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Create Connections Through Creativity
Whether you're an individual artist or part of a team, you can share your work, collaborate with others, and help grow a creative community rooted in curiosity, expression, and mutual support.
Step One:
Choose Your Category
Whether your creativity shines through film, photography, spoken word, digital media, painting, or dance, there’s a place for you here.
These steps are for individual participants—but if you’d rather join an existing team, click here to collaborate on a Challenge project that’s already underway.
Pick the category
(see list below).Pick the medium
(see list below).
Step Two:
Create Your Piece
Your submission should be thoughtful, engaging, and relevant to the challenge’s mission—educating, informing, and empowering communities.
Step Three:
Submit Your Work
Upload your project via our submission portal (or email/Google Drive for large files). Provide a short description, including your inspiration and intended impact.
Have questions?
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Post your submission on social media using our challenge hashtag #createtorium.
Step Four:
We thrive. You thrive.
Category Groups
Medium-Based Categories
Best Short Film Award – For documentary or narrative storytelling through film.
Best Photography & Visual Storytelling Award – Capturing injustice through impactful imagery.
Spoken Word & Poetry Award – The power of words to inspire and educate.
Music & Sound for Impact Award – Songs, compositions, and sound-driven activism.
Digital & Motion Art Award – Animation, motion graphics, and digital storytelling.
Performance Art Award – Dance, skits, or theater-based advocacy.
Illustration & Graphic Design Award – Using visual art to expose injustice.
Personal Narrative Award – Storytelling through first-person experiences.
Experimental & Mixed Media Award – Projects that combine multiple creative disciplines (e.g., from textiles to digital).
MUA & Hair Award – Celebrating Makeup Artists and Hairstylists whose artistry significantly contributes to storytelling.
Handcrafted Activism Award – Celebrating craft-based activism through handmade works such as textile arts, woodwork, ceramics, quilting, jewelry-making, embroidery, and sculpture that tell stories of resistance, resilience, and advocacy.
Wearable Art & Costume Design Award – Recognizing the artistry of wearable activism, including handmade fashion, upcycled designs, and culturally significant garments that make statements on social justice issues.
Community & Public Art Award – Honoring collaborative art installations, murals, or craft-based community projects that engage and uplift communities through visual storytelling.
Empowered
Step into a thriving creative movement where artists uplift one another, transforming everyday spaces into dynamic expressions of self-expression. Stylists, designers, photographers, and performers come together to turn the ordinary into something extraordinary.
Captured through the lens of photographer Matt Ordeshook, this underground gathering radiates raw energy, bold artistry, and limitless creativity.
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Get In Touch
Connect with us to share your creative work and help expose injustices faced by vulnerable communities. Together, we can make a difference.
E-mail us!
createtorium@gmail.com
CONTACT
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Submit Work for the Creative Challenge: Upload your creation and tell us your story.
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