OPEN CALL | Be Right Back: Where Creativity Happens Between Shifts
Between shifts, between clock-ins and clock-outs—
Can a life packed with schedules still hold space for a dream?
The moment we clock in, our time is no longer our own. Another day rushes in as we open our eyes, and dreams are put on hold once again.
We move through the cracks of the city—convenience stores, drink shops, cafés, subways, late-night sidewalks. Working by day, creating by night. We take orders, pack bags, run the register—then, when the rush is over, we quietly sketch a little, edit a clip, jot down a few lines.
Life is chopped into fragments, yet we still try to carve out a sliver of space—for our truest selves. We’re shining a light on those who hustle nonstop between jobs and creative work. We're not here to romanticize juggling multiple roles. We're here to honor those who, despite the pressures of real life, still make room for creativity.
Shifting roles, drifting rhythms, compressed emotions—but the impulse to create never fades. There are moments when you’re not even sure if you still count as an “artist.” But the midnight sketches, the photos snapped on your commute, the half-thought lines scribbled between shifts—they are all real.
They are all you.
So we want to invite you to share the works born from these squeezed-out moments—made late at night, after work, in the narrow in-betweens of daily life. No format restrictions, no demand for perfection. Whether it’s visual, video, paper-based, audio, journal entries, or even just a fleeting idea—it deserves to be seen. This is more than an exhibition. It’s a chance for us to find one another. To piece together these scattered, hurried, fragmented creations into a picture that says, “I’m still holding on.”
✨ Open to visual artists working in all mediums
✨ Submission deadline: July 20, 2025
✨ Exhibition dates: August 1–14, 2025