Lancashire Artists Network

Landscape Stories

Call for artists/arts organisations or collaborations

The Forest of Bowland is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covering 300 square miles of rural Lancashire and North Yorkshire. Designated in 1964, it is an area of unspoiled and richly diverse landscapes, wildlife and heritage with a distinctive character which sets it apart from the surrounding countryside.

Managed by the AONB, Landscape Stories is a community-led heritage project which aims to understand and celebrate the Bowland landscape we see today through discovering more about the people and activities that have helped to shaped it. Thanks to almost £50,000 funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund; additional funding from Lancashire County Council, Grassroots, the Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund and the AONB itself, the project is working with local people and visitors to discover, record, interpret and share information about heritage features and traditional rural

industries within this special area.

Landscape Stories has teamed up with Spot On, Lancashire’s Rural Touring Network to celebrate the work in a creative, high quality public event in those communities in February 2011.

There are three distinct projects which need a team of artists or one company to bring the creative elements together in one artistically cohesive celebration.

Scale: These are small projects, with around £2000 earmarked for each one with a tight deadline. Your imagination may go wild, but the reality is that there may be only a few days work for each one. This will evolve through discussion with the chosen team.

Artforms: we have some thoughts on what may work with each project, but are open to

suggestions.

The communities are in the Ribble Valley and Pendle area of Lancashire:

Chipping: Ideally we seek a community musician and/or storyteller to bring the heritage and social history of cheesemaking in Chipping to life, by working with community groups and primary schools in the village. This project may combine with an exploration of the local chair manufacturing. However, due the fact that many people in the local community were made redundant this year by the chair factory this may change due to community sensitivity.

Barley: To work with schools and an active local archaeology group to bring the archaeology, social history and landscape of the community to life. Project could be drama/storytelling or music based. We currently imagine a small piece of community theatre but we are open to ideas.

Slaidburn: An exploration of lime (cement) and its impact on the landscape and communities. Could involve mixed age groups, but mainly school children. This could link the geology of lime, with traditional and modern industrial practices, We image a visual story exploring the story of lime from being under the seas, to cement in your houses.

Timescale: 

• Deadline for submissions: Monday 13th September 10am
• Project outline: confirmed early autumn to tie in with school programmes
• Final events: February 2011.

What we need from you:

Essential:

• One side A4 statement on why you are interested in this project and what you can bring to the process
• Evidence of having worked in a collaborative, creative, participatory process with rural communities
• A CV or statement of your experience and practice
• The ability to get to remote communities under your own steam
• CRB clearance
• Public Liability Insurance of £5 million

Desirable:

If you are able to help with additional fund raising, or can bring cash or income in kind to the table, this will help the process and build the project, but it will not exclude you.

Fee:

A fee of £500 will be paid to the chosen group for preliminary consultation and planning meetings.

Final budget costs to be confirmed by the Landscapes Stories Project Officer but the scope of the whole project is aiming to be £6000. However, we seek assistance in some areas of fund raising, or partnership income in kind.

Please tell us if you are VAT registered.

Deadline for expressions of interest:

Monday 13th September 10am. Please send/email to Sandra Silk

For more information about the project and communities please contact:

Sandra Silk

Landscape Stories Project Officer

Forest of Bowland AONB

The Stables

4 Root Hill Estate Yard

Whitewell Road

Dunsop Bridge

Lancashire

BB7 3AY

Tel: 01200 448000

sandra.silk@lancashire.gov.uk

www.forestofbowland.com

www.spotonlancashire.co.uk

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"One of the coolest and classiest galleries around. CUBE continue to stage exhibitions that cover our cities’ cultural intermix of fine art, architecture, interior design and contextual theory. While this might sound a bit over-chic and academically dry, in fact CUBE shows tend to be an aesthetic and intellectual delight. CUBEOpen is no exception” Robert Clarke, The Guardian

Deadline for entries : 5pm Monday, 4th October 2010

CUBE, Centre for the Urban Built Environment is delighted to be announcing its annual open submission competition. Now in it’s fourth year the competition attracts entries from around the globe. Artists, architects and designers are invited to submit work that responds to our theme of the urban built environment.

We are delighted to announce that this years selectors are: Peter Kelly (Editor of Blueprint), Office of Subversive Architecture and Manchester Modernist Society.

The most outstanding project will be awarded £1000 and the applicant will be offered a residency as part of CUBELab 2011— two runners up will awarded £250 each. The shortlisted entries will form part of an exhibition at CUBE later this year.

Please post submissions with dimensions and a brief statement of how you feel your practice relates to the urban built environment to 'CUBEOPEN 2010’, CUBE, 113-115 Portland Street, Manchester, M1 6DW or email submissions to: CUBEOpen@gmail.com

Submission fee: £10* cheque made payable to 'University of Salford' or through webshop (https://shop.salford.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=122&modid=1&compid=1) or by postal order. (*£7.50 for CUBE members see website for details)

To apply please send:

1. Up to 6 images (each image no larger 1800 x 1800 and 300dpi). Please ensure that it is a standard package such as powerpoint, or standard image files such as jpegs

2. Film or video works as Quicktime files on DVD (by post). For video submissions please send a DVD accessible by menu. Please do not send exhibition versions, which cannot be navigated.

If we cannot open your files your application will not be accepted. Please do not send originals.

3. Details for submitted works, including year of production and dimensions.

4. Statement of up to 500 words about your work.

WE WILL NOT CONSIDER APPLICATIONS WITHOUT A SUBMISSION FEE

DOWNLOAD APPLICATION FORM AT: http://www.box.net/shared/tgve2g0d9u

Deadline for entries
5pm, 4th October 2010

Applicants will be notified by the end of October, please include your contact details.

We look forward to receiving your submission.

Consortium for Participatory Arts Learning

Project Development Worker, P/T

£140 per day, 1 day a week

C-PAL is currently made up 14 North West arts organisations that specialise in the development and delivery of participatory arts.  They are: Action Factory, CAN, Cartwheel Arts, Mid Pennine Arts, Lime, Osun Arts, Prescap, TiPP, Hope Street, Whitewood & Fleming, Lantern House, More Music, Cheshire Dance, Collective Encounters and Full Circle Arts.  The Consortium of Participatory Arts Learning is keen to develop sector supporting professional development and advocacy.

The consortium has developed some excellent sector support work, such as the Core Competencies Framework and a Project Managers Training and Mentoring Course. The post will develop further projects as well as manage the roll out of the Core Competencies Framework and a second phase of the Project Managers Training.

The post is funded for 18 months, and the post holder will be raising funds for continuation of the post in partnership with C-Pal.  The hours will be one day a week, with pro rata holidays.

Closing date is 13^th September 2010. Interviews on the 23^rd September 2010

Email prescap@prescap.co.uk 

C-Pal- Project Development Worker P/T, 7.5 hours a week

18 month contract, £140 per day – 1 day a week

Posts incl. 5% pension contribution + 30 days AL, pro rata

Closing date is 13^th September 2010. Interviews 23^rd September 2010

Email prescap@prescap.co.uk

BRILLIANTLY  BIRMINGHAM  2010

      Exhibition Opportunity at Birmingham’s newly re-opened mac

Call for designer makers            

Brilliantly Birmingham - International Contemporary Jewellery Festival will this year be starting a new decade of activity, in the newly built gallery space at mac. Since 1999, Brilliantly Birmingham has grown from an informal group of local designer makers who gathered together to market themselves under a single brand to an international contemporary jewellery festival attracting designer makers from across the globe. Birmingham and the West Midlands region are rich in contemporary jewellery talent and Birmingham’s historic yet thriving Jewellery Quarter is unique in the world. Brilliantly Birmingham’s aim is to celebrate and promote this distinctive character of the city, and the region, under a brand that stands for innovation, quality and style.

FLUX, A BRILLIANTLY BIRMINGHAM exhibition, now in its fifth year, will create exposure for the best of contemporary jewellery design through a highly visible and high profile public selling event at mac, located in Birmingham’s Cannon Hill Park. A dynamic and ambitious exhibition of new and emerging designer makers will promote challenging and diverse new work, create a marketplace and contribute to the city as a visitor attraction. 

The BRILLIANTLY BIRMINGHAM festival will take place at a variety of venues across the city and region from 27th November 2010 – 9th January 2011.  FLUX is open to new and emerging designer makers, having no longer than five years graduated from their specialist area of study and based in the UK.  Participation in FLUX is by open submission and a selection panel process. 

BRILLIANTLY BIRMINGHAM will not charge designer makers an exhibition fee, public entry fee or commission on sold work. Each application needs to be submitted with a £20.00 administration charge. Payment can be made by cheque, payable to Birmingham City Council.

If you are a professional designer maker based in the UK download a FLUX application pack from www.brilliantlybirmingham.com or email Julie.A.Sutton@birmingham.gov.uk or mcnally.susan@gmail.com

For general enquiries please telephone Julie Sutton on 0121 303 2434

Your final application should include submission of the FLUX application form, a copy of your C.V. along with 10 high quality colour images of recent work (2005-2010). 

Submission deadline Friday 3^rd September 2010.

Please visit our website at www.brilliantlybirmingham.com

Do you have a creative and innovative business idea that you would like to get off the ground?  Struggling to find the right kind of support and premises to launch it?

STREAM STUDIO : Is a new Incubator programme developed by the Watermark and funded initially by Preston City Council, set up to support creative entrepreneurs with innovative new ideas and recently started businesses to grow and develop into new markets and areas of work.

All we ask is that you have a good idea that you are willing to put in the hours to get it going and that you will engage positively with the support we put in front of you during your time with us.

This is not your typical incubator:

• all the support you receive whilst on the scheme will come from industry professionals
• you will be offered mentoring from business people working in your field
• you will be given subsidised & maybe even free dedicated workspace in a communal environment that encourages collaborative working practices
• you will be in a working business environment exposed to potential investors looking to support the growth of your business

If you are interested then visit http://thewatermark.co.uk/stream-studio/ to download an application form.

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