May 4, 2025 - Calls and events
- The WASM Blog
- May 4
- 4 min read
Updated: May 4
Calls:
Reminder:
Only 1 Month Left - Submit Your Artwork for SSNAP 2025!
The Salt Spring National Art Prize (SSNAP) invites all Canadian and Permanent Resident artists from across Canada—to submit their artwork for one of the country’s most vibrant and prestigious contemporary art competitions. With just one month remaining before the May 31 submission deadline, this is your chance to be part of a national celebration of creative excellence.
Winner of last year’s SSNAP:
Sarah-Mecca Abdourahman is a graduate of Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2020). She has been awarded the Salt Spring National Art Prize Joan McConnel Award (2023-24) and is a recipient of the Canada Council of the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council grant (2023). She was a finalist for the Emerging IBPOC Artist Award (2023). She has previously exhibited with FOFA Gallery (2024), Le Livart (2023), Digital Art Resource Centre (2022), Gallery 101 (2022), and the Ottawa Art Gallery (2021). She has also led creative workshops with the Ottawa Art Gallery, Somerset West Community Health Centre, and the Ottawa Catholic School Board (2021-23). Her work is held in various private collections, including the City of Ottawa Art Collection and the Art Volt Collection. Currently, her solo Memories We Carry, Stories We Heal is on view at Warreng G. Flowers Gallery.
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The RBC Award for Glass is accepting submissions. It is a national award for emerging glass artists with $18,000 in prizes available. Eligible artists include those working in blown, flame-worked, fused, or stained glass. →Deadline May 25. Click here for details
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2025 QWF Literary Awards
The 2025 QWF Literary Awards book prizes are now open for submissions. The deadline to submit is Sunday, June 1, 2025, 11:59 pm ET for the book prizes and Sunday, July 6, 2025, 11:59 pm ET for the Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize.
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The 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is open for submissions and the winner will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and their work will be published on CBC Books.
You can submit an original, unpublished poem or collection of poems, up to 600 words in length. The deadline to submit is Sunday, June 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET.
Details here:
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At the MMFA:
Three days are reserved exclusively for you to admire works by Pablo Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, Henri Matisse, Suzanne Valadon and many others, as you learn about the fascinating career of gallerist Berthe Weill (1865-1951), a nearly forgotten figure who championed some of the most important artists we know today.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Le Moulin de la Galette, 1900, oil on canvas, 89.7 x 116.8 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, gift from Justin K. Thannhauser, 1978. © Picasso Estate / CARCC Ottawa 2024
Details here:
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At the McGill Library:
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 16:00 to 18:00. McLennan Library Building Rare Books and Special Collections, 4th floor, Colgate Room, 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA
Image by David LeBlanc (graphic designer)
Please join the McGill-Queen’s University Press and McGill Libraries for a panel discussion on the art of book design, coinciding with the opening of a display showcasing the winners of The Association of University Presses (AUP) 2025 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show.
More info and registration:
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Meet artist Kathleen Vaughan:
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Food:
A new take on Jewish cuisine in "Arthur's Home of the Nosh: A Big Personality Cookbook of Delicious Jewish Deli Favourites". The husband-and-wife team behind Arthur's Nosh Bar in Montreal talk about combining their Ashkenazi and Moroccan cultural and culinary backgrounds to create their unique take on Jewish cuisine for their restaurant and their debut cookbook. We talk to Raegan Steinberg and Alexandre Cohen about the recipes in "Arthur's Home of the Nosh".
Arthur’s Nosh Bar: Arthurs Nosh Bar
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Tastet platform releases the 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec, the "101 Tables Incontournables". For more than 10 years, diners and foodies in the Montreal area have been able to find the best in local eateries on the Tastet platform. It's an interactive, bilingual, free food guide and a magazine. We speak with the founder and editor, Elise Tastet. She talks about the platform's expansion to include restaurants across the province and microbreweries, cafes, wine bars, chip trucks, and bagel shops.
The web site: About Tastet: an interactive gourmet guide - Tastet
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Kuniko Fujita is a sake sommelier and ambassador for Japan Week, whose fifth edition has just kicked off. Montreal-based Fujita - who also goes by the name 'Madame Saké' - introduces people to the Japanese rice wine. She joined Daybreak's Sean Henry to share her passion for sake and Japanese culture - and how she had to leave home to truly appreciate this heritage.
c/o Samy Rabbat
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