Call For Proposals VOICE OF THE FUTURE - Youth Participation in Waterwheel World Water Day Symposium 2014 - 3WDS14   17 – 22 March 2014

Submission deadline: December 31, 2013 No Entry Fee Voice your ideas in next year?s Waterwheel World Water Day Symposium! The theme is ?Water Views: Caring and Daring?. It will take place on the Internet platform Waterwheelw http://water-wheel.net.

Participate and take an active and important part in an international online event. Meet artists, scientists, water activists and inventors of all ages, and share your photos, images, videos, texts, poems and ideas with the world! Waterwheel is like a multi media YouTube where you can upload all kinds of files, and via the Tap, meet people and audiences from around the world.The Tap is like Hangouts or Skype. It is the venue where presentations and performances are held, using your webcams and uploaded media. You can also draw online in real time. Everything can be moved, rotated, resized and more.

HOW TO APPLY: AS AN ARTIST, A PERFORMER, AN INVENTOR OR A CURATOR. Join our digital party! You will get to play on a cool platform and you will gain experience in putting forward a proposal! You can participate as an individual or as a group (preference will be given to collaboration), posting on the Waterwheel website either:

• An art piece - a drawing, video clip, poem, song, animation, etc

• A live presentation or a performance - as a written or video proposal (for up to 20 min)

• A curatorial project: you may propose to organise or/and present works from a group MEDIA • images (photos, drawings) - .jpg, .png (1000 pixels)

• video (with or without sound) - .mp4 (with sound 128kbps)

• animations – .swf • sound file (e.g. music) - .mp3 (with 128kbps)

• text (e.g. poem) - .doc, .rtf, .pdf

• written proposals – max 300 words explaining what you?ll do and who?s participating – .doc, .rtf    Up to 5 media items can be uploaded per proposal.

17-22 MARCH WATER VIEWS: CARING & DARING LIVE ONLINE & IN 12 NODES WWW.WATER-WHEEL.NETAPPLICATION CALENDAR

• Deadline: December 31, 2013

• Notification of Acceptance: January 21, 2013

• Training sessions: dates to be confirmed. Meanwhile, see ?How to Use? below

• Event: March 17 - 22, 2014

CONDITIONS & SELECTION PROCESS

• You can apply in English, French or Spanish.

• A teacher or parent must help you register if you are under 18 years.

• All work presented must be original.

• When you upload your media, identify it with the tag #3WDS14_YOUTH.

• Please refer to the screen capture on the next page for all detailS A curatorial committee will review your applications and art pieces. They will contact you on the email that you supply with your registration. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, please write to youth@water-wheel.net

HOW TO USE WATERWHEEL Uploading Media - video: http://vimeo.com/waterwheel/howto-upload Look for the manual here:

• English http://bit.ly/WW-pdf-En

• Spanish http://bit.ly/WW-pdf-Esp

• General information about the Waterwheel website and how it works: http://water-wheel.net/how-it-works HOW TO UPLOAD YOUR MEDIA