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| USA. Illinois. Chicago. Malcolm X throughout his go to to enterprises owned by Black Muslims. 1962. © Eve Arnold/Magnum Photographs |
This spring, Seattle Opera is presenting the West Coast premiere of X: The Life and Occasions of Malcolm X. To encourage college students to have a good time and have interaction with this work and Malcolm X’s legacy, now we have created this competitors for highschool juniors and seniors in Washington State. All college students, together with home-school and constitution college students, are invited to submit their essays, poems, and visible art work responding to the next immediate:
What side of Malcolm X’s legacy has had the best impression on our society in the present day?
The primary-place winner in every class might be awarded $500. The primary-place winners and first runners up for every class might be invited to current their submissions earlier than certainly one of Seattle Opera’s performances of X: The Life and Occasions of Malcolm X at McCaw Corridor, and their submissions might be showcased in McCaw Corridor throughout the whole run of the opera, February 24—March 9, 2024.
The submission deadline is January 22, 2024, at 11:59 PM.
Seattle Opera accepts on-line submissions solely. College students could solely enter in a single class. There is no such thing as a price to enter.
Competitors Guidelines
Essay Guidelines
- Entries should reply to the immediate.
- Entries should be written in English.
- Entries should be typed and submitted as a doc or PDF.
- Just one essay could also be submitted per scholar.
- Entries should be submitted on-line by January 22,2024 at 11:59 PM. Exhausting copy or late submissions is not going to be accepted.
- Entries should be at the least 300 phrases and shouldn’t exceed 500 phrases. Phrase rely doesn’t apply to works cited.
- Citations could observe MLA, APA, or Chicago kinds.
Poem Guidelines
- Entries should reply to the immediate.
- Entries will need to have a title.
- Entries could be written in any poetic type.
- Entries should be written in English.
- Just one poem could also be submitted per scholar.
- Entries should be at the least 3 strains and can’t exceed 50 strains. The poem title doesn’t rely as a line.
- To make sure correct lineation, please use the “Enter” key to start out a brand new line, indicating all intentional line breaks.
- All entries should be submitted on-line by January 22, 2024, at 11:59 PM. Exhausting copy or late submissions is not going to be accepted.
Visible Artwork Guidelines
- Entries should reply to the immediate.
- Entries will need to have a title.
- Entries could also be performed in any type or medium inside the vary of visible arts (portray, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, pictures, drawing, illustration, graphics, digital artwork, movement design, collage, metallic etching or punch work, or fiber work.)
- Entries should not exceed 24 inches by 30 inches.
- Entries should be submitted on-line by way of photos or movies of the art work. Digital art work should be submitted as both a PNG, JPEG, PDF, or MP4.
- Entries should be submitted on-line by January 22, 2024, at 11:59 PM.
- First place winners and first runner up might be contacted for decide up of the art work if it’s a bodily art work.
- All 2-D works should be packaged in order that the art work is not going to be broken throughout decide up.
- All 3D work should be self-supporting or mounted on their very own bases.
Grounds for Disqualification
Submissions that:
- don’t adjust to the principles listed above,
- will not be the coed’s authentic, authored and/or created work,
- present false entry info,
- plagiarize content material, or
- include language that’s vulgar, offensive, or wholly inappropriate.
All choices of disqualification might be remaining.
X: The Life and Occasions of Malcolm X runs Febuary 4-March 9, 2024 at McCaw Corridor. Tickets and information at seattleopera.org/x.
