the 11,000 project

A creative collaboration.

The 11,000 Project is an invitation to collaborate with Eya by sharing your creative work inspired by Hildegard von Bingen’s Symphonia. We want to cross-pollinate our ideas, our creativity, and our resources. And we want to share music and art that uplifts one another, and the world at large.

Eya is transforming our platforms, including our website and social media outlets, into a global online hub for creators like you—musicians, artists, writers, thinkers, students, and more—who are also inspired by Hildegard von Bingen, women’s voices, and the rising tide of the Feminine.

We want to amplify your performances, original artworks, video and film projects, poetry, essays, and creative responses to these sacred musical works.

The 11,000 Project is a means to bring our ideas together under a shared tent. Your work will be featured on our website’s Symphonia song pages (viewed by hundreds of visitors every month), as well as our social media outlets.

You can submit a performance (either solo or ensemble), a new composition (sheet music or recording), a poem, an essay, a piece of visual art, a video, a meditation, a translation: all creative forms are welcome, and we encourage you to step outside of the box!

Please note that The 11,000 Project does not include involve any financial exchange, but is an altruistic, open invitation to foster mutual goodwill amongst artists.

We are excited to see your work!

The simple rules.

Please read below for some basic guidelines to follow when considering your submissions:

  1. Your content is free to share under fair use guidelines and does not (in good faith) infringe on any copyright laws.
  2. You allow Eya to post your work on our website and social media outlets with attribution and links and social handles.
  3. You offer a simple statement of what inspired your work, and why you chose to contribute to the Project.
  4. Your work respects the integrity of the original content, but may utterly depart as you deem fit.
  5. All performers featured on any performance must be willing to share the work.

How to submit your work.

Fill out the Google form and share a LINK to your files (rather than your actual files). We recommend you share a link for:

VIDEO: YouTube or Vimeo

AUDIO: Spotify or SoundCloud

DOCUMENT: Google Doc

ARTWORK: Google Drive (high-res preferred)

Once you submit, you will receive an automated response. We will notify you with a confirmation email and page link of when your work goes live!

SUBMIT YOUR WORK

The fine print.

  • Eya reserves the right to withhold publishing and/or sharing your work if does not adhere to our simple rules.
  • Eya will automatically exclude your work if it in any way exhibits hate, prejudice, exploitation, violence, or harm towards any other person or group. (So don’t do it, obviously.)
  • Eya has no religious claims or affiliations, and has an open-minded approach to creative interpretation. Any submissions containing overtly religious or dogmatic content may be excluded at our discretion.
  • Please bear in mind that The 11,000 Project is not a marketing platform, but it is a community of artists supporting other artists. Please submit your work in good faith for the purposes of sharing artistic value, cultivating an inclusive environment, and supporting all artists.
  • We will do our best to include as many work submissions as we are able! There are no subjective prerequisites for submissions (i.e. production quality, skill, training, etc.), although high-resolution artworks are preferred to best represent your work.
  • Finally, Eya makes no claims on your creative work. We know it’s yours: we just want to encourage you to share it.