open call

noun

1. an audition, especially for actors or dancers, open to anyone wishing to try out.

Example Sentences

SO: The thing that you told me last week that still really resonates with me is when you were going through the thousands of submissions from the open call for the big Superchief gallery photo show earlier this year, and you were like, “I never wanna do another photo of a lowrider or a guy holding a gun again.”

From Los Angeles Times

They have been assembled for your fist-pumping adulation from a reported 5,000-plus hopefuls responding to an open call for musicians and dropped into the center of a teenage musical soap opera, also called “The Runarounds,” premiering Monday on Prime Video.

From Los Angeles Times

Envisaged as a citywide celebration, plans for the biennial include open studios, jewellery fairs, heritage tours, a trade conference and a flagship exhibition - shining a spotlight on internationally acclaimed artists and emerging talent, selected through a UK-wide open call.

From BBC

For the 2025 Youth competition, photographers aged 19 and under were invited to respond to an Open Call and enter their best images from the last year.

From BBC

What the second-year player was unhappy with was the type of people an open call for tryouts might attract, considering the tone of some of the responses she had seen to the Sparks’ online ad.

From Los Angeles Times