Smithdown Road Festival is one of the biggest grassroots festivals in Liverpool, making its triumphant return for 2023.
Utilising all the prime venues in the Smithdown Road area, hosting some of the best talents the North West has to offer, applications are now open for the Smithdown Weekender 2023 (28 April – 1 May).
To apply all you have to do is send an EPK or a bio over to andy@smithdownfestival.co.uk to get on the shortlist.
Liverpool Print Fair is a celebration of printmaking. We bring a colourful range of artists, designers and storytellers together to showcase their work in its many forms. The event is perfect place to find affordable art and handmade prints, with a dynamic mix of styles among the stalls.
The fair has been running biannually since 2016 and has hosted a variety of talented artists from across the UK. Now in its fourth year, Liverpool Print Fair is bigger and better than ever. If you’re looking for something new, it’s a great place to treat yourself to some amazing affordable art and get to know the printmakers you’re buying from.
Criteria
First and foremost this event is a print fair and will be advertised as such to the public. The primary focus is unique and affordable art, so the majority products at the fair should be paper based art prints.
If you sell homeware and accessories alongside your prints as part of a collection, we’re happy for you to bring those along too. Products such as greetings cards or comics and zines are also very welcome at the fair.
Stalls are more likely to be offered to people who create work using hands-on printing methods over those who work solely in digital mediums. We’re also looking for sellers with unique contemporary prints who avoid over-saturated trends.
We also make sure spaces are offered to different artists each year to keep the event interesting for the public. It’s possible that you may not be selected this time around if you have sold at 2 or more of our most recent events.
Apply For A Stall
22nd & 23rd April 2023
Bluecoat, School Lane
Before submitting an application, please read over the information below to make sure the venue and event will attract your target audience.
Applications close 8pm on Sunday 12th February 2023.
Spaces are £65 per day for a full table, or £32.50 per day for a half table.
The Grassroots Movements Fund is a new area of work at the grantmaking organisation The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
It is a pilot fund, to resource movements on the frontlines of social and environmental injustice, and who are striving for transformative change – a vision in which the systems of discrimination and domination of the present no longer exist.
The fund will make grants of between £10k and £70k to every successful application. Grants can cover up to a two-year period.
To apply for the Fund groups must meet these five criteria:
For full information and to apply, please click here.
Comics Youth CIC’s ‘Turn the Page’ Comics project aims to provide a person-centred package of proactive and reactive support for young people aged 16-25 who have symptoms and/or experiences of anxiety/depression within the Merseyside area.
The project will provide an array of creative comic book and zine-based opportunities for young adults to experience the narrative benefits of comics and art via:
To learn more and access the referral forms, see here.
Turtle Song is a a free singing and song writing project. It has been held regularly since 2008, bringing music, song writing, movement and singing to people living with dementia and their companions and carers.
They are returning to Liverpool this year and are hoping to start their project on 30 January 2023. They are now looking for participants to join their project.
This joyful project has been running in different areas around the country for 15 years and is a collaboration between Turtle Key Arts, English Touring Opera and Royal College of Music. Young musicians join the project to create a truly intergenerational experience of high quality music and a real Turtle family experience.
For 2023, the participants will meet once a week for nine weeks, and with the help of professional musicians and music students, write the lyrics and compose the music for their own song cycle, ending in a live performance for friends and family which is recorded as a DVD.
For further information, please call 020 8964 5060 or email charlotte@turtlekeyarts.org.uk.
An age 16-25 Culture Knowsley’s Young Producers volunteer team ‘Throwback Collective’ will be starting in February 2023 and will run till May/June 2023.
Being part of the collective provides the opportunity for young creatives to co-produce their own arts and heritage event/exhibition and gain valuable experience in the cultural sector. This will be part of the Knowsley Borough of Culture legacy programme.
They have their first welcome/introductory session coming up online on Tue Jan 24th at 6 pm for people to find out more and then we will look to schedule planning workshops in Huyton Library every 2 weeks. Huyton Library is easily accessible via bus and train from Liverpool City Centre and other areas across the region.
Follow this link to the online welcome/introductory session.
Are you a graphic designer, illustrator, photographer or videographer working in the North West? The Shakespeare North Playhouse wants to hear from you!
Applications are open for Write to Work, Writing on the Wall’s highly successful, writing development course.
Write to Work’s FREE in person 6-week course for unemployed residents living in the LCR Region
Applications close on Wednesday 25th January, 12 noon
Eligibility: You must be 18+, unemployed, eligible to work within the UK, live in the LCR
If you have been on Write to Work or mentoring previously, or are being supported by another organisation or charity that is part of the Direction LCR partnership, or The New Horizons ESF programme, unfortunately you are not eligible to apply for Write to Work.
To Apply, please click here: https://
If this isn’t the right time for you, they will be running Write to Work courses throughout the year. So do get in touch if you’re interested in any future courses.
March for the Arts teamed up with Creative UK who have launched Redesigning Freelancing – the UK’s largest freelance survey to improve working conditions and drive industry change.
At the beginning of November, Creative UK launched Redesigning Freelancing, a collective initiative shaped by members and partners across the UK creative landscape to empower freelance workers and organisations to drive change and build greater equality into our freelance workforce.
The initiative is working in partnership with nine Combined Authorities to reach creative communities across the UK and to understand the challenges that freelancers face locally as well as nationally.
So have your say whether you’re freelance, work for an arts organisation or are employed in any form across the creative sector –
The survey takes approximately 5 minutes and they’d love to have as many people as possible from as many arts disciplines as possible to take part across the Liverpool City Region.
Closing date – 27th Jan 2023
Talented young performers across Merseyside are being offered the chance to experience a day in the life of a student at Liverpool Theatre School as the centre of excellence announces a series of taster days for those considering a professional career on the stage.
Liverpool Theatre School, whose graduates can be seen in smash hit shows such as SIX, Frozen the Musical, Wicked and Blood Brothers, is inviting aspiring performers to enjoy a broad range of classes, with taster days in both Dance and Musical Theatre on the bill.
During the sessions, budding performers will have the opportunity to meet students and tutors, who will be on hand to give an insight into student life at Liverpool Theatre School and answer any burning questions about training at a professional level. Those attending the taster days will also be able to try out some of the exceptional facilities at the Sefton Street campus, located on the edge of the city’s creative quarter.
Speaking on the taster days at Liverpool Theatre School, Principal Maxine Ellis, said: “Progressing into full-time professional training can be hugely exciting for ambitious young performers, although there are lots of considerations to make before taking the leap, from course content, class sizes and facilities to financial support and bursaries available.
“Our taster day experiences aim to answer many of these questions, as well as offering a feel for what life is really like as a full-time student on an elite training programme at Liverpool Theatre School. We’re very much looking forward to giving the next generation of professional dancers and theatre stars a chance to be a student for the day as they look towards the next steps in achieving their future ambitions.”
Liverpool Theatre School, whose patrons include dance legend, Wayne Sleep OBE, and renowned West End theatre producer, Bill Kenwright CBE, provides professional training in Musical Theatre, Dance and Acting, with a number of bursaries and fully funded places awarded every year. Widely recognised within the industry, all full-time BTEC and Trinity accredited courses at the Ofsted ‘outstanding’ Liverpool Theatre School are designed to give young people the skills they need to enjoy a career on the stage.
The taster day experiences at Liverpool Theatre School, which start on Friday 20th and Tuesday 24th January, are designed for young performers (over the age of 14) who are thinking about a professional career in the performing arts industry.
For further information or to register to attend, please email: info@liverpooltheatreschool.co.uk or call 0151 728 7800.