Creative Submissions Honouring Grandparents/Spiritual Grandparents/the Elderly
We invite everyone to join us in marking this momentous year by celebrating the experience and wisdom of the elderly and their important role in passing on and preserving the Catholic faith through generations.
Everyone is encouraged to participate in a collaborative project to bring out everyone’s creativity to honor the grandparents, elders, and spiritual grandparents through culture, music, artwork, video, and articles.
Your group or personal entry will be shared here on the NWLF website!
“The elderly “are trees that always bear fruit and people who continue to dream.” So young people must be “brought into dialogue with the dreams of the elderly.”
Activity & Content Ideas:
Creative submission is open to Parishes, Ministries, Catholic Schools, Families, and individuals to highlight and honor their grandparents/elders by sharing a group or personal entry of the following categories:
Short Film
Original Song
Dance Choreography
Visual Arts
Literature Poetry
Spoken/Performance Poetry
Photography
Rules:
Original unpublished work
Only unpublished work is eligible for this submission and entrants submit a waiver with each entry that certifies that their entry (or entries) is their own, original unpublished/unperformed work. For spoken/performance poetry, poems must be original works and not cover poems.
Ownership in any submission shall remain the property of the entrant, but entry into this collaborative project constitutes the entrant’s irrevocable permission and consent that NWFL may display, copy, reproduce, enhance, print, sublicense, publish, distribute, and create derivative works for NWFL purposes. NWFL is not responsible for lost or damaged entries. Submission of entry into the NWFL Creative Submission constitutes acceptance of all rules and conditions.
Submit an original Music Piece
Draw or Paint a Photo depicting your Grandparents or a respected Elder in your life
Write and Original Poem or Story about your grandparents
Submissions Theme:
The submissions of entry must be around the theme:
Grandparents & The Elderly: A Legacy to Cherish
All entries will be featured on this website!!
Submit your entry & consent form by May 31, 2023 to:
nwlfmanitoba@gmail.com
View below for more details:
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Accepted short film styles include: Animation, narrative, documentary, experimental, or media presentation.
Video file must not exceed 5 min. and 1 GB in size. Accepted format: MP4.
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All music styles and combinations of instrumentation are accepted.
Entrant can be the composer and may also be the performer, or one of the performers. Use of copyrighted material is prohibited.
The audio file must not exceed 5 min. and 1 GB in size. Accepted formats: MP3.
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Solo and ensemble works of all dance styles are accepted.
Video file must not exceed 5 min. and 1 GB in size. Accepted format: MP4.
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Works of both fine and design arts are accepted, including but not limited to: architectural drawing and models, ceramics, collage, computer-generated images and graphics, crafts, drawing, fashion clothes, greeting cards and jewelry, fiber work, mixed media, painting, printmaking, and sculpture.
Use of copyrighted material is prohibited.
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Accepted forms of fiction and nonfiction include Prose, poetry, reflective essay, screen play and play script, narrative, and short stories. Entrants may write in their primary language as long as an interpretive English translation is also attached.
Use of copyrighted material is prohibited. Writing must not exceed 2,000 words and be typed.
Accepted formats: Single-sided print on 8 ½x11” paper, PDF file.
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Video submissions cannot exceed three (3) minutes in length.
No props, no costumes, and no musical accompaniment can be used in the poem.
The performance should be video recorded. Use of copyrighted material is prohibited.
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Photo must be a single print/digital image. Collages and collections of photos are not accepted.
Entrant must be the photographer and may use a variety of digital editing techniques including but not limited to, multiple exposures, negative sandwich, and photogram.
Use of copyrighted material is prohibited. Print image dimensions must be no smaller than 3x5 inches and no larger than 8x10 inches.
Accepted print formats: Mounted on mat or poster board no larger than 11x14 inches. Framed prints are not accepted.
Digital image dimensions must be at least 640x960 (pixels) and 300 dpi (resolution). Accepted file formats: JPEG, JPG, GIF, PNG.
Reference Directory for Catechesis 209 – 215
212 The church, which over the course of the centuries has interacted with different artistic expressions (literature, theatre, cinema, etc.) is also called to be open, with due critical sense, to contemporary art as well, “including those unconventional modes of beauty which may mean little to the evangelizers yet provide prove particularly attractive for others”. Such art can have merit of opening the person to the language of the senses, helping him not to remain only a spectator of the work of art but to join in the performance. These artistic expressions, often pervaded by a strong sense of the search for meaning and spirituality, can help in the conversion of the senses, which is part of the journey of faith; they can also encourage the letting go of a certain intellectualism into which catechesis can fall.
