QANTAS SPIRIT OF YOUTH AWARDS

The Noise Festival has teamed up with Qantas to bring you its Spirit of Youth Awards - an invitation to young Australians (aged 25 and under) to submit their creative work, with the chance to win cash, flights and professional mentoring.

The Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards (SOYA) span fields of endeavour including art, music and design. The aim of the project is to recognise, encourage and celebrate young Australian talent. The awards are a part of ‘Sharing the Spirit’, a new Qantas community initiative, designed to help Australians connect with their heroes, their loved ones and their dreams.

Noise invites all young Australians (aged 25 and under) to submit work in the following categories:

Words
Including fiction, creative non-fiction, prose, poetry, letters, stories, raves, diary entries, the list goes on...

Photography
Digital or analogue, colour or black & white. We want to see what life is like through your lens.

Music
If you’re in a band or you're a solo artist, we invite you to send your original musical creations our way. All musical styles are welcome: electro, rock, country, classical, hip-hop, jazz, indie, metal, dub, folk... or the unclassifiable. We want it all!

Moving Pictures
We invite all young filmmakers and animators to submit their made-for-screen creations. We are after anything and everything that can be shown on screens large or small - including short films, documentaries, any type of animation, audio-visual creations and curious experimental works.

Fashion Design
We invite all young Australian fashion designers to send us samples of their work. All styles of fashion and accessories are welcome, from casual to couture. If you can wear it you can enter it!

Pictures
We are seeking an assortment of visual works. Illustration, graphic design, painting, mixed media, comics - in fact any style of imagery - is welcome.

Industrial Design
If you dream up products or create functional objects, send your work our way. From two-dimensional diagrams in your sketchbook to those already transformed into three-dimensional realities, we are seeking the latest creations by young industrial designers.

SUBMISSIONS OPEN : 01/05/04

: HOW TO ENTER :
You are welcome to enter as many submissions in as many categories as you like. For each new category fill in a new submission form.

To enter you need to:
- Be aged 25 or under
- Be an Australian citizen or permanent resident
- Go to the Info section of the Noise site and check out the SOYA T&C’s [terms and conditions].

You can submit all your electronic work on this Noise site. To do this you will need to follow the links from the home page to submit work. If you are not already registered with Noise you will need to do so first. You will be asked to upload an portrait image so it’s a good idea to have one handy.From there just follow the instructions.

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