Calling all visionaries, artists, innovators, musicians, storytellers – calling them all to help our world, our communities, our United Nations to master the challenges of our time
Update regarding contest timeline!!
Due to internal and external factors, the contest core team and partners decided to modify the contest timeline such that the start of the submission phase will be moved to 19th September 2024.
New!! Join the GloCha Contest Community on WhatsApp:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/Dsz1q9VF7IU3NO7TChQxN3
Join our GloCha Contest Community and our weekly GloCha Contest 2024 Community Talks in order to stay informed about new developments regarding the GloCha contest, the GloCha Festival, partnership opportunities, additional GloCha Contest 2024 awards, etc.
Organizer:
- International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI GloCha
in partnership with
- UN Habitat Youth Programme,
- UN Environment Early Warning and Data Analytics branch, and other partners
Timeline:
- to be announced
Why
Our artists, our musicians, our storytellers are our visionaries who hold the magic ingredient to move humankind into creating positive change, building a thriving future for all life on earth.
Aims
Inspiring and mobilizing, with the power of culture, people everywhere for collaborative action for the common good in the context of UN Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Summit of the Future 2024 and the UN Climate Change Conference COP29.
Building with the Global Challenges Action network GloCha a global partnership and ecosystem of various stakeholders, who join forces for local, citizens/youth focused, global goals action empowerment with culture, technology and organizational innovation.
Awards – 2 Main Awards
Future Creator Visual Art Award (2500 USD prize money + participation in events in NY, Carinthia/Austria or Baku/ Azerbaijan, depending on availability of funds and environmental footprint considerations)
Future Creator Music Award (2500 USD prize money + participation in events in NY, Carinthia/Austria or Baku/ Azerbaijan, depending on availability of funds and environmental footprint considerations)
Additional Awards & Opportunities for Partnerships
The GloCha (Global Challenges) Music and Art contest 2024 offers the opportunity to create multiple sub-categories of awards and individual galleries, based on thematic, geographic or other criteria, which enables the introduction of additional awards.
IAAI GloCha is inviting potential partners like e.g. cities, NGOs, thematic networks, universities et al. to get in contact with us (email to contest@glocha.org) to explore potential additional partner-led award categories, and other potential collaboration towards local global goals action empowerment.
In addition to the Additional awards resources of partners, IAAI GloCha is providing another 2500 USD prize money for submissions that aims to inspire and empower collaborative action in relation to climate change and specific local/global challenges (in the context of the GloCha programs DigitalArt4Climate and Challenges Mapping/Local Pacts for the Future).
Link for Expression of Interest for Partnerships / Additional Awards
https://bit.ly/EoIGloChaContest2024
Identification of Winners through a combination of public voting and jury voting
- Public voting: dates to be announced
- Jury voting: dates to be announced
- announcement of winners: date to be announced
Digital Art / Web3 technology / Resource Mobilization Innovation
Web 3 technology (blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology) enables the creation of uniquely identifiable digital assets (Non-Fungible Tokens / NFTs) based on creative assets (images, videos et al.). IAAI GloCha has developed in the context of the Action for Climate Empowerment Project ACE_AT the DigitalArt4Climate programme as a creative economy and climate philanthropy framework to harness the potentials of Web3 /NFT technology to mobilize resources for youth and local communities focused climate action empowerment.
IAAI GloCha will work with those GloCha Music and Art Contest 2024 participating artists and award partners, who are interested to develop with us Web3 technology based resource mobilization programs, but this will not be a prerequisite for participation in the GloCha Music and Art Contest 2024.
launch press conference at the UN Bonn Climate Conference SB60, 10th June 2024:
https://unfccc.int/event/iaai-call-for-music-and-art-glocha-cocreation-digitalart4climate
We connect creative community and youth with UN programs and goals – References:
- GloCha DigitalArt4Climate COP26 edition (in partnership with UN Habitat youth programme) https://digitalart4climate.space/#rec374020001 – https://digitalart4climate.gallery
- COP21 Global Challenges Youth Music Contest (in partnership with UN Climate Change and UNESCO Management of Social Transformation Program) https://unfccc.int/news/2015-global-challenges-youth-music-contest – UN CC video report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ4pObZWg5A
- Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest 2012 – in support of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development https://www.academia.edu/2401920/The_Rio_20_Global_Youth_Music_Contest_Journey_Towards_The_Future_We_Want_Photo_documentary_presented_in_the_context_of_International_Day_of_Youth_12_August_2012
To learn about GloCha, watch our GloCha Bonn Climate Conf 2024 press conference video:
https://unfccc-events.azureedge.net/SB60_99755/agenda