Community Post Type: Callouts

What’s Your Walton Story? is a 12 week creative writing course in Spellow Community Hub & Library, every Wednesday morning.

With regular sessions led by professional writers, anyone can drop in and share their story of living or working in the Walton area and have the chance to see their work published in an anthology. Discover the benefits of sharing with others and the power of words.

Coming up they have sessions with Joseph Roberts, Claire Beerjeraz and PJ Roy.   

More information and dates here: What’s Your Walton Story? – Writing on the Wall

Commissioned by Culture Liverpool, Liverpool City Council.  With support from the Community Recovery Fund

Are you aged 16-24? Always wanted to produce your own electronic music? Got skills already that you want to develop?⁠

Starting on Monday 10th March, 6pm – 8pm they’re partnering with Scrapyard Studios for a 6 week series of music production skills workshops as part of their project: Queue Up And Dance.

Every Monday 10th March – 14th April, 6pm, Scrapyard Studios

Melissa Kains, founder of female and non-binary DJ collective Sisu Crew will lead the workshops teaching how to mix using different equipment, set up the decks and produce your own tracks. There’s also a chance to perform live mixing with your own track at a very special Quadrant Park event in May.

*Please note* one booking signs you up for all 6 of the workshops running every Monday from 10th March, 6pm – 8pm.⁠

Queue Up And Dance celebrates legendary Bootle nightclub Quadrant Park, the UK’s first legal rave all-nighter. Although the club was short-lived, growing popular in early 1990 and closing at the end of 1991, it played a pivotal role in the evolution of club culture in the North West and beyond.⁠⁠

Queue Up And Dance is being funded by the Historic England Everyday Heritage grant programme, celebrating working-class histories. Made possible with National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players and UKSPF who provided funding for laptops and software.

To reserve a free spot, see here

Liverpool-based livestreaming and events company Virtuopo is aiming to inspire a new wave of social media influencers with a series of free masterclasses, designed to help future TikTok creators to learn how to present and produce engaging live content.

The sessions, which will be led by livestreaming specialists from Virtuopo, will see industry experts share insider tips on how to host successful live shopping events on social media. During the masterclasses, budding influencers will have the chance to put their presenting skills to the test in a professional livestreaming studio, while those who are more interested in the technical side can discover the secret of capturing winning content using multi-camera production.

As an official TikTok Shop partner agency, Virtuopo regularly produces social shopping events and influencer livestreams in the green screen enabled virtual studio at its headquarters in Brunswick, Liverpool. Managing Director Chris Holmes, said: “Understanding what makes engaging live content is the first step to success as a creator. Our masterclasses aim to provide a useful insight into the world of hosting TikTok Live events, both from a presenter’s point of view, as well as the technical delivery side, as we look to encourage a whole new wave of creators.

“This will be a fantastic opportunity for anyone who is interested in learning how to produce live social media content to get to know their way around the studio. Presenters can discover the key to showing confidence in front of the camera as industry experts provide tips and tricks on everything from body language to tone of voice. The sessions will also offer a glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes during professional TikTok Live events as we explore production techniques using multiple cameras.”

Virtuopo’s TikTok masterclasses will take place at the company’s Transmission Studio, which is used for corporate virtual and hybrid events, live broadcasts, social media livestreaming, live music sessions and celebrity interviews, as well as video production, photoshoots and podcasts. The TikTok masterclasses are open to all ambitious creators over the age of 18, with limited places available.

Please email info@virtuopo.com for an online application form for the producers’ session (11 March) or the presenting session (12 March).

Join Future Yard as they launch a new vision for Argyle Street and Market Street in Birkenhead!

They see great potential for their town, and by banding together like minded organisations and people in the Argyle Independent Quarter, we can achieve even more.

Head to Future Yard on the evening of Thursday 27th February to learn more, view a prospectus, and talk with the people leading this idea.

Live music, pizza and some lively discussion about the future of Birkenhead’s creative sector.

RSVP for free at futureyard.org.

A public consultation has been launched asking businesses and residents to comment on a vision to grow Liverpool’s multi-billion-pound economy over the next 15 years.

The Inclusive Economic Growth Strategy will set the framework for growth up to 2040 and the eight-week consultation, hosted by Liverpool City Council, aims to inform the development of the resulting action plan.

The vision for Liverpool 2040 is to create a strong and inclusive economy that leaves no one behind.

The strategy focuses on strengthening foundations to build a fairer, more prosperous, and sustainable city that creates opportunities for a good life for all its residents.

The draft strategy focuses on several key themes, including:

• Strengthening key sectors to drive growth, innovation, investment and productivity
  Key sectors include: Health & Life Sciences, Creative and Digital industries, Advanced Manufacturing and Maritime
• Build a vibrant, productive and resilient business base
• Ensure access to skills development, employment opportunities and career building
• Place people at the heart of growth activity and supporting aspirations and networks

Several public engagement events will be staged over the coming months to gather views from the public. People can also go online at www.liverpool.gov.uk/growthstrategyconsultation to find out more and give their feedback.

Liverpool currently powers a £16.7 billion economy, with over 14,000 businesses and around 230,000 people in employment.

However, significant challenges remain, including low productivity and investment, financial pressures on public services, inequality of opportunity in some communities, and health challenges.

In light of these challenges, the Council, which recently submitted a New Town bid to Government to regenerate a huge part of North Liverpool, is committed to supporting businesses and residents. Delivering an inclusive economy a core pillar for Liverpool’s Strategic Partnership plan for 2040.

This draft inclusive growth strategy will also complement other key aims such as the city’s Net Zero commitment, the actions outlined in the 2040 Health of the City report as well as the Council’s Local Plan, Housing Plan, Transport Plan and the city’s ambition as a premier European visitor destination.

To further underline the Council’s commitment, since June 2023, its Business Support Service has provided advice and guidance to over 1,000 Liverpool businesses and supported 300+ residents with direct advice on starting up a new business.

The Adult Learning and Skills team has also supported over 4,500 residents to develop essential workplace skills, and the Ways to Work team has supported 1,708 economically inactive and unemployed residents with employment and skills services.

Councillor Nick Small, Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet Member for Development and Growth, said: “This draft Inclusive Economic Growth Strategy is a vital piece of work and one which will come to define the conditions that support our businesses to grow.

“Feedback to this draft strategy is crucial, it needs to reflects the views and needs of our businesses, non-profit organizations, charities, and voluntary organization – be it education, transport, housing or digital connectivity.

“We also want to hear residents’ views to ensure we create a strong, relevant and deliverable strategy, one that will inform the initiatives, interventions and investment into the infrastructure the city needs to underpin our future economy.

“All of this feedback will help us strengthen the strategy, ensure we deliver the right action for economic growth, and best placing us to build inclusivity so residents and communities thrive.”

Councillor Lila Bennett, Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet Member for Employment, Educational Attainment and Skills, said “The success of this strategy will be deeply rooted in the strength and diversity of our partnerships and our collective commitment and action. All our partners have a key role in driving economic growth and ensuring benefits are felt across all communities.

“We also want our partners, including the business community, to embrace and deliver for our residents by realising opportunities and addressing challenges, from climate change to AI, to train and upskill their workforce to be ready for the economy of the future.”

The Royal Standard Material Swap!

TRS would like to invite you to join them for a materials swap where galleries, studios, and organisations can rehome spare materials, encouraging sustainability and recycling. This is something that they regularly practice within their own studios but wish to extend this practice to other organisations around Merseyside. The event will also be a brilliant opportunity to meet other artists and connect with neighbouring art organisations in person.

Their aim is to host regular events like this as a way to create a network of arts organisations that can work together to share resources that are not limited to materials but also the exchange of skills and spaces. So even if you don’t have any materials to swap they would love for you to attend to discuss the other resources we all have that can be shared and exchanged.

When: 27th February 2025 at 11pm-3pm (drop-in)

Where: The Royal Standard, 3 Mann St, Liverpool, L8 5AF

If you wish to attend, please send your RSVP to georgina@the-royal-standard.co.uk along with any questions you may have.

BLOOD ORANGE ZINE is a Liverpool based queer feminist zine, publishing poetry, prose, and art.

For Issue 4, we are looking for the following:
– Short prose (up to 750 words)
– Non-fiction writing (up to 750 words)
– Poetry (up to 60 lines)
– Art
– Photography
– Anything else you think they might like

Submit your work through bloodorangezine.com or by emailing directly at bloodorangezine@outlook.com.
Submissions close Friday 14th March at 6pm.

Submissions are never identity specific and no matter your gender, ethnicity, age or sexuality, we’d love to hear from you. They encourage both experienced and new creatives to submit, and welcome multiple submissions and submissions from previous contributors. They want to explore the theme of Body – the physical, the subversive, the downright disgusting. They want bodies in movement and bodies in transition, body image, queer bodies, bodies together, bodies to ourselves. They want representations of body, us both in our bodies and as our bodies, what our bodies do for us and what we do for our bodies. They want to know what Body means to you.

More info at www.bloodorangezine.com or on their Instagram @Bloodorangezine_

An £18 million social impact investment fund for socially driven arts, culture and heritage organisations registered and operating in the UK.

The Arts & Culture Impact Fund provides affordable repayable finance that can be used, among other things, to acquire new assets, improve built infrastructure, develop new ventures or scale up existing revenue streams. Currently accepting applications.

Find out more about the Arts & Culture Impact Fund below. If you are interested in applying for funding, please complete their enquiry form.

Background and History

The Arts & Culture Impact Fund brings together a mix of public, private and philanthropic investors – Arts Council England, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Better Society Capital, Bank of America, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Freelands Foundation and Nesta. The fund is the world’s biggest impact investment fund for the creative arts.

The fund builds on the success of the Arts Impact Fund, a pilot initiative launched in 2015 to demonstrate how impact investment could transform the arts and cultural sector.

The Arts & Culture Impact Fund sets out to achieve several objectives for the arts, cultural and heritage sectors:

• Provide organisations with appropriate and bespoke repayable finance
• Develop the financial resilience of borrowers
• Support organisations to better monitor, evaluate and communicate their social impact
• Attract additional investment into the sector to help organisations thrive
• Promote the wider positive impact the arts, culture and heritage have on society and support more organisations to benefit individuals and communities through their work.

Funding

The Arts & Culture Impact Fund offers secured and unsecured finance between £150,000 and £1,000,000 with repayment term available until May 2032 and interest rates ranging between 3% and 8.5%.

To apply, visit here

Free Activities and workshops for you.

See below details of Irish History Walks, Street Theatre Tours,  a North Liverpool Dock Trail and Liverpool One Street Theatre.

ALL FREE!

Free Lunchtime Irish History Walk

Join ArtsGroupie‘s John Maguire on a revealing journey through Liverpool city centre. Spectators will hear about the Victorian tragedy of the Irish Famine changed Liverpool’s streets. Trail walkers will learn about how locations were used for sanctuary, nourishment and safety and understand the benevolence of Liverpool’s people. Using their new trail app, headsets and recent Walk of the Bronze shoes experience, your guides will really help you to walk in the shoes of Liverpool’s people 180-years ago.

• Tue 18 Feb 2025
• Wed 19 Feb 2025
• Tue 18 Mar 2025
• Wed 19 Mar 2025.

Meeting on Brunswick Street by The Alchemist and finish at St Nicholas Church, opposite The Liver Building.

Lasts around 45 mins.

Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/liverpool-irish-famine-trail-tours-for-liverpool-bid-tickets-1076467395959

 

Free Street Theatre Tours

Tours will begin at THE BLUECOAT and finish at the Lights Up on Liverpool Theatre Exhibition – Central Library.

Lasts around one hour.

Liverpool Theatres Through Time

Thurs 20^th Feb at 12pm

Thurs 13^th Mar at 5:30pm

Liverpool’s Pantomimes

Fri 21^st Feb at 12pm

Fri 14^th Mar at 12pm

Stars of the Liverpool Stage

Sat 22^nd Feb at 12pm

Sat 8^th Mar at 12pm

The Comedy and Tragedy of Liverpool Stages

Sat 1^st Mar at 12pm

Sat 15^th Mar at 12pm

To book your place, please email artgroupie@outlook.com and state the date and number of FREE Places

Free Liverpool Dock Walk

Sunday 9^th March – 10am & 12:30pm.

Lasts around one hour.

To book your place, please email artgroupie@outlook.com and state the date and number of FREE Places

FINALLY –

Keep an eye out in Liverpool One Sat 15^th, Sun 16^th, Sat 22^nd and Sun 23^rd Feb, our Victorian characters, Gutter Merchant Rosalyn and Docker James, will be around between the hours of 12 – 3pm, on Steers Way and College Lane, talking about the Old Dock and pointing out all the Heritage on the Liverpool ONE Official audio trail.

This training is for organisations with an annual income of £100k or more who wish to understand more about the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

The foundation supports organisations whose work is focused on the arts, children and young people, the environment, food or social change.

Held 12 March, LCVS, 151 Dale Street, Liverpool, L2

Learn more and book now on Eventbrite