Community Post Type: Callouts

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!

Categories for the Liverpool Poetry Prize 2023

For 2023, the Liverpool Poetry Prize has two categories:

• UniVerse: open to anyone in the UK aged 18 or over, writing on any subject.
• NeurodiVerse: for a poem about a neurological condition, neurodiversity or neurodivergence.

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.

WoW’s FREE 6-week writing development course for unemployed LCR Residents will be running multiple courses throughout the year at various locations across the Liverpool City Region.

Write to Work, has been hugely successful in connecting people with a creative community, getting published, finding work, going into education, or training.

This LCR Culture & Creativity Awards 2023 award-nominated course introduces a range of writing styles, workshops can include the chance to learn more about scriptwriting, memoir, prose, poetry, copy writing, fiction writing and writing for radio.

Participants will become part of a group meeting weekly in-person, working together to learn from brilliant writers and agents, who have often not followed traditional routes into the creative industry or writing themselves.

How to Apply

Next courses are in L8 starting at the end of March and @Bloom Building, Birkenhead starting in May!

To be eligible to apply you must be currently unemployed, eligible to live and work in the UK, live in the Liverpool City Region, be 18yrs+.

To Apply visit: https://writingonthewall.org.uk/projects/write-to-work-directions/

Or email write2work@writingonthewall.org.uk

The public is being invited to be part of a mass participation film for EuroFest, a series of cultural projects for Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool.

Mass Movement Director Jeanefer Jean-Charles MBE with local choreographers Lisi Perry and Grace Goulding are inviting the public to be part of a mass participation film which films part of the cultural events surrounding Eurovision 2023. Individuals over 18 years old and community groups of all ages from 11 years old up are invited to apply.

The film will feature on Culture Liverpool’s online platforms to welcome people to Liverpool for Eurovision 2023. Mass Movement Director Jeanefer Jean-Charles MBE has previously worked on events like the Commonwealth Youth Games Opening Ceremony in 2011, The London 2012 Olympic Games, the Rugby League World Cup Opening Ceremony in 2013, and the Queens Platinum Jubilee Pageant in 2022.

If as an Individual you are interested you can sign up here, and Groups can sign up here.

The deadline to sign up for Individuals is Monday 3rd April and the deadline to sign up for Groups is Monday 20th March.

To find out more, visit the Jeanefer Jean-Charles & Associates website.

Physical Fest are delighted to offer two bursaries to female identifying artists from the North West of England.

The bursary will offer a grant of £1500, mentoring support and a performance opportunity at the festival. To apply, please fill in the application form available on the link (below) by March 31st.

Physical Fest is an International physical theatre festival in Liverpool, run by Tmesis Theatre. This year’s festival runs from 29th June- 7th July.

https://www.tmesistheatre.com/physical-fest/femalebursary/

Intact are looking for an artist to develop and deliver a Eurovision themed community arts project with the residents of Ingol & Tanterton (Preston).

Starting Saturday May 13th and culminating in a live performance at SUMMER VISION, a free community event on June 24th.

Starting on Saturday May 13th as a Eurovision Final watch party, our artist/s will lead a series of creative workshops over 6 weeks, culminating in a live performance at SUMMER VISION, a free community event on Saturday June 24th.

They expect their artist/s to develop and deliver a schedule of creative activity, whether that be performance, visual art, dance, music etc. Residents as a result of attending these workshops will star in a performance/showcase at SUMMER VISION which you will facilitate and direct.

*Artists can apply for a commission of up to £5,000.*

Ingol & Tanterton sits in the 10% most deprived postcodes in the country. Our stats show an increasing demand for our services. People have multiple issues affecting their quality of life; many suffer from anxiety, depression and loneliness, with nothing to do and nowhere to go.

SUMMER VISION aims to build skills and confidence through creative practice, using Eurovision as a tool for celebrating diversity. Residents will have ownership and a platform to share their voice. In tumultuous times of economic hardship due to the cost of living crisis, SUMMER VISION aims to act as a positive indicator for looking forward as a community, building bridges, social cohesion, developing new transferrable skills regardless of age, background, disability or employment status.

To apply please submit a proposal (PDF Document or Video) that outlines:

Why you are interested in the commission

Project Plan: What you plan to deliver and how you believe it to meet the project’s
needs.

Three examples of past work/projects you think demonstrates how your practice fits
this brief.

How much you are applying for (no more than £5,000).

Supplementary Artist CV.

Deadline: 10am, 27th April.

Please email your proposal and CV to Rob Gregson robert.gregson@intact-preston.org.uk

Liverpool BID Company is launching a new Arts & Culture Fund for projects and events taking place in Liverpool city centre. 

The new fund has two levels of grants; one for small grants of less than £5,000 which can cover 100% of the project, and a larger grant which can cover up to 50% of the total cost of the project.

Eligible projects should align with Liverpool BID’s objectives, including driving footfall to the city centre, improving the city perspective, showing innovation and helping to showcase Liverpool as a thriving city, ensure the arts have a future in the city, meet both sustainable and ESG objectives, identity a commitment to equality and diversity. 

Applicants can be levy payers, or non Levy Payers. This can include charities, CICs and CIOs committed to increasing public access to the arts. Organisations can include, but are not limited to, museums, galleries, historic houses, archives, libraries, agencies and festivals. 

Two funding rounds will take place, in Spring and Autumn. The first deadline is Friday 27 March at 5pm and the second is 23 September at 5pm. 

Bill Addy is CEO of Liverpool BID Company, a not for profit private company funded through 1,000 organisations in BID areas across the city centre who pay a levy. 

“We have a long commitment to arts and culture in Liverpool and this fund is the next logical step, especially when the public purse is under so much pressure. Our desire with this fund is to bring animation to the city centre, to provide a gateway and access to the arts and to be part of the cultural landscape that makes Liverpool so vibrant. 

Our Culture & Commerce BID Area is home to many of Liverpool’s major arts organisations, including National Museums Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, Open Eye Gallery and more. If our extended Retail and Leisure area is approved in its ballot, Liverpool Everyman theatre and the Philharmonic Hall will join the Playhouse Theatre and Royal Court Theatre as levy payers. Alongside the public art we have supported with Liverpool Biennial, the Liverpool Plinth and Open Culture, we hope that this fund can support those who want to bring even more colour and creativity to the city centre”. 

To apply, organisations and individuals need to download the application form here https://www.liverpoolbidcompany.com/liverpool-bid-arts-culture-fund/

Thanks to YOU, Unity Theatre have now past the crucial 50% point of their urgent crowdfunder appeal to save their Open Call programme, which means applications are officially live!

Open Call provides Merseyside creatives with a guaranteed income of up to £1500, a slot in our Autumn 2023 programme and a package of mentoring and digital resources designed to help artists grow their career and promote Liverpool talent globally.

To date Open Call has funded 44 different Liverpool artists and companies, providing nearly £80,000 of support across two years

Their Crowdfunder will make sure we can give the next wave of Merseyside creatives this same support AND increase the minimum fee they can receive by 25% in line with cost of living. They need it now more than ever

However, at only £5000 raised so far they won’t be able to support as many as they have in the past.
A donation from you today will mean they get to say a huge YES to even more Liverpool artists.

To donate, see here