Community Post Type: Callouts

John Moores Students’ Union provides students with volunteering opportunities to help them build employability skills, connect with the city of Liverpool, and feel good! They partner with over 80 local organisations to provide students with fantastic and varied volunteering roles.

Some of the benefits of partnering with JMSU – free of charge – to recruit student volunteers are:

• Access to their volunteering portal – all LJMU students (over 27,000) can access this and view opportunities
• Recruit fantastic student volunteers from all backgrounds, courses and experience levels
• The chance for your organisation to attend our volunteer recruitment events throughout the year, free of charge (Freshers Fair, Student Volunteering Fair and Volunteering Pop-up events).

If you are interested in becoming one of their voluntary partners, click here to register on their website.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact their Volunteer and Community Coordinator on jmsuvolunteering@ljmu.ac.uk.

 

Building on NOVUM Festival’s resounding success they are excited to invite artists to join them next summer to be part of the programme for 2024 (9-11 August) by responding to their open call for expressions of interest with details of your art, music, poetry, prose, performance, dance or creative work.

Following the pilot year, 2024 marks the full launch of what aims to become a new destination event for the North East celebrating original home-grown talent alongside the long-standing international connections – both historic and contemporary.

You could be based in the North East, across the UK, or across the world – NOVUM is a place where they want artists to come together sparking new relationships and new ideas. Their aim once again is to bring an experimental and diverse creative reflection of the city’s people to the iconic Civic Centre – opening the amazing modernist architectural icon to the public in an entirely new way.

Read the brief and respond to their Open Call for expressions of interest by Friday 17 December.

https://www.curatedplace.com/opportunities

This unique programme is dedicated to exploring the interplay of art and data to address pressing social justice issues. We want to enable creative collaborations between academics and artists to enhance the understanding, interpretations and applications of data and artistic practice.

Lancaster Arts wishes to support a contemporary artist based in England who is willing to make open-ended enquiries and explore new territory in collaboration with others. We welcome applications from artists who have extensive experience in working in this area and also from those who are curious but have not explored this previously.

This residency will enable a phase of exploration, for mutual benefit, with Lancaster University academics who use data in their work every day, such as data scientists, and those researching social justice in law, cyber security, health or the world’s environmental challenges. This exploration will take the form of mini residencies within an academic department and/or field trips with one or more researcher/s within the residency period, as well as time to reflect and develop ideas with the support of the Lancaster Arts team. We hope it will also include meetings with activists who use data to inform their work.

To apply, see here

Closing date: 27 November

VOLA is launching Round 3 of its UKSPF Digital Connectivity for Community Facilities Grants programme w/c 20 November 2023.  Grants of up to £10k will be awarded to successful applicants in February 2024.

Over the first two funding rounds, a total of £212k has been awarded to 32 Liverpool-based VCFSE sector organisations, with a further £78k available in this round.

Session 1

Friday 17 November 2023, 12 – 1 PM on Zoom

Prior to the application launch, LCVS, in partnership with VOLA, is running an online briefing session for local VCFSE sector organisations to explain the fund’s purpose, eligibility criteria and key requirements, the application process and what can/ cannot be funded.

You will be able to access the Zoom link when you register.

If you find all of the tickets have gone when you try to register, please email stuart.mcgrory@volamerseyside.org.uk and he will send you the Zoom link.

To register, please click here.

Session 2

Monday 20 November 2023 from 2 – 3 PM on Zoom

Following the session above, an additional online briefing will be held for interested organisations that might not have a great deal of experience in this field, focusing on technical considerations when developing-public access computer facilities, with plenty of helpful hints and tips on what you need to do, things you need to purchase, etc.

If you would like to attend, please email jack.shields@volamerseyside.org.uk and he will send you the link.

If you are interested in applying for a grant, it is strongly recommended that you attend both sessions.

Each session will take no more than 1 hour of your time, will greatly increase your chances of success, ensure that the facilities you set up are fit-for-purpose, and will ultimately help you to avoid lots of potential pitfalls, saving you time/money in the long-run!

For further information on the fund, please click here to visit VOLA’s website.

 

An exciting new prize will launch at the end of November 2023.

From November 30 submissions to The Paul Cave Prize for Children’s Literature will open to writers and poets from around the world.

“Writing an engaging children’s story that grips the reader is difficult,” says one of the judges, Tim Saunders.

“It’s a great opportunity for budding writers especially when getting noticed by a publisher is one of life’s great challenges.”

Entries close February 28, 2024.

There are three categories:

Best short story – 5,000 words or under

Best flash fiction – 300 words or under

Best poem – 30 lines or under

Winners will receive a cash prize and a copy of the book.

More information here: https://tsaunderspubs.weebly.com/the-paul-cave-prize-for-childrens-literature.html

Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra are now accepting applications for early January auditions for young musicians (13-21) playing at a Grade 7 and higher level on the following instruments: Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba.

There’s never been a more exciting time to join the orchestra, with an international tour and a once in a lifetime performance with Sir Simon Rattle coming up in 2024.

Apply today, applications close Friday 8th December.

Africa Oyé are delighted to open applications for next year’s Africa Oyé Festival, which is scheduled to take place on 22nd and 23rd June in Sefton Park, Liverpool.

Please fill out the form below and we’ll process your application over the next coming weeks.

Please note that we receive hundreds of applications for the festival each year and we’re unable to reply to each one personally but rest assured each application will be put forward to the team and considered.

Africa Oyé 2024 Artist Application Form.

Liverpool City Region Music Board have created a directory to showcase and encourage networking between all the amazing business professionals, businesses and creatives that exist throughout our city region.

Make sure you’re listed, by completing the quick form here: https://www.lcrmusicboard.co.uk/directory/

We are approaching the end of the calendar year and The Feminist Library is looking for artworks on the theme of “Resistance” to be displayed during our Winter Fayre on the 2nd of December until the 31st of January.

This year is ending on an enraging note, due to global politics, and an encouraging one – beautiful coalitions are formed across the world, creating radical movements and enforcing our beliefs that a better future is in our hands and that with solidarity and direct action, change is feasible.

With this in mind, they’re looking for painting, prints, textiles, banners, embroidery, sculpture, ceramics – you name it! They’re primarily looking for work that can be displayed on the shelves amongst the books, hang from the beams in the ceiling of the library as well as be displayed on the walls above the shelves in order to accommodate for the Winter Fayre event. Because of this, please make sure that your work adheres to at least one of the following guidelines:

– Two dimensional work (for walls): Max 80x80cm
– Two dimensional work (hanging from beams): Max 150x100cm
– Three dimensional work (on shelves): Max 30x30x30cm
– Three dimensional work (hanging from beams): Max 80x80x50cm and max 5-8kg

You can apply with a maximum of two artworks. In your application please include:

– Your name
– Title of the work/s, year, medium, dimensions, which of the guidelines the work follows (i.e how you’d like it to be installed)
– A short description of the work
– Contact details of the artist

Deadline: Email your application to arts@feministlibrary.co.uk by midnight, November 17.
Please contact us via the same email with any questions regarding the open call.

We are aiming to get back to all applicants by the 24th of November.

Please note that you will need to bring your work to the Feminist Library by the 30th of November.

As the Feminist Library is a volunteer-run organisation with no external core funding, they do not have the capacity to pay accepted artists a fee at this moment – this will hopefully change as they are expanding!

Metal Open Advice Sessions for artists are back!

On Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 November, we’re offering free 1:1 sessions for artists who live and/or work within the local area. You will lead these sessions and what you would like to discuss, which might include:

👉 Discussing your creative practice
👉 Talking through a project idea
👉 Advice or sign posting to different funding routes or opportunities
👉 Building relationships with different organisations, voluntary groups, partners or venues
👉 Budget development or reading draft applications

They’re offering these sessions in person from Edge Hill Station, as well as the option to discuss your work with us online. There’s one session available per artist and the slots are 1 hour long.

Sessions will be open on a first come first served basis (to those who live and/or work in the location where they are based), so follow the link in their bio for all the details and to book your free place!