$1500 and $750!!!

From email:

Greetings!

I am writing as the media contact for the RVA Environmental Film Festival, which is seeking submissions for its 2027 Film Contest. This year our contest has expanded to include environmental filmmakers from Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, DC and West Virginia. Films submitted to the contest should address environmental concerns relevant to Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic region. Please help us to get the word out!

The RVA Environmental Film Contest (RVAEFC) is an important part of the annual RVAEFF, which is free and open to the public. We seek films focused on concerns and care for our local environment, especially as the adverse consequences of climate change become ever more evident. Films may illuminate individual and/or community activism, educate us about challenges and harms, and share solutions.

THe RVAEFF’s mission is to showcase films selected to bring awareness of environmental issues facing our city, region, and our planet. Due to the generosity of local non-profit organizations, businesses and our volunteers, the Festival remains free and open to the public.

The RVAEFF will screen the First & Second Prize Winners on February 21, as part of the festival’s opening weekend.

There are awards! The First-Place film receives $1500 + laurel logo. The Second-Place film is awarded $750 + laurel logo.

Deadline: November 30, 2026
Extended Deadline: December 31, 2026
Notification Date: January 24, 2027
Event Date: Opening February 20 – 21, 2027 at Studio Two Three, Richmond VA.Film screenings continue through March 6 at locations around the Richmond area.

Films are submitted online through Filmfreeway.com (https://filmfreeway.com/RVAEnvironmentalFilmFestival)

For more information about the festival and films previously screened, please visit our website (RVAEFF.org).

Please share!

With gratitude,
Pamela Taylor

badcatrodeo@gmail.com
https://rvaeff.org/

From All The Saints Theater Company:

Dada the Data! A Funeral March for Intelligence! Our 21st Annual Halloween Parade!!! What is dada but the ether, the string and the oscillation, the vibes are Dada. The oppressors who push for a post human realization, 100 years aftter Dadaism was born because the deranged taste for violence, war, and tyranny had left the people no choice! Again we must stand up to the oppressors and their mania for improvement, all the while we sell our blood and days for the promise of intelligence and a glimpse of immortalizzed bourgeoisie. We do not consent! Saintly Dadaist believe in the divine ability to be silly in the face of war. Join us in this Requiem of data collection. Let us smash the flocking reality that does not serve us. We have the right to privacy, we do not consent to surveillance. As the late great Dada Parton taught us, 9-5 blue collar dadaists roll out of bed and sip out of the holy grail of ambition and take to the streets every Halloween and to go to work on Monday!!!!!so we can go head to head with the Money God system and their liquid intelligence. So intelligence is dead!! And so what?? What for do we care ? What for do we love?? What for makes us shiver when the wind touches our scalp? The stocks are nothing but paper plates!to be trades people to burn the meat robot makers from the inside out! Time to play dumb, intelligence is dead, the resistance is full of fools, and boo hoo, big scum!! Create your own world, mimes the word, and pie the clowns is the new eat the rich!!!!

And…

All the Saints Annual Halloween Parade is a labor of love, supported through community fundraising and donations. This year, Puppets Off Broad Street is thrilled to help with fundraising in celebration of the 21st Anniversary of this Richmond tradition. Your donation is tax deductible.
Dada your dollars!
This year we are using everything but the kitchen sink to bring you a ready made revolution. All the Saints humbly ask for some money love from the Richmond community to help support the small but mighty crew of blue collar Dadaists coming together to bring you the parade. In the last few years, our crew has been larger, encompassing more traveling artists. This year we are scaling back to a small core team and using up our existing materials in order to shrink our overhead and fundraising goal to make the parade more sustainable. Please help us keep the parade alive this hallows eve by throwing us some bones.
Donations go towards
Material Costs & Art Supplies:
We strive to use recycled and donated materials primarily, but additional material costs do come up! Paint, brushes, fabric, hardware, bells, tape, cornstarch. Art ultimately is free, but paint is not. It shouldn’t be unsustainable to create art, a little goes a long way to help us manifest the full colorful world we build (and repair) every year without putting the saints in debt.
Transportation
Every parade is a beautiful storm of coordination, favors, and a love for Halloween. We pull upon a network of friends with vehicles able to transport the puppets all around town during October and to ferry our cardboard creations to the parade and back. Additionally we rent a truck. Donations help keep gas in the tank and us able to show up with more and more puppets.
We’re really just trying to cover costs and keep our crew fed this year, but anything additional gets distributed amongst the artists as compensation for all the hard work they do.
Thank you for supporting us Richmond, see ya on the streets 🙂
Our goal is $5500 this year✨
https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=TNLAK5SEALHPQ
If you’d prefer sending us donations via Venmo, send donations to @saintmarkoos