Community Post Type: Callouts

‘The climate is in crisis. And that’s some heavy weather. So how do we ground ourselves when it all seems hopeless?’

GROUND is an artistic exploration of Climate Anxiety. But we’re not talking doom and gloom. We’re talking coffee, cake and creativity.

Theatre in the Rough is inviting ten young artists to join them on a journey of hope. To explore their climate concerns. And create new work in collaboration with the non-human world.

Through a series of climate cafes, creative workshops and individual practical work, participants will contribute to a new film installation to be shown at The Atkinson in Southport. Their work will also feature in an accompanying publication.

To be eligible for GROUND, you must be:

Aged 16-24
Live in the Liverpool City Region
Have an interest in exploring Climate Anxiety
Want to explore the artistic possibilities of collaborating with the non-human world

For more information and to download an application pack, visit: https://www.theatreintherough.com/ground/

Deadline for applications: 11.59pm, 11 November 2022

GROUND is funded by The Liverpool ONE Foundation’s Greener Futures Fund/The Community Foundation for Merseyside.

It is supported by The Atkinson and Zero Carbon Liverpool.

Homotopia have teamed up with Unlimited and Marlborough Productions, to offer a disabled queer artist £24,000 to develop a performance piece over the next two years, resulting in a slot at Homotopia Festival 2024.

Artists can be from anywhere in England, but we encourage applications from the North West and South East. Artists must have experience of making at least one professional commission (of any scale).

Unlimited’s mission is to commission extraordinary work from disabled artists until the whole of the cultural sector does. These awards will give disabled artists the chance to develop and present work across the country and/or internationally across rural and city locations, with a partner organisation for digital or in person, collective or individual experiences.

Artists can sign up by emailing Isabella Tulloch Gallego, Programme Manager on isabella@weareunlimited.org.uk or text or call on 07506679968.

Closing date: 31 October

The Black-E are offering an exciting week of FREE community workshops, to create a new story of Mary Seacole.

A story taking us from the Crimea War to the birth of the NHS and the story of Joan Stober. Joan Stober was a young
nurse at the birth of the NHS but went on to champion social justice and action right here in Liverpool.

They are looking to reach out to local community organisers, youth groups and just about anyone who can help make this an event for Liverpool, they need your help to:

Prepare people to become involved, through song and music, telling a new story.

Encourage local singers and choirs and others to be part of sharing the gift and talent in Liverpool, a city blessed with diversity

Accept the wonderful foods that will be produced and shared each evening & send people who will help them break bread, with their communities.

Come together, if not as part of performing, but supporting truth and justice. Enabling communities to come together, to share a deeper understanding of each other and the need for mutual support.

They are asking people to join them for a mixture of workshops and a gala celebration. Workshops are held 25-28 October at The Black-E, with the gala celebration on the 30th.

For more information and updates, see their website here

The Black-E, 1 Great George St, Liverpool L1 5EW

CALL OUT FOR ARTISTS: A new commission opportunity exploring the unique heritage of Fleetwood, Lancashire through photography.

On behalf of the Fleetwood HAZ Cultural Consortium, the Fleetwood Museum Trust (FMT) and Photoworks are seeking applicants for the creative commission that explore and express Fleetwood’s unique heritage with the support of Photoworks.

Commission:
From Nothing to Now is Fleetwood’s three-year cultural programme. Part of the Fleetwood High Streets Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) cultural programme, this creative commission is the third of four and explores and expresses Fleetwood’s unique heritage through photography in collaboration with Fleetwood residents (a socially engaged commission).

Artist fee: £3,000 (inc. VAT) paid in instalments across the 12-month period. There is an additional budget for artist travel, materials, workshop delivery (to be agreed) and other costs associated with the delivery such as exhibition production.

Find out more and how to apply: https://photoworks.org.uk/opportunities/fleetwood/

Contact: Julia@photoworks.org.uk

Prototype Projects (Heart of Glass)
Apply by: Sunday 20th November 2022
Fee: £300 – £2000

Are you an artist / creative/ collective living in St Helens or Knowsley?

Have an idea for a project that works with people and communities or, need time to research and develop your own artistic practice?

Able to make your project / activity happen between 1st January – 31st March 2023?

Heart of Glass are supporting artists working with communities in St Helens and Knowsley to test, explore and develop new, innovative ideas and engage new audiences.

Your Prototype Project can involve any art form and take place in a diverse range of social and community contexts. For example; workshops, an installation, a performance, a sound piece, an online conversation, or engaging with a professional development opportunity or mentor.

To be eligible for Prototype Projects you must:

Live in St Helens Borough Council or Knowsley Council local authority areas

Be a creative individual, an artist, or collective of artist

Have an idea for a project that works with people and communities or, you need time to research and develop your own artistic practice and skills so that you can make work in the future with people and communities

Be able to make your project / activity happen within a budget between £300 – £2000

Be able to make your project / activity happen between 1st January – 31st March 2023

For more information and to download an application pack, visit: https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/about/vacancies/prototype-projects

If you need additional access support to make an application, please let them know, by contacting: prototype@heartofglass.org.uk or call / text 07529224271

Black Box is a student run gallery in the heart of Farnham, Surrey. Showing international and UK based artists, our ethos is to give external practitioners a space to exhibit resolved and experiential work on an individual basis.

This can be anything from performance to sculpture, we’re open to all media. Exhibiting artists also have an opportunity to speak to students about their practice. Black Box has created a dialogue between young creatives at the university and visiting artists, with many of the students going on to work alongside the artists, both benefiting from the experience.

Black Box has been called many things over the years, however within the last 5 years Black Box has developed into a recognised gallery with artists like Gavin Turk, Gustav Metzger, David Batchelor, the more recently Katherine Smith and Liv Fontaine. Each year students as they come and go, get the opportunity to become part of the team, curating the space, website and gallery direction. 

They seek artists most likely critically acclaimed emerging and established artists. They want to give the artists the opportunity to experiment and engage with the space, as it is located within the University campus at Farnham. With the aim to inspire the culture and current students studying with us, to challenge perceptions of what art can be, how it can communicate and to who.

They ask the artists to present work that can question the space and the contemporary time we are living in, and its current contexts be it gender, LGBTQ+ community, sustainability and ecology, theoretically active, Black Lives Matter and ability/disability. 

Exhibition slots will be of a month long (a week to install, two weeks of exhibition and the last one to deinstall) we are looking for the period that will go from December to June, in the way to achieve 6 slots of contemporary boost of art.

To receive an application form contact Black Box Coordinator, Aurora Ulian: aurora.ulian@uca.ac.uk

Complete the application answering all the questions as required. Send the word document with your name/ BlackBox OpenCall 22/23 in the subject line and send it with your CV and Portfolio to the same address aurora.ulian@uca.ac.uk

Paperwork Theatre’s community drama group is still welcoming new members for the new term.

If you identify as female, are 25+, and want to get involved in drama – whether you’re a complete beginner or have lots of experience – drop us an email at info@paperworktheatre.co.uk to register your interest!