Community Post Type: Callouts

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

CREATIVITY AS A RESEARCH TOOL

Open Space Event

Thursday 20th June, 10.00am – 12.30pm
Online via Zoom

Collective Encounters are delighted to announce their next online Open Space event exploring research, creativity and social change.

Open Spaces are participant-led events where the agenda and discussion are driven by those in the room. At the beginning of the event guest speakers will introduce key principles and practices behind the theme and offer provocations for discussion. Together they set the agenda and you will be able to move freely between conversations.

Calling Question:
How can creativity facilitate research for social change?

Guest speakers are Beatrice Egid and Natalie Denny

Ticket Cost: £5.00

To book, see here

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

Join Rawd for their first Are Boards Boring? research group meeting.

Their goal is to address the under representation of disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent people on boards.

Through their action research group, they want to create more access to leadership/decision making roles in arts and culture based organisations, including those who are learning disabled neurodiverse, D/deaf, visually impaired or physically disabled.

If you would like to join please contact hello@rawdproject.co.uk to confirm your place.

Thursday 27th June, 10:30am-12:30pm
Squash Cafe 112-114, Windsor Street, Liverpool L8 8EQ

Are you based in the North of England? Does your practice incorporate circus, and are you in interested in testing the form and some new ideas in a residency this September 2024?

The Lancaster Arts TEST residency is an opportunity to experiment with your practice or test new ideas through a supported residency in the Nuffield Theatre, rather than develop a new show or piece of work. In September 2024, this will be their second residency for artists/collectives who include contemporary circus in their practice; this may include circus, theatre, dance or live artists and may involve taking your practice in a new direction influenced by new artforms.

They are seeking to support practice that is innovative, contemporary, and cross artform, and requires a large theatre space for its development. The residency will include technical and producer support and an opportunity to engage with the full Lancaster Arts team.

‘The non-show-outcome based residency allowed me freedom to explore artistic ideas, training and writing without the pressure to deliver a polished performance. [It] supported me to explore multiple strands of my practice with time and space and scale. This allowed for long-term thinking, and the streamlining of my ideas.’
https://www.lancasterarts.org/ideas/tom-cassani-testing-the-strange – Tom Cassani, TEST residency: On Circus, 2023

You can find out full information and how to apply for this opportunity on their https://www.lancasterarts.org/ideas/lancaster-arts-test-residency-on-circus-2024 – News page.

Key Dates:

Application Deadline: Midnight Sunday, 30 June 2024

• Interview shortlisted applicants (online) 17/18 July 2024
• Site visit to Lancaster: Week of 5 Aug 2024
• Nuffield Residency: 16 – 20 September 2024 (with a sharing on 20 Sept)

Please contact: alice@lancasterarts.org with any questions or if you wish to apply in a different format for access reasons. Please note that they cannot read application drafts.

Lancaster Arts is committed to encouraging diversity and intersectionality in the arts and they actively encourage proposals from artists from under-represented communities, including people from the Global Majority, and/or those identify as working class, have disabilities, or are from the LGBTQ+ community.