Community Post Type: Callouts

The Art Quarter Market is back for Summer 2023, at Metquarter, on Saturday 29 July from 11am – 5pm.

The Art Quarter are looking for original makers, artisans and crafters. This can be anything from art prints, sculpture, leatherwork, ceramics, jewellery and textiles to chocolate, soap, honey or beauty products. They only ask that all your products are your own work and not mass produced or imported.

How To Apply

For more details including selection criteria, download the Information Pack, then apply here before the closing date at Midnight on 27 May 2023.

Culture Knowsley are seeking stallholders, as part of their Elizabethan Fayre, in Prescot town centre on Saturday 10 June.

Following the success of last year’s event, the Fayre, delivered in partnership with Knowsley Borough Council and Prescot Cultural Consortium, will return for 2023. It celebrates the town’s Elizabethan heritage and the Renaissance, with a contemporary twist.

During the Elizabethan era, Prescot was considered the London of the North. Boasting a bustling market and unparalleled entertainment, including live performances at numerous inns and the only free standing playhouse outside of London. The Shakespeare North Playhouse, which opened in Prescot last year, is built on these cultural foundations. As is the Elizabethan Fayre!

Stallholders across all artforms are accepted, including ceramics, painting, sculpture, textiles, homewares, photography and more.

How To Apply

For more details including selection criteria, download the stallholder information read the Call for Stallholders document, then apply here before the closing date at Midnight on 16 May 2023.

This summer dot-art are partnering with the Royal Liver Building for the long-awaited return of Liverpool Art Fair!

They are bringing Liverpool Art Fair to the city’s most iconic landmark, the Royal Liver Building, after a pandemic enforced 3 year break. They want to offer visitors the best possible range of locally sourced, affordable art work, so we need artists from across the region to get involved.

They will be open to the public 6 days a week, from 29th June– 20th August 2023. Entry is FREE!

Liverpool Art Fair is an annual event, aiming to showcase a wide range of affordable original art by a plethora of local artists; providing a unique insight into the region’s creative talent and the opportunity for everyone, from seasoned collector to first time art buyer, to own their own piece of the Liverpool art world.

Pre-pandemic the event ran for eight years, launching in May 2012 as part of the inaugural Liverpool Art Month, at the then brand new Camp and Furnace. In 2017, they relocated to the Pier Head, in a purpose-built gallery constructed from five shipping containers! In 2019 they took Liverpool Art Fair to Metquarter, where it ran for 80 consecutive days. In total they have welcomed over 50,000 art lovers to our events and showcased work by more than 1700 artists.

Liverpool Art Fair 2023 will take place for seven weeks across the summer, on the ground floor of the Royal Liver Building on the city’s Pier Head.

This is an open submission event, and they are inviting all artists based within a 35 mile radius of Liverpool, to submit work for inclusion.

Submission Process:

Read the Information for Artists document on the Liverpool Art Fair website to make sure you are eligible.

Please complete the online Submission Form by midnight on Sunday 28th May:

You will need full details of all the works you are submitting along with images.

You will be required to pay £5 per piece submission fee.

Work for inclusion will be selected by our independent panel and successful artists will be notified week commencing 5th June.

More information: liverpoolartfair.com / info@liverpoolartfair.com

 

The Africa Oyé Festival is just a couple of months away, with the FREE event set to take place over the weekend of 17th and 18th June.

Each year, an enormous amount of effort goes into ensuring that the festival takes place and remains free of charge and open to all. Due to the ever-growing popularity of the event, this is becoming increasingly challenging.

The support of volunteers is a crucial part of the festival – the opportunity to meet our audience only comes around once a year. You will be working with us focusing on ensuring the survival and growth of the festival by creating positive relations with our attendees and raising funds to sustain future festivals.

They ask for a minimum of 2 hours of your time during the Festival weekend – to help:

– Raise donations to ensure the event stays free and open to all.
– Distribute important information to Festival attendees.
– Support the Audience Development and data capture programme, that is crucial to Africa Oye’s future; this involves conducting a short questionnaire with audience members.

No prior training or experience is required and a briefing session will be provided before you commence your Volunteer shift.

The two days are a fantastic celebration of the music and culture of Africa, and volunteering will give you an opportunity to be part of the festivities, to meet a variety of people and help keep the event free for future generations.

Here is the application form. Please complete in full and press ‘Submit’ at the bottom.

If you have any queries, please email volunteer@africaoye.com

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:

• Who identify as D/deaf, Disabled or Neurodivergent
• Have dance experience or are enthusiastic about dancing / movement
• Are based in Liverpool, Merseyside, or Cheshire, Greater Manchester or West Lancashire.
• Are over the age of 16
• Are available for all outlined dates in the Key Dates section above, and can travel to venues within Liverpool city centre

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:

• Aged 16-30
• Based in the North West
• Looking to get into an accredited drama school
• Recently left an accredited drama school
• Have some experience in the industry but are not professionally trained

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/

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: 

• Proposal
• Cost
• Company name
• Contact information
• Track record
• Be no longer than 2 sides of A4

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.