Community Post Type: Callouts

Paperwork Theatre are seeking a team of dynamic actors with experience in outdoor, promenade and/or street theatre performance for a new live festive experience which will take place in Liverpool City Centre across 12 dates this December.

Events will be staged in busy outdoor locations where audiences will be invited to join in an interactive
outdoor pop up festive experience. They require performers with strong skills in audience interaction,
improvisation and movement.

Role – Festive Elf

You will develop an elf character who will interact with the general public at live Christmas theme events. For 4 of these dates the Elf team will be the main attraction, leading a different activity per event such as mistletoe ‘Kiss-Cam’, giant pass the parcel or snowball fights.

For 8 of these dates the Elf team will support a live performance by another act by encouraging audiences
to engage and participate.

Skills required – They are looking for performers with experience of:

Street arts/outdoor performance
Interacting with public and family audiences
Strong improvisation/clowning skills
Strong movement skills

Requirements – Age 18+, any gender, any ethnicity.

This is a freelance role, you must be registered as self employed/ responsible for your own Tax and NI and
have your own Public Liability Insurance.

Dates – Applicants must have full availability for below dates to be considered:

Audition Thursday 21st October 10-12pm
Rehearsal Thursday 25th November 10-5pm
Events 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 16th, 17th, 18th,

You will be called 5-7.30pm with performances between 6-7pm.

21st, 22nd, 23rd December

You will be called 5-7.30pm with performances between 6-7pm.

Location – Auditions, rehearsals and performances will take place at venues in Liverpool City Centre.

Rate of pay – £100 per elf-led event. £60 per elf supported event. £120 rehearsal day.
Weather

Please bear in mind that performers will be required to perform outdoors in December, approx 1h each
day, early evenings.

Equality and Diversity

It is the aim of Paperwork Theatre to achieve a balanced portrayal of women, Black, Asian and minority
ethnic, LGBT and Deaf and Disabled people in performance. They are particularly keen to hear from performers from underrepresented backgrounds and to engage with diverse performers in our productions.

How to apply: Email info@paperworktheatre.co.uk using the subject: ELF APPLICATION.

Please include: A 1-2 minute self tape of you performing a festive story. If you have an interesting skill, they’d love to see it. Your CV, showreel (if possible) / link to spotlight

Applications close at 5pm on Sunday 24th October. Please note that they will be unable to acknowledge your application until the closing date.

If you need further information, assistance or need to make a an application in a different format, please contact them by emailing Hayley Greggs- info@paperworktheatre.co.uk.

See their website here.

Stand Up Sisters CIC are looking to take part in some Continued Professional Development within our team. They are looking to work with artists who create dolls.

They know versions of the following –

Needlefelt,

Spirit dolls,

Wish dolls,

Corn dolls,

Twig dolls,

Primative dolls

Worry dolls.

They are looking to employ an artist once a month to teach us new doll making techniques that we will use in our practice going forward. The fee will be £90 per workshop.

They will purchase their own materials. To apply please send images of your artwork alongside a CV and we will get back to you to either arrange a workshop or an interview. They are interested to embrace weird and wonderful creations. The Company is run by a Trainee Art Therapist and a Creative Counsellor. The workshops can be run on zoom.

To apply, contact: Maddie Smith, standupsistersbolton@yahoo.com

See their website here.

“8 Hours There and Back” is a verbatim performance bringing to the forefront the experiences of children who have a parent in prison.

The performance has been created in collaboration with Time Matters UK and the children who have accessed this service. The performance is being made in association with The Unity Theatre.

They are looking for two actors who must:

• Have lived experience of the criminal justice system
• Be very confident with physical movement
• Be based in the North West

As part of the project they and the children involved aim to challenge some of the stigma attached to a prison sentence. Therefore you need to be comfortable sharing the fact that you have lived experience with the children who are involved in the project and you must be prepared to undergo a DBS Check (this is in relationship to working with children only).

You will also be identified as someone who has lived experience of the criminal justice system as part of the process and on social media, interviews and the film made of the process and product though there will be no disclosure from us, All Things Considered, as to the nature of this experience without permissions.

Deadline: 1st November 2021

Auditions: 26th November 2021

Rehearsals:

4th-7th Jan 2022

13th/14th Jan 2022

27th/28th Jan 2022

Performance Week: 31st Jan 2022-5th Feb 2022

Pay: ITC Rates

Please send a headshot, CV and confirm that you meet the criteria to: allthingsconsideredtheatre@yahoo.co.uk

FACT is calling on all filmmakers in the north west of England to submit their short films for Cinema in the City, a new cinematic experience that presents the best independent films in extraordinary places across Liverpool.

Supporting film and local talent is at the heart of FACT and with a wealth of emerging talent across the region, Cinema in the City offers future filmmakers the opportunity to publicly screen their work alongside the best in independent cinema.

See here to submit your film.

Closes: 24 October, midnight

Established in 2019, FACT’s Curator in Residence programme invites curators based in the UK to develop a major exhibition and a public programme of events that engage with their audiences.

For this opportunity, they are seeking a curator to collaborate with us on our Radical Ancestry programme, which focuses on different notions of belonging. The residency will be based between FACT and working remotely, and runs from November 2021 until October 2022.

– Based between FACT and working remotely
– £7,500 fee plus a budget of £2,500 for travel and accommodation
– Closes: Midnight, Sunday 24 October 2021

To apply see here.

A social justice charity Arts Emergency is currently on a drive to recruit mentors and mentees.

Arts Emergency are looking for arts, humanities and creative industries professionals who could mentor a young person without connections.

Professionals and young people will join the charity’s award winning mentoring programme designed to increase the proportion of people from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds creating culture.

This year Arts Emergency are doubling the number of young people they support in some areas and have opened up several pilot schemes in new locations. In addition to London, Manchester, and Merseyside, they now work in Newcastle and Gateshead, Leeds and Bradford, the East and West Midlands, and Brighton.

Arts Emergency hand-match young people aged 16-25 with an industry professional in their area of interest, whether that’s in theatre, journalism, design, music or another creative field. The charity provides support and safeguarding for the pair as they complete a year of one-to-one mentoring, one hour per month.

Over the course of a year mentors help with everything from portfolios and UCAS, to work placements and auditions. The charity then continues to provide up to eight years of advice, trips, work experience, and opportunities to the young person to enable them to take full advantage of what they have gained and learned from their mentor.

Anyone who is interested in signing up as a mentor or working with a mentor, visit www.arts-emergency.org

Liverpool Irish Festival is proud to work with volunteers. Their volunteers help them talk about the Festival; give audiences a great experience and help venues to deliver a wide variety of activities and shows, ensuring each is of great quality and enjoyable.

If the idea of joining their volunteer team appeals to you, read their Volunteer Pack.

Types of volunteering

In 2021  they have two types of volunteer: Festival volunteers and History Research Group members. You can apply for one, the other or both, though each has a specific focus.

Festival volunteers

Their Festival volunteer cohort, will help to deliver #LIF2021, this year’s Festival. You will come to their events at agreed times to help set up ahead of our audience joining us; as well as meeting our artists and venue partners and meeting and greeting audiences. You’ll help us to gather infomation and pack events down. This is a public-facing role and you can find out more about it in the Volunteer Pack.

Volunteers whose references reply positively will be invited to a preliminary orienteering session, to hear about the programme, pick up some materials and select their shifts. This will be arranged with you nearer to the time and will take place in Liverpool.

Heritage Research Group

Whilst recruiting for their front-of-house team, they are also recruiting an History Research Group Lead (funded via a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant) and a supporting volunteer group.

It is intended this group will start meeting in October, with the intention of meeting for 10 two-hour sessions in which they will build up research, digital content and information for the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail.

In particular, the group will access, review and digitise the work done by the Great Hunger Commemoration Committee; transcribing plaques and assisting the Lead with the research work they set. You do not need many specific skills in order to volunteer, but you will need:

• good literacy and written English skills
• an ability to use basic Office and online packages
• access to Office and online packages (e.g., access to a computer, even if this is via a library).

This may involve working form home or visiting the Liverpool Records Office at Liverpool Libraries, which will be confirmed with successful candidates by the Hestory Research Group Lead. This will happen nearer to the time and following the application deadline. As with the front-of-house volunteers, History Research Group members, will be invited to an initial meeting to meet the group, receive a project overview and hear task outlines.

Want to apply for either of these roles (or indeed, both!)? Read the Volunteer Pack below, which links you to the simple (mainly multiple choice) application form.

The Volunteer Pack

Their Volunteer Pack contains all you need to know (initially, at least!) about volunteering with us and it contains a link to a short, online application form. There isn’t a separate section on the History Research Group. All you need to know about this group is above.

How to apply

They have an online form for applications. Most of it is checkbox selections or short quick text answers.

The application form is arranged in clear sections. Initially it takes you through eligibility questions, so that if you are ineligible, they don’t waste your time collecting details they will not be able to use. Then they require:

• your contact details
• an emergency contact
• a bit on why you want to volunteer with the Liverpool Irish Festival and how you found out about the opportunity
• your medical history (only aspects that may affect your ability to perform volunteer duties)
• equality and equity monitoring
• two referees you will allow us to approach.

Monitoring questions about gender, ethnicity, nationality and age are important for them to share with stakeholders and funders to demonstrate how we work equitably with our communities. They have tried to make this as easy to complete as possible. Such sections are not used as part of your recruitment; but they build evidence about our working practices. Please complete as much as you can. You will not be able to move on to the next question unless an answer is complete.

Closing date for applications is Sun 26 Sept 2021. After the deadline, they’ll issue reference checks, before bringing the recruited volunteers together ahead of this year’s festival.

You are not able to access the form, unless you open and scoll through the PDF.

After a very successful course of their dance leader training sessions – Making Moves, Liverpool dance company Movema are delighted to announce that they’ll be running it again!

The course will cover:

• Business skills (organising, marketing, finance, legal)
• Teaching and delivery skills (Designing your own dance class/ business)
• CV and confidence building (Personal goals and how to achieve them)
• Masterclasses with industry professionals
• And… your very own PHOTO SHOOT!

Trainees will need to be:

• Unemployed
• Age 19+
• Not in education

Find out how trainees benefited from their course; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JWGBkompXU

To apply, email: admin@movema.co.uk for an application form.

Closing date: 24 September

 

 

 

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Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) Academy have their applications open for the 2021-2022 cohort.

A fantastic opportunity for young musicians to get a head-start with their career. Aimed at artists and bands between the ages of 16-25 from across Merseyside, the LIMF Academy gives them exclusive access to activities, networks and insider know-how from the music industry.

See here for more details and to apply.

Closing date: 27 September

Altru Drama are now casting for talented, enthusiastic, and committed actors for their Halloween scare performances taking place at the end of October 2021.

They have two shows, one taking place in the day with a lighter feel and one of an evening with a more haunted edge. All actors must be aged 18+ and they welcome applications from performers of all ages above this.

You can see the PDF here for details of the roles available and how to apply.

Closing date for applications: 27th September 2021

Audition date: 4th October 2021