Community Post Type: Callouts

Calling all Knowsley Dance Groups and Dance Schools 

The Knowsley Borough of Culture team are looking for dance groups and dance schools to take part in a fantastic opportunity to perform in an ambitious mass dance project as part of Knowsley’s Borough of Culture 2022 programme. 

Working alongside globally renowned Creative Consultant, Jeanefer Jean-Charles and a local creative team, this new mass dance piece will celebrate Knowsley’s rich sporting heritage and tell the borough’s stories of people, places and magic. 

The piece will be showcased outdoors as part of a high-profile finale to a week-long Sporting Legends Relay on 23 July 2022. 

Jeanefer Jean-Charles is a globally respected Creative Director and Producer with over 20 years’ experience, specialising in large-scale performances, opening ceremonies, stadium events, outdoor spectacles, carnivals, and parades. Her work has taken her to over 21 countries and has gone down in the Guinness Book of Records.

As a leading authority in mass movement and public engagement, Jeanefer is passionate about empowering and involving people in activities. Her passion and creativity bring to life the talents, strengths and shared stories of local communities and artists in inspiring and unforgettable ways.

Recruitment is taking place throughout April with the project being developed in April and May. Rehearsals will take place in May, June and July (rehearsal schedule to developed with dance groups and dance schools directly) and the final performance will take place in Knowsley on Saturday 23 July.

Please register your interest by 30 April 2022 by emailing bev.ayre@knowsley.gov.uk and if possible include a link to your work.

Further details about the exciting year-long Borough of Culture programme can be found here.

 

 

 

A popular North West fun run series returns to Wirral this weekend with organisers pledging to donate profits from the first event of 2022 to the Ukraine Emergency Appeal.

The Medal Muddle 5K returns after an enforced break of two years due to the pandemic. The event is organised and staged by independent race event organisers BTR Liverpool.

This year’s first Medal Muddle takes place on Saturday (23 April) in Hoylake, starting at 11am.

The start is opposite the community centre on Hoyle Road. The out and back route will take participants along Hoylake Promenade towards Moreton and back to Hoylake.

Participants are encouraged to wear Ukraine’s national colours of blue and yellow to show their support.

The 5K is a fun run and not competitive, so there will be no official timing. Entry is £12. Online entries close at midnight on Thursday (21 April). There will be on the day entries from the BTR enquiries tent at the start line.

The Medal Muddle series was created by BTR as part of its ongoing commitment to sustainability. Surplus race T-shirts and medals from across the BTR event portfolio are repurposed and rebranded, and presented to everyone taking part.

The first Medal Muddle was staged in 2019. Staged in conjunction with BTR Road Runners, the small local 5K runs supported local charities and has raised almost £3,000 since it was launched.

Good causes to benefit have already included Hoylake RNLI, Pawprints Wildlife Rescue, Hoylake Animal Rescue, Charles Thompson Mission Birkenhead, and Shy Lowen Horse & Pony Sanctuary.

BTR Liverpool has announced that all profits from April’s Medal Muddle event will be donated to the Ukraine Emergency Appeal – so organisers are encouraging people to get behind the cause.

BTR Liverpool is the leading independent organisation for creating, managing and delivering headline running events across Liverpool City Region. Its extensive portfolio covers various distances across different terrains, all with an ongoing commitment to sustainability.

BTR Liverpool Race Director Alan Rothwell commented:

“The images we are seeing on the news are devastating, you can’t even begin to imagine what these innocent people are going through. Everyone has been rallying round and coming up with ways to do their bit to help – this is ours at BTR. I’d urge people to take part and support this very important cause while wearing blue and yellow in solidarity.

“In recent years we’ve been working hard to move forward with our commitment to sustainability. By repurposing and helping the environment, we can also use the Medal Muddle to raise funds and help support people in their time of need.”

BTR Liverpool recently donated running T-shirts to clothing appeals for the people of Ukraine. Other T-shirt donations have previously included 2,000 T-shirts to the Syrian crisis.

To register for the Medal Muddle visit www.btrliverpool.com

Baltic Clay are very pleased to offer 5 Studio Membership spaces at their new space in the North Docks.

Baltic Clay provides the space, equipment and support for makers who need to work in clay. Studio Members must be able to show that they are able to work independently as there is no tuition or guidance available.

Studio Members will get up to 20 hours a week access to their new, bigger studio for £120 a month, personal storage space and access to the equipment.

This is an ideal opportunity for recent ceramics graduates or for those wanting to continue to work in clay in a supportive environment.

Contact Chris for more details: balticclay@outlook.com

Can you use your creative skills to explore hidden histories and share those stories with a  wider audience?

Are you passionate about equal rights and collective activism? Do you enjoy  collaborating with other artists to bring history to life? Would you like to be involved in a  project which helps teach and inspire young people to get creative, learn about Manchester’s  history and tell their own story.

If the answer is yes to any of the above questions, then The Pankhurst Trust would like to hear from you. They have an exciting new opportunity for a group of artists to respond to the archive and history of  the Pankhurst Centre.

They are interested in supporting artists aged 18 – 25 years old and at the beginning of their  career with mentoring and support to make a major new commission of digital and design  artwork. By early career, they define this as an artist who has received specialist training in  their field (not necessarily gained in an academic institution), who is at the beginning of their  career, and who has created a modest independent body of work.

The artist opportunity is open to creatives working within the realms of film, illustration,  design, audio, photography, or other digital mediums.

If you wish to find out more information and how to apply then head to their website www.pankhurstprojects.org/blog/opportunity-young-creatives-freelance/ 

Merseyside Women of the Year (MWOTY) Awards is back for 2022 and looking for nominees from our region’s incredible and diverse communities that are making a difference, inspiring others and changing lives.

Nominate now at: merseysidewomenoftheyear.co.uk/nominate/

Closing date for nominations is Sunday 24th April 2022. 

Nominees must be from or working in Merseyside/Liverpool City Region and entries are open to anyone who identifies as a woman or non-binary. You can nominate someone you know or even yourself.

Full judging criteria can be found on the MWOTY website

Finalists will be celebrated at a private event on Monday 27th June and at the awards ceremony on Friday 1st July.

Brighter Sound is seeking musicians to get involved and create new music as part of their Surround Sound project.

Brighter Sound is a creative music charity rooted in supporting Northern artists by focusing their efforts to support historically and currently underrepresented groups.

About the project

• ‘Surround Sound’ is a 5-day project led by eco-friendly, afrofuturist punks Fulu Miziki Kolektiv, taking place in Liverpool 10-16 May.
• Selected artists will collaborate, create and record new music, exploring the sound and aesthetic of afrofuturism and DIY music.
• Aimed at emerging artists (18+) in the North of England. We’re looking for producers, singers, rappers or instrumentalists from any background, discipline or genre who have a strong track record of writing, producing and performing, and a growing online presence.
• The deadline to apply is Thursday 21 April and more info can be found on Brighter Sound’s website.
• Presented in partnership with Root Music and Africa Oyé.

Liverpool City Region Cultural Events are working with Imagineer and artistic director Orit Azaz to collaborate on an exciting project for the city region for 2022/23. Part of a national action research project, Bridge2Bamboo will inform the development and creation of a new piece of public artwork for the city region in 2023.

This creative development project includes the Birmingham Creative Bamboo Summit in July 2022, potentially linked with Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

We are seeking up to 12 artists/makers/engineers/facilitators/community architects / sculptors who live and / or work in the Liverpool City Region to take part in this exciting project. We are looking for x 2 artists / makers/ engineers / facilitators / community architects / sculptors from each Borough in the city region.
Who are Imagineer Productions?

Our Vision: “To create extraordinary outdoor and site – specific work at the intersection of art engineering and educational and social change transforming lives and living in the collective memory forever. To discover ‘Imagineers’ of the future and create the conditions and environment for them to flourish.”
Bridge2Bamboo – Imagineer Productions (imagineer-productions.co.uk)

Key tasks:
• Participate in a Bamboo Creative Exchange Lab, alongside bamboo specialists and artist-makers from Bali, Ghana, India and UK between Thursday 12 May and Thursday 26 May (3 days equivalent)
• Work with Bridge2Bamboo Creative Team to agree a focus for a follow-on community collaboration R&D project, inspired by the Creative Exchange Lab experience and informed by creative enquiry questions (see appendix)
• Lead a community collaborative R&D project/s between June and Sept (5 days equivalent)
• Attend the Birmingham Bamboo Creative Summit in person or virtually to represent and/or showcase work in progress
• Develop opportunity to feature work created in micro community R&D project at local showcase platform in the Borough eg Knowsley Flower Show
• Contribute to reflection and evaluation, which informs the ongoing development of Bridge2Bamboo for 2023 and beyond

Experience and qualities required:
• Excellent and inspiring animateur / facilitator / leader of practical making and collaborative activity with community participants.
• Confident, competent, experienced designer-maker working with sustainable materials or experienced in working with bamboo.
• Must be available to attend virtual Lab sessions on Zoom and in person on the specified dates/times (see timeline below;)
• Have access to internet and able to upload content to online platform.
• Experienced and reliable collaborator and communicator; comfortable to undertake creative research as part of a collaborative team.
• Self-motivated and self-organising.
• Excited by the project, the creative enquiry themes (see appendix) and the opportunity to learn more about and work with bamboo.
• Must live and / or work within the Liverpool City Region.

Fee
£3,300 including VAT and expenses
Materials will be supplied / separately budgeted for

Next steps:
If you are interested, please send your CV / biography together with a 1 page covering letter outlining your interest in the project and highlighting your relevant experience; and links to not more than 3 relevant projects / artworks to: sarah.vasey@liverpool.gov.uk by noon on 27 April 2022. You must also provide details of the Borough/s where you live and / or work within the Liverpool City Region.

Timeline:
Call out launched: 7 April 2022
Closing date: 27 April 2022 (noon)
Decisions will be made by: 4 May 2022

Lab Training Sessions:
The series of 5 Lab training sessions are broken down into the following:
o 4 x 2 hr zoom meeting (from 9 am to fit with international time zone)
o 1 x day in person workshop
o Online courses follow up work, minimum equivalent to 10 hrs / 1 day of artists/makers’ time.

Lab session 1: Tuesday 12 May 09:00 am (by zoom)
Lab session 2: Tuesday 17 May 09:00 am (by zoom)
Lab session 3: Thursday 19 May (in person – venue in LCR tbc)
Lab session 4: Tuesday 24 May (by zoom)
Lab session 5: Thursday 26 May (by zoom)

Community Micro projects:
Artist/makers must be available to deliver the R&D community micro projects: June – July/August (equivalent to 5 days)
Birmingham Summit presentations: July 2022 (in person or/ online) date tbc
Local showcase presentation: August – September venues tbc

Please note where indicated the dates are non-negotiable.

For more information:
More information giving the background to the project can be found in these links:

Bridge2Bamboo – Imagineer Productions (imagineer-productions.co.uk)

Bridge2Bamboo Research and development – a film by Rachel Bunce – YouTube

BarrowFull is Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places (CPP) National Portfolio Organisation in Barrow-in-Furness.

Creative People and Places is about more people taking the lead in choosing, creating, and taking part in arts and culture experiences in the places where they live.

There are 39 projects, each located in a place where people are least likely to engage with arts and culture. (Creative People and Places | Arts Council England)

In collaboration with pupils from Greengate Junior School in Barrow-in-Furness they are looking for an artist for a 3D project.

Children from Greengate Junior School have been making artwork from materials that were found on Earnse Bay, Walney Island in Barrow.

They’re now looking to commission an artist to make a 3D piece/pieces that will be exhibited alongside their work at an exhibition in Barrow-in-Furness, in July 2022.

The class are looking for an artist who can make work that brings together some of their personal interests including video games, animals, football/sports, the beach, the ocean and sea life with concerns for the environment, endangered animals and recycling.

They would like to see work from artists who use mixed media, recycled materials and materials found on the beach or in nature, and are interested in different textures, fabrics and bright colours. Where possible they’d like items found by themselves or the artist from Earnse Bay incorporated.

Ideas suggested by the class include sculptures of animals, lettering with messages about recycling and the environment, a village made from recycled cardboard and props for video game characters and footballers. They are also open to creative responses to these ideas and the brief.

The artist will be selected by a panel of the young people in the class and would need to be available to give regular updates about the work to the class between May and July.

The successful candidate must be able to provide evidence of Right to Work in the UK, an up-to-date enhanced DBS, and complete a monitoring and data form.

For more information/how to apply: http://barrowfull.org.uk/job/artist/

Could you help create a visual story that will document the challenging connections between Calderstones and the transatlantic slave trade?

Thanks to players of the National Lottery, The Reader is embarking on a mission to make Calderstones Park a place of meaning making for the whole community. Working with community volunteers and Laurence Westgaph, an expert on Liverpool’s connections to the slave trade, they’ll be digging deep into the maritime history of the Grade II listed Mansion House in South Liverpool.

The Reader is looking for an artist facilitator to work with a group of volunteers to bring their research findings to life in a new, permanent display in the Mansion House.

They are looking to commission an artist-facilitator with lived experience as a person of colour and/or professional experience of working on projects related to racism or slavery and colonialism.

For further details please visit https://www.thereader.org.uk/job/artist-facilitator-brief-uncovering-transatlantic-slavery-connections-at-calderstones/ to download an application pack.

Deadline: 2nd May 2022

Enjoy singing?  Do you like making friends? Prelude School of Music is setting up a choir.

A chior might sound a bit old fashioned but the concept is the same – stick a bunch of people in a room, get them singing together and see what happens.

Aiming for Thursday evenings, for all ages (adults) and abilities, doing mostly pop and maybe the odd musical theatre cover – the idea is for it to be a fun, social event with the odd opportunity to perform, all whilst honing a new (or maybe not-so-new) skill!

Please email Jess to get more information – preludemusicliverpool@gmail.com