Community Post Type: Callouts

Are you one of Ignite Liverpool’s next speakers?

Ignite showcases Liverpool’s movers and shakers, creators, thinkers, tinkers, innovators and doers, makers and dreamers in a fast paced format designed to inspire. Do you want to inspire? Then sign up to talk on the 20th October

They have had loads of different talks on a variety of subjects over the years, on topics ranging from Longevity to how the First World War started. And they would love to hear from you.

Sign up to talk here – https://igniteliverpool.com/be-a-speaker/

The Liverpool Irish Festival are pleased to announce the recruitment of ArtsGroupie CIC as the lead facilitator of its History Research Group. This group will inform work on the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail.

John Maguire, Director of ArtsGroupie CIC, has been recruited to the position of History Research Group Lead for the Liverpool Irish Festival led, National Lottery Heritage Funded project to revitalise the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail. The group will focus on research about the historic Liverpool Irish Famine Trail; bringing a significant period of Irish -and Liverpudlian- history in to the public realm. 

In the 1990’s, the Great Hunger Commemoration Committee identified key sites of significant historic and social importance, memorialising Irish influence and impact, forming the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail.

This trail highlights the path taken by Irish Immigrants, and the ancestors of many Liverpool citizens, during the Great Famine; a period of mass starvation, disease and political upheaval in Ireland in the mid-1800s.

ArtsGroupie will be responsible for the overall development of research material to help explain the Trail. The project is currently recruiting for volunteers to join this group, with a view to compiling and digitising important information from the Great Hunger Commemoration Committee archives at the Liverpool Records Office. These will help us to tell the story of the Trail.

Anyone who would like to get involved in this group, is encouraged to visit their volunteer page, for more information. If you have specific questions about the History Research Group, email John Maguire on faminetrail@liverpoolirishfestival.com 

Manchester Art Gallery are on the look out for creatives with an interest in sharing their artistic practice to support wellbeing.

They want to recruit two freelance creative practitioners – from any discipline – to work with them on Art Of Resilience. This gallery based project has been developed with Manchester Population Health to encourage resilience in children though creative processes.

To find out more about the project, the role and how to apply please get in touch at the email below:

Lorraine Callaghan, lorraine.callaghan@manchester.gov.uk

See their website here.

Do you believe in the power of art to bring us together and create real change? Join the Heart of Glass Board of Trustees.

Could your skills and expertise help lead our collaborative arts charity?

Heart of Glass is a registered charity based in St Helens. They work with the local community here and across the Liverpool City Region to make meaningful art. They bring artists and communities together to make art that can create connections, tell stories and generate change.

The organisation has rapidly grown in reach and size since they formed as a charity in 2018 and we are seeking new Trustees to help lead the organisation through the next stages of their strategic development.

They are seeking three new Trustees including the role of Treasurer. They are particularly keen to bring in new voices from St Helens and the Liverpool City Region, those based in legal services, community sectors, children and young people’s services, the education sector, and those with experience of income generation.

To find out more download the Recruitment Pack from the Heart of Glass website here.

Liverpool Biennial are inviting expressions of interest from Black artists to receive a £500 research & development grant, delivered as part of 24 Kitchen Street’s Black History Month programme this October.

If you’re a creative in the early stages of your artistic career and are based in the Merseyside region, this opportunity is open to any discipline and comes with up to 6 hours of 1:1 mentoring support in production, learning, marketing and fundraising.

They are particularly interested in hearing from artists who are working locally but through an international lens, or who would benefit from gaining national connections with other artists, galleries or organisations.

Funds should be used to research and develop something which will help enhance your artistic practice – this may be covering fees for your own creative time, or gaining access to workshops, new materials or paying for travel to expand your network, attend an event or see an exhibition.

There is no expectation to produce a work, but there is opportunity to exhibit or perform as part of 24 Kitchen Street’s Black Market on 24^th October or online through Biennial’s various digital channels, should you wish to do so.

If you’re interested in this Artist Research & Development Grant, please email info@biennial.com with a short (no more than 250 words) paragraph telling them about yourself, your work and what you’d like to get out of the opportunity. Don’t forget to include any links to your website, or images / videos of your work. Deadline for expressions of interest is 26^th September 2021.

If you have any questions or would like to apply in a different way, please email info@biennial.com or message them through social media. Additional funds for accessibility support are available upon request.

Movema are bringing back their Making Moves training programme after a successful round in 2020.

Building on the successes from last year, Making Moves will deliver a programme of training which provides individuals the opportunity to upskill as dance leaders in their community. Making Moves seeks to provide those most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic the chance to develop new & existing skills, specifically those who are unemployed, not in education, aged 19+ and living in the Liverpool City Region.  

Thanks to funding from WEA, European Social Fund & Arts Council England, in addition to their partners including Milap, Global Grooves, Capoeira For All & IRIE! Dance Theatre. 

Making Moves is a free training and on-the-job training programme for individuals to unlock their potential. Designed for trainees to develop their knowledge and understanding as diverse dance leaders, alongside the development of business and other transferable skills. 

• Weekly training sessions on Thursdays 10-12pm (Starting 30th September)
• Personal goal setting, project management, CV writing & more
• Developing skills in teaching world dance
• World dance masterclasses with industry professionals, including Global Grooves, Capoeira For All & IRIE! Dance Theatre
• A photo shoot
• 1-2-1 mentoring

*Training modules & sessions are subject to change*

Application Deadline: 24th September

To apply, complete and submit:
– an application form
– an equality and diversity form

to admin@movema.co.uk

Find the information pack, application form and equality & diversity form here.

Shiverpool are on the look out for street theatre storytelling tour guides.

Find out more about the role with Shiverpool and what to expect from the outdoor arts experience and professional tour guiding in the video below.

Please email your interest to info@shiverpool.co.uk

National Museums Liverpool are inviting artists working in the Northwest of England to submit their proposals to create a pop-up exhibition focusing on Liverpool and its role in historic slavery hosted at the Martin Luther King Jr. building.

During 2022 and 2023 the International Slavery Museum will host a series of pop-up exhibitions exploring the many profound and import stories of the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies. These interventions will help build momentum towards an ambitious transformation plans for the Liverpool Waterfront, and the newly reimagined International Slavery Museum.

NML want to provide a platform for multiple voices in developing their vision, influencing, and shaping the transformation of the museum,  its storytelling and the wider historic waterfront. The team want to open their doors and welcome exciting new ideas and experimental approaches to how we interpret our past and look forward to the future.

What they’re looking for

They are looking for an artist or art collective to develop an artistic response to Liverpool and its role in historic slavery.

They are looking for fresh, exciting and innovative ideas to create a visually strong and immersive experience, which can be used as a platform for engagement, discussion and debate around Liverpool and its role in historic slavery.

The pop-up display should be designed to attract a broad, inter-generational audience and should be particularly appealing to young adults as well as tourists visiting the city.

What you will receive

A commissioning fee of £5,000 will be made as staged payments against key project milestones.

A production budget of up to £15,000  to cover materials and any associated interpretation will be managed by NML in partnership with the commissioned artist / art collective.

They will also offer expert support in developing and delivering your idea.

Deadline to apply: Monday 4 October, 12pm

Find out more about this Artist Opportunity with National Museums Liverpool here.

Knowsley MBC seeks Expressions of Interest from experienced Mural Artists who are interested in developing one or a series of quality and themed murals in different locations in Prescot, Huyton and Halewood with the potential to develop further murals in other areas of Knowsley.

Vision

Knowsley is Borough of Culture in 2022 which involves a year long ambitious and creative programme across the borough involving local communities and creatives.

The vision and concept for Knowsley Borough of Culture is ‘Everyone has a story…it’s time to tell ours’, Knowsley’s stories of people, places and magic. These Murals will help celebrate the Borough of Culture year and will provide an opportunity for local people to share their stories.

They would like the selected artists to engage businesses, schools and community groups to develop ideas inspired by each towns’ heritage and stories.

Mural Considerations:

• They need mural artists to design, create and install the mural(s)
• Engage the community in the process
• Create low maintenance, fit for purpose murals that last a maximum of 5 years.
• Materials could be digital, involve QR codes, vinyls, paints etc

How to apply:

If you are a mural artist and you would like to express an interest in this exciting opportunity then please supply the following:

1.CV and some images of murals (no more than 5) of previous murals and an indication of approaches (materials)
2. Please supply an indicative budget for 1 mural and give the size, specification and materials of this (this can be from a previous project)

Notes:

• KMBC will supply dimensions, locations, images and the surface material and quality e.g bricks, rendering at commissioning stage.
• There is no fee for this stage. They only require an ‘expression of interest’
• Knowsley MBC reserves the right to cancel this process at any time or not to progress with any ideas submitted

Please send an expression of interest to: jo.dry@knowsley.gov.uk Large image files can be sent via we transfer

Closing date for Expression of Interest: Friday 17th September 2021 by 5pm

See their website here.

In this shifting world, communities return to the land, seek refuge in the environment and sustenance in nature, and Art Gene takes up residence on their outside project space, Allotment Soup.

Extreme Views – Food, futures & biodiversity will create an engaged art and environmental experience in the landscape.

Residency period: 1 – 14th November 2021

Fee: £2,400

Artists are invited to Barrow-in-Furness for an intensive, collaborative 2 week residency to develop an ‘exhibition in the outdoors’, engaging with locals, creating interventions, provocations, and working with and around challenging issues for these extreme times.

In the final weekend the artists as guides will welcome the local community, to share the experience and add to the conversation, in a programme of open free events. Please see how we plan to make these events COVID safe below.

The 2 week residency coincides with COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference hosted in Glasgow. They hope artists will respond to this occasion, to investigate how artists can engage with, and affect meaningful and urgent change in how we use and relate to our climate.

The residency will extend Art Gene’s current programme Extreme Views, to explore the pressing issues impacting on local people, place and biodiversity as we step out into the new normal.

As Lead Artist in Residence, Owen Griffiths, alongside Art Gene’s Artist/Directors Maddi Nicholson & Stuart Bastik, will support the 3 Artists in Residence throughout. Owen has been Extreme Views Artist in Residence with Art Gene since 2019, creating the online Extreme Views: Armchair Walks, and digital green space mapping.

Read Owen’s full artist brief, and find full details, on their website: https://www.art-gene.co.uk/news/open-call-food-futures-bio 

Closing date: 5pm, 20th September 2021