Community Post Type: Callouts

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

Liverpool City Council is today launching the next part of its Eurovision engagement programme – EuroStreet

Following on from EuroFest, the two-week cultural festival, and EuroLearn, the education programme, EuroStreet, will make sure that communities across the city region get the chance to bask in Eurovision’s sparkle.

And not only that – there is now a chance for everyone to bring their brilliant Eurovision ideas to life with EuroGrants of up to £2,000.

A detailed EuroStreet programme will be released soon but events will focus on:

• Festival of Europe – Celebrating the cultures and heritage of all Eurovision nationalities in the city region
• Songs for Europe – Live participatory performances touring residential care settings
• Solidarity Disco Banquets – Food, music and crafts at community-based feasts.

• Chess for Everyone – A huge pastime in Ukraine, celebrated with in-person and online games.

EuroGrants are supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Community organisations and groups as well as schools from across the city region are now invited to apply to fund projects which will take place in May or June.

Projects should use Eurovision as their inspiration, focusing on local cultures, memories and the heritage of the region’s communities.

Applications from not-for-profit organisations will take precedence and projects and events should be free or low cost to attend.

Applications for grants of up to £2,000 must be received by 5pm on Wednesday, 29 March. Culture Liverpool will be joined by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in deciding which projects are successful with decisions being made by the end of the first week of April.

To apply and for a full list of conditions visit the Culture Liverpool website.

The team are seeking a local female vocalist/performer in or around Liverpool/Merseyside to support their ‘Celebrate Women In Music’ charity concert on the 18 November 2023 at Zanzibar, Liverpool, in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

Macmillan Cancer Support is one of the largest British charities and provides specialist health care, information and financial support to people affected by cancer. It also looks at the social, emotional and practical impact cancer can have, and campaigns for better cancer care.

Whilst they are not in the position to announce the line-up, the artist they are seeking will be joining an impressive all female line-up, and as such the genre we are looking for could be pop, Americana, folk, indie, jazz or soul, and will be a fantastic opportunity for an upcoming artist to increase their exposure, awareness and it will be a great experience whilst raising funds for a great cause.

Duo/solo performers are welcome, as are those who are in a band, they just ask that the lead singer is female, and it can be with a full band or half backing, and the set will be 20 minutes.

Any performers who are interested are encouraged to email info@ofevents.co.uk for further information, with a brief description of themselves, any links to any video performances, and dates if they are performing live. They may hold auditions via zoom.

Please note, submissions must be submitted before 14 April 2023.