Community Post Type: Callouts

Culture Liverpool require several artists/makers/arts organisations to design, create and deliver several arts workshops or activities as part of the Chinese New Year programme.

The artist would be required to deliver the workshops or activities on Sunday 6th February at the Chinese New Year Celebrations located in the Family Zone on Nelson Street, Chinatown. The workshops will be housed within wooden ‘chalets’, outdoors. The workshops and materials need to be appropriate to the location and weather.

The event is held Sunday 6th February, 11.00am – 5.00pm.

The workshops should be themed around the Year of the Tiger, the many traditions associated with Chinese New Year, Chinese arts or the history of Liverpool’s Chinese community. They should be colourful, engaging, exciting and suitable for a family audience of all age groups. Thought should be given to the sustainability of materials used and the potential to result in litter.

General Requirements:

Costs should include:

• All materials to be provided by the artist
• Fees for artists/staff to deliver the workshops for the times specified
• Preparation time needs
• Transport if applicable

All artists need to provide RAMS and PLI

Submissions to be sent to sarah.vasey@liverpool.gov.uk by Mon 17.1.21 with outline design, materials, costs, and examples of any previous similar work.

 

Join Writing on the Wall (WoW) on their free Writer’s Bus, the bus will be touring the city this January.

The Writer’s Bus will feature free workshops, performances, activities and resources to help you get creative. From 11am-3pm each day, there will be pop-up writing workshops at locations around the Liverpool City Region.

Tour dates

19 January – Central Library/Granby Adult Centre

20 January – Life Rooms, Bootle

21 January – Incredible Edible Knowsley

22 January – Roma Community

23 January – Pier Head, Liverpool

24 January – Rotunda

25 January – Irish Centre

26 January – Life Rooms, Walton

27 January – Tuebrook Market

28 January – Bellvale Shopping Centre

29 January – Tuebrook Market

30 January – Sefton Park Palm House

See their website here.

 

An XR talent development residency exploring new visions, exchanges and experiences of heritage at Tatton Park.

Apply by: noon, Monday 31st January 2022

Abandon Normal Devices (AND) are excited to launch Impossible Perspectives Lab, a collaborative XR talent development residency supporting new visions, exchanges and experiences of heritage.

Developed in collaboration with Cheshire East Council as part of SHIFT and Tatton Park, and collaborating with experts, artists and technologists from SODA Labs (School of Digital Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University) and HTC. The programme is inspired by Tatton Park’s landscape and the works of Italian painter Canaletto.

The Lab will welcome six artists to a week-long residential programme to develop their practice and proposals towards immersive artworks for Tatton Park.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

In Spring 2022 six artists will be invited to a residential lab exploring the visionary potential of XR (extended reality) technologies at Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire, UK.

This new collaboration will take inspiration from Tatton Park’s rich landscape, collection and connection to Canaletto, whose paintings are part of the National Trust’s collection in Tatton’s mansion. Canaletto’s paintings are renowned for their immersive qualities of imaginary architectural views (referred to as capricci), creating ‘impossible perspectives’ considered to be fledgling versions of current virtual reality.

The five-day site-specific programme will be an opportunity to spend time in the landscape and collections, bringing together emerging artists with curators and researchers from Tatton Park and the National Trust, alongside experts and technologists from HTC and SODA Labs.

The programme will provide workshops to experiment with emerging technologies, such as augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies (XR) and be a space to consider; How can new technologies of seeing allow us to question landscapes, histories and architecture in the present? How can augmented realities challenge and excite public experiences of collections? How can art change our perspectives on power, wealth and histories?

The residency will culminate in a series of proposals for new digital artworks, site-specific immersive experiences and XR public art under the banner of ‘Impossible Perspectives’. One, or a number of the proposals from participating artists, may be considered for inclusion in a proposed site-wide exhibition at Tatton Park.

They invite applications from early career UK based artists, collectives and/or studios, working across artistic disciplines (art, architecture, performance, new cinema, sonic art, research, writing and beyond). A cohort of six artists, studios or collectives will participate in the residential Lab.

The programme is intended to support and expand artists’ practice in scale and technologies of production, therefore applicants who haven’t already worked with AR, VR or wider XR technology based artforms are welcome to apply. They are particularly interested in inviting applications from artists with a practice that progressively addresses architecture, landscape, and archive.

What this opportunity includes:

– Fully-funded five day residential talent development programme
– Workshops and guest talks from leading industry figures and artists
– New technology demonstrations from leading technology partners
– Support and collaboration with Tatton Park and National Trust curators
– An opportunity to meet and connect with a new group of artists, technologists, producers and researchers
– Support from the Abandon Normal Devices Producer
– Travel to and from Tatton Park and other partner sites
– Private accommodation on-site at Tatton Park
– £500 honorarium per artist / collective

HOW TO APPLY

Visit: https://www.andfestival.org.uk/blog/open-call-impossible-perspectives-lab/

Impossible Perspectives Lab is a new UK artist residency programme for Tatton Park. Produced by Abandon Normal Devices, commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices and Cheshire East Council as part of SHIFT. Supported with public funds from Arts Council England.

Change the Act are looking for a Musical Theatre pianist to accompany a cabaret on Saturday 5th March at The Hope Street Theatre .

They would love to see applicants from all backgrounds.

This is a paid opportunity at £150 for rehearsal, tech and performance. Rates negotiable.

This is to be the first of a number of productions by Change the Act and they hope the applicant might like to work with them again on a number of productions.

For consideration, please send a VIDEO of you playing two contrasting MUSICAL THEATRE numbers to callum@changetheact.co.uk.

Rehearsals will be in February in Liverpool.

As a new company, it is vitally important that they create a space in which every person feels safe to create, comfortable to collaborate and confident in their colleagues. With that, they are very wary of not wasting peoples time and a schedule will be built around performers/musicians.

Open Culture is looking for in-kind proposals to form this year’s festival programme, with the deadline to submit applications extended until the end of January.

The festival theme for 2022 is Energy.

Arts and heritage organisations, artists, community groups and other creatives are invited to propose special events and activities (physical or virtual) that explore the theme to be part of LightNight.

Interested? Please read the brief here and then submit your proposal via the online form by the closing date.

Open Culture work with everyone to create LightNight, from major arts venues and artists to studios, collectives, and community groups from across Merseyside. If you’re interested in presenting work for LightNight, whether virtually online or through live events they’re keen to hear from you.

March for the Arts (MFTA) are seeking two freelance facilitators to help with the development of their Working Guidance for Arts Freelancers and Organisations (WGAFO) Training Programme.

These freelancers will help devise some MFTA equality, diversity and inclusivity training materials based on the content of the WGAFO and other research they have been gathering; they will advise on content of trial workshops and drafts; and they will take part in a trial delivery of a training session.

They are developing this work with a view to a national roll out of a training programme in the future; but for now we are in the research and development phase.

When?
They need facilitators to be available for 3 full days: 2 days in Jan-Feb 2022 (dates and times flexible), and 1 fixed day: Monday 7th February 2022.

Where?
Liverpool City Centre and/or online via Zoom

Payment:
£100/day

Please note: MFTA will maintain ownership of the workshops and material that they develop as part of this project; but freelancers employed will be given first refusal on any future touring and delivery of these workshops.

More information and how to apply: https://www.marchforthearts.com/get-involved

March for the Arts are looking for focus group participants to help them develop their Working Guidance for Arts Freelancers and Organisations ‘WGAFO’ training programme.

Successful applicants will be people who work in the arts. You will take part in a facilitated two hour session with discussion and reflection around the subjects of diversity, inclusion and accessibility.

*Personal experiences shared in this session may be anonymised and used in their public research materials or as case study/exemplar materials for their training programme. The focus group will be asked to keep any information discussed during the session anonymous.

They are interested to hear from:

People who work in the arts at any level and with any amount of experience, and/or
People who are able to share their experiences of working in the arts, and/or
People who have taken part in any type of training sessions (perhaps as part of their work) and are able to reflect on the success of training techniques and materials, and/or
Participants who might usually find it difficult to share in group sessions or training. We will work hard to make the session safe and accessible, and/or
People who are interested in the topics for discussion: diversity, inclusion and accessibility, and/or interested in training techniques.

Where: Online via Zoom (subtitles and live transcription available)
When: Thursday 6th January 2022, 2-4pm
Payment: £25

For more information and how to apply: https://www.marchforthearts.com/get-involved

In partnership with Jerwood Arts, FACT is pleased to invite emerging artists, curators, technologists, and cultural activists, in particular those from underrepresented backgrounds, to apply for one of three paid hybrid residency opportunities in 2022.

Each fellow will receive:

• • £4,000 fee
  • £3,000 production budget
  • Travel, accommodation, and per diems for the final presentations, as well as any other agreed upon visits
  • Alongside this, there will be professional mentoring from the FACT team and our network of collaborators, to assist in the development of not only your idea for a work, but also your practice

To apply see here.

Closes: Midnight, 5 January.

As the city starts to emerge from the pandemic, we all have a new appreciation for the things that have been taken away from us. The opportunity to congregate and celebrate, to discover new places and to meet new people.

This project aims to recognise this and subvert it, by creating four extraordinary art murals across three unique, diverse and tourist led parts of the city. Each piece is a platform for local communities and creatives to tell the story of people and place to the rest of the city.

This is not a pandemic project. It is a celebration of the creativity, diversity and inclusiveness of Liverpool.

Part art trail and part celebration, these commissions will all feel very different – inspired by the places that they are based and the people who have helped create them – but will all form part of a wider story about the future of Liverpool.

This commission is available for use for projects funded externally from the Council including Reopening High Streets Safely Fund and Welcome Back Fund, which is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) Growth.

They are looking for organisations, individual artists or collectives to lead on these installations. The lead organisation must be based in Liverpool, however collaborators can be from a variety of local, national and international partners.

Each proposal must identify an ideal location from one of the areas, a community from within the city who would be involved in this collaboration and a short outline of the proposed idea.

Conscious of speed, these initial Expressions of Interest need to be provided by Friday 21 January 2022. They will then confirm which of these ideas they would like to develop by Monday 31 January 2022.

A series of development milestones will be agreed upon appointment. These commissions are focused on developing ambitious, high-quality work, created for outdoor spaces that can grab the attention and imaginations of audiences.

They are looking for three responses to three unique places located within the city, all extraordinary in scale and ambition. They are looking for responses that are art mural led and that can be in situ for a minimum of 9 months.

The installations should engage across a wide audience base, be engaging, shareable and emotive. Thematically, they are looking for artistic proposals that focus on one of the areas and its local community.

Areas:

Cavern Quarter

Pride Quarter

Waterfront / The Strand

Baltic Triangle

Proposals should be: 

Site specific, outdoor and conceived to be a permanent installation.

Born out of the history, architecture, identity and ambitions of the place and communities associated with it

Visually striking and engaging

They’re interested in hearing from makers/organisations who:

Have an established practice and are able to demonstrate their ability to create work of high quality, with a track record large scale work.

Are interested in how outdoor work can inspire diverse audiences from the broadest range of backgrounds.

Consider the environmental impact when making and delivering their work.

Are based within the Liverpool City Region area

Project ideas can come in a variety of scales, but the maximum commissioning for an individual piece would be c£24.5k.

Upon reading your proposal, they must feel confident that your ideas are achievable within the timeframe and within budget that is committed.

If you have any questions please send them to leanne.mcanespie@liverpoolbidcompany.com and they will aim to get back to you within 48 hours.

See their website here.