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	Writing Competitions Kupu Rere – Matariki Poetry Slam Open to poets – spoken word artists 18years+ Registrations $10 from 6pm Door sales $10 from 6.30pm Start time 7.15pm 1st prize $500, ,2nd prize $250, 3rd prize $125 Criteria: Keeping it real Poems must have relevance to Matariki – Maori New Year, they must be original. One poet per poem, one poem per round. Poems must not exceed 3 minutes. Come prepared with 3 poems – 2 rounds and a 3rd if there is a tie breaker. Poems in another language must have an English version. No props, instruments or costumes. Judges decision is final. Apply by 15th June. All enquiries contact event producer Mei Hill 0210379499 or email titiro@pl.net Landfall Essay Competition The purpose of the competition remains as it was at the outset: to encourage New Zealand writers to think aloud about New Zealand culture, and to revive and sustain the tradition of vivid, contentious and creative essay writing in this country - as embodied in the non-fiction of early Landfall contributors such as Bill Pearson, in the essays of past winners of this competition, and in the essays the journal continues to publish. Entries for the sixth Landfall Essay Competition will be accepted from 1 May 2008. The closing date for receipt of entries is 5 pm, Thursday 12 June 2008. The winning entry will be published in the November 2008 issue. The winner will receive $2500 and a year's subscription to Landfall. Manuscripts should be supplied in hard and soft copies, with text saved as RTF, MS Word or text-only files on a CD. Email entries will not be accepted/ Two hard copies of manuscripts are required. These should be typed with double-line spacing and a wide left-hand margin. The name, address and telephone number of the author should appear on a separate sheet of the manuscript. Entries should be addressed to: Landfall Essay Competition, Otago University Press, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand. New Zealand Young Playwrights Competition Playmarket is proud to announce the 2008 tenth New Zealand Young Playwrights Competition. Plays must be more than 30 minutes in length. Entry is free and scripts may be in English or Maori. For more info, please contact scripts@playmarket.org.nz. Her Magazine Entries to have a maximum of 800 words, submitted in double spacing including a short biography of the writer. Entries close 20th of each month. Each entry must be the author’s original work and must not have been published before. Each entry should be accompanied by a short biography of the writer. Entries are to be emailed to Her Magazine :hermag@strettonpublishing.co.nz For more information click here Romance Writers of New Zealand present Strictly Single Contest Details to come. See: http://www.romancewriters.co.nz/competitions.php Rotorua Writer’s Group National Short Story Competition Entries must be original and previously unpublished. Maximum 1500 words. $5 entry fee per story. Closing date 30 June 2008. For more information Email: bamm@paradise.net.nz for entry forms, or write to: President, Rotorua Writers’ Group, Box 1972, Rotorua 3040. Whakatane Friends of the Library Short Story Competition Check out http://hef.org.nz/2008/whakatane-friends-of-the-library-short-story-competition-2008/ for more details. International Institute of Modern Letters School Poetry Awards Open to Year 12 and 13 students currently enrolled at a NZ secondary school or verifiable home school equivalent. The deadline for entries 3 June 2008. For more information see http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/activities/school-poetry/how-to-enter.aspx New Zealand Book Council has put together a list of Awards, Grants and Competitions. See www.bookcouncil.org.nz for more information. Competitions for musicians Adam International Cello Festival This biennial festival aim is to promote, recognise and encourage New Zealand and international cellists to attain standards of excellence. Criteria: Cellists who are aged up to 30 years on the 20 July of the year of the competition. Applications are open April/May the year of the competition. First prize is $16,000 plus a recording contract and performance with NZSO. For more information contact: Kate Duder Festival Event Manager PO Box 3770 Christchurch OR phone 03 3662390 OR email k.duder@xtra.co.nz Gisborne International Music Competition This annual competition aims to provide an opportunity for young New Zealand musicians to take part in a highly acclaimed competition for players of orchestral instruments. It is open to 16-25 year old solo players of orchestral instruments. Entries close October each year, the competition is held around November/December. First prize is $5000. For more information phone 06 867 2054 Or Gisborne Music Competition PO Box 1045 Gisborne Michael Hill International Violin Competition This biennial competition aims to recognise and encourage excellence and musical artistry, and to promote young violinists who are on the brink of launching their professional solo careers and are aspiring to establish themselves on the world stage. Open to all violinists of all nationalities born after 30 May 1973 and before 30 May 1985. Applications must be received by December of the year prior to competition. First prize includes $40,000 and a CD recording. For more information phone 09 638 7073 OR Michael Hill International Violin Competition c/- Auckland Philharmonia P O Box 56-024 Dominion Road Auckland OR email mhivc@aucklandphil.co.nz Lexus Song Quest This biennial competition offers the opportunity to compete with the best both in New Zealand and overseas. Winners receive substantial grants towards the cost of study. It is open to singers who are New Zealand citizens and whose main income in the two years prior to the contest was not derived from fulltime professional singing as performers or teachers. The next competition is in 2009. First prize $10,000 and $15,000 scholarship. Apply September 2008. For more information 04 473 0149 OR email lexussongquest@festival.co.nz OR Artistic Administrator New Zealanmd International Festival of the Arts P.O. Box 10-113 Wellington Pacific Songwriting competition Open to songwriters of any age from anywhere in the world. First prize $10,000. For more information phone 03 214 0887 OR PO Box 277 64 Wood St Invercargill Or check out http://www.pacificsongwritingcompetition.com/ Voeveo $15,000 promotional package for musicians and bands competition So much good stuff and all a part of New Zealand Music Month! * Your own featured landing page with an in-depth profile, Q&A and video * Your music and profile featured on the voeveo homepage * Your music and profile highlighted on our NZ Music feature page * Plus exposure in our NZ Music Month online advertising campaign It's all worth $15,000! Boo Ya! What's voeveo all about? We're a Kiwi company who believes in supporting independent artists and letting you keep your rights! Find out more about voeveo www.voeveo.com/aboutus Got any questions? Just email competition@voeveo.com Visual arts competitions 17th Annual Wallace Arts Awards Paramount Award ($38,000) A 6 months residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York including airfares Park Lane Wallace Development Award ($18,000+) A 3 months residency at the Vermont Studio Centre in the United States including airfares Kaipara Foundation Wallace Award ($20,000+) A 3 months residency at the Altes Spital in Solothurn, Switzerland including airfares 2 Runners Up Awards of $2,000 each People’s Choice Award $500 Jury Award (non-monetary) Judges: Linda Tyler, Dick Frizzel and James Robinson. Entries close 5pm 7th August 2008 How to Enter Application information and form available at www.wallaceartstrust.org.nz or Wallace Arts Trust, 305 Queen Street, Auckland; (09) 302-5271 Photography Society NZ - Ray Barlin Award Youth Photographic Competition. Rules for entering competition:- Previous winners not eligible. Enter up to 3 unmatted prints, max size 20x30cm. Open Category – Colour or Monochrome images Write name, postal and email addresses, phone numbers and date of birth on the reverse side of each print/image Entry implies permission to reproduce winning entry without fee and for purposes of competition promotions with photographer retaining copyright All entries will be judged by Fellows of the Photographic Society of New Zealand. Prints will only be retuned if postage and appropriate self addressed envelope is included with entry. Winners will be notified by mail and announced in The Photographer’s Mail and D-Photo November issue 2008 Prizes: 1st Prize $250 - Book Voucher 2nd Prize $150 - Book Voucher 3rd Prize $100 - Book Voucher Apply by Monday 25th August 2008 Send all entries to: PSNZ/Ray Barlin Award C/- C dot Com PO Box 932 Pukekohe 2340 CUT TO: Music The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra is offering filmmakers from across New Zealand a rare and exciting opportunity to watch their film screened to a packed Aotea Centre with live orchestral accompaniment. CUT TO: MUSIC is a short film competition challenging film-makers to write, direct, and edit an original work based on a film score commissioned especially by the APO, which can be downloaded from the orchestra’s website. The winning contestant receives a prize and their film will be screened as part of the orchestra’s concert of film music: Return of A Night at the Movies, accompanied by a live performance of the score by the APO. Open to all film makers – students, amateur-directors and industry professionals alike – directors are encouraged let their creativity run free while they tell a story, all the while ensuring that sound is married to image. Competition entries are now accepted by the APO. Contestants may submit as many films as they choose. Entry forms must be submitted to the APO by Friday 16 May. Finished films must be handed in to the APO by 5pm on Monday, 2 June. For more information, entry details and competition downloads please visit www.apo.co.nz. Junk to Green Funk art competition This competition draws a link between low-impact environmental production (such as the artworks you make) and fair trade craft and food (such as our producer partners make), this theme will also feature at our Art Auction for World Environment Day in Wellington. The artwork you create will be made from recycled materials. It will be an object with a low “carbon footprint” and has a useful and/or aesthetic aspect to it. The competition runs through Fair Trade Fortnight and culminates on World Environment Day - June 5. For More info on the competition visit NZ School’s Photographic Competition This competition is being facilitated by the New Zealand School’s Visual Arts Charitable Trust, a non-profit organisation that has been set up for purposes such as this competition. This photographic competition has been running for New Zealand students for the past 3 years and every year is more exciting and more popular than the last. We look forward to receiving entries for this years theme ‘Our People At Work & Play’ or the Agresearch Science Section 'The Science of Farming'. Entries are due by the 25th July 2008. The Awards Ceremony will be held at the Concert Chamber, The Academy of Performing Arts, University of Waikato, Hamilton on 22nd August 2008. entry form The New Zealand Writers Guild and Nga Aho Whakaari present - The Final Draft Short Film Script Competition Prizes include professional script assessment for the top three and a $500 cash first prize. Maximum length of entries is 15 pages, (with a recommendation of ten to twelve pages). Entries in Te Reo invited, as well as in English. Post entries to: PO Box 47886 Ponsonby, Auckland. (please include two copies). Entry fee: $10 for members of NZWG or Nga Aho Whakaari, $45 for non-members. Entries close 5pm Friday the 2nd of May. Entries must include printed, completed, and signed copies of the Entry Form and the Terms and Conditions. You can download these from the links below. Entry Form Terms and Conditions Cut! National High Schools Video Competition Calling all secondary school teachers and students: Wintec’s Cut! Short Video Competition is back for the 5th successful year running, allowing the future generation of aspiring New Zealand film-makers the opportunity to showcase their talent. If you have budding film students, encourage them to get their creative juices flowing and enter Cut! for 2008. The categories are documentary or drama and the film must be between 4-8 minutes long. Great prizes on offer for your students and school. Log onto www.wintec.ac.nz/cut to register, or for more information. Apply by Wednesday 22 October North Shore City Art Awards – National Art Competition Applications close Friday 26 September 2008. For more information please contact the Mairangi Arts Centre at 09 4782237, email - manager.mac@xtra.co.nz, or visit website www.mairanigarts.co.nz Tenerife International Film Festival Talented filmmakers from all over the world are invited to enter prestigious Tenerife International Film Festival. Catering from small budget to popular global films with the love of film. Entry to the event is free. Have you created something special in the last 2-years? Awards will include entries for Best Short Film, Animated Film and Music Video. Please check the website: http:/www.tenerifefilmfestival.com 2008 Pacific rim international print exhibition The exhibition is open to artists 18 years and older from cultures of the Pacific Rim, the basin of the Pacific Ocean, and the US and its territories. Eligible printmaking media are intaglio, lithography, relief, serigraphy, digital computer prints, and mono prints. The work must have been conpleted in the last three years Preliminary selection through review of slides or images supplied on CD. Entry fee of $40, and documentation due on 9 June 2008. All selected works should arrive by 4 August, 2008. The Exhibition opens 6 October at Sofa Gallery, The Arts Centre of Christchurch. For more information phone: (+643) 366 7001 ext 8145 or email: pacificimprint@canterbury.ac.nz Other competitions Rutherford Science Competition 2008 2008 is a special year for the New Zealand science community: on December 10th it will be exactly 100 years since Ernest Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances. The University of Canterbury and the Royal Society of New Zealand will mark the occasion with a national schools competition. To cater for all age groups the competition will be divided into three categories: Year 9-13, Year 5-8 and Years 1-4. Topics and the rules of the competition are available at University of Canterbury Outreach website. For Years 9-13 students will be required to write an essay. Essay topics and the rules of the competition are available at the University of Canterbury Outreach website. The closing date for this age group is 31st July 2008. For Years 1-8 the competitions will be launched in August and run through terms 3 and 4. More resources will be made available to schools later in the year. The students will be required to write stories or make posters, based on the life and work of Ernest Rutherford. For Years 5-8 Entries can be an essay (maximum word count: 600) or a poster (maximum size: A3) Closing date is 31st October 2008. For Years 1-4 Entries must be a poster (maximum size: A3) Closing date is 31st October 2008.

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