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Celebrating New Orleans Families
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
The New Orleans Loving Festival is seeking participants for a new photography project called "WE ARE FAMILY." Participating families will be featured on the Loving Festival's website, social media pages, and in a 2019 photo exhibition that celebrates the diversity of New Orleans families.

Families will be photographed in their homes or another location to be determined, and asked to provide a short bio to accompany their photo. Participating families will receive a free photograph by New Orleans based artist, Leona Strassberg Steiner. 

Please contact Jerald L. White (cfnnola@gmail.com) or Haitham Eid (heid@suno.edu) to participate, recommend a family or get additional information.  Click HERE to support this project!

#PutYourStampOnLoving 
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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​The 7th Annual New Orleans Loving Festival is looking for 50 great stamp designs to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Loving v Virginia Supreme Court decision.  If selected, your stamp design will be featured in a limited edition Loving Festival Philatelic Collection and Exhibition.  

STAMP SUBMISSIONS must include your name, address, short bio, a high resolution artist photo, and up to 10 stamp illustration submissions. 
The DEADLINE for receiving submissions is Tuesday, March 31, 2017 at Midnight - Central Standard Time.  You will need to create a Submittable User Account to submit your stamp designs.  Your stamp design should include the phrase "Loving v Virginia Supreme Court Decision, 50 Year Commemoration 1967 - 2017."   Visit www.charitablefilmnetwork.submittable.com/submit to apply.

The New Orleans Loving Festival is an initiative of Charitable Film Network, a Louisiana state nonprofit organization.  For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org.  #LoveYall #LovingFestival

new orleans Blended books club Essay & poster contest
cALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Enter the Blended Books Club's 2017 Youth Essay & Poster Contest and you could receive a cash prize, certificate and have your essay or artwork featured in a Loving Festival publication or exhibition. 

The poster and essay contest is open to residents in the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area - age 18 and younger at time of submission.  Prizes will be awarded for the top 3 essays and 3 posters! First place winners receive $100, second place $75 and third place $50. Winners will be announced in June of 2017.

Visit www.
charitablefilmnetwork.submittable.com/submit for additional information and submission guidelines.  The deadline for submissions is March 14th 2017.

The New Orleans Loving Festival is an initiative of Charitable Film Network, a Louisiana state nonprofit organization.  For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org. #BlendedBooksClub #LoveYall #LovingFestival #WeNeedDiverseBooks
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#DignityInProcess
​Call for Artists, Activists, & Wisdom Keepers

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#DignityInProcess Call for Artists, Activists, & Wisdom Keepers

CALLING ALL Afro-Indigenous/ Creole/ Mixed/ Black-identified CONJURERS, PERFORMING ARTISTS, DANCERS, SPOKEN WORD ARTISTS, MUSICIANS/ VOCALISTS, & ACTIVISTS! *QTPOC strongly encouraged to reach out!

Have you been looking for spaces to grow, create, and be challenged as an artivist or healer? Invest in your creative brilliance and join a community of Afro-Futurist artist/ activists that are shaping a sustainable movement of Black Liberation!

#DignityInProcess is a multidisciplinary platform in response to the Black Lives Matter movement merging art activism, ancestral healing, and intersectional identity evolution within the Afro-Indigenous Diaspora. Bringing together movement, ritual, storytelling, and collective artmaking, #DignityInProcess draws upon the practices that have sourced the resilience of our ancestors for generations. Gathering Wisdom Councils of Mixed Race, African-Native American, and Creole elders—multigenerational conversations lay the foundation for embodied accountability to sustain a movement of Black Liberation. Afro-futures emerge through site-specific performances, subversive theatre direct actions, and community workshops celebrating the dignity of Black evolution.

Contact ChE at che.art.life@gmail.com to get involved. Visit www.ChE-Art.Life to follow the process.

mixed messages.6
​CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The 6th Annual New Orleans Loving Festival is seeking original artwork and short films with themes concerning Love, Race, Identity and the Multiracial Experience for MIXED MESSAGES.6, a juried group art exhibition at the Myrtle Banks Building Gallery (July 1st through August 6th of 2016. 

Please visit www.charitablefilmnetwork.submittable.com for submission guidelines.  The DEADLINE for submissions is JUNE 1, 2016 at Midnight - Central Standard Time.

#NOLF #LoveYall #LovingFestival #MixedMessages.6
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For Submission Guidelines and Application visit:
www.charitablefilmnetwork.submittable.com/submit
The DEADLINE for submissions is March 31, 2016.

2015

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

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Enter the New Orleans Loving Festival’s  2015 YOUTH WRITING CONTEST and you could win a cash prize, plaque and have your essay published! 

ELIGIBILITY: The writing contest is open to middle and high school students in the Greater New Orleans Community, age 18 and younger.  ESSAY TOPICS: Richard and Mildred Loving, Loving v. Virginia, Loving Day, the Multiracial Experience, Intersectionality, Colorism, Colorblindness, and Racism/White Supremacy.  JUDGING: Essays will be judged by Loving Festival staff and volunteers, based on the following criteria: Knowledge of essay topic, development of the topic, and clarity of ideas.  PRIZES: First place winner will receive $100, second place $75 and third place $50. Winners announced in June of 2015. 

Visit www.charitablefilmnetwork.submittable.com/submit for submission guidelines.  The DEADLINE for submissions is March 31, 2015.

MIXED MESSAGES.5

The 5th Annual New Orleans Loving Festival is seeking original artwork and short films with themes concerning Race, Racism and the Multiracial Experience for MIXED MESSAGES.5 a juried group art exhibition at Press Street's Antenna Gallery (June 12th to July 6th). 

Please visit www.charitablefilmnetwork.submittable.com/submit for submission guidelines.  The DEADLINE for submissions is April 26, 2015.
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