Community Post Type: Callouts

Maker applications are now open for Makers at the Mansion’s Autumn Market, the market is held on Sunday 1st September

Apply via the link here. Applications close at 5pm on Sunday 14th July.

Successful applicants should be contacted by 21st July.

The Our Liverpool Team are pleased to announce that their Grant’s Programme is now open!

They are offering a three-year grant to voluntary and community organisations who can help us make both the city and the council migrant-friendly, ensuring people seeking sanctuary in Liverpool can thrive from the day they arrive.

The total amount of funding available for the entire programme is £450,000 each year — that’s £1,350,000 over three years. They want organisations to apply for three years of funding to develop long-term projects that will make a greater, more sustainable impact for people seeking asylum, refugees and vulnerable migrants.

The maximum amount of funding each organisation can apply for each year is £75,000, or £225,000 over three years. For example, if you make two applications under two funding priorities, they must not total more than £75,000 each year.

Applications open: Thursday 20th June 2024
Applications close: Friday 2nd August 2024

Applications must be made under one of their seven grant priority themes below.

1. Supporting the Needs of People Seeking Sanctuary
2. Economic Inclusion for All
3. Fair Access to Housing
4. Supporting People not Entitled to Public Funds
5. High Quality Education for All
6. A Healthy Liverpool for All
7.  Communities Thriving Together

For more information, a copy of the grants guidance and a link to the online application form. Follow the link below

https://liverpool.gov.uk/communities-and-safety/community-initiatives-funding-and-grants/our-liverpool-grant-programme/

If you have a query that is not included in the guidance, email ourliverpool@liverpool.gov.uk or reach out to any of the Our Liverpool Team

Join the team for an immersive experience where your young innovator will master the art of creating their very own 2D video game using Bloxels and Makecode Arcade!

They’ll dive into the creative process, designing unique characters and crafting thrilling levels. Plus, they will publish their game online so they can share their work with friends and family!

Sound like something your young person would enjoy? See below for details:

Date: Tuesday 30th July – Friday 2nd August (four days)

Location: Grangeway Community Centre, Runcorn

Time:

• 9:30 am -12:00 pm (Ages 8-11)
• 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm (Ages 11-16)

Cost: Free!

Ages 8 -11 sign-up here

Ages 11-16 sign-up here

This Summer holiday, they’re excited to announce FREE creative HAF workshops tailored for young minds in Halton!

If your young person is passionate about creativity and technology, their workshops are perfect for them! Secure their spot now for an Summer holiday filled with learning, fun, and creativity.

HAF is a wonderful fund which will enable them to provide enjoyable and easily accessible activities for young people who qualify for free school meals.

WEEK ONE: Animation Camp (Part 1: Hands-On Animation)

This thrilling adventure offers your young person a unique hands-on chance to create their own characters and bring them to life with LEGO, clay, and whiteboards. They’ll have a blast learning to prep, shoot, edit, and publish their frame-by-frame animations.

Sound like something your young person would enjoy? See below for details:

Date: Tuesday 23rd July – Friday 26th July (four days)

Location: Grangeway Community Centre, Runcorn

Time:

• 9:30 am -12:00 pm (Ages 8-11)
• 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm (Ages 11-16)

Cost: Free!

Ages 8 -11 sign-up here

Ages 11 – 16 sign-up here

Attention all pianists, performers, choirs and musical ensembles! It’s time to showcase your talent and bring the joy of music to the streets of Liverpool ONE.

Tickle The Ivories is returning for its remarkable 14th year and is on the lookout for passionate individuals, performance groups, and choirs to participate in the festivities.

This is your this chance to bring music to life and fill the air of Liverpool ONE with beautiful melodies!

🎶 Piano Playing Hours & Locations

Monday – Friday: 10:00 – 20:00
Saturday: 10:00 – 19:00
Sunday: 11:00 – 17:00

View the piano locations here.

📝 How To Apply

This year there’s a new way to apply to play Tickle The Ivories. We’ve been working hard in the background to streamline the booking process.

Please complete your details on the Liverpool ONE website here. You will then receive a link to Liverpool ONE’s booking system where you can see all the pianos and slots available and book your chosen ones. This new booking system is aiming to be simple for all performers, meaning you can pick and book your dates and pianos much quicker.

Tickle the Ivories is open to everyone, so if you’d like to book a slot we’d love to hear from you! If you have any questions please email Chris, the Tickle Programmer, via chris@culture.org.uk.

Are you aged 16 – 24 and interested in the history of dance music and rave culture? Are you a budding photographer or graphic designer? Maybe you want to learn to mix or produce your own tracks?

They’re looking for young people to get involved in their project about the first legal, all-night rave in the country: Quadrant Park in Bootle.

Each session is open to all aged between 16 – 24.

They’re offering taster sessions this summer so you can try out different skills and activities before a bigger project in September. They include:

Interviewing workshop – Saturday 20th July, 11:00am -1:00pm
Learn key interviewing skills that will help any budding journalists, writers or radio DJs work with artists and other creatives

Risograph graphic design session – Tuesday 30th July, 18:00pm – 20:00pm
Using some of the iconic designs from Quad’s history to create our own promotional material like flyers, posters and tickets

Production workshop – Saturday 3rd August, 11:00-13:00
Melissa will teach us how to sample, using some of the biggest tunes from Quad and voice samples from our interviews to create new tracks

DJ workshop – Tuesday 6th August, 18:00-20:00
Melissa will teach a small group the basics of mixing and beat matching. They’ll have a few people per deck and we’ll use some of the original equipment from the Quad era as well as contemporary software to manipulate the sound

All materials will be provided for each session.

Visit https://queueupand.dance/ to sign up via the google form.

Three-day Intensive to upskill in Aerial Dance

21 – 23 AUGUST 2024

Aimed at all dancers and performers aged 18+

Join Wired Aerial Theatre for a thrilling 3-day Aerial Intensive and discover the joy of Bungee-Assisted Dance. Flip your world and strengthen your skills with expert guidance from us: internationally acclaimed Wired Aerial Theatre.

This Aerial Intensive will be a great way to upskill in aerial dance, including Bungee-Assisted Dance and Vertical Wall, and become a more versatile performer.

Bungee-Assisted Dance was developed in 1999, offering unique movement possibilities:

* You will wear a harness connected to a bespoke bungee
* Allowing you the freedom to move on the ground and effortlessly explore the airspace above and around, beyond the usual limits
* You will explore lift, flight, and power in the air and on the ground

Vertical Wall:

* Initiate and control pendulum swings, rolls and rotations in the air
* Stand and move vertically on the wall
* New perspectives & muscle engagement

Their expert teachers understand performers’ needs, ensuring a supportive and exciting experience. They offer personalised sessions for all experience levels

Click here to find out more and book on: https://www.wiredaerialtheatre.com/workshops/aerial-intensive/about

If you’re curious about their work, this intensive is your chance to learn. Wired Aerial Theatre are always on the lookout for talented performers and their Aerial Intensive will provide excellent preparation for future auditions with them.

21st – 23rd August, 10am-4pm
Everton Park Lifestyles Sports Centre
Great Homer St, L5 5PH

Cost:

£325 Early Bird (if paid by 19th of July)
£350 Regular Price

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