The team are pleased to announce that they are now taking applications from artists wishing to take part in the 2025 Wirral Open Studio Tour, which will take place over the weekend of the 14th-15th June.
Applicants should be professional or semi-professional visual artists and must be based on the Wirral peninsula.
If you would like to take part this year please complete their online application form via the link here.
The closing date for submissions is Sunday 26th January.
Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) is seeking 40 volunteers from the Liverpool City Region’s Black, Asian, and Minority communities to pair with 40 senior leaders from organisations across Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, and Wirral.
Following its partnership work with Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services (LCVS) and in response to the findings of the 2024 LCVS report “Addressing the Disparity in Accessibility to Funds and Support for Black-led Non-profits” LJMU are also keen for leaders from funders and commissioning organisations to participate in this programme, as well as representatives from organisations from minoritised communities, in order to help strengthen the dialogue between funders and Black, Asian, and Minority communities.
Over a 12-month period, as a volunteer you will engage in a reciprocal mentoring arrangement with organisational leaders, offering insight into the lived experiences of ethnically diverse individuals within the city region and their workplaces.
Delivered in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University and the Liverpool City Region Race Equality Hub, this programme aims to build understanding and drive meaningful change.
Scheme Objectives:
Feedback from past programmes highlights the programme has the potential for real impact, particularly in recruitment, progression, and representation of ethnically diverse individuals within organisations.
All participants will receive training. All workshops will take place in Liverpool, with venues communicated upon sign-up.
Benefits for Ethnically Diverse Volunteers:
Organisational Benefits:
Key Features of the Scheme:
This programme is a unique opportunity to bridge communities, share knowledge, and lasting, impactful change.
Complete the application form now to be selected to be one of the 40 community volunteers in the region to take part in the reciprocal mentoring scheme.
Link: Community Volunteer: Reciprocal Mentoring Scheme Application Form
Recently at RAWD they became a charity, and in their own process of building a board, began researching boards and governance in the arts, finding that people with disabilities are largely underrepresented in decision-making roles within Arts and Culture organisations.
They want to understand this further on a local level. Help RAWD develop solutions for boards to be more inclusive and accessible in the Liverpool City Region.
Below you’ll find a survey about your organisations own experiences, practices and perspectives on boards. Filling it out would be invaluable to their research and mission, and should only take 20 minutes of your time.
If your organisation’s board does not have any disabled members you can still support with significant information that helps collate data and understand the challenges faced. You can still play a crucial part in developing solutions for the future. Information you provide will be presented anonymously, on behalf of RAWD in a digital campaign.
Should you be unable to fill this out digitally, but are interested in telling them about your own experiences, they would be happy to have a call or meet in person in 2025.
Contact: hello@rawdproject.co.uk
All Things Considered Theatre are looking for three wonderful women for the next phase and development of their play Unsolicited.
They need women that can tell a joke, sing, dance and are brilliant actors. For more details and to apply, link here
PLEASE READ THE CALL OUT in detail before applying. This is a highly sensitive piece tackling misogyny and sexual assault. Please send a self tape and a headshot to apply.
Closing date: 15 January 2025
For Level 5 and 6 Students: There are a host of opportunities available in the LJMU Discovery Internships.
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain invaluable career experience, whilst getting paid! The internships would be a valuable addition to your CV.
To find out more and apply, visit: https://bit.ly/DiscoveryInternships
Starts: January 2025
Calling all passionate young actors! 📣
Do you want to find out more about The National Youth Theatre and how you become a member? Come to their FREE introductory workshop at The Unity. Held 11 February 2025, 5 – 7pm.
All workshops will be entitled to a FREE audition for membership in 2025.
Book your space via their website!
The team are proud to announce Mersey Arts Zone is part of the team installing the structure in New Brighton. Dawn Reck, Artistic Director for M.A.Z, has been part of the process and is on the panel. M.A.Z. will also be providing an exhibition for the winning artist in the Floral Pavilion.
The competition is for local artists to design a Beatles themed structure, it is to be installed on the Tower Grounds in New Brighton. N.B.C.C.T. received an £8,800.00 grant from Wirral Borough of Culture 2024 to develop this, and to celebrate New Brighton’s links with the Beatles. Hopefully, it will become a landmark for visitors to their lovely town.
You can email for information to info@newbrightoncoastalcommunityteam.co.uk
There is still time to get your entry in to be part of this amazing opportunity, email your entry as soon as you can.
WoW are looking for a talented, passionate writer to join the ReCITE project as a Writer in Residence within the emergency department at Aintree University Hospital.
📍 Location: Aintree University Hospital & community settings
🕒 Contract: 16 hours/week for 9 months (review at 3 months)
💷 Fee: £450 per week + travel expenses
📅 Start Date: Mid-February 2025
Help amplify unheard voices, collaborate with healthcare professionals, and drive social change through storytelling. This is your chance to use your creativity to make a real difference!
Deadline: Sunday 12th January, 11:59 PM
Apply now 👉 info@writingonthewall.org.uk
Learn more about the role via the ‘Writer in Residence’ link here
The Society of Wood Engravers (SWE), Printmaking Today and Liverpool Book Art are curating an international exhibition of artists’ books at Kirkby Gallery in Knowsley, Liverpool City Region to coincide with the 87th SWE Annual Exhibition. The exhibition will run from May until August 2025.
The title of the Exhibition is ‘Letting in the Light’. Relief printmaking techniques, such as wood engraving, are subtractive: every mark is white, you are letting in the light. Wood engravers have to think like photographers: “Where is the light source, where is the light falling?” This theme has been chosen to make the connection to the SWE exhibition. There are many similarities between book art and wood engraving. In both fields, artists create multiples in small editions, or unique works. In both, fine art is created with great technical skill, and can be denigrated as ‘craft’. In both too, self-publishing is the norm.
The call to participate is open to all forms of printmaking and bookmaking. They will accept proposals for work as well as existing works that fit the theme.
They invite all printmakers to tackle the creation of an artist’s book for this exhibition, and have this work exhibited alongside established (and new!) book artists. They also encourage established book artists to explore forms of printmaking as part of their submission. They will also accept existing works that fit the theme.
They are excited to explore the possibilities of parallels, exchange, and cross-over between artists working in book art and printmaking. In both these fields there are traditions (structures in book art, subject matter in wood engraving) as well as individuals exploring new possibilities in their respective fields, whether in terms of production techniques and technologies, subject matter or other aspects.
An unexpected approach or fresh expression of an idea will be judged favourably alongside technical skill.
Full details including submission process at https://www.curatorspace.com/opportunities/detail/letting-in-the-light-book-art-exhibition/8759
The Open Call is back and applications for Up Next Festival 2025 are now open!
This year Up Next will be returning to its bread and butter with a single weekend of non-stop performance of new work and events. And they want you to perform.
Unity highly encourages creatives of all backgrounds and abilities to apply for this opportunity. They are constantly looking for new artists to bring into their community and Up Next is the perfect time to introduce yourself and your work.
Up Next Festival’s identity and energy thrives on a wide variety of work from a wide variety of artists. Work in previous festivals has ranged from side-splittingly funny cabaret acts to heart-felt testimonial pieces, to groundbreaking interactive light installation pieces that took the audience on an apocalyptic journey. There is no limit to the work or specification to Up Next, that’s what makes it so unique and special so if you feel like you have an idea, at any stage of development, we want to hear from you. Work can be from any art form or any stage of development, you can perform a script in hand reading, present a short extract or a first try at sharing a piece.
If successful you will receive:
Key dates for you to know
Find out more and apply via unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/whats-on/apply-for-up-next-festival-2025/