--- title: Free Culture Showcase description: Get creative and submit your artwork to this year’s Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase. The theme is Freedom. […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/free-culture-showcase?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 20 January 2011 # Free Culture Showcase [Design](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/design) [free](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/free) [Ubuntu Desktop](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/ubuntu-desktop) --- Share the article For the 11.04 Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase we (the attendees at the UDS session) thought it would be really good to set a theme. The decision was made in order to encourage people to create content with wider artistic merit. The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is designed to help all of us show off the beauty of our creative work. We want the brief to inspire people to explore and celebrate their interpretation of Freedom. The Brief: To create photography, illustration, music and video which express Freedom. We are looking for beautiful, engaging and optimistic work that will serve to delight millions of people all over the world. All submissions must be original work. Should you be combining content (for example using music to accompany a video), we must insist that all components are creative commons licensed ([CC-BY-SA](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)). Videos can be animation or live action. The creative brief is deliberately open but all submissions must follow the Ubuntu Code of Conduct (that means no nudity, swearing or anything that would upset your Mum or Dad!). Judging criteria: contributions will be judged for production quality as well as creative merit. Beta Freeze is March 24th so winners will be announced 18th March. All contributions that wish to be considered must be submitted by the 1st March 2011. More details about where to put your submissions can be found on the [free culture showcase wiki page](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase) on the Ubuntu wiki. At UDS we also agreed that selecting judges from within the professional creative community would give us an opportunity to showcase our work to a broader audience. I am delighted to announce that the following people have agreed to sit on our judging panel: [André Durand](http://www.flickr.com/photos/ideafineart/): Artist [Anthony Melder](http://www.irisnation.com/): Creative Director, Iris [Peter Kirn](http://createdigitalmusic.com/ ): Create Digital Music [Peter Grundy](http://www.grundini.com/ ): Grundini Get creative! ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Arduino® VENTUNO™ Q is available for pre-order with Ubuntu pre-installed](https://canonical.com/blog/arduino-ventuno-q-is-available-for-pre-order-with-ubuntu-pre-installed) London, UK – August 25, 2026 – Following our initial collaboration announcement in March 2026, Canonical and Arduino (a subsidiary of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.) are excited... [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical) 25 August 2026 [### Challenges designers face in open source (and how to fix them)](https://canonical.com/blog/challenges-designers-face-in-open-source-and-how-to-fix-them) Open source powers up to 90% of modern software, yet many projects lack usability. Canonical’s Design team surveyed 115 cross-functional professionals to uncover the 4 core... [Kola Ojoodide](https://canonical.com/blog/author/kola-ojoodide) 26 June 2026 [### AI with AMD ROCm on Ubuntu: your questions answered](https://canonical.com/blog/amd-rocm-on-ubuntu) AMD ROCm is now available in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Learn what how to make the best of it, and find out what this will mean in the coming years for development in Ubuntu. [Kevin Cazabon](https://canonical.com/blog/author/kcazabon) 3 June 2026 [### Why web engineering is great](https://canonical.com/blog/why-web-engineering-is-great) Hi, I’m Johann! I’m an engineering manager in Canonical’s web team. For the larger part of my 15 years of work experience as engineer, I’ve been working in web development.... [Johann Wolf](https://canonical.com/blog/author/johannwolf) 27 April 2026