Community Post Type: Callouts

Culture Liverpool, Liverpool City Council is thrilled to call out for applications to a one-off Dance Creative Commission Grants.

We are looking for proposals from creatives (as individuals or organisations) to:

• Develop their or other’s dance practice
• Create new work
• Impact communities and share dance with others
• Be part of Leap Dance Festival April/May 2024 or another 2024 Liverpool Cultural event.

Leap Dance Festival is Liverpool City Region’s festival of dance returning in 2024 after a 5 year hiatus. Leap is more than a dance festival, it is a celebration of our city region, the people that live here and the diverse communities that bring our city to life. Throughout May 2024, Liverpool City Region will come alive with dance. Performances will take place in theatres, in cultural venues, in parks and public spaces and on the streets. Young people, community groups and professional artists will come together in a unique celebration of dance.
The small fund has been made possible with funding from UK Shared Prosperity fund (UKSPF) and Culture Liverpool, Liverpool City Council.

Fund amount: Culture Liverpool will be looking to award grant commissions of between £300 and £3000.
Please ensure you read the guidance before applying Guidance.

Applications will open in January and close am of Friday 9th February 2024

Since 2017 we’ve 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 like that role!

We’ve talked to 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.

From January 2024 we want to open this up and offer mentoring slots to you. Whether you’re an individual, or a group, co-op, artist, council, institution and want to bounce some ideas around and get another set of eyes and ears on them. We can offer mentor/consultation sessions.

Sessions will be delivered by our founder, Jayne Lawless. Jayne has a background in sculpture, gaining an MFA in 2010 and has made largescale installations, wall sketches, co-created in film and most recently a book. As well as countless community projects and exhibitions including founding Dead Pigeon Gallery and North End Sketch Club and working on projects in the UK, Europe and the USA.

Rates:

Based on Artist Union England pay guidance

Starting from £40 p/h for individuals £174.00 per ½ day for groups/institutions

If funding isn’t available we will be able to offer a small number of slots via our wonderful donations via our Patreon page.

Take heed, dear friend, for this treasure emerges from a small but beautiful vessel, brimming with its own unique limitations.

When you contact us tell us a little bit about yourself and what you’re hoping for and we can see if we can help.

For booking, please see here

 

 

 

This networking meet-up is open to all artists, both members and non-members of the Visual Artists Association. This will take the form of an informal catch up. You will have the chance to grab a coffee, meet like-minded working artists and form a community with those local to you.

For this Networking event, artists are encouraged to bring an artwork, or if this is not possible then a printout or a digital image of your work.

For Liverpool based artists, this event will be taking place in the Artefact, 71 Roscoe St, L1 9DW, at 12:00pm on Thursday the 15th of February. Admission is free to all.

Find out more about the location here: https://artefactliverpool.co.uk/

This event will be hosted by Tammy Walters. Tammy is a contemporary equine/animal artist & Illustrator and finalist of the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2023.

Spaces are limited to 30 artists only. Once tickets have sold do get in touch at hello@visual-artists.org to be put on a waitlist. If you can’t make the event, get in touch and they can open the space to another artist.”

Liverpool ONE would like to commission an artist to create a piece which celebrates Chinese New Year using a floral design.

We are partnering with Culture Liverpool to host art installations, decorations, and performances, and a key commission will be artwork on the walls in Peter’s Square, which will be installed for Chinese New Year and remain in place during spring, so the design should reflect this. We would like the artist to take inspiration from cherry blossoms which have a special significance to Chinese New Year, marking the end of the winter season and beginning of spring and new life.

Their beautiful long stalks and delicate blossoms represent the earth coming back to life and wishes for prosperous new beginnings. Other flowers that are part of Chinese New Year decorations are plum blossoms and orchids which could also be incorporated into the design, potentially adorned with gold and/or red, however lanterns or other symbols which are only specific to the New Year celebrations should not be included as the piece will remain in place throughout spring. The design should be done digitally and will be printed on vinyl on the walls. Liverpool ONE will arrange and pay for printing in addition to the artist fee.

Deadline to apply: Friday 19 January.

Full details can be found here.

The Lieutenant of Inishmore // Casting Call⁠

We are looking for male-identifying, Irish actors based in Liverpool or the surrounding areas for a theatre production. ⁠

Rehearsals will take place in August and performances will run until mid-October. ⁠

– Applicants must be aged over 18. ⁠
– Applicants must have an authentic Irish accent. ⁠
– Applicants must be based in Liverpool. ⁠
– The characters identify as male. ⁠

These are paid roles. ⁠

If interested, please email the following to ⁠

hello@aineosullivancasting.com: ⁠

-Name of Actor ⁠
-Where you are based ⁠
-A headshot or recent photograph ⁠
-An acting CV, if applicable ⁠
-Agent details, if applicable

 

We’re on the lookout for passionate individuals to join our Board of Trustees and be part of Metal’s next chapter.

It’s an exciting time for us, with a new Chair, Executive Director, and Artistic Director developing a new strategy for the organisation. If you’re eager to contribute your skills and enthusiasm, we want to hear from you! Whether as a trustee or in other impactful ways, your involvement can make a real difference. The closing date for applications is Monday 26 February at 10am.

For more information, see the Trustee Recruitment Pack here.

The New Brighton Summer Festival returns for its second year this July.

After last years amazing long weekend, we have a bigger and better line up planned for you guys absolutely packed with more more more!

We are still welcoming applicants from local food and non food traders to be part of this event. Apply here.

Find out more about The New Brighton Summer Festival here.

Applications are now open for the Liverpool Alternative Bazaar at Camp & Furnace on Sunday 12th May.

If you’re an artist who makes weird, whimsical, or wild work, and you want to trade at the next Liverpool Alternative Bazaar, then apply for this May’s event now! We welcome artwork, homeware, jewellery, accessories, kinkwear, apparel, sweet treats, prints, and anything else too weird for the high street 👀 This isn’t your regular craft market… shop small, shop weird.

Deadline to apply: 29th February.

Spots are in high demand and filling out an application does not guarantee you a place at the market. We work on a (roughly) 50/50 split for new and returning artists to trade with us, so vending with us previously does not guarantee you a space either.

Last time we had an abundance of applications, we cannot wait to see what incredible work we get to feature this time round!

APPLY HERE.

Reel Queer is a FREE 5 year film project (2023-2028) working with people from the LGBTQIA+ community living in the Liverpool City Region.

Courses in Screenwriting, Acting and all aspects of Filmmaking – including composing music for film, are available to people from the community. After the courses you will be able to get involved in film projects creating a series of short films, both drama and documentary. Together we will produce high end drama, documentary and art films for screening, socials, streaming, exhibitions, festivals and broadcast; giving a voice to our community and championing queer film. 2027-28 we will start work on creating a feature film.

If you’re interested in being part of Reel Queer, get in touch with us on reelqueersurvey@gmail.com to register for our upcoming courses.

For more information visit: https://firsttake.org.uk/reelqueer

We are looking for a new provider to build, maintain and host a CMS website for Manchester Literature Festival.

We want a new website that:

Provides a stylish, user-friendly, showcase for MLF’s activities giving current and potential stakeholders a clear and attractive overview of our work;
Attracts increased web traffic (average page views and time spent on the site);
Increases ticket bookings (via external box office provider/partner venues);
Encourages increased donations and memberships;
Provides a clear navigation and improved customer experience;
Has an easy to use/intuitive content management admin site to enable staff to upload and edit content.

To apply and for more details, see here

Closing date: 31 January