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Fundada Artists Film Festival, Halifax. Open Call

Published by Ian Jackson on March 17, 2010 18:36 in Film and Opportunities. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Fundada Artists Film Festival 2010

August 2010 // Square Chapel, Halifax, UK // FREE ENTRY

Fundada Artists’ Film Festival is a contemporary film and video event run by artists intending to showcase the best in contemporary screen-based art from across the globe. Fundada believes that art should be fun and inclusive yet conceptually strong and critically engaged. The film festival will be comprised of selected screen-based submissions from an international open call and curated by Alice Bradshaw and Nancy Porter; collaborating artists who previously co-directed and co-curated respectively at Temporary Art Space in Halifax in 2009. Fundada is an artist-run not-for-profit organisation.

FAFF2010 is part of Halifax Festival 2010: 14th – 22nd August 2010 http://www.halifaxfestival.co.uk/

Open Call for Submissions – Deadline: 31st May 2010

WHAT: Open call for screen-based art; film, video, animation. No thematic criteria. No limit on number of submissions per artist.

WHO: Anyone can submit to FAFF2010; all nationalities, all career levels including students

DURATION: no limit

FORMAT: Films should be supplied in digital format only: avi, mpg or mov
A film still (jpg at 300dpi) is also required.

LANGUAGE / SUBTITLES: Films with non-English dialogue do not have to have English subtitles but it is recommended.

COST: No submission or participation fee. Postage for postal submissions is payable by the applicant. Postal submission cannot be returned. Please note that only FAFF2010 is only able to notify successful applicants.

POSTAL SUBMISSIONS: DOWNLOAD FORM (PDF): http://bit.ly/FAFF2010

POSTAL ADDRESS: (Non-EU submissions: No commercial value, for cultural purposes)
FAFF2010, Halifax Festival 2010, Square Chapel, 10 Square Road, Halifax, HX1 1QG, UK

DEADLINE (Receiving date not postmark date): 31st May 2010

http://fundadaartistsfilmfestival.blogspot.com/

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Lord Mayor’s Pageant 2010 – Opportunity for Community Groups

Published by Ian Jackson on March 12, 2010 11:47 in Annual Events and Opportunities. 0 Comments Tags: .

Pageant Prize fit for a Lord

via liverpool.gov.uk…

Ever wanted to bring a city to a standstill?

Well, now is your chance – by being a headline performer in one of Liverpool’s favourite carnivals.

Liverpool City Council has launched a special competition for three community groups to parade in front of thousands of people at the Lord Mayor’s Pageant on June 5 2010.

And you even get to design your own costume with help from professionals – for FREE!

Liverpool Lantern Company and Movema, artistic partners of this year’s pageant, will offer full artistic support to groups from across the city, be it youth clubs, charities, after school clubs, cultural societies, to create stunning carnival costume accessories and dance sections for one of the city’s great days out.

The carnival experts, who have more than 30 years of experience, will provide all materials and can offer six hours of hands-on workshop sessions in carnival costume making and also dance/performance skills.

The three winning groups will perform in one of the six main themes of the pageant, which will also be celebrating Liverpool’s Year of Health and Wellbeing.

Full Details

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Would You Like to Become A Shareholder in a Piece of Art?

Published by Ian Jackson on March 10, 2010 21:07 in Opportunities. 0 Comments Tags: .

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A SHAREHOLDER IN A PIECE OF ART? HOW LONG CAN YOU CONCENTRATE ON A SINGLE POSE FOR, WITHOUT MOVING? DO YOU HAVE A MOBILE PHONE?

AFOUNDATION IS WORKING WITH ARTIST REBECCA LENNON TO RECREATE A STILL IMAGE AS A LIVE PERFORMANCE AND FILM AND WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO TAKE PART!

CAN YOU JOIN US FOR TWO 4 HOUR SESSIONS ON MARCH 29th AND APRIL 8th 2010? THE ARTWORK, TITLED ‘I COULD NEVER LIVE LIKE YOU DO’ WILL BE EXHIBITED AT AFOUNDATION LIVERPOOL AS PART OF THEIR UPCOMING ‘THE ECONOMY OF THE GIFT’ EXHIBITION OPENING 8th APRIL.

YOU WILL BE REWARDED WITH A SPECIAL LUNCH, A DVD OF THE FILM AND A SHARE IN THE VALUE OF THE FINAL PERFORMANCE ARTWORK. PLEASE CONTACT REBECCA LENNON  rebeccalennon@yahoo.co.uk 07767 608749 BY 15 MARCH TO TAKE PART

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Apprenticeship Programme 2010 for emerging artists

Published by Ian Jackson on March 10, 2010 20:45 in Opportunities. 0 Comments Tags: .

hopestreet-appsMostly performance artists though rather than visual artists.

Hope Street’s apprenticeship programme runs from May 31st to October 23rd 2010.

Application forms are available to download:

www.hope-street.org/2010ApprenticeshipProjects.htm

or you can call into Hope Street Ltd weekdays 10am-5pm (situated on Arrad Street). Check Google Maps by going to www.hope-street.org/contact.htm

THIS YEAR’S PROJECTS

This year Hope Street will be working in partnership with Tate Liverpool, Unity Theatre, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool Lantern Company, Contact Theatre and other large and small arts organisations, locally and internationally.

All apprentices will participate in the following:

  • a cross-art-form performance installation, inside and outside the Tate, inspired by the Picasso: Peace and Freedom exhibition. This project will be created by a combination of professional and emerging artists and community groups from across the city.
  • a specially-devised section for the Lord Mayor’s Parade
  • a multi-media performance throughout the streets of Liverpool, as part of Liverpool’s Biennial
  • Pirates extravaganza involving synchronised swimmers – a large-scale outdoor musical performance at the Albert Dock
  • a spectacle that will turn the Unity Theatre upside down and inside out, using every nook and cranny as a performance space
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Arena Auction: Call for Submissions

Published by Ian Jackson on March 10, 2010 12:41 in Opportunities. 0 Comments Tags: , .

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Arena Studios & Gallery Charity Auction 2010 – open submission

Arena is hosting an open submission for work to be included for auction in our 6th Annual Charity Auction, to be held Friday March 26 2010 at Leaf Tea Shop and Bar. Succesful applicants will have their work auctioned alongside pieces by Arena members and specially invited artists on the night.

We are requesting that any interested artists please send a jpeg of work they wish to/are able to submit and their details (name, contact and work details including size and medium of the piece) by no later than 5pm on Tuesday 16 March.

Successful applicants will be contacted shortly after. Arena will charge 30% commission on all sales.

Please contact arenastudios@btconnect.com
www.arenastudiosgallery.com

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Bridewell Gallery: Call for Submissions

Published by Ian Jackson on March 10, 2010 11:58 in Opportunities. 0 Comments Tags: .

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Members of Liverpool Artists’ Studios

Exhibition at The Bridewell Gallery

Application Deadline: Monday 29th March 2010

We are currently seeking submissions from members of Liverpool artists’ studio groups for an exhibition at The Bridewell Gallery to coincide with the forthcoming Bluecoat exhibition, ‘Global Studio’.

There is no single curatorial theme. However, the intent of the show is to further stimulate a shared consciousness of lthis city as an important centre of art production.

Works in all media are welcome, including sculpture, video, audio, installation, photography, painting, drawing  and digital media.

Artists at all stages in their career are eligible to apply. Applications are limited to artists working in the studio groups of Liverpool (i.e. with a Liverpool postcode).

Artists will be required to transport their own work to and from the gallery. Artists are required to insure their own work while on display.
We cannot offer a fee but there will be an exhibition opening and publicity.

Application materials:

-    Concise artist’s statement
-    CV
-    Short cover letter stating studio group
-    Up to 10 jpeg images on CD
-    List of images stating title, medium, dimensions, duration

Send applications to:

Moses/Loftus
The Bridewell Gallery
Prescot Street
Liverpool
L7 8UL

If you have any questions email elvismoses@hotmail.com

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Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair – Call for Entries

Published by Ian Jackson on March 8, 2010 21:33 in Opportunities. 0 Comments

craftfairlogo2010CALL FOR ENTRIES:
THE GREAT NORTHERN CONTEMPORARY CRAFT FAIR AT SPINNINGFIELDS 2010
OCTOBER 21-24 2010
HARDMAN BOULEVARD, SPINNINGFIELDS, MANCHESTER, M3 3AQ

140+ of the most innovative and influential designer-makers in the UK – both established and emerging will be selected to showcase and sell their their work  directly to the public and trade.

Exhibition stands from £360 ( 2mx1.5m); shared applications from two makers welcome.
Further information and application packs can be downloaded from http://www.greatnorthernevents.co.uk Or can be obtained by emailing info@greatnorthernevents.co.uk detailing your name and contact details ( email and address) or by sending a large SAE to:
Great Northern Events, 23 Belfield Rd, Didsbury, Manchester M20 6BJ. The deadline for applications is the 1st of May 2010
The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair at Spinningfields is organised by Great Northern Events (NW) Ltd, a not for profit organisation, developed to champion contemporary craft in the North and promote designer-makers.

Published by Ian Jackson on March 8, 2010 21:33 in Opportunities. 0 Comments

Global Studio – Call for submissions artists / writers

Published by Ian Jackson on March 8, 2010 12:58 in Opportunities. 0 Comments Tags: , .

From the Royal Standard…

Call for submissions artists / writers

Global Studio – The Bluecoat

As part of Global Studio, The Royal Standard is curating an exhibition at the Bluecoat, Liverpool’s creative hub.

This part of the show will question the meaning of documentation in today’s art practice, where networks are extending globally, forcing artists to give access to their work beyond its local and punctual presentation. The documentation of the work (photography, sound, text, etc) travels through the channels of word of mouth, websites, catalogues, limited editions, often as a representative of the work, sometimes as the work itself, or even as an evidence for a work that never happened…

We would like to hear from artists and writers whose work is directly concerned with the idea of documentation or blurs the line between work and documentation. Finished work, documentation of work, texts, and ideas in progress will be considered for entry in the exhibition.

For more information, please visit

www.the-royal-standard.com

www.thebluecoat.org.uk

www.laurencepayot.com

To apply, please send:

-       a CV

-       a website / web blink to previous works or up to 5 examples of previous works

-       Information about the proposed work (no more than 1 side of A4 + images or other documents if appropriate)

Send your application to Laurence Payot at laurencepayot@the-royal-standard.com before midnight on Sunday 21th March 2010.

Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss any ideas.

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