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Spotlight on Hip Hop Artists

Occhi Arts & Entertainment is inviting Hip-Hop musicians, dancers, and spoken word artists to collaborate on a series of special interview features celebrating the music, dance, and culture of Hip-Hop.

We’re looking for artists whose work reflects contemporary Hip-Hop culture while carrying forward its most progressive, community-building roots—expression that uplifts, challenges, and connects people across the diaspora. Our platform is dedicated to celebrating the arts, including Hip-Hop as a movement of creativity, social consciousness, and cultural pride.

Jazz & Sonic Arts 2026 | Improvised Music Residency

Overview 

Jazz & Sonic Arts is an innovative artistic development opportunity for jazz and sound musicians. The program encourages participants to explore new directions in their practice and advance their creative potential through collaboration, research, and performances.

Engage with sound in innovative ways, using improvisation, experimentation, and technology to expand the sonic possibilities of music. Jazz & Sonic Arts are ever-evolving and diverse creative genres, leading to multi-dimensional, transcendent artistic experiences. They serve as catalysts for cultural dialogue, empowerment, societal change, and ecological awareness.

This program welcomes both individuals and small groups.  

2025 LIT Music Awards: Season 2

The LIT Music Awards: Season 2 is an international music competition celebrating and honoring exceptional musical talent from around the world. From music, music video, dance, songwriting, influencers to instrumental performances, the LIT Music Awards is where musical excellence takes center stage in the entertainment industry, celebrating the pulsating heart of the global music scene.

Categories:
The LIT Music Awards categories cover the best in music, including soul-stirring compositions and visually captivating music videos. Whether you're an artist, musician, songwriter, composer, instrumentalist, or a music video creator, the LIT categories provide a platform for your talents to shine.
 

Call for Artists, Photographers, Writers - Music Magazine

Attention to the flocks of artists, photographers, musicians, and community builders - Submissions are open for issue 2 of Pigeon Magazine *

If you live in, have been to, or are inspired by Spain and it's culture this is your invitation to share. 

Pigeon, is an annual coffee table book. The first issue that is focused on the city of Los Angeles just released and we are currently working on a bigger and more awesome second issue that's eyeing up Spain. 

Synesthetic Soundscapes

treat gallery is excited to announce "Synesthetic Soundscapes," our Summer open call of 2025. 

What does sound look like? From Wassily Kandinsky's "Composition VIII" to Piet Mondrian’s “Broadway Boogie Woogie” to the Iconic "Dance" by Henri Matisse - into the contemporary Sonic Sculptures of Martin Klimas - music has long inspired visual art. We’re seeking visual artists whose work is inspired by specific songs, lyrics - and/or the power, rhythm, and emotion of music for open call Synesthetic Soundscapes—a feature that explores the deep connection between what we hear and what we see. 

 

Toga da wôhnagabi: Music Creation Residency 2026

Application Deadline August 20, 2025

Program Dates Feb 02, 2026 - Feb 28, 2026

Overview  

“Toga da wôhnagabi” (Stories for the future) is a four-week hybrid Indigenous music residency that brings worldviews together from all four corners of Mother Earth. Watched over by Buffalo Spirit, the residency provides musicians and songwriters a transformative space to actively listen and learn from each other in story and song.

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