The 2021 National Young Artists Summit, which will be held on October 16, is a virtual summit entirely designed and led by young people, is a space for dreaming and using the arts to imagine a different and better future. The summit is an opportunity for for youth leaders, ages 15-20, from a range of artistic disciplines, to connect, create, and celebrate. This summit is a program of the Creative Youth Development National Partnership.

The International Teaching Artist Collaborative’s pioneering initiative—ITAC IMPACT: Climate—is NOW OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS from teaching artists (also called participatory, community, citizen, or social practice artists) around the world with a passion for creating a participatory project with a community to combat climate change.

NEW INC — a shared workspace and incubator program supporting an anti-disciplinary community of individuals, small teams and collectives — is designed to support creative practitioners as they pursue a sustainable practice or bring a new business to life.

Please join virtually on Thursday, April 8th, 5:30 - 8:30 pm, for the inaugural Arnhold Institute Symposium entitled Pioneering Visions for Access and Equity in Dance Education. The symposium is free and open to the public.

The Young & Emerging Leaders Forum hosts a monthly online gathering for young scholars, emerging leaders, and new colleagues to the field of arts education to share their work, network, and develop a community of learning in order to expand opportunities and broaden the leadership pipeline in the global field of arts and cultural education.

Do you believe in gender equality for an equal future? Are you between 18 and 30 and passionate about creative storytelling to visualize your belief in women’s rights and activism? This is your chance to show the world your work!

The deadline to submit is March 12, 2021!

The 2021 Desert Skies Symposium on Research in Music Learning and Teaching - which occurs from February 18-20, 2021 - is open to all music and arts educators, artists, and community members, and focuses on persistent questions in education, the arts, and culture. The conference schedule and sessions are designed to be interactive, with opportunities to be in dialogue with one another about urgent matters in our field, particularly matters of justice, inclusion, and diversity. For the 2021 Symposium, the plenary speakers will be Bryan Brayboy, Natalie Diaz, and Django Paris. Each speaker will be featured in a plenary session, including a dialogue time with participants, and then all three speakers will be together in a conversation session with each other and conference participants. We’ve asked these three distinguished guests to help us think about indigeneity, justice, and how our work can support transformative change in this moment.

Join Teaching Artists Guild for our series of BIPOC Youth Led Professional Development Workshops. Youth artists will lead online participatory workshops to give insight into what helps create a creative, nurturing environment for them to thrive. Sessions held from January - June every 3rd Wednesday from 4:30–6:00pm ET.

The fifth annual international SIMM-posium (Research Symposium on the Social Impact of Making Music), originally scheduled to occur in Brussels last month, has been postponed and reorganized as a nine-week series of online webinars beginning on January 12. The webinars are free and open to all. You can find detailed information on the full program on the SIMM website. Registration is on the Bozar website; you must register for each session separately.

The World Health Organization invites independent film-makers, production companies, NGOs, communities, students, and film schools from around the world to submit their original short films to the 2nd Health for All Film Festival. Submissions are open from 24 October 2020 to 30 January 2021.

The “In Pursuit Of__” open call for art contest is for 13-19 year olds, brought to you by Unshuttered at the J. Paul Getty Museum and Amplifier! “In Pursuit of__” is the 2020 theme of the Getty’s award-winning Unshuttered photography program, which is generously supported by the Genesis Inspiration Foundation.

Creative Generation will publish a series of papers that disrupt and interrogate long-held ideas of mentorship and promote youth-centered, multilateral, intergenerational, and/or cyclical mentorship models in arts & cultural education.

EXTENDED Deadline for initial submission: March 15, 2021

Project Knucklehead is hosting the first Creative Rebellion Olympics. Explore this page for details about our art contests for social justice. Hosted by Project KnuckleHead’s Freedom Fellows.

Building on the tremendous success of the digital 2020 ABLE Assembly Conference, we seek proposals for 20-minute pre-recorded breakout sessions on the theme of Intersectionality, Disability, and Arts Education. This topic emerged as an area of interest among attendees at our 2020 ABLE Assembly, and we are excited to create the opportunity for deeper exploration in this area. Deadline for Proposals: December 15, 2020.

This virtual seminar, held on 26 October 2020, will provide an opportunity for the global arts education community to share research and begin to examine the structures, processes, and practices, which may lead our field towards a new reality of arts assessment and program evaluation. This seminar will bring together several invited international experts and host a discussion of evidence-based practices aimed at measuring impact of arts learning and arts programming.

The Young & Emerging Leaders Forum will occur on 27 October 2020 and provide a space for young scholars, emerging leaders, and new colleagues to the field of arts education to share their work, network, and develop a community of learning in order to expand opportunities and broaden the leadership pipeline in the global field of arts and cultural education.

A showcase of 100 schools will gather online to share expertise and best practices during the inaugural World Education Week, to be held from 5-9th October. The hand-picked schools will join together in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on Quality Education (SDG 4) and share their expertise across a range of educational themes, such as enhancing employability and life-skills; deepening family and community engagement; the use of technology; a focus on wellbeing; and promoting the science of learning and teaching.

In March of 2020, Tricia Tunstall led a highly interactive session with members of the ITAC community. While the discussion sections are not featured in this archive, Tricia deftly presents the ways in which the SDGs can be viewed as an opportunity for case making in the arts. The session showcased a forward-thinking approach to making a case for arts education and the arts by embracing a well-respected and impactful system.

Youth Engaged for Change are now accepting applications for youth, ages 16-24, to join the Youth Engaged 4 Change (YE4C) Editorial Board!

Editors help address the issues that youth care the most about! They write, develop, and review content for the YE4C website, social media, and other digital media (like podcasts and videos). YE4C Editorial Board members join virtual meetings to discuss issues that matter to young people.

This virtual summit, entirely designed and led by young people, is a space for dreaming and using the arts to imagine a different and better future. The summit, held November 6-8, 2020, is an opportunity for young artists, ages 13-20, from a range of artistic disciplines, to connect, create, celebrate, and inspire, and to create their/the Artistic Youth-led Revolution. This summit is a program of the Creative Youth Development National Partnership.