Arts festival calls for entries
A festival celebrating and encouraging the production of creative arts for ministry is offering up to $1000 for winning entries in its competitions.
Artist Joanna Darby won the inaugural Gabe Reynaud Award at the Manifest Creative Arts Festival this past year. She and the other winners from the festival competitions speak about using the arts for ministry in this video posted on the Manifest homepage.
The Manifest Creative Arts Festival is coordinated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific through the Adventist Media Network and Avondale College of Higher Education.
The entities are offering $4000 in cash for original creative pieces in filmmaking, fine arts, song composing and writing. Entrants can win up to $1000 in each area.
“We value creatives and the way they challenge us to think about our faith,” says co-convenor Brenton Stacey, public relations officer at Avondale. “The prize money is a small but tangible demonstration of this.”
Manifest has increased the number of competitions from three to five since the inaugural festival last year. New this year is a competition in fine arts, sponsored by Avondale, and a competition in song composing in the praise and worship genre, sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific’s Institute of Worship.
Manifest is now calling for entries in the following:
- Avondale College of Higher Education Fine Arts Competition—open to fine art works in all media and processes.
- Hope Channel Filmmaking Competition—maximum 10 minutes in length; open to all genres.
- Institute of Worship Song Composing Competition—original song; open to the praise and worship genre.
- Psalter Music Song Composing Competition—original song; open to all genres except praise and worship.
- Signs Publishing Company Writing Competition—maximum 1000 words; open to all genres.
Besides prizes for the best entry in each competition, Manifest is also offering an Avondale College of Higher Education Young Achiever Prize—a $500 discount on the winner’s accommodation, service and facility or tuition fees at Avondale—for entrants aged 21 and under.
Profiles of three of the winners of the competitions last year—Glendon Harris, Jodie Barnes and Scott Wegener—appear on the Manifest website.
Enter the competitions by Friday, March 16, 2012, at 5.00 PM, to be eligible.