Community Post Type: Callouts

Calling all artists and art lovers! Help The Old Library by donating your art or showcasing your work at their Art Show.

For more information email events@tol.org.uk

Wirral is Borough of Culture for the Liverpool City Region in 2024 and we’ve developed an exciting programme in collaboration with creative organisations and individuals.

The impact of Wirral’s first year as Borough of Culture in 2019 was immense. Over half a million people took part. It also laid the foundations for a new chapter for Wirral’s creative sector. New cultural venues opened their doors as a result. Increasing numbers of artists, makers and creatives are calling Wirral home.  Our aim is to create a similar long-lasting impact from Wirral Borough of Culture 2024.

This year’s programme will allow us to show how culture plays a role in creating places we want to live, work and spend time in. This year will give us a platform to tell Wirral’s story. It will reflect where we’ve been and where we’re going.

As part of Borough of Culture, we’re committed to making arts, culture and heritage accessible to all during the year and we are making grants available for projects across the borough. We want to celebrate all artforms and the creativity, people and places that make Wirral unique.

These grants are made possible through funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and with support from Wirral Council.

If you are a creative or a member of a group or organisation who can help us tell Wirral’s story during this special year and into the future, these grants are for you.

Find out more here.

Applications for Pop-Up in the Palm House Spring Market are now OPEN.

​Their Spring Market will take place on 12th, 13th & 14th April, we will be open from Friday 2pm-7.30pm, Saturday & Sunday 10.30am-6pm.

Apply now at popuppalmhouse.com/exhibiting-application

In collaboration with the Curator, you will work closely with the Programme team to aid in the planning and production of exhibitions, public events, and communications.

This three-month internship in Manchester will provide you with the chance to gain practical experience in exhibition making, art handling, research, and project management.

We welcome applicants with excellent organisational and communication abilities, who are eager to gain experience in a dynamic, multi-cultural work environment.

To apply, see here

Closing date: 10 March

We are looking for an artist to work with the local community in Higher Audley, Blackburn, over the spring and summer of 2024.

The space, alongside the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, was the site of Higher Audley Cotton Mill until it was demolished in the 1970’s, leaving the space to become overgrown and neglected.

In the past three years a band of volunteers have cleared the site to create a green oasis in this otherwise urban environment and to grow a field of flax as part of the Homegrown/Homespun project, which is hand spinning and weaving linen to create garments as a cottage industry in Blackburn.

Last year the volunteers uncovered the cobbled mill wharf, installing a pontoon for canoeing and a ‘pop up’ caf , as well as running a weekly gardening club. We are now looking for an artist who can work with the volunteers and the local community to continue to improve the site and create new experiences over the summer on a weekly basis.

We would hope the artist is available to attend our Spring Programme Launch on Saturday 13th April.

• If you’d like to know more, visit the site or submit your proposal, please email Ben Pearson at ben@superslowway.org.uk
• You can contact us if you have any communication support needs.
• We’re happy to talk about alternative ways for you to tell us about your idea.
• The deadline for submissions is Friday 15th March 2024.
• Please give us a brief description of your idea and proposed timeline, with examples of previous work (or links to media) and a budget, including day rate and additional costs. Please keep this to two pages or less.
• The maximum budget is £4,000 inclusive of materials and travel costs.
• We expect the project to be delivered by the end of September 2024.

Calling all theatre companies, artists and makers who have committed to be a part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024!

We are programming a season of Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024 previews at Shakespeare North Playhouse Studio as part of our exciting new HEADING NORTH FRINGE FESTIVAL.

The HEADING NORTH FRINGE FESTIVAL is a two-week theatre festival in July 2024, showcasing productions preparing to embark on the world-famous theatre festival the following month. You may have taken work up to Edinburgh before or this year might be your first time – it doesn’t matter – complete our online expression of interest, tell us a bit about your production and you could be selected to part of this exciting new festival of Edinburgh previews!

What we are looking for:

– Work that has made a solid commitment to be part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024.
– We are particularly interested in hearing from applicants based in the North of England.
– We wish to make the festival as representative as possible and look forward to hearing from those from underrepresented and within protected characteristic groups.
– Your work does not need to be a presentation of or respond to the work of Shakespeare, but must share the values of Shakespeare North Playhouse; to be innovative, honest, collaborative, creative, equal, brave and bold.

The Shakespeare North Playhouse HEADING NORTH FRINGE FESTIVAL will take place Tue 2 – Sat 13 Jul 2024.

In preparation for Edinburgh, performances will be programmed in festival style, alongside multiple productions, working within a standard LX and sound set up, and in Fringe Festival conditions – with a swift turnover between shows. Please bear this in mind when submitting.

Fees & information:

70/30 box office split (in favour of the artist) per performance.
One Shakespeare North Playhouse technician will support each event.

Timeline:

Callout deadline: Fri 8 Mar, 5pm
Programming decisions made by: Sun 31 Mar
Festival announcement: April 2024
Festival runs: Tue 2 Jul – Sat 13 Jul 2024

To apply please submit an online application form at: https://shakespearenorthplayhouse.co.uk/job/heading-north-fringe-festival-callout/

Closing date for applications is Fri 8 Mar at 5pm.

We look forward to Shakespeare North Playhouse being part of your journey to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024.

A new photography competition has been launched to celebrate the heritage, landscape and people of the unique village of Port Sunlight, often seen as one of the most photogenic villages in the North West.

Photographers of all levels of experience are being invited to submit their snaps taken in and around the Wirral village, which is one of the finest examples of an industrial worker village in the world.

Port Sunlight is famous for being built by William Lever from 1888 to provide sanitary and beautiful housing for ‘Sunlight Soap’ factory workers. It was recently named as one of the UK’s best towns and villages to visit in a Which? survey of over 9,000 people.

Entries to the Port Sunlight Photographer of the Year competition will be judged by international press photographers Pete Ellis and Bruce Adams, with the winners featuring in a new calendar. There will also be a runner-up prize.

Organised by Port Sunlight Village Trust (PSVT), the competition will help to raise funds for the charity to conserve the village’s significant monuments. This includes one of the largest war memorials in the country, as well as a boating pond which needs repair and is home to a bronze fountain designed by Sir Charles Wheeler, who also designed one of Trafalgar Square’s bronze sculptures.

The competition is open for entries until Monday 15 April, 11.30am (GMT) and costs £15 to enter. Entrants can submit up to four photographs taken since January 2022.

Jean Milton, Director of Heritage at Port Sunlight Village Trust, said: “Port Sunlight has long attracted photographers thanks to its picturesque architecture and green spaces, and now we want to celebrate that with this new competition. Not only will our Photographer of the Year shine a spotlight on this special village, but the competition will directly support our work to look after Port Sunlight for future generations to enjoy visiting, living and taking photographs here.”

Bruce Adams, competition judge and Board Member of The British Press Photographers’ Association, said: “Port Sunlight is such unique spot for all visitors and for those privileged to live there. Paul Ellis and myself are really looking forward to judging the entries and seeing what inspiration can be brought from such a special place.”

PSVT has also announced a new exhibition by The British Press Photographers’ Association is coming to the village. Between 8 June – 1 September 2024, ‘Assignments 2024’ will travel from London to Wirral for the first time and will showcase the best of press photography last year.

To enter the competition, and to see the full rules and terms and conditions, go to portsunlightvillage.com/poty

 

The Windows Project Writing Advice Desk is a free, friendly, on-the-spot appraisal service for your writing projects, as well as a service offering details of publishing opportunities, performance venues, workshops and courses.

• Drop in to Liverpool Central Library (William Brown Street L3 8EW) between 5.30pm – 7.00pm on the first Wednesday of every month.
• Bring samples of your writing – scripts, stories, oems – for one-to-one feedback.
• Please book in on arrival
• Each session usually lasts 20 minutes.

For further details contact The Windows Project – windowsproject@btinternet.com or call 0771 064 4325

Follow The Windows Project on Instagram – @windowsproject_

 

Leap Dance Festival are looking for early career dance artists from across the North West, with up to 5 years out of training/education to take part in The Liverpool Dance Prize.

📄 Artists application process

🕺🏿5 artists selected to receive £500 bursary to create their work.

🎭 Performance event to showcase work.

💵 1 artist selected to receive £1000 development fund to further your work.

👩‍🏫 Mentoring to support you in the development of your work.

💃🩰🕺🏿Any style of dance

For further information and to register your interest contact paul@leapfestival.co.uk

Leap Dance Festival on Instagram – @leapdancefestival

Bluecoat are seeking exceptional people to join their board of trustees.

It’s an exciting time at Bluecoat as we start to realise the ambitions of our ten-year strategy: Bluecoat 2030. As a board member you’ll play a key role in helping us achieve ambitious goals – including welcoming more than 1 million visitors every year.

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for people who have experience and expertise in three specific areas: arts, finance, and social investment. We also want to appoint an additional board member with broad cultural interests who has a wide network of connections in the Liverpool City Region and a deep understanding of culture, society and politics in Liverpool and the North West.

We’re looking for people who have the following:

• A passion for the arts.

• The ability to contribute some time to the board – minimum of four (two hour) and two extended meetings a year and attendance at events.

• Previous experience of Board membership – public, voluntary or private sector.

If this sounds like you, and you are committed to the values of Bluecoat, we would love to hear from you.

How to apply

Just send a CV or summary of your experience and a statement setting out what you would bring to Bluecoat to: recruitment@thebluecoat.org.uk

Deadline: Sun 10 Mar

Download the recruitment pack and find apply at thebluecoat.org.uk/about/work-with-us/board-members