2025 Multifaith Calendar
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Call for Submissions Deadline: 31 January 2024
Each year artists are invited to submit works of art for the publication of the upcoming Multifaith Calendar.
The Multifaith Action Society (MAS) would like to extend a gracious note of thanks to all artists who submitted pieces for the 2024 Multifaith Calendar - Reclaiming Our Happiness.
The theme for the upcoming 2025 edition is: Pathways to Peace
Theme Overview / Description...
Once again, our theme is intended to be open to the artists imagination.
As multiple conflicts rage across the world, it can be easy to give in to feelings of hopelessness about humanity's prospects for a peaceful and prosperous future.
The dream of true and lasting world peace is universal, yet elusive. What will it take for us to finally set aside our petty differences and historical grievances to find a common vision for humanity? Does peace simply entail the absence of war, or does it incorporate freedom from all forms of injustice and oppression?
Many philosophers and spiritual leaders have posited that we cannot achieve global peace and unity until we realize peace within ourselves – an intriguing perspective inviting new and creative interpretations. Perhaps, peace need not be more complicated or grandiose than a walk amongst the wildflowers or a late-summer sunrise.
In the 2025 Multifaith Calendar, Pathways to Peace, we invite artists to reflect deeply on these perennial questions and to channel their visions of peace into artwork that soothes the spirit, uplifts the soul, inspires others to action, and ultimately offers solace to a divided world.
2025 Multifaith Calendar - Pathways to Peace… Please submit your art (up to 5 individual pieces) in any medium that personifies our theme.
We would like to include many different interpretations of Resilience, which together will create a beautiful and visually cohesive Calendar. All artists are invited to contribute, including those who have had their work showcased with us in the past.
General Submission Parameters:
Each year, MAS invites visual artists to submit works of art for publication in our upcoming Multifaith Calendar. Work on this theme can be in any medium. The interpretation of the theme will be determined by the overall collection of images received.
Our aim is to produce a Calendar that will showcase a variety of interpretations on our theme while creating a visually cohesive end product. We encourage all artists to submit images, including artists who have had their work showcased in previous Multifaith Calendars.
2025 MFC submission deadline: 31 January 2024
OPTION 1: .....Submit up to 5 images (JPG) in low resolution (72 dpi) to: artsubmissions@multifaithaction.org
Should your piece be chosen, we will contact you and to request a TIFF (preferable) or JPG of the chosen image with the highest resolution possible (month images are printed at 9” x 9” / 350 - 400 + dpi).
OPTION 2: .....Submit up to 5 images by mail to: Send a seltion of up to 5 images to:
Multifaith Calendar 2025
949 West 49 Avenue
Vancouver, BC • V5Z 2T1
If requested, these images will be returned after the selection process is completed in April.
Selected artists will be provided an honorarium of $250 per image ($500 for the cover image) or $100 for insets (smaller images placed throughout the Calendar) and will also receive a set of complimentary Multifaith Calendars.
2025 MFC: Information for Artists
Information on the image selection process for the MFC: Selection Process
Information on artist honorariums: Remuneration for Artists
Please also feel free to contact the MFC Production Team: mfcproduction@multifaithaction.org
...or call Marcus at the MAS office: 604-321-1302
Look around – what in this world could not benefit from a little more love and compassion? Think about your neighbourhood, office, city, country, world – everyone benefits from an outpouring of love and compassion. No matter where we live, or what the circumstances, we all have emotional, physical or spiritual experiences. But bringing love and compassion to any situation is a balm for body and soul.
Erich Fromm writes: “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” Think about all the places you bring love.
· You can love your garden. And share the harvest with friends.
· You can extend warmth and kindness to a stranger.
· What about bringing tenderness and compassion to someone who is ill by reading to them aloud.
· Or how about when we offer to help a neighbourhood by walking their dog when they are time strapped.
There are so many ways, big and small, we all extend love and compassion everyday.
Show us how you experience and extend love and compassion through your art.
