Prescot Cultural Consortium in partnership with Knowsley Borough Council, is looking to offer several commissioned opportunities for the upcoming Elizabethan Fayre.
The Elizabethan Fayre has been running for many years and celebrates the towns cultural heritage specifically from the Elizabethan era. During this time Prescot was the Las Vegas of the North, with a busy market and entertainment offer second to none.
This included many inns with live performances and the only free standing playhouse outside of London. The new
Shakespeare North Playhouse is built on these cultural foundations.
They want the fayre to celebrate these connections and bring to life these colourful heritage gems, its Renaissance roots; but also embrace creative takes and contemporary viewpoint on this. They want activity and proposal ideas that are fun and interactive, that residents and visitors can enjoy and interact with. These could be static, promenade or elements of both.
Themes are Elizabethan/Tudor, Sustainability and Prescot people and stories. This fayre includes activity/ static performance zones e.g. outside Shakespeare North Playhouse and the Parish church and animate the pedestrian part of Eccleston St, they are also interested in ideas and ways to bring activity to smaller side street where many magical retail offers like e.g. the likes of Chapel, Atherton and Leyland St. This could be a walking tour, family scavenger hunt or something else!
The Fayre will be funded through the High Streets Heritage Action Zone Cultural Programme Grant.
All applying will need to hold appropriate PLI and if successful submit a relevant risk assessment in relation to their activity. Any PA requirements will need to be known to establish if this is possible or the artists responsibility. This is an outdoor event so subject to the variable British weather conditions.
They are especially keen to hear from applicants in Prescot, wider Knowsley and the Liverpool Combined Authority area and those from protected characteristics.
Commissions will run from £200 to £1,200
Applications will need to include:
- Proposal
- Cost
- Company name
- Contact information
- Track record
- Be no longer than 2 sides of A4
Applications should be sent to cultureprescot@gmail.com
Closing date: 5pm Monday 10 April
Decisions: w/o 10-21 April
Dependant on the number of applications only successful proposal will be notified.