Welcome to
The Social Distancing Festival.
This is a site for celebrating art from all over the world, showcasing amazing talent, and coming together as a community at a time when we need it more than ever.
A NOTE FROM NICK - Thank you so much for checking out The Social Distancing Festival. I can’t believe how quickly this all happened (on so many levels). I am so grateful to have gotten the chance to connect with artists around the world. You have really kept me company during this tough and lonely time.
My small team of AMAZING colleagues and I have been through hundreds of submissions, and are really proud to present you with this collection of art, as well as our ever-growing calendar of live streams from around the world. We’ll keep taking submissions and updating the site, so keep coming back!
I hope that you enjoy the work displayed on this site. I hope that you can get lost in work of all different mediums and styles from artists in all different stages of their careers . I hope you read their stories and feel connected through a shared love of art and creation and life. And I hope that helps to get you through.
That’s really, ultimately, the whole point.
26 BIPOC artists in Canada and the United States, selected from nearly 400 applications, were paired up and tasked with creating interdisciplinary, innovative new work. Check out this cross-border art initiative, produced in partnership between the Social Distancing Festival and the 13 Diplomatic Missions for Canada across the United States.
FEATURED
Click above to see more. This curated section features some super exciting contributions to the site. We’ll be updating it regularly!
LONG DISTANCE ART
Round 2 of our Long Distance Art project has LAUNCHED! We have been hard at work pairing up artists from different artistic disciplines in cities around the world to create new works of art. Click above to check it out!
Pasadena, CA, USA - Take a second to let some poetry from Artist, RaeAnne Chanelle, resonate deeply. Take a thematic dive!