Collective Encounters is seeking excellent Liverpool-based youth arts practitioners with specialisms across a range of artforms to join their pool of freelancers for a variety of youth arts projects.

Projects include: regular holiday programmes for looked after young people; weekly creative sessions with young migrants; short-term Arts Award programmes with young carers, those in hospital care, and their siblings.

There are roles available for lead artists, guest artists, support artists and creative support workers. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend a workshop on Saturday 18 March (travel expenses provided).

Contract: Freelance, various sessional roles available from April 2023

To apply and find out more, see here

Closing date: 6 March

Traders and Caterers Applications for Africa Oyé Festival 2023 now open!

If you’d love a trading pitch at this year’s festival on 17-18 June in Sefton Park, please fill out a Traders OR Caterers application form.

Please read all the terms and conditions.

Application Deadline: 5pm, Friday 31 March.

Find out more & apply here: africaoye.com/2023/01/traders-applications-now-open-for-2023-festival/

Comics Youth are looking for marginalised creatives aged 16-25 years old who want to share their experiences of joy through the medium of comics.

You will be paid £75 per page for finished comic pages or illustrations. (You can pitch up to 4 pages if you are really passionate about getting your story across to us).

Submit your pitch idea to rae@comicsyouth.co.uk before 5pm on Tuesday 7 March.

We are looking for artists (all artforms) and curator/producers to come into residence at the Winter Garden – to develop and deliver workshops, present artworks, and host arts events in the space.

We’ll be selecting two artists and two curator/producers to do work that can be experienced by people living in and visiting the Granby neighbourhood. We anticipate each residency will take place over two to three months.

No matter what stage in your career or creative background you’re from, we would love to hear what you’d like to make or host in the space.

For the spring/summer 2023 season, we will be awarding:

• 2 x Artist production residencies, including a £3000 artist fee, up to £2000 materials/production budget, plus periods of accommodation at the Winter Garden if needed or desired
• 2 x Curator/Producer residencies, including a £3000 curator fee, and up to £1500 production budget

While we welcome applications from any artist and curator interested in the open call, we are particularly interested in supporting people with ties to the Liverpool 8 postcode and/or from a global majority background.

Information for Artists

During your residency, it is not essential to create a finished artwork. However, we welcome approaches where neighbours can see your work progressing and explore your ideas. Whatever you do, we’d like it to contribute something to and inspire the Granby area – particularly the next generation of creative people.

While in residence, we will provide regular access to the Winter Garden’s event spaces, knowledge and networks of the local area, and resources to make public programmes. We can also offer periods of accommodation if needed or desired.

In your application, we’d like to know about you and your art, what ideas you have in mind and what you’d like to focus on during your residency. We’d also like to know how your work would inspire Granby and how we can best support you when working with us.

Information for Curator/Producers

This is an exciting opportunity for someone interested in building a career in art or furthering their project management experience. We’re looking for people who can develop ideas for public programmes (talks, workshops, performances and other activities) at the Winter Garden and deliver those ideas, including managing the event and production logistics.

Curator/producers can work alongside the artists-in-residence to help develop and deliver the artist’s ideas. In addition, they can build their own strands of complementary activity that speak to the themes of the Winter Garden, the Community Land Trust, or the neighbourhood. Maybe it’s a reading group, or series of acoustic music events, or a screening – it’s up to you.

You will also receive a fee of £3000 plus a budget of up to £1500 to support your activity, and we anticipate you’ll be working at the Winter Garden over two to three months.

How to Apply

Please fill in this application form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGZstFAs-w6sO44NV9NSjo9EtvGZlpX-GImDHxPWa66OZ6EQ/viewform 

Please also fill out our equality and diversity form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU23__8-grIIE79hjRQqvHu0n7qPY14IF4o0cmn5B0wBYNnQ/viewform

If you would like to send us a voice note or video application instead, please send us an email at wintergarden@granby4streetsclt.co.uk and we can let you know how best to send over your recording.

The deadline for applications is 7 March, 2023. We aim to notify shortlisted candidates by 15 March, and they will be invited to join us in a short meeting/interview to learn more about their ideas.

In your application, we’d like to hear about your experience in leading or assisting projects, working with different people, your interest in the arts, your knowledge of the local area and what skills you would like to develop while working with us.

We will consider applications by the following criteria

• The quality of your work and/or the potential to develop the project to a high standard

• The feasibility for your work to be hosted at the Granby Winter Garden

• Its potential to inspire the local neighbourhood

• The potential for neighbourhood outreach and to work with Granby’s creative community.

We anticipate tailoring the structure and deliverables of each residency to the selected artists and curator/producers, and are open to your ideas.

More Info and Context

It may be helpful to read up on the Granby Winter Garden and CLT before submitting your proposal. You can start with the ‘About the Winter Garden’ section of this website, and then move on to researching the wider Granby 4 Streets CLT project including The History, The Vision, and what other people have written about us In the News.

Art is for everyone…

…And anyone can play their part. If you’re interested in applying but not sure of terms in the call out, here’s some handy explainers

An Artist is someone who makes creative work. We usually think of someone who paints, performs, writes stories, or creates sculptures, but it can be someone who makes space for people to think differently and express themselves. It can be someone who tries to unearth different truths. It can be someone who passes on traditions, or creates new traditions. No matter your background or skills, everyone has the ability to make art.

A Curator is someone who brings art to an audience, overseeing the way it is presented, and cares for the way the artist’s work is developed. In gardening, curators focus on how the plants interact with each other, ensuring they’re fed and cared for; curating in art is not too different. If you care not only about art but how it is shown to people, how the art educates and inspires, and how artists develop their practice, then curating could be for you.

A Residency is time given to artists to develop their work. This could be something already being made, or a completely new idea, but the residency tends to be situated somewhere that is important and relevant to the work being made. Residencies are great ways for artists to learn new things, interact with different people and test ideas out. Artists in residence can also offer their expertise and insight, inspire people and bring joy to a place.

The Programme is everything that people can experience while the artists and curators are working in the Winter Garden. This includes, but is not limited to, exhibitions, music concerts, workshops, poetry readings, film screenings. While thinking about what programme you would like to make in the Winter Garden consider what is possible in the space during the residency and what would be welcoming to the local neighbourhood.

Outreach is how you make sure the right people are welcomed to the Winter Garden and break down barriers to accessing the programme. Sometimes art can be difficult for people to engage with, whether its location, language or just that the art is difficult to understand unless you have a particular education or background. The Winter Garden strives to be a welcoming space for all, no matter the gender, disability, ethnic background, sexuality, class, religion, age.

With support from Arts Council England and Granada Foundation

St Helens Borough Council and Walk the Plank, as part of St Helens Borough of Culture 2023 are looking for artists to get involved in their Town Fayre celebrating the talents and creativity and heritage of St Helens on Saturday 29^th April 2023.

For one amazing day, St Helens Town centre will be transformed into a carnival of music arts, crafts, and magical street performance. Featuring a massive peddle powered “Stephenson’s Rocket” train, a huge chicken and hypochondriac hippopotamus, glass making, lino printing, a copper samovar, two acrobatic cats and a tap-dancing canary and an amazing parade led by Mrs Beecham’s exploding monster (capable of the biggest farts in the cosmos) …….and most importantly You and Your AMAZING CREATIONS. This is a day we would love you to be part of.

They would love to showcase your work as part of their Town Fayre of arts, crafts, heritage, and curiosities where you can offer demonstrations and try out sessions to visitors.

They would love to include your work in our makers market of creativity. But hurry places are limited and going fast. They have 20 stalls available – so far showcasing everything from Bee Keeping to Life Drawing and Game Design – includes fee and some set up costs for freelance creatives where possible.

For further information about how you might join them one amazing day in one amazing Borough of Culture year:

Email Bev@walktheplank.co.uk or to talk through your ideas phone 07881810785.

Liverpool is hosting the Eurovision Song Contest this year, so Liverpool ONE are looking for artists to design their pianos as part of a Eurovision-special Tickle the Ivories piano festival.

The collective theme for Eurovision is ‘United by Music’. Your design should reflect this and Ukrainian culture and traditions, or those of the other competing Eurovision countries, and our wider Liverpool City Region communities.

Please send photos/graphics showing a selection of your past work, and a simple sketch/mock up and description of your proposed design idea to melody.beard@liverpool-one.com

Closing date for initial proposal: 27 February

Artists appointed: 3 March

Deadline for final artwork: 27 March

 

Lydia Higham is currently a level 6 History of Art and Museum Studies student studying at Liverpool John Moores University, looking for artists to be a part of her exhibition, Fearful for her major project.

Fearful is an exhibition exploring human fragility specifically on the emotions of anxiety and insecurity. The exhibition aims to be an open call for people to express their fears. Currently the exhibition is open for interpretation and invites artists to propose any possible ideas or areas of interest.

There is interest for works that are able to be hung up so photography, painting and drawings are best suited. All artists are welcome to submit as well as students or artists from outside of LJMU.

The exhibition is looking to take place towards end of March/ early April. The exhibition will take on a one night event style, launching during the evening with curated live music to accompany the art.

If the exhibition is something you would be interested in, or know anyone who may be interested, please contact Lydia Higham, lydiahighammusic@gmail.com briefly outlining any ideas or visual references.

If you have works already completed that are suited for the theme could you title the piece and add a small piece of text explaining your work. Please include a Biography.

Closing date: 19 February

The call for entries for the 2023 edition of the John Moores Painting Prize is now open.

Open from midday on 13 February until midday on 24 March 2023, the call for entries follows the announcement of the 2023 jury – Alexis Harding, Chila Kumari Singh Burman MBE, Claudette Johnson MBE, The White Pube and Yu Hong.

The jurors select the prize winners and the paintings that will be exhibited in the John Moores Painting Prize 2023 exhibition, which will take place at the Walker Art Gallery from 16 September 2023 to 25 February 2024. The first prize winner will receive £25,000 and a solo display at the Walker Art Gallery in 2025. A shortlist of four other paintings will also be awarded £2,500.

Alongside the first prize and prizes for the shortlist, there is also the Lady Grantchester Prize. The prize offers £5,000, a month-long residency in London and £2,500 worth of art materials from Winsor & Newton. Any registering artists are eligible to enter for this prize, with applications from artists in their final year of study or within five years of graduation especially encouraged.

The call for entries coincides with the opening of a new display by the first prize winner of the 2020 edition, Kathryn Maple. The display, Under a Hot Sun, focusses on the extreme environmental situation the world is currently facing. Kathryn’s winning painting, The Common, is now part of the Walker Art Gallery’s permanent collection.

The call for entries for the John Moores Painting Prize 2023 runs from midday on Monday 13 February 2023 until midday on Friday 24 March 2023.

For further information, visit liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/jmpp. 

Fundamentals of acting in 10 weeks, March-May 2023.

20 Stories High are proud to introduce a 10-week professional development programme led by Ameera Conrad, Associate Director for 20 Stories High, along with several incredible freelance specialists from around the UK.

WHO’S IT FOR?

Artists interested in performing who meet the following criteria;

aged 18-30
based in Merseyside
early career*
preference will be given to artists who have faced barriers when accessing training, for instance:
People from the Global Majority
People with barriers accessing education or training
LGBTQIA+ people
People who have faced financial challenges
Deaf and Disabled people
Migrant artists
People who have experienced mental and/or physical health challenges
People with extra responsibilities at home (e.g. primary caregiver for a relative or responsible for the care of children)
*By early career they mean either that you have little to no professional acting experience, or that you have some professional acting experience but no formal training in theatre.

WHAT IS IT?

A 10-week programme that will equip you with the tools necessary to walk into a rehearsal room with confidence in their craft – from demystifying jargon to practical skills building.

The 10 week programme will culminate in a scratch night performance for an invited audience.

HOW TO APPLY

Read through the application pack on their website, then fill out an Expression of Interest form and send a short video introducing yourself (just a quick hello on a phone or any device is fine!)

Deadline: Tuesday, 21st February 2023

Please send the above to Natasha Patel, Associate Producer – natasha@20storieshigh.org.uk

Alternatively, they welcome applications in video/audio format and BSL – please send a film/audio file answering the questions within the expression of interest form (no longer than 15 minutes)

If you have any additional access requirements to complete the expression of interest, including accessing equipment, please let them know and they will support this.