Community Post Type: Callouts

Do you love dancing? Do you wish you could fly?

Ready to take your skills to the next level?

Then join Wired Aerial Theatre this summer for their Aerial Youth Dance Summer School for young people aged 11-18 from Monday 29th July to Friday 2nd August 2024.

Get ready to learn exciting new skills in aerial dance and aerial circus! Try Bungee-Assisted Dance, Front Pick-Up Harness work, Aerial Hoop, and Aerial Silks.

Experience the thrill of dancing, attached to a bungee so your feet fly off the ground and see the world upside down in a hoop or on the silks.

Click here to find more information on how to book on: https://www.wiredaerialtheatre.com/workshops/aerial-youth-dance

Monday 29th July – Friday 2nd August 2024
Everton Park Lifestyles Sports Centre
Great Homer St, L5 5PH

If you have any questions, please contact Michaela at michaela@wiredaerialtheatre.com or 07473295497

The Friday afternoon will include a photo shoot and they will send you the digital images to keep.

Cost: £300 for the whole week
Early Bird: (if paid by 1st July): £275
Sibling discount: £250 each (Early Bird: £225)

Have you applied for the Artist Commissions: DaDaFest 40th Anniversary Festival yet? BE QUICK!

£2,500 is up for grabs…

They’re thrilled to invite pioneering disabled artists from the UK to submit expressions of interest for commissions in Visual Art (including photography and sculpture/installation), Music and Live Art to be part of DaDaFest’s 40th anniversary festival in March 2025. Successful artists will be offered more detail of their festival theme and scope of work to take the project forward.

Two commissions available:

· Visual Art (including photography and sculpture/installation)

· Music or Live Art Each commission is valued at £2500, with additional support for access. These commissions are open to disabled artists living within the UK. DaDa particularly encourage applications from artists with Global South heritages and artists with other underrepresented and intersectional identities.

For information about how to apply, along with timeline information and access support, please visit the link 

Closing date: 30 June

Dead Pigeon Gallery Legacy – Mentoring and Consultation: A sounding board, for artists, for organisations, looking to create.

During our Dead Pigeon Gallery journey from 2017 to 2024 we spent a lot of time, listening, generating ideas, co-creating in communities and we realised something. Most people just need some encouragement and a sounding board to get an idea off the ground; and we loved that role. We worked with individual artists, groups, community leaders, councils, housing associations, landscape architects, urban planners, football fans to name a few and the crossovers and multi layered, rich, eclectic diverse conversations that naturally occur encourage exciting ideas. These ideas and thoughts lead to collaborations and a broader outlook to where art can go.

Whether you’re an individual, group, co-op, artist, council, institution and want to bounce some ideas around and get another set of eyes and ears on them we will continue to be available for consultation.

As a lasting legacy of Dead Pigeon Gallery founder, Jayne Lawless will continue to be available for consultation to help and share her experiences of running a grass roots artist led gallery plus 20 years experience and knowledge of working on multiple art projects across many different genres and communities around the world. An understanding of authentic community engagement from all levels is a core skill along with encouraging people’s creativity in an engaging and positive way. Jayne has a background in sculpture, gaining an MFA in 2010 and has made largescale installations, wall sketches, co-created a film, podcast, and most recently a book.

Rates:

Based on Artist Union England pay guidance.

Starting from £30 p/h to £174.00 per ½ day

Open now: June 2024 – Onwards

If you would like to arrange to chat please get in touch with Jayne via email: jaynelawless7@gmail.com

Are you a budding historian looking to learn new skills? Or just a passionate storyteller? Writing on the Wall’s upcoming Walking Tour training programme may be for you.

Since 2011 Writing on the Wall have delivered their Creative Heritage model, through a series of projects working with community participants and archives to uncover and creatively interpret hidden histories. Through these they have developed a number of successful walking tours around such histories, including:

George Garrett

Great War to Race Riots

L8 Law Centre

Dorothy Kuya

The project will begin with an introductory session on Thursday 18th July, followed by weekly Saturday walking tours and debrief sessions. The project will also include script writing sessions and digital resource packs that will equip participants with the knowledge and confidence to deliver their own walking tours.

Once the training programme is complete, participants will have paid opportunities to deliver our Creative Heritage walking tours during our festivals, and as requested by groups. Their walking tours have had great success during WoWFEST and their Black History Month festival and are regularly requested by university and trade union groups.

To register your interest, please fill out the Google form here or alternatively contact their Creative Heritage manager janaya@writingonthewall.org.uk

24 Hope Street Connects is Liverpool’s hottest dance intensive coming back for its second year this summer, with amazing classes, networking events and an upbeat social, they will be bringing you the best of the best!

This incredible fundraising event will help keep their doors open, so you can keep dancing; and so they are asking for your help!

They are looking for artists, teachers, and practitioners to volunteer to lead workshops and classes in a variety of dance styles, to ensure that 24 Hope Street Connects is jam packed with diversity and life. So, get in touch and let them know what you can bring to the table!

Applicants must be available one OR both days: 20th – 21st August

Closing date: 1st July 2024

Contact: 24hopestreetstudio@gmail.com

A music commission to create new work through a residency in response to the Hybrid Futures exhibition at Salford Museum and Art Gallery.

This open call is looking for a musician(s) to respond to the Hybrid Futures themes and/or work created by the visual artists, to create a new live presentation to be premiered in Salford Museum and Art Gallery on the opening night of Fat Out Fest. The format (performance, installation, show) is to be agreed with the venue and Curator of University of Salford Art Collection.

The Opportunity:

• 10 day residency at Islington Mill, SMAG & University of Salford
• Live performance at Salford Museum and Art Gallery for Fat Out Fest 2024
• Facilitation and technical support from Samarbeta & IKLECTIK

What they are Offering:

• £2000 to cover artist fee, live performance & travel.
• Accommodation and Hospitality for up to 4 people (two double rooms) for up to 10 days at Islington Mill (N.B project can facilitate more collaborators but only provide sleeping provisions for 4 people sharing 2 double beds)
• A rehearsal space to work within at Islington Mill and depending on availability in the University of Salford.
• One to one sessions with IKLECTIK focusing on spatial audio as a compositional practice, developing practitioners’ skills and knowledge to work with ambisonic tools.
• Depending on availability, potential access to University of Salford’s world leading facilities and academics including Acoustics, Music and Performance, Art Collection and Makers Lab. Please note that as the residency coincides with Welcome Week access may not be possible.
• Facilitation, technical support & production budget to help your ideas come into fruition.

Schedule:

• Tuesday 10th-Friday 20th September – Residency at Islington Mill
• Friday 20th September – Performance/Exhibition at Fat Out Fest

https://www.samarbeta.org/sbr022-opencall – See the Samarbeta website for full details

Homebaked CLT has launched an exciting free programme offering grassroots business support to individuals and groups to nurture and grow new or existing business ideas in the local neighbourhood.

Neighbourhood as Incubator is for anyone living or working in the Anfield and Everton areas who is looking to explore social enterprise ideas through creative learning, one-to-one mentoring, study visits, and peer-to-peer support.

To register your interest, fill out the expression of interest form and they’ll be in touch to discuss it with you in more detail.

They are also keen to speak to organisations who would like to support this work or refer participants to them. Please contact rachael.treacher@homebaked.org.uk and they’ll be in touch.

Link to blog: https://www.homebaked.org.uk/blog/neighbourhood-as-incubator

Link to expression of interest form: https://forms.gle/N6bqDXjGA3DrpcRp9

Dive into their cinema room, challenge friends in the games room, or get creative in the Florrie Radio studio. Don’t miss out on the coolest spot to hang out with friends and make new ones!

Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays  5-8pm.

Open to all young people age 7-12 who live in L8. Booking essential as they have limited spaces available.

To sign up email: BEAU@THEFLORRIE.ORG

Find out more about The Basement here

Collective Encounters invite artists, activists and academics at all stages of their career to join their learning events as part of the Centre for Excellence in Participatory Theatre. Each event is designed to provide training relevant to using the arts as a tool for change.

Creativity for Evaluation
Thursday 11 July, 10.00am BST
£18 / £30 / £40

Practical training session exploring new approaches to evaluation which put communities at the heart of the process

They have a small number of bursary places available for those with limited funds. To access, please email info@collective-encounters.org.uk

Collective Encounters invite artists, activists and academics at all stages of their career to join their learning events as part of the Centre for Excellence in Participatory Theatre. Each event is designed to provide training relevant to using the arts as a tool for change.

Trauma Informed Practice for Participatory Artists
Wednesday 27 June, 10:00am BST
£18 / £35 / £55

A person-centred approach to understanding trauma and incorporating this understanding into your creative practice.

They have a small number of bursary places available for those with limited funds. To access, please email info@collective-encounters.org.uk