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WORLDWIDE BOW SEAT OCEAN AWARENESS STUDENT CONTEST ($1,000 CASH PRIZE).

Application Deadline: June 10, 2024

LOCATION: USA

The 2024 Ocean Awareness Contest – Tell Your Climate Story – encourages you to become a climate witness and share your own unique climate story. They are asking you to creatively express your personal experiences, insights, or perceptions about our changing climate reality. Use this opportunity to learn about the climate crisis and how it impacts your family and community, and to examine your individual responses to our evolving world. The Contest deadline is June 10, 2024.

ELIGIBILITY:

Students ages 11-18 from around the world are invited to participate in the Ocean Awareness Contest. Enter the division based on your age at the time of entry:

Junior Division: Age 11-14

Senior Division: Age 15-18

Students can participate as an individual or as a club, class, or group of any size. All students must provide the contact information for an Adult Sponsor (teacher, parent, mentor, etc.) Students who have started college or university are not eligible to participate in the Contest.

Submissions are accepted in:

Visual Art: Handcrafted

Visual Art: Digital

Poetry & Spoken Word

Creative Writing

Film

Performing Arts: Music & Dance

Interactive & Multimedia

Please review all submission requirements carefully. 

BENEFIT:

Join Bow Seat’s global community of over 30,000 young people who care about the ocean, environmental justice, and climate action, and contribute to the largest youth environmental arts collection in the world

Be eligible for special opportunities, like the Future Blue Youth Council. Past program participants also serve as Bow Seat interns and Contest judges!

Earn cash awards of up to $1,000!

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GOETHE TALENTS SCHOLARSHIP

Application Deadline: 2nd April, 2024

LOCATION: Germany

Applications for Goethe Talents Scholarship 2024 are open now! Please apply until April 2nd, 2024. The Goethe Talents Scholarship is a 12-day programme to support and connect young, aspiring musical artists including singer-songwriters and composers. The scholarship is a cooperation between the Goethe-Institut and »Pop-Kultur« and will celebrate its 10 years cooperation anniversary in 2024.

ELIGIBILITY:

Are you a young musician, composer, singer-songwriter and/or instrumentalist between ~20 and ~30 years of age?

Are you playing an instrument of any kind (from Oud to Drums) and any musical Genre?

Are you from a transitioning or so called developing country?

Do you…

… want to use your musical talent more target-oriented?

… want to share your experiences in playing music in a group?

… want to work professionally in the music field and industry and extend your networks?

If you can answer all these questions with YES, please submit your application for the Goethe Talents Scholarship 2024 by clicking the “apply now” button or here.

BENEFIT:

The participation fee, accommodation, travel expenses, hospitality (per diem) for the period of August 22nd to September 2nd, 2024 will be covered by Goethe-Institut.

Goethe-Institut will also book and pay for flights and will assist with visa appointments.

Additionally, Musicboard Berlin will give a free Festival Ticket plus access to Pop-Kultur’s networking area for professionals to all talents, organise accommodation (breakfast included), cover health insurance and public transportation within Berlin

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