Community Post Type: Callouts

The National Literary Trust empower people with the literacy skills they need to succeed in life. Together, they’re helping people change their stories.

As a Literacy Champion, you can run literacy projects or assist with National Literacy Trust events to support those with the greatest literacy needs. Once you register, you will be offered an induction session covering more information about the charity, the importance of literacy and the different ways you can volunteer and support our work.

If you would like to know more, please have a look at the information on their website  National Literacy Trust .

The team are looking for 12 local cultural producers or creative practitioners to take part in a digital focus group focusing on Liverpool’s Royal Albert Dock.

This session will cover creative ideas for programming in the Dock, what collaboration with the local artistic community could look and feel like, who it could be for and the potential spatial challenges and advantages of the Dock as a hosting venue.

To thank participants for their time, they are offering £50 for attendance at the virtual session hosted on Google Meets. Remuneration will be transferred the day after the session has taken place.

Date: Tuesday 9 December
Time: 11.30am – 1pm
Location: Google Meets – confirmation of successful selection and a link to the meeting will be circulated on Friday 5 December.

While no advance preparation is necessary, some awareness of the Dock as a space is preferable. The session will be led by the team from Tangram who will guide you through a series of creative exercises and discussions. At the start of the session they’ll ask everyone to share something that makes the Dock special, you’re welcome to give this some thought in advance.

To express interest in this opportunity, please email jamie@tangramstrategies.co.uk with two sentences about your artistic practice and/or a link to a relevant website by Thursday 27 November 5pm. They will confirm attendees on Friday 5 December.

As Wonder Arts celebrate 5 Years of Wonder, they’re asking you to help share the magic even further.

Your £5 donation could give a parent the chance to bring their child to a Christmas show for free.

Together, we can make sure everyone experiences a little Wonder this Christmas

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/5yearsofwonder

The season of giving is here!

Join Liverpool’s Royal Court in spreading Christmas cheer by donating non-perishable food items to our charity box in the foyer.

All donations this year will go to Fans Supporting Foodbanks. Let’s spread joy together!

Unlock your creative potential with our FREE 2-week Skills Bootcamp in Music Marketing & Video Production, in Liverpool City Centre!

10 days of hands-on training:
• Plan + shoot + edit eye-catching music videos
• Deep-dive into online music marketing & audience engagement
• Get briefed by industry pros + deliver real work for real artists
• Guaranteed interview to paid work at the end of the course

Who’s it for?
• Adults 19+
• Residents of Liverpool, Sefton, Wirral, St Helens, Halton or Knowsley
• With a creative spark (camera, music, editing—bring it!) wanting to upskill, retrain or level-up in music / media
Course runs from 1st-12th December (Mon-Fri)

Closing date: Tuesday, 18th November 2025 at 12 noon
Spaces are limited—don’t sleep on this!

To apply or ask a question: Karen@cinemateca.co.uk / Roz@cinemateca.co.uk
Insta @cinematecaproductions

Open Eye Gallery, in partnership with Wigan Council, is seeking a freelance Creative Producer to support delivery of the next phase of Open Eye Hub, Wigan & Leigh, building an inclusive photography movement that enables communities to authentically document and share their own narratives.

The role of the Creative Producer will be to support and oversee the delivery of socially engaged photography commissions, public exhibition and events programme, and a career accelerator fellowship for a young person. You will work closely with Wigan Borough Council, Open Eye Gallery and other stakeholders to develop the Hub.

Open Eye Hub builds on Open Eye Gallery’s national leadership in socially engaged photography. We work collaboratively with local people, artists, and communities to co-create projects that explore identity, place, and social change through photography. The Hub supports creative learning, collaboration, and visibility for local talent, while connecting Wigan & Leigh’s stories with national and international conversations.

The Creative Producer will ensure high-quality delivery, smooth communication across partners, and effective management of resources, timelines and evaluation.

As the Creative Producer for the Open Eye Hub you will work with Wigan Borough Council to deliver:

– Two Co-created Photography Commissions: a socially engaged project exploring contemporary masculine identity through collaborative visual storytelling and an immersive documentary project capturing diverse faces, narratives, and communities through an innovative mobile photo booth/studio, creating a rich visual tapestry of local life.
– Related project briefs for Wigan College photography students.
– Public Exhibition Programme: Showcasing the two projects above, plus an exhibition of the Tree Story Wigan project (which has been delivered over 2025), using both unconventional or outdoor spaces and Open Eye Hub space in Leigh Town Hall.
– Events related to above.
– Mentoring support for the Fellow.

Freelance Creative Producer for Open Eye Hub (Wigan & Leigh)

Closing date: Monday 8 December, 23.59 2025

Freelance, £15,000 (equivalent of 66 days over 19 months, January 2026 – July 2027)

For full details – please visit: openeye.org.uk/creative-producer-openeyehub-wigan.

BLOOD ORANGE ZINE is a queer feminist zine publishing prose, poetry, and art of all kinds.

They’re looking at the intersections between the monstrous and the queer; when monsters are queer, and when queerness becomes the monster. We find queerness in gothic literature, in horror films, in myth and in folklore. We find queerness intertwined with the unknown, the strange, the dark and the magic. We find it wallowing in loneliness and dancing in community. We find it inspiring fear and excitement. Queer monsters are a means of writing ourselves out of the confines of binaries and heteronormativities. In the monster, we seek ourselves.

They’re looking for work on queer monsters. This could be:

– Short prose (up to 750 words)
– Non-fiction writing (up to 750 words)
– Poetry (up to 60 lines)
– Art + photography (send across high quality images/scans)

Anything else you think we might like
Non-fiction writing includes critical writing/essays on the topic of queer monsters.

More info can be found on @bloodorangezine_ on Instagram. Submissions can be sent through their website bloodorangezine.com or direct to their email bloodorangezine@outlook.com.

Today we’re launching an exciting new artist opportunity to co-design the cast iron panels of International Slavery Museum’s monumental new entrance.

Opened in 2007, on the third floor of the Maritime Museum, International Slavery Museum has never had its own front door. The new Entrance Pavilion, designed by FCB Studios will change this and announce the museum to the world.

The newly designed panels will be the visible ‘skin’ of the Entrance Pavilion, symbolically transforming iron, once used in chains and manacles, and deeply ingrained in the infrastructure of transatlantic slavery, into a material of remembrance and resilience.

The chosen artist (or collective) will work collaboratively with International Slavery Museum colleagues, architects, structural engineers, fabricators, and community partners to reflect the histories, legacies, and lived experiences represented within the museum.

This is a once in lifetime opportunity for an artist to play an integral role in creating a permanent and powerful piece of public artwork, that sits at the heart of the museum’s transformation.

▪️Artist fee: £30,000 (plus additional expenses covered)

▪️Call for entries period: 13 October – 17 November 2025

▪️Artists from the Global Majority or with lived experience of the legacies of slavery are encouraged to apply

🔗 Learn more and submit your application by following this link 

Valley Community Theatre is a community theatre in the Netherley area of Liverpool

Valley Community Theatre has been providing family friendly pantomimes (With family friendly prices) for many years. We are particularly looking for any groups or individuals who have costumes they could donate which would suit their next pantomime, (maybe a theatre group who have done the pantomime in the past who could lend/donate the costumes?)

They are also keen to enlist the help of volunteers with a knowledge of Theatre costume design to help make the pantomime look as good as possible and do our great team of local actors proud.

For further information, or offers of help contact info@valleytheatre.co.uk

Experience and/or passion for working with Costume.
Volunteering role to help with Panto.
For further information, or offers of help contact info@valleytheatre.co.uk