Community Post Type: Callouts

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!

The team are looking for professional actors to deliver a live interactive reading service to stroke survivors. Actors will read to patients one to one over a course of 2 hours.

They pay £35 for the two hour session plus pay travel costs to and from the hospital. We are looking for actors that can get to Trafford, Manchester.

Please send your CV and covering email, with Trafford in the subject line, to Nirjay Mahindru Chief Executive, InterAct Stroke Support at nirjay@interactstroke.org

Please don’t forget to mark the email MANCHESTER as they receive a lot of communications.

FutureEverything is looking to commission a Greater Manchester-based artist or artist collective, whose practice spans digital art and participatory co-creation, to work with them to create a new mobile digital artwork that can tour to community locations in Stockport.

To apply and for further details, see here

Closing date: 20 November

Established in 2019, FACT’s Curator in Residence programme invites Curators, based in the UK and Europe, to develop a major exhibition and a public programme of events that engage with their diverse audiences: both in Liverpool and internationally.

Until 2025, the position will be funded by the John Ellerman Foundation as part of FACT’s Curatorial Development Programme; allowing them to continue to champion new visions and voices within the arts.

Context

FACT is one of the UK’s leading centres for artists, curators and researchers working at the intersection of art, science and technology. As well as supporting artists at different stages of their careers, FACT recognises the importance of curatorial practice in maintaining a vibrant cultural scene.

Curators impact how an artwork is made, shown, and talked about. They have the ability to make unique connections between ideas, people and projects which are specific to their interests or research. As such, they are a vital part of any art ecology, and FACT is eager to support the next generation of curators to develop their practice in sustainable ways, building on the expertise within the organisation.

Through our Curator in Residence programme, we aim to further discourse around digital cultures and the impact of new technologies on society, and to offer a supportive environment for individuals or collectives to explore their curatorial practice. By continually expanding the network of artists, researchers and curators we work with, FACT hopes to become a hub for new perspectives and approaches.

Introduction to the role

We welcome applications from individuals or collectives working within the context of digital cultures and new technologies, at an emerging- to mid-career stage, who are excited about working with and around artists: supporting them to develop their practice, make new work, and deliver events and exhibitions. Applicants might not naturally consider themselves a curator, but have experience in any of the following: supporting creative practice; designing activities for groups of people; the production of artistic outcomes; or other transferable practical creative skills which are in-keeping with the aims of the residency.

Looking towards our onward programme, we are keen to work with creatives who critically and playfully explore the possibilities of interfaces between the digital and the haptic. We’re especially interested in those who aim to create different types of sensorial experiences – both physically, and in the virtual realm – and think how they might bridge audiences’ encounters with both worlds. This could include considerations of embodiment and how our bodies are mediated by technology. It could also explore the ways in which AI and data conflate personalisation to recognisable commodified patterns.

The Curator in Residence will work towards an exhibition across FACT’s ground floor Galleries, and an accompanying public programme. This hybrid residency will be based between on-site working at FACT and independent research and development working remotely. It runs from January 2024 for 10 months, culminating in FACT’s Winter exhibition, due to open in November 2024. FACT will support the curator’s vision and practice, seeking to bring in new references or perspectives, and disrupting our usual ways of working.

During the residency, the curator will work closely with FACT’s Exhibitions, Learning and Marketing teams to develop their exhibition and public programme. They will also integrate into FACT’s Studio/Lab programme, engaging with researchers and early to mid-career artists or curators through mentoring and informal sharing sessions. The residency will allow for remote working but should include multiple extended stays in Liverpool during development, production, installation and the exhibition run.

Person Specifics

• This role is open to curators from any background or discipline – although the role is curatorial, we are keen to open this out to people who may not have a formal curatorial practice but are able to create connections, construct narratives and work with us to invite audiences into an artistic experience

• The role is open to individuals or collectives. If applying as a collective, please be aware that the fee and travel, accommodation & research budgets remain the same, so this should be considered when allocating members’ time to the project

• Applicants should be interested in the overlapping fields of art and technology, approaching this from a critical and/or social perspective; and their work should seek to push FACT’s current programme and approach

• Applicants should be mid-career (3-5 years experience), having worked on the delivery of some public-facing or large-scale projects in their chosen specialism or field of research

• Flexible and collaborative: someone with experience of working as part of a large team, organisation or on a project with many stakeholders

• Clear vision and ability to communicate this to a wide range of audiences

• Committed to Equality, Diversity, Access and Inclusion both in their programming and their approach to working with artists, colleagues and participants

• Applicants must be based in the UK or Europe

• Applicants must have the right to work in the UK, as FACT cannot currently support visa applications

Deliverables / Expectations

• To take part in a flexible, hybrid residency lasting approx. 10 months with around 30% of time spent on-site in Liverpool

• To become embedded in the organisation, and in Liverpool, forming connections between their curatorial approach and the work FACT is already undertaking, as well as locating their work within FACT’s specific context

• To curate and deliver an ambitious, audience-focused presentation of 2-3 artists or a collective (either a new commission or significant restaging) to take over FACT’s Ground Floor which includes Gallery 1, the Foyer Gallery, and Public Spaces

• To design and take part in a public programme that expands the scope of the exhibition and is focused on audience interaction and engagement, rather than interpretation and explanation through events

• To propose and develop ways to utilise online platforms to disseminate and create critical artworks, or artistic experiences for our entirely digital audiences: either through the new commissions or events programme

• To take part in the Practice Development Programme of FACT’s new experimental production space, Studio/Lab. This will include acting as a mentor (as planned and assisted by the Studio/Lab Manager) for the Research Curator, Curatorial Assistant and Studio/Lab Artists in Residence

The above should not be regarded as exhaustive or inclusive as there may be other duties associated with the post that FACT will require the post holder to perform.

Benefits / Resources

• £10,000 Fee

• £3,000 Travel, accommodation & research budget

• A workspace in Liverpool along with any basic technical equipment required

• Ongoing, adaptable support from the team at FACT. The team will help to realise the curator’s vision for the Winter exhibition, and also nurture the curator’s developing practice: how they work with artists, institutions and audiences.

• This support also includes insights from across the whole organisation, with opportunities to work with or alongside teams focused on participation, fundraising, communications, technical design and visitor services.

• Access to a wide network of artists, curators and research through FACT’s Programme and through Studio/Lab, where they have the opportunity to work alongside other residents and become embedded in the organisation

• Access to FACT’s partners in Liverpool, from academic institutions to creative technology labs and other arts organisations

• A space to experiment – working directly with the FACT team’s knowledge of our audiences, and our eagerness to try out new approaches to develop and test out curatorial practice in a way not possible in some other gallery spaces

Timeline

• Closing date for applications: 29 November 2023

• Conversations with shortlisted applicants: w/c 11 December 2023

• Successful applicant offer and contract: w/c 18 December 2023

• Residency begins: January 2024

• Exhibitions and Public Programme outcomes: November 2024 onwards

How to apply

To apply, please use the following form:

• Application form

You will be asked to submit a current CV or portfolio (this can be a link to your website) along with a proposal. The proposal must be no longer than five pages, or if you would like to submit a video or audio file, no longer than 5 minutes. Proposals can include images and artist names as reference materials.

A 360° scan of FACT’s ground floor gallery can be found here.

If you require access support for your application, or have any queries, please email us at residency@fact.co.uk or call FACT on 0151 707 4444.

Closing date: Wednesday 29 November 2023, 23:59.

To find out more visit https://www.fact.co.uk/news/2023/10/open-call-curator-in-residence