Are you 18-25 and want to help The Old Library in Old Swan plan their next big community project?
Learn new skills, make new friends and add experience to your CV. They want to hear from you!
Contact community@tol.org.uk for more information.
Liverpool Biennial are seeking 5 D/deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent dancers to collaborate on Unmute Dance Theatre’s new performance for our upcoming festival. Unmute Dance Theatre specialise in collaborative, stripped back performances that centre Disabled experiences.
The project will include 5 weeks of activity, including a digital skill-share residency, in person performance development and up to 4 public facing performances showcasing the results of the collaboration in Liverpool City Centre. The dancers will be asked to co-create the content of, and perform in, the final performance through 5 weeks of engagement with Unmute Dance Theatre.
Ideally, we would like to work with dancers based in Merseyside, but would consider strong applications from the Cheshire, Greater Manchester and West Lancashire. Applicants with Learning Disabilities are also welcome to apply, but we would ask that you consider your needs in terms of the intensity of the programme. Professional dance experience is not essential, nor is specific dance training.
Who can apply?
This dancer open call is open to those who:
All applicants will be notified of the outcome by 26 May 2023.
Applications will be reviewed by a selection panel including Liverpool Biennial, DaDa Fest and Unmute Dance Theatre.
Deadline for applications: Sunday 14 May 2023, 5pm.
Head to https://www.biennial.com/about/opportunities to get the job information pack.
Calling all aspiring actors/performers aged 16-30!
The Not Too Tame Bootcamp is an 8-week professional development course led by A Midsummer Night’s Dream Co-Director & Not Too Tame Artistic Director Jimmy Fairhurst. This exhilarating new acting course is presented by Not Too Tame and supported by Shakespeare North Playhouse.
The course is open to anyone:
This course will provide you with skills and techniques to improve your acting and allow you to deliver nuanced, unique and alive performances. It will also comprehensively prepare you for any future professional auditions. You will be offered 1-2-1 mentoring sessions with Jimmy and other creative professionals in the industry. The course will culminate in a showcase performance at Shakespeare North in front of a live invited audience.
Check out Not Too Tame on socials – @NotTooTame @jimmy_fairhurst
To find out more and download the application pack via https://shakespearenorthplayhouse.co.uk/job/not-too-tame-acting-classes/
Chris Fittock’s work currently focuses on creating art in natural environments.
He is working on a Research & Development proposal to create an original piece of outdoor eco-theatre.
The project partially explores using heavy music as a way to tell an ecological story, rather than relying on cliched nature-audio (such as pan pipes and whale songs).
He is now looking for musicians who are interested in some or all of the following:
– Improvising music outdoors
– Exploring connections with nature
– Experimenting with bio-sonification
– Creating audio experiences for headphones in outdoor environments
Given the modest scale of an R&D project, this opportunity may suit solo artists or duos.
The R&D would likely be over 2-3 days in August.
This would be a paid opportunity, but is dependent on successfully securing funding.
At this stage, he’d like to hear from interested parties, to help put together a team for the R&D application.
You can learn more about Chris, the project, and drop him an expression of interest, at https://chrisfittock.co.uk/callout/
BlackFest has a five-year portfolio of delivering an annual combined Black arts festival and celebrating, platforming and providing developmental opportunities working with black artists providing community projects.
BlackFest has received recognition for its outstanding work, winning an award in the Arts Culture and Media category of the Merseyside Women of the Year Awards in 2022. The work of BlackFest features on “Visit Liverpool” and, accordingly, the company is expanding across the Northwest supporting the arts and economic ecology of the Liverpool City Region bringing audiences to Liverpool.
This year we are incorporating new segments to the festival.
We have lots in store for our artists and community this year Kings, Queens, the true ones, shapeshifters, healers, hustlers, dreamers, believers.
ALL APPLICATIONS:
We are also accepting proposals in video/audio format and BSL – please send a film/audio file no longer than 1 minute to festivalapplication@blackfest.co.uk or send a link to the same address for us to download the file.
APPLY NOW to be a part of the 2023 cohort details below!
If you require the information in BSL or accessible formats please email opportunities@blackfest.co.uk
Please visit www.blackfest.co.uk/festival-call-out-2023 for details of all the callout opportunities available.
Prescot Cultural Consortium in partnership with Knowsley Borough Council, is looking to offer several commissioned opportunities for the upcoming Elizabethan Fayre.
The Elizabethan Fayre has been running for many years and celebrates the towns cultural heritage specifically from the Elizabethan era. During this time Prescot was the Las Vegas of the North, with a busy market and entertainment offer second to none.
This included many inns with live performances and the only free standing playhouse outside of London. The new
Shakespeare North Playhouse is built on these cultural foundations.
They want the fayre to celebrate these connections and bring to life these colourful heritage gems, its Renaissance roots; but also embrace creative takes and contemporary viewpoint on this. They want activity and proposal ideas that are fun and interactive, that residents and visitors can enjoy and interact with. These could be static, promenade or elements of both.
Themes are Elizabethan/Tudor, Sustainability and Prescot people and stories. This fayre includes activity/ static performance zones e.g. outside Shakespeare North Playhouse and the Parish church and animate the pedestrian part of Eccleston St, they are also interested in ideas and ways to bring activity to smaller side street where many magical retail offers like e.g. the likes of Chapel, Atherton and Leyland St. This could be a walking tour, family scavenger hunt or something else!
The Fayre will be funded through the High Streets Heritage Action Zone Cultural Programme Grant.
All applying will need to hold appropriate PLI and if successful submit a relevant risk assessment in relation to their activity. Any PA requirements will need to be known to establish if this is possible or the artists responsibility. This is an outdoor event so subject to the variable British weather conditions.
They are especially keen to hear from applicants in Prescot, wider Knowsley and the Liverpool Combined Authority area and those from protected characteristics.
Commissions will run from £200 to £1,200
Applications will need to include:
Applications should be sent to cultureprescot@gmail.com
Closing date: 5pm Monday 10 April
Decisions: w/o 10-21 April
Dependant on the number of applications only successful proposal will be notified.
Liverpool Hope University and Liverpool Arab Arts Festival are giving away £1,000 worth of prizes as part of a literary competition for aspiring writers.
Now in its second year, A Day in the Life is a short story and poetry competition open to anyone of Arab heritage living in Liverpool City Region.
Inspired by Liverpool Arab Arts Festival’s 2023 theme of storytelling, entrants are being invited to submit either a poem or short story which tell real or fictional stories inspired by their lives in Liverpool City Region.
Entries can be submitted in both written and video form and the closing date for submissions is 5pm, Friday 2 June 2023.
Following the success of last year’s competition, the 2023 instalment will be open to more people than ever after the entry requirements were expanded to include adults of all ages.
This year’s edition will be split into three categories:
1) Under 16 years old
2) 17-24 years old and
3) 25 years old and over
The top three in each bracket will each receive the following prizes: 1st: £150, 2nd: £100, 3rd: £75..
The competition will be judged by writers/poets from Liverpool Hope University and Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, with the winners collecting their prize at the spectacular Family Day event on Sunday 16 July at Sefton Park Palm House.
Terms and Conditions
The competition is open to those living in the Liverpool City Region with Arab heritage.
Any video-based submissions must be either one minute in duration, or less.
Any written submissions must be of a maximum permitted 500 words in length. Entries can be submitted in either English and/or Arabic.
Submit your application through:
https://www.arabartsfestival.com/a-day-in-the-life-competition/
Please also include contact details for either yourself or your legal guardian.
For any questions regarding the competition, please email: admin@arabicartsfestival.co.uk
BlackFest have lots in store for their artists and community this year.
Their opportunities include:
To Apply:
Click here for more information on each opportunity
Please fill in an artist registration form here
Provide 250 words about yourself, your practice and examples of your work.
Provide 250 words why you would like to be a part of BlackFest 2023
Send all entries/applications to email: festivalapplication@
Applications close: 23rd April 2023
Shortlisting: 24th April 2023 – 25th April 2023
Interviews: 26th April 2023 – 28th April 2023
Announcements will be made in July. You must be available for several dates in JULY 2023 where they will be doing individual and group headshots, which will include networking and collaboration with all festival artists involved. You must be available for training, peer to peer networking support August – September.
The Learning Foundry presents… YOUR OWN VISION for 16-24 year olds who are not in education, employment or training.
This is a chance to kickstart a career and play a part in welcoming Eurovision to our region! They’re putting young people at the heart of the action – in hospitality, stewarding, heritage, retail, catering and more. Try out different sectors, find your passion and choose your path
The 12-week programme includes multiple work placements during Eurovision, work preparation and employability skills.
Tel: 0300 123 8088 or apply online: https://www.thelearningfoundry.co.uk/traineeships
The Liverpool Poetry Prize is returning for 2023, with a £1,000 star prize up for grabs.
Following their highly popular competition last year, 2023’s Liverpool Poetry Prize will celebrate neurodiversity.
Poetry unites us all, and whether you are writing from lived experience of neurodivergence or distilling your thoughts on a neurological condition, we want to hear from you!
For 2023, the Liverpool Poetry Prize has two categories:
They are pleased to announce that the ground-breaking Liverpool-born poet Brian Patten will be judging this year’s shortlisted poems.
Poems must be no longer than 40 lines, and you must be over 18 to enter (under 18s may enter with the written permission of their parent or guardian).
Entry costs £5, and the closing date is 12pm on March 31st, 2023. Entries received after the closing time will not be eligible. You are able to enter a maximum of one piece of work for each category.
To submit your piece of original poetry, please follow the instructions here. You can also attach your poem as a word document or PDF file.