Community Post Type: Callouts

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

The biennial Liverpool Community Impact Awards returns in March 2025 to celebrate the achievements and challenges of individuals and organisations working together to make a positive impact on our community.

The Liverpool Community Impact Awards 2025 aim to celebrate people who are making a real difference in their communities through charitable contribution and community-focused projects and initiatives. The awards also recognise those that have made a significant contribution to improving mental health and wellbeing across their community.

Nominations are invited from across the Liverpool City Region, and anyone can suggest an individual, community or organisation they believe are making a positive impact. This could be a friend or relative, a work colleague, carer, GP or health professional, or someone representing a company or volunteer group.

Nominees can nominate more than one individual, team, service, or organisation from across the entire LCR for an award and all nominees will be interviewed by a judge before an awards ceremony in 2025. The ceremony will take place in the Isla Gladstone Conservatory.

Full information about the Liverpool Community Impact Awards including how to nominate can be found here – Community Impact Awards | Be Free Campaign

Closing date: January 2025

Signal Film and Media are inviting applications from photographers or lens-based artists who will work collaboratively with local people to produce a new artistic commission that responds to The Sankey Family Photographic Archive resulting in a public exhibition.

The Sankey Photographic Archive is a stunning collection of over 10,000 glass plate negatives and postcards of Barrow and the north-west, which were produced and shared around the world from 1895 to the 1970s. The whole collection has now been digitised and can be searched on their new dedicated website.

They welcome applications from photographers or lens-based artists who have experience of, and the passion for, working in a socially-engaged and/or a participatory way. They welcome artists with an interest in working with archival photography and how the process can inform the development of their work.

Applications are encouraged from photographers/artists from all backgrounds and we actively encourage artists to apply who belong to one or more of the following groups: Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic group, Refugee, D/deaf, Disabled, Neurodivergent, Working Class and LGBTQI+.

This project is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to use digital media and creative interpretation to explore the Sankey Photography Archive and make it accessible to a diverse range of people.

Closing date: Sunday 17th November 2024 Midnight.

Fee: £9,000 (To cover artist fees & workshop delivery fee, production, materials, any travel and accommodation needs).

Online Interviews: w/b Mon 25th November 2024.

Start Date: December 2024.

Exhibition dates: April 2025.

To apply, visit here

Closing date: 17 November

Join Liverpool Biennial for a free family workshop this Half Term ⁠
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Bring your family to the Discovery Room at Liverpool Central Library on Wednesday 30 October for a fun-filled day of creativity and exploration!⁠
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They’ll be diving into the world of local bird wildlife through collage, printing, and drawing. This is a fantastic opportunity for children and families to learn about the birds that inhabit our area and express their creativity. ⁠
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Your ideas and artwork will serve as inspiration for their children’s guide for Liverpool Biennial 2025. Whether you’re a budding artist or just looking for a fun family activity, they can’t wait to see you there. Bring your imagination and get ready to explore the wonderful world of birds!
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Discovery Room, Liverpool Central Library⁠
30 October, 11am – 4pm, Drop-in⁠

Do you have an idea that would help your community? 💡

Need some cash to help get it off the ground, or keep your current project going?

Wirral SOUP is open for applications to apply for funding.

There are no strings attached, you do not need a business bank account, no forms to complete to say how you have spent the money. All you need is to be helping the community in some way! Apply now; only four questions to complete.

Applications close on 30th October. You will find out a few days after that if your application has been chosen to pitch at our next event night (20th November. Four projects will be chosen to pitch, and no one leaves empty-handed. All three runners up will receive £250. 🎉

You can apply by clicking this link or email susie.wirralsoup@gmail.com for more information

Exciting opportunity coming up…WRITING FOR TV📺

Led by WoWFest’s Project Coordinator, Lyn, who has a wealth of experience in writing for television, this new course will give participants first-hand knowledge of writing for TV. Whether you’re a seasoned writer or just starting out, this course will help you to gain insights into the TV industry and build confidence in your writing with the help of special guests.

Please note that you must be 18+, economically inactive, and living in Liverpool City Region

Pre Register 👉
https://ow.ly/Ef2w50TOwXE

As the retail environment on the high street has become much tougher, the Bluecoat Display Centre have experienced reduced sales and a huge increase in their cost base. They need your support more than ever.

The past year has been increasingly challenging for them as a small independent charity that relies on the sales of their brilliant makers’ work to cover all the charity’s costs and enables them to do their much-valued charitable work. They have short term challenges that they need to get through and longer-term issues that with a more buoyant economy and your targeted support, they are hopeful that they can manage.

They would not ask for your help if they did not need it.

A total of £30,000 raised could help them to keep going until Spring when they must think again. They are seeking not only this bridge to a slightly safer haven, but permanent long-term capital.

They are appealing for straightforward donations. They can enhance them with Gift Aid where applicable, which will give an extra 25p for every £1 donated where the circumstances fit.

The Bluecoat Display Centre closing would be a huge loss. They have contributed to Liverpool’s / NW region’s cultural offer for 65 years:

• Representing leading applied artists from across the UK for Liverpool/NW audiences – historically, supported makers who have become internationally renowned.
• Recognition of the support and vital income through the high-quality exhibition/sales platform we have offered to thousands of craft makers across all disciplines, at every career stage.
• They have long supported early career makers offering regular graduate exhibition awards (at that vital stage when they emerge from courses and have ambitions to become studio-based makers but need opportunities) in partnership with NW higher education partners Liverpool Hope University and Manchester School of Art.
• Supporting the health, wellbeing, and cohesion of our communities: Health and social care partners over past 12 years include Liverpool Wellbeing Centres under the PSS (Person Shaped Support) umbrella, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool, The Life Rooms – NHS Merseyside, Heys Court – Garston, Clock View hospital – Walton, The Walton Centre, the Royal Liverpool University & Broadgreen Hospitals and Maggie’s Wirral. All this work is realised through their own fundraising efforts supported by their partners.

Please do support us if you can.

The most direct way is via the Donate button on their website homepage – you can just follow the link here

Or, if you prefer, donate via a transfer direct to their charity bank account, using the
reference Fundraiser 2024, which is:

Bluecoat Display Centre Ltd
The cooperative bank
Sort code 089299
Account number 65639979

Ever wanted to work in the costume department in film & TV?

Liverpool Film Office recently launched applications for their costume introduction course for Action! trainees. The one-day course, made possible through support from @Britishfilminstitute #NationalLottery funding, will cover set etiquette, continuity, quick fixes on set, corsets plus much more!

To register, visit here

DaDa’s FREE Ignite workshops are in full swing – don’t miss out on catching ‘Making Affordable Digital Theatre’ with Chronic Insanity.

Not sure what to expect? 💭

DaDa Alumni @chronicinsanitytheatre will share their expertise around creating digital theatre, and ways to keep it affordable. 🥳

Chronic Insanity make accessible, affordable, sustainable, and inclusive work. They seek to change the definition of what theatre can be by playing with form, genre, medium, and technology. 🎨

For free tickets head to the link here.

Held online, 28 October and 5 November, 7pm.

There are 7 weeks left to submit your Entry Form and be part of Knowsley’s 21st Open Art Exhibition at Kirkby Gallery!

If you live, work, study or volunteer somewhere in the Borough of Knowsley, you are eligible to enter.

Find out more (and even submit your entry form online) here: https://www.prescotmuseum.org.uk/knowsley-open-art

Closing date: 6 December