** New deadline for entries: December 31st, 2009 **
The International Polar Year Youth Time Capsule Project Committee is
holding a writing contest for Pan-Arctic youth, and is calling for
submissions about life in the north that will be included in the IPY
Time Capsule, to be re-opened 25 years from now.
The IPY Time Capsule Project is a youth-led initiative, aimed at
involving northern youth in the International Polar Year in meaningful
and creative ways. The Project has been developed based on the belief
that youth participation is essential to ensuring the lasting legacy
of the International Polar Year. So far, the Time Capsule Project has
included photography, art work and youth surveys, and the Committee is
now seeking pieces of writing, so that a written interpretation of
life in the north through the eyes of youth can be presented along
side the visual components of the Time Capsule.
Youth living in Canada between the ages of 12 and 18, who are
interested in submitting an entry to the writing contest, are asked to
submit a one-page piece of writing, in any format (prose, poetry,
etc), on a subject related to life in the North.
Entries will be accepted in any language that is currently spoken in
the North, and prizes will be awarded to the first and second place
entrants in each of two categories: English/French and Traditional
Language/Other.
The First Prize winner in each category will receive an Ipod Touch 32
GB, and the Second Prize winner will receive an Ipod Nano 16GB.
The deadline for entries is December 31st, 2009.
All entries will be considered for inclusion in the IPY Time Capsule
Project, and select entries will be displayed in a physical Time
Capsule exhibit, slated for early 2010, as well as on an online
exhibit, which will be available to the public beginning in late 2009
and displayed until January 2011.
In order to participate in the contest, youth can submit entries by
email to ipy.timecapsule@gmail.com, or by mail to P.O.Box 11050,
Yellowknife, NT, X1A 3X7, Attn. Bree Denning.
Contact – Bryany Denning, 867 873 9337, 1bbd@queensu.ca
