Community Post Type: Callouts

If you’re aged between 10 and 21 and live in Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton or St Helens, then why not join the Liverpool City Region’s Music Hub Youth Board?

Find out more on their Be More website.

Changemakers is a yearlong development programme for young leaders. Across a year, participants will develop as changemakers and activists and be supported by 20 Stories High to affect change in their local communities.

Participants will have the opportunity to get a close look at how 20SH operates as an activist arts organisation. Participants will be able to apply to become either the Chair, Deputy Chair, Secretary, Producer or Marketer and will receive mentorship for professionals from the staff team and board – developing your business and professional skills for the future.

Sessions will each be a mixture of practical, creative and meeting-based activities, allowing our creative practice to influence our ideas.

What you’ll get 

• A year-long, development programme providing skills in running a company, communication, work experience and project management

• Experience of what it is like to be on the board of Trustees of a company

• A dynamic and impactful insight into change making – improving equality, and quality of life for others

• Opportunity to attend key meetings and represent 20 Stories High nationally – that look at the arts, creativity and young people

• Mentoring from professionals working in a wide range of jobs – across 20 Stories High’s staff & board team, industry professionals and activists

• Free food!

• Experience of co-creating a national event for young people – 20SH’s New Chapter day

• Opportunities to engage with theatre, the arts and the workers within the sector

• A tailored career development plan, co-designed with each individual and a member of the 20SH team

• Expenses of £30 per session

Who is it for?

people aged 16 – 25 years old

People who want to learn how to effect positive change

People interested in how the arts can impact local communities

People interested in developing their professional skills

Deadline for applications: 9am, Monday 25th November 2024.

To apply, visit here

The Marginal Changemakers are back with another game changing campaign! MERSEY MARGINS COLLECTIVE COMICS FAIR is a brand new fair coming to you in February 2025!

They’re here to revolutionise the comics fair format and give young early career artists a chance to not only showcase their work but access career development and networking opportunities!

Applications are open now for young early career comics creators in Liverpool City Region for a FREE table! Applications close November 28th, and we can’t wait to see your work!

More info, and how to apply can be found here

Closing date: 28 November

Are you a neurodivergent student thinking about employment?

Head along to this LJMU online session to get advice, gain insights and hear others’ stories.

To find out more and book your spot, visit: https://bit.ly/Neurodiversityintheworkplace

After last year’s hugely fantastic event, New Brighton Family, Food & Drink Festival are delighted to be back and officially opening TRADER APPLICATIONS for the bigger and better

New Brighton Family, Food & Drink Festival 25th-27th July 2025!

Please note they are only accepting applications for Market Village Traders. Not Hot Food….

To apply, visit here

Future Yard’s free to access Propeller programme has been providing mentorship and support to Liverpool City Region music creators since 2021. Thanks to recent funding partnerships with Wirral Council and PRS Foundation, the programme has grown significantly with additional creative and business support to help more and more artists and bands in the region become the best versions of themselves.

It has never been easier for musicians to release music, but with this comes increasing challenges to cut through the noise so they can build an audience, a business, a team and a living. With industry investment arriving later and later, it is fundamental that an artist/band can grow themselves to a level that managers, agents, record labels and publishers can then amplify. This requires the need for modern music creators to build their own toolbox to help grow their projects themselves.

Propeller is designed to fill up this toolbox and provide music creators with support on how best to use its contents. Propeller sits at the heart of the artist empowerment revolution, working with early career and established music creators with huge potential. There are many workshops and sessions that are open access with no sign up required, but becoming a member comes with many benefits, including 1-2-1 mentorship, funding application support, opportunities to promote their own show at Future Yard, and further bonuses such as free gig tickets and rehearsal bursaries.

Future Yard’s Head of Talent Development, Cath Hurley, explains:

“We’ve designed Propeller so that those that need support have a clear choice of what to engage with. They might be at a point where they are quite happy to dip their toe in and attend a couple of workshops that are useful at that very moment in time, or they could be catching up with a mentor once a week to help push them through an EP release, promotion of a local headline show, or even just a bit of validation that their project/career is heading in the right direction.

We believe that music creators at all levels should be able to access support that is relevant for them, so we need to ensure that our Propeller community are provided for no matter if they are creating music for fun or pursuing a career. It’s really about doing what you want to do in the best way you can do it. Performing at Open Mic may result in joining our regular songwriting programme, attending workshops on business set-up or basic legals may prevent future difficulties, or having a development plan and a mentor can then provide further direction and accountability. Workshops are often created based on our members telling us what they need, so as much as we’ve created an in-depth programme of activity, we are also super reactive and can build sessions based on requests.

In short, there’s an element of ‘pick your own adventure’ about our Propeller programme.”

Dedicated business support is provided thanks to the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund with the Liverpool City Region in partnership with Wirral Council. This will see music creators across Liverpool City Region supported with developing their projects into businesses, whether that’s solo artists as sole traders, or bands as partnerships. This part of the programme goes deep into the patchwork of ways that music creates revenue, ensuring all avenues are considered. Additional support comes from PRS Foundation’s Talent Development Network, putting Future Yard in amongst the UK’s leading organisations in this field. This ensures there is a strong focus on the creation of exceptional music, which will be showcased regularly on Future Yard’s stage.

As part of this ramp up of activity on the Propeller programme, Future Yard will host a two-day music business conference for local artists and bands. BEACON will take place across the 9^th and 10^th of January, bringing some very special industry guests to Birkenhead to help our Propeller community put their best foot forward into 2025. More information on this will follow shortly.

Further info and short application form: Propeller.futureyard.org/apply

Open access programme (more visible to signed-in members): Propeller.futureyard.org/programme

New work is at the heart of the Everyman & Playhouse – and the Playwrights’ Programme is part of their mission to nurture, empower and champion the next generation of writers in Liverpool.

It’s a free, ten-month programme led by their New Works Associate, and offers a mixture of facilitated and peer-directed sessions, masterclasses with experienced playwrights, and watching performances – whilst supporting you to complete a draft of a new full-length play.

The Offer

The Playwrights’ Programme is an opportunity for you to:

develop your playwriting craft, with sessions tailored to the interests of the group (e.g. structure, form and politics, world-building)
read, analyse and discuss a broad range of scripts – from contemporary classics to the most urgent, innovative work being staged today
build a close peer-group of playwrights, to share and read work, and give/receive constructive feedback
write a new, full-length play with ongoing dramaturgical support from the Everyman & Playhouse team

You’ll also:

attend masterclasses with leading artists
work with professional directors and actors
learn about reading processes for open submissions and playwriting prizes
have access to our script library
get to see Everyman & Playhouse productions for £5 (or less!).
Sessions are 6-8pm on Tuesdays, held at the Everyman.

They alternate between sessions facilitated by the New Works Associate (or given as a masterclass by an external practitioner), and peer-directed sessions (the focus to be decided by the group).

The first session is Tuesday 4 February.

The ask

They’re looking for writers who:

live in Liverpool City Region (Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral), and are exploring themes and topics that speak to our communities here
have an existing practice as a writer for performance, and a strong artistic identity
would be supported in their artistic development by participating in this Programme.

They don’t ask for a particular experience level, and will be guided by your sample of work, but you might have done some of the following:

written short, fringe- and/or full-length plays
had your work produced in professional, educational or community contexts
participated in scratch nights
written for other performance types (e.g. TV, film, radio or spoken word)
worked in other areas of theatre (e.g. as an actor).
Applicants must be over 18.

The application process

Application is via this online form – https://forms.office.com/e/w3JpfTvbZi with three questions to answer either in writing or via video or audio file.

Find out more here – https://www.everymanplayhouse.com/new-works/the-playwrights-programme

Applications close Sun 15 Dec

Led by Liverpool’s Royal Court Stage Write team with the help of professional writers and directors, this programme aims to develop your writing skills and guide you towards developing a full-length script for stage.

Meeting two evenings a month for nine months the programme is completely free and is open to writers living or studying in Liverpool City Region. The course is facilitated by Karen Brown, a professional screen, stage and radio writer and is aimed at writers who have some experience, but are looking to move to the next level.

There have been a number of success stories since the course began in 2020. Three writers have had productions in the Royal Court Studio and one in the main house. This year Chrissy Jones won the prestigious Alfred Bradley Bursary Award for the play that she developed on the course. EJ Fisher was runner up in the Evening Standard Story Awards. SWPDP writers were also well represented at Channel 4’s New Writing North Awards 2023 with Joe McNally and Liz Redwood picking up two of the three Writing for Television Awards. Several alumni have also gone on to secure work in theatre and TV, or have been signed up by literary agents.

Applications for the 2025 are open with a closing date of 12pm Monday November 18. 

Download and fill out both of the forms on the links below and email to: phil@liverpoolsroyalcourt.com

LRC SWPDP Application Form 2025

Equality And Diversity Monitoring Form

Ten piece swing band, Timeline, available – they do the occasional commercial gig but they are happy to offer their services to support any charitable fund-raising event for nothing, or possible petrol costs depending on distance.

Some of their players work full time so can only perform weekends – If you have an event where you think we can help get in touch, but please contact me early – they are unlikely to be able to help with last minute requests due to other commitments

They have a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100035373146933. You can message them from there or e-mail at puychaudko@yahoo.co.uk.

Would you like to be part of Liverpool’s festive markets?

In collaboration with Liverpool City Council and Liverpool Markets, they’re looking for traders to join them at the Twilight Artisan Christmas Markets here at Exchange Flags on Friday evenings (6th, 13th, and 20th Dec)

Showcase your unique products, reach new audiences, and bring some holiday cheer to the heart of Liverpool! 🎁✨

📍 Exchange Flags, Liverpool
📅 Fridays: 6th, 13th & 20th Dec
⏰ 4 PM – 8 PM
📧 Interested? Email Liverpool Markets: liverpoolmarkets@liverpoolgov.uk