Community Post Type: Callouts

Leadership Lab + Youth Board: Paid Opportunity for Young Arts Leaders – Theatre in the Rough, closes 25 Feb

Theatre in the Rough is looking for four participants to join its Youth Advisory Board + Leadership Lab.

We’re expanding the scope of our next Youth Advisory Board by combining it with ‘Leadership Lab’ — a new programme blending mentorship, training, and hands–on project experience for aspiring arts leaders aged 25 and under.

So many of our project participants ask us how we put projects together. In response to this, Leadership Lab will guide you to:

Articulate artistic vision
Master project management
Craft winning grant proposals
Build marketing plans
Explore arts career pathways

Each Youth Board member will also receive a small project budget (£300) and seed commission fee (£150) to produce their own mini project, putting the learning sessions into action.

This is all in addition to sitting alongside our Board of Trustees to offer input and advice on the work of the company.

Apply at https://www.theatreintherough.com/leadership-lab/

Closing Date: Sunday 25 February 2024

Event

Supported by the Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust.

Call For Artists – Wirral Open Studio Tour, closes 28 Jan

Applications are now open for the 2024 Wirral Open Studio Tour, which will take place on 8th-9th June.

Applications are invited from Wirral-based, professional/semi-professional visual artists working in any discipline.

Deadline for submissions is Sunday 28th January.

Find all the application information and apply here.

Audio Residency – Super Slow Way, closes 16 Feb

We are looking for an artist/artists to work with communities along The Super Slow Way over the next year to create an audio platform, which could be anything from a digital archive or radio station to a sound installation or live performance.

It is hoped that the residency will facilitate collaboration across districts and activate relationships between communities to paint a picture of East Lancashire in 2024, working with participants to explore the relationship between environmental and social justice in neighbourhoods along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal from Blackburn to Pendle and share their experience of it.

To apply and for more details, see here

Closing date: 16 February

Free Latin American Music Workshops with LUMA Creations

Attention all young music enthusiasts! Are you interested in learning how to play and sing traditional Latin American music? If so, you’re in luck because we’ve got some exciting new workshops coming up!

Led by highly experienced Latin American musicians, learn about traditional instruments, and Andean & Latin American rhythms.

Throughout these workshops you will develop an understanding of timing, melody and theory.

Come and join us and let’s make some music!

Suitable for ages 8 – 18. Instruments are provided.

Workshop Details
Weekly, starting Tuesday 30 January
Ages 8 – 11 workshop: 5:00 – 6:00pm
Ages 12-18 workshop: 6:30 – 8:00pm

Latin American Music Workshops

Stallholder Applications Open – Liverpool Print Fair, closes 4 Feb

Applications are now open for the Liverpool Print Fair taking place at Bluecoat on 20 & 21 April 2024.

Before submitting an application, please read over the information below.

Key Information

Deadline Sunday 4th February 2024
Event dates Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
Hours 9 – 11am Stallholder set-up
11am – 5pm Fair open
5 – 6pm Stallholder pack-down
Location Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool
Cost FULL
£70 downstairs / £60 upstairsHALF
£35 downstairs / £30 upstairs
Spaces 38 stalls each day
You can apply for a single day or the whole weekend
Table dimensions Full: 182 x 70 cm
Half: 90 x 70 cm

Read the full event information for more information including selection criteria and information about what each space includes.

The Event

Bluecoat is Liverpool’s centre for the contemporary arts and the oldest in the UK. It’s a Grade 1 Listed building located in the heart of the city centre, home to a year-round programme of exhibitions, music, dance, literature, live art and heritage events.

This is a central location which attracts both people interested in fine art and people who just want to shop for nice things. You can expect the audience at Bluecoat to have an understanding of different print methods such as etching, linocut, wood block, letterpress, and screen printing. This is thanks to Bluecoat Print Studio who are committed to promoting and facilitating the exploration of print.

At Bluecoat we have space for 38 stalls each day, which makes it an intimate and curated event. You can apply for a weekend space, or a single day if you can’t make it for both days.

In the run up to the event we have posters and flyers distributed throughout the city which attract a broad audience on the day. We also have plenty of regulars who visit the fair whenever it’s on, and many know a bit about different hands-on printmaking methods such as etching, linocut, wood block, letterpress, and screen printing.

Selection Criteria

First and foremost this event is a print fair and will be advertised as such to the public. The primary focus is unique and affordable art, so the majority products at the fair should be paper based art prints.

If you sell homeware and accessories alongside your prints as part of a collection, we’re happy for you to bring those along too. Products such as greetings cards or comics and zines are also very welcome at the fair.

Stalls are more likely to be offered to people who create work using hands-on printing methods over those who work solely in digital mediums. We’re also looking for sellers with unique contemporary prints who avoid over-saturated trends.

We also make sure spaces are offered to different artists each year to keep the event interesting for the public. It’s possible that you may not be selected this time around if you have sold at 2 or more of our most recent events.

Read Full Selection Criteria

Deadline to apply: 4 Feb 2024.

APPLY HERE

Dance Creative Commission Grants – Culture Liverpool, closes 9 Feb

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

Mentor sessions – Dead Pigeon Gallery

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

 

 

 

Free artists networking event – Visual Artists Association, held 15 Feb

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.”

Artist Commission For Chinese New Year – Liverpool ONE, closes 19 Jan

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.