Community Post Type: Callouts

The season of giving is here!

Join Liverpool’s Royal Court in spreading Christmas cheer by donating non-perishable food items to our charity box in the foyer.

All donations this year will go to Fans Supporting Foodbanks. Let’s spread joy together!

Unlock your creative potential with our FREE 2-week Skills Bootcamp in Music Marketing & Video Production, in Liverpool City Centre!

10 days of hands-on training:
• Plan + shoot + edit eye-catching music videos
• Deep-dive into online music marketing & audience engagement
• Get briefed by industry pros + deliver real work for real artists
• Guaranteed interview to paid work at the end of the course

Who’s it for?
• Adults 19+
• Residents of Liverpool, Sefton, Wirral, St Helens, Halton or Knowsley
• With a creative spark (camera, music, editing—bring it!) wanting to upskill, retrain or level-up in music / media
Course runs from 1st-12th December (Mon-Fri)

Closing date: Tuesday, 18th November 2025 at 12 noon
Spaces are limited—don’t sleep on this!

To apply or ask a question: Karen@cinemateca.co.uk / Roz@cinemateca.co.uk
Insta @cinematecaproductions

Open Eye Gallery, in partnership with Wigan Council, is seeking a freelance Creative Producer to support delivery of the next phase of Open Eye Hub, Wigan & Leigh, building an inclusive photography movement that enables communities to authentically document and share their own narratives.

The role of the Creative Producer will be to support and oversee the delivery of socially engaged photography commissions, public exhibition and events programme, and a career accelerator fellowship for a young person. You will work closely with Wigan Borough Council, Open Eye Gallery and other stakeholders to develop the Hub.

Open Eye Hub builds on Open Eye Gallery’s national leadership in socially engaged photography. We work collaboratively with local people, artists, and communities to co-create projects that explore identity, place, and social change through photography. The Hub supports creative learning, collaboration, and visibility for local talent, while connecting Wigan & Leigh’s stories with national and international conversations.

The Creative Producer will ensure high-quality delivery, smooth communication across partners, and effective management of resources, timelines and evaluation.

As the Creative Producer for the Open Eye Hub you will work with Wigan Borough Council to deliver:

– Two Co-created Photography Commissions: a socially engaged project exploring contemporary masculine identity through collaborative visual storytelling and an immersive documentary project capturing diverse faces, narratives, and communities through an innovative mobile photo booth/studio, creating a rich visual tapestry of local life.
– Related project briefs for Wigan College photography students.
– Public Exhibition Programme: Showcasing the two projects above, plus an exhibition of the Tree Story Wigan project (which has been delivered over 2025), using both unconventional or outdoor spaces and Open Eye Hub space in Leigh Town Hall.
– Events related to above.
– Mentoring support for the Fellow.

Freelance Creative Producer for Open Eye Hub (Wigan & Leigh)

Closing date: Monday 8 December, 23.59 2025

Freelance, £15,000 (equivalent of 66 days over 19 months, January 2026 – July 2027)

For full details – please visit: openeye.org.uk/creative-producer-openeyehub-wigan.

BLOOD ORANGE ZINE is a queer feminist zine publishing prose, poetry, and art of all kinds.

They’re looking at the intersections between the monstrous and the queer; when monsters are queer, and when queerness becomes the monster. We find queerness in gothic literature, in horror films, in myth and in folklore. We find queerness intertwined with the unknown, the strange, the dark and the magic. We find it wallowing in loneliness and dancing in community. We find it inspiring fear and excitement. Queer monsters are a means of writing ourselves out of the confines of binaries and heteronormativities. In the monster, we seek ourselves.

They’re looking for work on queer monsters. This could be:

– Short prose (up to 750 words)
– Non-fiction writing (up to 750 words)
– Poetry (up to 60 lines)
– Art + photography (send across high quality images/scans)

Anything else you think we might like
Non-fiction writing includes critical writing/essays on the topic of queer monsters.

More info can be found on @bloodorangezine_ on Instagram. Submissions can be sent through their website bloodorangezine.com or direct to their email bloodorangezine@outlook.com.

Today we’re launching an exciting new artist opportunity to co-design the cast iron panels of International Slavery Museum’s monumental new entrance.

Opened in 2007, on the third floor of the Maritime Museum, International Slavery Museum has never had its own front door. The new Entrance Pavilion, designed by FCB Studios will change this and announce the museum to the world.

The newly designed panels will be the visible ‘skin’ of the Entrance Pavilion, symbolically transforming iron, once used in chains and manacles, and deeply ingrained in the infrastructure of transatlantic slavery, into a material of remembrance and resilience.

The chosen artist (or collective) will work collaboratively with International Slavery Museum colleagues, architects, structural engineers, fabricators, and community partners to reflect the histories, legacies, and lived experiences represented within the museum.

This is a once in lifetime opportunity for an artist to play an integral role in creating a permanent and powerful piece of public artwork, that sits at the heart of the museum’s transformation.

▪️Artist fee: £30,000 (plus additional expenses covered)

▪️Call for entries period: 13 October – 17 November 2025

▪️Artists from the Global Majority or with lived experience of the legacies of slavery are encouraged to apply

🔗 Learn more and submit your application by following this link 

Valley Community Theatre is a community theatre in the Netherley area of Liverpool

Valley Community Theatre has been providing family friendly pantomimes (With family friendly prices) for many years. We are particularly looking for any groups or individuals who have costumes they could donate which would suit their next pantomime, (maybe a theatre group who have done the pantomime in the past who could lend/donate the costumes?)

They are also keen to enlist the help of volunteers with a knowledge of Theatre costume design to help make the pantomime look as good as possible and do our great team of local actors proud.

For further information, or offers of help contact info@valleytheatre.co.uk

Experience and/or passion for working with Costume.
Volunteering role to help with Panto.
For further information, or offers of help contact info@valleytheatre.co.uk

Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Practice to our Equality Act which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life. Say no to Trans Exclusion, support your Trans community and urgently write to your local MP and protect our amazing, creative yet marginalised and vulnerable communities.

Their draft tried to turn our equality laws into a bathroom ban, mandating the blanket exclusion of trans people from gendered spaces and services. Even if a business or association wants to remain trans-inclusive, they’d be told they must exclude us.

The EHRC rushed through more than 50,000 responses to its consultation on this draft using AI, and have now sent their final proposals to the government. We don’t get to see their final draft until it’s been decided on behind closed doors, but media leaks and the EHRC’s own public statements make one thing clear: they haven’t changed course.

The decision now is up to this government, will they sign a trans bathroom ban in secret?

This is unworkable, dangerous, and we cannot let it happen. Your voices are making a difference; MPs are expressing their deep concern about what is being proposed. It’s decision time now, and the government needs to hear loud and clear from your political representatives: they must reject this and tell the EHRC that exclusion can’t be the only option.

Act now. Ask your MP to urge the government to scrap the bathroom ban and demand any new Code of Practice ensures providers can lawfully include trans people in their services.

Pressure is building. Every voice matters here.

Please customise this First Take template as much as you can, it really helps, and add a request for a meeting to the email if you’d be willing to discuss this face to face with your MP.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve already written to them, now is the time to really keep the pressure up. The government must send this unworkable draft code back and make sure any new guidance explains how to include trans people, and respects our human rights.

The 10th Liverpool Maths Party is coming, a city-wide celebration of maths across the Liverpool City Region.

This year’s theme is Maths Moments: the everyday ways we all use maths in our work, our communities, and our lives. From planning budgets and setting up displays to timing wellbeing walks or tracking project impact, maths is happening all around us.

For ten years they’ve been celebrating the Maths Party with school settings. For their tenth year they want to get businesses, arts organisations, HE institutions, cultural venues and more involved! They’d love for your organisation to join in by sharing a Maths Moment during Liverpool Maths Party week.

How to take part

Spot a Maths Moment in your day-to-day work

Capture it – take a quick photo or short video

Share it on social media using #LiverpoolCounts and #MathsMoments

It’s simple, and a great way to highlight the maths that happens behind the scenes in your organisation.

Thank you for your continued support in helping make Liverpool a city that counts.

If you’d like to discuss this further, please get in touch! They can’t wait to see your #MathsMoments!

https://www.liverpoollearningpartnership.com/2025/09/maths-moments-assets/

The deadline has been extended for musicians to sign up to be part of this year’s Knowsley Fringe Music Festival.

The Knowsley Music Festival returns from 29 October to 28 November 2025, with performances from Paul Young, She Drew the Gun, and Chic Le Freak.

As with previous years, the main festival programme will be supported by the Knowsley Fringe Music Festival which will shine a spotlight on some of the region’s new and emerging local artists.

Funding is available from Knowsley Council’s Culture and Events team who want to hear from anyone who has an idea for a music event. The fund is open to local venues, promoters, programmers, or performers who have the chance to bid for funding of between £250- £500 to put on a gig in town centre and village venues. The team are especially interested in receiving applications from new artists and new venues across the borough.

The local programme will showcase Knowsley and Liverpool City Region artists, bands and performers and will take place in new and established music venues across Knowsley.

How to apply:

Please send a brief proposal (no more than 1 x A4) describing your proposal including venue and artist/s and/or band/s.
Please include the proposed date your music event will take place (this must be between 1 and 14 November 2025 to be considered).
Please supply a budget breakdown of how the funding will be spent.
Please supply an artist/band bio of no more than 100 words
Please supply an image we can use for promotion if your bid is successful
Proposals must be submitted by 5:00pm, Tuesday 7 October 2025 (Applications after the deadline will not be accepted).

You will be contacted if you have been successful by 5pm on Friday 10 October 2025.

Applications are to be submitted via email to sarah.craven@knowsley.gov.uk and amy.grundy@knowsley.gov.uk

If there are any accessibility issues or difficulties in applying via email, please contact the team to discuss on 0151 443 2788

Funding bids will be judged on the following criteria:

Date – Your event must happen between Saturday 1 November and Friday 14 November 2025

Performers – We are keen to showcase Knowsley artists, bands and performers and will place special focus on original music. (We will also consider applications showcasing Liverpool City Region musicians). We are especially interested in seeing applications from new artists and new venues across the borough.

Music Policy: The music policy is open, but we do want to see attempts to make sure line ups reflect diversity and a fair gender balance and that the performers booked reflect high standards of reputation regarding conduct.

Cost: The small commission amounts available are between £250 – £500 so please evidence costs between these amounts.

Venues: We would like the events to take place Boroughwide (Knowsley) attracting people into the town and village centres and taking place in both new and established music venues.

Line Up and Venue: Both of these need to be realistic and we will need to see evidence in your application that preliminary discussions have already taken place with talent and venues.

Marketing – If awarded, this will be considered a partnership event and your event will be listed as part of the official music festival programme.

Please note: The Knowsley Culture team will not be able to provide organisational event support but your event will be included in our Fringe marketing activity e.g. event listings, social media support.

https://www.knowsleynews.co.uk/be-part-of-the-knowsley-fringe-music-festival-2025/