMMA is offering three €10,000 grants to fund projects that will:

• Be developed between April and August 2025.
• Manifest at the Earth Rising Festival in September 2025, through an engaging and participatory format that connects with festival audiences.

We are looking for collaborations between visual artists, Irish-based environmental groups, and local communities. Proposals should aim to create impactful projects that highlight the power of collective action in addressing the climate crisis.

Project Themes
Proposals should respond to two or more of these themes:

1. Everything is Connected Highlight the interconnectedness of humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems. Explore the shared responsibilities that sustain life on Earth.
2. Imagine New Futures Envision hopeful, sustainable futures and propose imaginative solutions for a thriving planet.
3. Working Together Showcase the strength of collaboration between people, communities, and nature, celebrating collective effort and shared ideas.

What We’re Looking For
We are particularly interested in projects (new or existing) that:

• Engage Communities: Actively involve local communities across the island of Ireland, in meaningful ways, fostering participation, dialogue, and learning.
• Combine Art and Environmental Action: Utilise the collaboration between artists and ecological groups to propose innovative responses to environmental challenges.
• Manifest tangibly at Earth Rising: Proposals must include a clear plan for presenting or activating the project at the Earth Rising Festival (12-14 September 2025), ensuring it resonates with audiences and creates lasting impact.
• Have Feasibility and Vision: Demonstrate a clear and achievable roadmap for development, delivery, and presentation, within the given timeframe and budget.

How to Apply
Proposals should comprise of a 5 page (max) PDF document which includes the following:

1. Project Concept: A summary description (max 500 words) of the project, its goals, and how it aligns with the themes.
2. Collaboration Plan: How the visual artist and environmental group will work together, including roles and responsibilities.
3. Community Engagement Plan: How the project will involve and benefit local communities.
4. Manifestation Plan: A clear vision for how the project will be presented or activated at the Earth Rising Festival.
5. Budget: A breakdown of how the €10,000 grant will be allocated. Please note that the budgets are all inclusive and should cover all the expenses (including travel) needed for the presentation of your work, including VAT where applicable.
6. Timeline: Key milestones from April to September 2025.
7. Artist/Group Background: Bios of the artist(s) and environmental group, including relevant experience and contact details.
8. Support Material: Up to 5 images, videos, or documents illustrating your concept or previous work.

Submission Details

• Deadline: Submit your proposal by 5pm Friday 28 February 2025.
• Notification: Successful projects will be announced by Friday 21 March 2025.
• Submission Email: Send your application to [email protected] with the subject line: “Earth Rising Open Call 2025 – [Project Name].”
• Only PDF documents will be accepted.

We will be hosting a Zoom clinic for any questions you may have about the application on 12^th February at 4.30pm. To register please email [email protected]

For more details visit: https://imma.ie/whats-on/earth-rising/ We look forward to receiving your proposals and seeing your ideas come to life at Earth Rising 2025!

• Deadline: Monday, 3rd March 2025
• Type: Opportunities
• Award: We’re accepting art, poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction, reviews, and any hybrid forms you can of those media.
  
• Link to application details: https://metachrosislitmag.com/submission-guidelines/

Welcome to Metachrosis Literary! We’re a literary and creative arts magazine that celebrates the arts. sciences, and humanities. We welcome exploration and experimentation across all forms of art and writing.

We’re accepting art, poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction, reviews, and any hybrid forms you can of those media. If you’re submitting a piece that falls outside of those categories, we would love to see it. You can submit under the label that you think is closest, and if you’re unsure, you’re welcome to send an email to [email protected].

• A prose piece written in computer code? Great
• A poem about the process of carbon dating? Love it
• A series of photos of interpretive dance inspired by 80’s sci-fi? Sounds incredible
• A critical essay on the art of erotic scrimshaw? Fabulous

We love the passionate, the critical, and the humorous. If you want to get a feel for what we publish, you can read all of our previous issues for free on our website. We have a page with suggested readings for anyone who is interested.

We’re accepting submissions via Oleada and Curatorspace, and all submissions are free. We cannot afford to pay people at the moment, but we will provide a copy of the issue to each contributor.

If you want to look at our socials, we publish sections of all the work in our magazine.
Instagram: @metachrosislitmag
Threads: @metachrosislitmag
Twitter: @Metachrosislit

If you’re not sure that what you have is a good fit, you can check out all of our digital issues, which are free to read. We have all submission guidelines and formatting requirements alongside our submission guidelines on our website.

You can also send us a brief synopsis of the work, and we’ll confirm that it’s of interest. ( and hopefully give you the name of someone who might be a better fit.)

• Deadline: Monday, 3rd of March 2025 at 6pm
• Type: Fundng/Opportunities
• Award: The maximum budget that is available is €15,000.
  
• Link to application details: https://bramstokerfestival.com/en/page/open-call-2025/

Dublin City Council is inviting proposals for the 2025 Bram Stoker Festival, running from Friday 31st October to Monday 3rd November. This annual event celebrates Bram Stoker through a diverse array of literary, cultural, and family-oriented activities across Dublin City Centre.

Want to join us in thrilling and terrifying Dubliners with deliciously dark treats this Hallowe’en?

We’re looking for events, shows, experiences and productions of all kinds to complement our existing 2025 programme. They must have a real connection to or be thematically linked to Bram Stoker; his works, his life, his philosophy, Victorian Dublin, all things Gothic, the supernatural or the mysterious.

A maximum budget of €15,000 is available for selected proposals. We have budget available for projects which fit our criteria.

About the festival
Bram Stoker Festival is one of Dublin’s biggest multi-disciplinary arts festivals, with a broad audience of Dubliners of all ages and backgrounds, united in a love for the unknown, the supernatural and the Gothic.

• Deadline: Sunday, 9th March 2025
• Type: Opportunities
• Award: There will be 5 virtual meetings among all the international participating artists under the guidance of a member of a Moku Art Studio and/or MANGO team.  These sessions are dedicated to the inception and refinement of your artist project.
  
• Link to application details: https://www.mokuartstudio.com/ocean-opencall

Moku Art Studio and MANGO have partnered for the Ocean Virtual Artist Residency. This collaborative program empowers participating artists to embark on the journey of developing a new project aligned with the residency’s thematic focus: OCEAN

Dive into a transformative creative experience from March to April 2025. This residency offers a unique opportunity to develop your artistic projects, connect with a global community of artists, and share your work with an international audience.

What’s in store:

• Virtual Mentorship: Participate in five virtual sessions with experienced mentors from Moku Art Studio and @mangoresidencia.
• Theme Exploration: Develop your projects inspired by the theme of the Ocean, exploring a wide range of approaches—technical, conceptual, reflective, and experiential.
• Creative Development: Receive insightful feedback and guidance to refine your ideas, techniques, and creative vision.
• Global Exposure: Showcase your work at a Virtual Open Studio and Exhibition Inauguration, connecting with art enthusiasts and fellow creators from around the world.

We invite you to explore the boundless possibilities of the ocean and make waves with your art!