Creative Practitioner Opportunity

Harvills Hawthorn Primary School
Wolseley Road
West Bromwich
Sandwell
B70 0NG

We have recently become a Creative Partnerships Enquiry School, and for our enquiry project, we are looking for a practitioner who will work with us on transforming an underused outdoor area in our school. The area we are looking at is a roofed area by the side of the school facing onto the playground, which is mostly used for sheltering from bad weather.

Our enquiry question is:
How does creating an outside learning environment impact upon the attainment of a Year 5 class?

Through this project, we wish to explore how a group of children taking an active role in planning, creating and utilizing an outdoor learning environment, impacts upon their progress and attainment.
Through their involvement in such a project, we hope to capture the children's interest and imaginations, thus allowing them to become creative thinkers and learners. They will be fully involved in designing the area of the school which will give them ownership and which will produce an enhanced learning environment that will benefit all children at the school.

The project is to start as soon as possible and we are hoping to have a launch event in the summer term 2011.
We would like to plan the details of contact time and frequency in close collaboration with our Creative Agent & Lead Teacher.

We are looking for an inspirational and dedicated practitioner who will help us develop the project. We are hoping to learn strategies for our teaching and learning in how to engage all our pupils better. We have left the brief deliberately open, so the practitioner can form the project with the pupils and staff.


The project budget is up to £2,500 for practitioner fee (includes travel) with a additional budget for materials and a launch event.



Here the details how to apply:

We are looking for an exceptional creative practitioner who can help us transform the space in close collaboration with the teacher & pupils. We are open to your practice- the outcome will have to be a transformed space, though.

You also need to have:

- An enhanced CRB disclosure (less than two years old)
- You will need public Liability up to 5million
- An understanding of or an interest in how young people learn
- A commitment to genuine collaboration
- An ability to reflect and communicate
- A willingness to learn and share skills

If you are interested please send us:

- A short statement, explaining why you want to work with us (no more than one page), please state clearly any technical requirements you will have.
- CV (no more than two pages)
- Two references
- Date of your CRB check
- 6 images ( not bigger than 1mb per image)
If you need to send a DVD please get in touch.

Please send all documents in the old word format or PDF, no docx please.

Selection:
For the interview we will ask you to prepare a 30min activity to demonstrate your approach to collaborative working, this will be followed by questions from pupils & staff. We will pay an interview reimbursement fee of £50 to the unsuccessful candidates.

Deadline: 6. January 2011 5pm

Interview date: 18. January 2011 ( morning)

Initial Project planning with successful candidate: 20.January 2011 (morning)

If you cannot attend the interview date please do not apply.

All applications to be emailed to Iris Bertz, Creative Agent: ibertz@gmail.com

To find out more about the school please see: http://www.harvillshawthorn.ik.org


The project is part of Enquiry School project supported by Creative Partnerships www.creative-partnerships.com
and Black Country Creative Partnerships www.blackcountrycreativepartnerships.co.uk

Creative Practioner for Interior Design/Design

Arrow Vale Community School, Redditch, B98 0EN

We are a class of year 9 pupils working with our Art teacher on a project where we are exploring the following question:

“How can we improve our corridors & public areas to make them more friendly and representative of our school?”


For this project we are looking for a practitioner to work with us, we imagine that you might be an interior designer, architect, graphic designer, graffiti artist or visual artist. We want somebody to help us build an approach with which, we can convince people that we can affect change in the building. We also have agreement to change one area in the school-so this is a real project.
The most important thing for us is that you are passionate about your work and that you are prepared to work with us in a co-constructive and collaborative manner.

For this project we have identified one or two areas of the school that could be improved through simple but ambitious ideas. We will be running this project in our timetabled lessons on Thursdays and there will be some full days also in the project.
Please see planned timetable below.

Project Dates:
20.1, 27.1, 3.2, 10.2, 17.2, 3.3., 10.3, 17.3- half days morning
25.3. & 1.4. whole days






We are looking for a practitioner who
-is good with children
-enthusiastic
-takes us seriously
-is responsible
-understands & listens to us
-understands where we are coming from
-helps to put our ideas into professional reality
-lets us get involved
-lets us take credit
-engages us
-gives us ideas
-takes our ideas on board


Project Fee:
8 sessions @ £120 = £960
2 full days @ £220 = £440
1 day planning & review in school @ £220 = £220
1day planning at home @ £220 = £200

Total £1,820

A materials budget up to £ 600 will be available.
Please do not apply if you cannot attend on the majority dates above or interview date.

If you are interested please send us:

- A short statement, explaining why you want to work with us ( max.1 page)
- CV (no more than two pages)
- 6 small images
- Date of your last CRB check
- You will need public Liability up to 5million

Remember you are applying to the pupils, our Creative Agent is just supporting us with this project.

Please send all documents in the old word format or PDF, no docx please.

Deadline: 30 November 2010 at 5pm

Interview date: 9. December 2010 ( Morning)

All applications to be emailed to Iris Bertz, Creative Agent: ibertz@gmail.com

For further information on: Arrow Vale High: http://www.arrowvale.worcs.sch.uk


This project is part of a Change School project supported by Creative Partnerships
www.creative-partnerships.com and Bright Space www.brightspace.org.uk

Creative Practitioner Opportunity

About St Bartholomew’s Church of England Primary School

“This is an outstanding school. It is rare to find a school with such a sense of purpose to provide the absolute best for all its pupils.” Ofsted 2009

This is St Bartholomew’s third Enquiry project with Creative. We want to build on what we have learnt over the last two years, particularly with regard to the successes of pupil-led creative learning.

We are looking for an expert practitioner/s who will help us explore the following enquiry:

How can film-making, combined with drama, through a cross-curricular approach, encourage our pupils to see beyond wanting to 'get it right', and empower them to take ownership of their learning through questioning, experimenting, and taking more risks?


Aims:

This project aims to:

• encourage pupils to challenge their own ideas of what’s possible and what they are capable of, through exploration and taking risks

• provide a more meaningful and exciting context to improve pupils’ writing

• empower children to lead their own learning processes and make their own decisions about what they want to pursue

• help staff to allow children to lead their learning


Brief:

We are open to receiving applications from individuals offering us both film-making and drama skills, from individuals offering just one of these areas of expertise, and also to joint applications which cover both areas.

We would like the practitioner/s to:

• research film-making equipment and software and advise the school on what to buy with the budget available (up to £1,000)

• inspire pupils and staff with new creative approaches to pupil-led learning, in particular through activities which lead to writing in some form or another

• listen to, be inspired by, and help realise our children’s ideas for the content of the project

• help staff and pupils gain confidence and new skills – not only in film-making and drama, but also in decision making, problem solving, communication and their understanding of the learning process

The practitioner/s would work with one Year 3 class of 30 pupils.


Timescale and Fee
Total fee: £2,800, including travel, planning, reflection and evaluation time, with an additional budget for equipment.

Dates: between Jan and April 2010, ideally in weekly sessions. Joint planning will take place in school before Christmas.


Project Management
The successful applicant will be contracted directly by St Bartholomew’s Primary School which has already secured Creative Partnerships funding to support this commission. In addition to support provided by Black Country Creative Partnerships (BCCP), St Bartholomew’s is also working with a Creative Agent, a freelance creative professional employed by BCCP to act as a critical friend, broker and creative advisor.


Selection
All applicants must have:
• a highly developed and reflective practice
• experience of working with KS2
• skills in film-making and drama facilitation, and an ability to communicate these skills effectively to pupils and staff
• a commitment to genuine collaboration with staff and pupils
• an interest in how people learn, and a belief in child-led learning


Application
To apply, please email:

• a current CV with details of 2 referees
• examples of relevant, previous work - up to 6 images, web links
• one page addressing the above criteria, explaining why you are interested in working with us and any initial thoughts you might have about possible approaches
• confirmation of Public Liability Insurance and enhanced CRB clearance less than 2 years old in order to comply with the school’s commitment to safeguard children

Please also send the school a DVD of either a short show reel, a short film or a piece of work you think will be of interest to us. No video clips, please!
To

D.Jones3@stbartholomews-pri.lpplus.net
and
lisaharrison@blueyonder.co.uk

and send DVD to:-

Darren Jones, CP Co-ordinator,
St Bartholomew’s Church of England Primary School,
Sedgley Road,
Penn,
Wolverhampton,
WV4 5LG

A group of pupils from year 3 will conduct the interviews, with the school’s CP Co-ordinator and Creative Agent.

Any queries, please contact our Creative Agent, Lisa Harrison, on 07967 231 960.

The closing date for applications is 4pm Thursday 11th November 2010.
Successful applicants will be notified by the evening of Friday 12th March.
Interviews will take place on Friday 19th November.

Unfortunately we have no flexibility around the interview date, and so if you cannot make that date, please do not apply.

We would like you to do a 30 minute activity as part of the interviewing process.

Background
Managed by a national organisation called Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE), Creative Partnerships (CP) is the Government’s flagship creative learning programme funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Children, Schools and Families and Arts Council England. It aims to foster effective, sustainable partnerships between schools and the widest possible range of cultural and creative partners that develop young people’s learning across and beyond the formal curriculum.

The Black Country Children’s Services Improvement Partnership (BCCSIP) manages the Creative Partnerships programme in The Black Country, Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire. BCCSIP is a strategic partnership funded by all four Black Country Local Authorities, the Learning and Skills Council, the Black Country Consortium and the University of Wolverhampton that aims to enhance teaching and learning in schools across the Black Country. It is a programme that sits within the University of Wolverhampton’s Education Partnerships department.

www.creativepartnerships.com

The Turves Green Titans are looking for a creative practitioner to work with us on a Robot Wars Project.

Turves Green Boys’ School, Birmingham, B31 4BS
- A Specialist Technology College -

Creative Partnerships Change School Programme 2010-2011

The Turves Green Titans are looking for a creative practitioner to work with us on a Robot Wars Project.

We are a group of 7 students from year 8, 9&10 who are the steering group on a project to start an after school club based on the Robot Wars. The club aims to engage pupils who normally don’t take part in clubs ( and have fun while learning). We also think there might be potential to link to science & technology subjects. The group size we are planning to work with is 20 pupils of different ages.

But for now we are looking for a person who can help us make this happen and can work with us to design, build & compete robots to get started!

We have a big vision to maybe start involving other schools in the long-term and support them in setting up a similar club! We also want the club to carry on once the original support from Creative Partnerships has finished, so sustainability is important.

We are looking for an exceptional practitioner who:
-can help us make the robots
- can work with a group of about 20 boys
- takes young people seriously
- can enable us to make the robots & and not do it for us
- is committed to work with young people
- has good imagination
- has experience in engineering (or building robots or similar)
- we can trust
- is ambitious with us- not for themselves
- does not take shortcuts
- is interested in working with recycled materials.
If you have worked with children before that would be ideal, but if you feel passionate about our idea, please get in touch.

To apply please send:
- a CV (no more than two pages)
- two references
- a short description (less than one side of A4) of how you might work with us
- any portfolio, CD, DVD, webpage reference to showcase your previous work
- the date of your recent CRB check ( if you have not been CRB checked an indication that you will be happy to be CRB checked)
- confirmation of Public Liability
- an indication of your fees

To our Creative Agent: Iris Bertz ibertz@gmail.com, for questions: 0121 439 6873

Wednesday 3rd Nov – Deadline for Applications 5pm
Please send all documents in the DOC or PDF format, no docx please.



The Turves Green Titans meet every Thursday after school: 3-4 pm

We would like the practitioner to be there from 2.30 pm so he or she can set up in time. And to stay till 4.30 for reflection and planning.
We envisage the practitioner to come in weekly up to Christmas and then maybe at longer interval. But we would like to decide that together with the chosen person.

We are also planning to do a small number of whole or half days to set up the project.


Proposed Dates for Practitioners – Autumn Term 2010

Wednesday 3rd Nov – Deadline for Applications 5pm

Friday 12th Nov – Interviews ( Morning)

Thursday 18th Nov – Planning Meeting 2.30-4.30pm

Thursday 25th Nov – Full Day Workshop 9.00-3.30pm

Then weekly workshops up to Christmas.


So please apply- blow us way with your ideas!!!



Creative Partnerships Change School Programme 2010-2011

Background
Creative Partnerships is the Government’s flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the skills of young people across England, raising their aspirations and equipping them for their futures. We foster innovative, long-term partnerships between schools and creative professionals, including architects, scientists, multimedia developers and artists. These partnerships inspire young people, teachers and creative professionals to challenge how they work and experiment with new ideas.

Young people develop the skills they need to perform well not only in exams and extra-curricular activities, but also in the workplace and wider society.




Context
The school is a relatively small technology college with approximately 650 boys serving the Longbridge district of Birmingham. A small number of the pupils are from minority ethnic communities and standards on entry are broadly average. About one fifth of pupils, an average proportion, are on the special needs register. The school was one of the first to be designated a specialist technology college in 1995. There are extensive links with other schools within the south western districts of Birmingham and shared sports facilities with the adjacent girls' school.
The school became part of the Change Schools programme in September 2008. The Change Schools programme builds on Creative Partnerships current practice to bring about sustainable change in approaches to teaching and learning. We have made a firm commitment to putting creativity at the heart of our improvement plans and to educating children and young people for a creative future.

Focus, Aims and Requirements
The Change Schools programme focuses on generating long-term dialogue about creative teaching and learning, and how the school can become a more effective creative learning environment. Our focus is to explore in depth how we can develop the conditions where creativity can thrive. Can we through engaging with outside professionals, raise achievement and make teaching and learning more exciting and relevant to life after school?







This project is part of
a Change School project supported by Creative Partnerships
www.creative-partnerships.com and Bright Space www.brightspace.org.uk

Multisensory Art Commission Opportunity

Current Opportunities Multisensory Art Commission Opportunity Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service (SAMS) would like to commission a bespoke interactive and multisensory sculpture designed to tour round community venues and school settings. Aims of the Commission * To create new multisensory art work that will be suitable for touring within community settings. * To devise and deliver a series of creative activities in community settings across Staffordshire to creatively explore materials and sensory elements with our target audiences. * To develop an illustrative and creative account of the process and journey undertaken from the initial workshops through to the final, piece which will provide a useful tool for further interpretation and engagement. Timescale * Deadline for application: 19th November 2010 * Interview date: 13th December 2010 * Commissioning period January 2011 - June 2011 Artist Fee Artist Commission total fee is £8000. Commission Brief For a more detailed brief, please click here

Launch Black Country History Website

Now online: Black Country History website Black Country History is a new searchable website which allows users to find information about documents, maps, photographs, art works, objects and more held by archives and museums services within the Black Country. The website brings together in one place information about 119,000+ documents, archival photographs, maps, artefacts and artworks held by archives and museums across the Black Country; offering a comprehensive research resource for history enthusiasts worldwide. blackcountryhistory.org Launch Event Bilston Craft Gallery Thur 4 Nov 6 – 8 pm You are warmly invited to the official launch of the Black Country History website. The launch event will also feature the new Buy Black Country collection of contemporary retail products developed by designer-makers and inspired by the Black Country’s historic local collections.

Unique screening opportunity for interactive and film and video artists

The Public in West Bromwich are accepting submissions for two unique open exhibitions; TOUCHINTERACTIVE 2011, the UK’s first open exhibition specifically for digital interactive artwork, and SCREENING 2011, an open exhibition for film and video artists. Read more… The West Bromwich arts centre, famed for its commitment to digital arts, features a number of fixed interactive artworks including work by Blast Theory and Lia & Miguel Carvalhais, together with a changing programme of work by internationally renowned artists. The open exhibitions, which are free to enter, will provide a rare opportunity for both early career and professional interactive, film and video artists from across the country and internationally to showcase their work alongside such distinguished artists. TOUCHINTERACTIVE 2011 will display selected artwork on The Public’s many touch-screens, viewed by a weekly audience of thousands. Artwork must be fun and intuitive, and engaging for audiences of all ages. Submissions are also being accepted for SCREENING 2011 for single channel work – with or without audio – suitable for large scale projection or monitor display. Artists are invited to submit moving-image works which must not exceed 30 minutes. Budding filmmakers will see their work screened within the iconic arts centre. The deadline for submissions is Friday 26 November 2010. Download the application forms below: Application form: TOUCHINTERACTIVE 2011 Application form: SCREENING 2011 The artwork will be selected by the curatorial and technical teams at The Public. Successful applicants will be notified by 17 December 2010. The selected applications will be exhibited at The Public in January and February 2011. Priority will be given to early career artists and filmmakers and those living or working in the West Midlands. For more information about all events at The Public visit http://www.thepublic.com or call the box office on 0121 533 7161.

Creative Practitioner Development opportunity

Black Swans

“The Black Swans programme is a great way to get a much better insight into creative teaching and creative partnership working.” 2009-10 Participant.

A paid professional learning programme for new creative practitioners wanting to work in education.

Due to the success of the 09-10 Black Swans programme, Black Country Creative Partnerships and Creative Alliance are running the programme again.

The programme offers a paid training opportunity for people who would like to work in education as a creative practitioner.

Practitioners may be chefs, mathematicians, poets, visual artists, drama workers, technicians:  in fact anyone who wants to share their unique practice with children and young people, and their teachers and families.

At one time everyone in Britain thought swans were always white until someone went to Australia and brought back a black one!   Are you someone who can help children and educators explore those possibilities and question the obvious; make improbable connections and stretch imaginations?

Well if you are, then the Black Swans professional learning programme could be just what you need to develop the knowledge and skills to work within education.

As part of the Black Swans professional learning programme you will receive:

•10 days work in a Creative Partnerships school to devise, develop and deliver a project in line with the school’s enquiry question and an all inclusive fee of £1000 to do this.* 

•Five days professional learning programme made of seminars, workshops and action  learning sets led by experts in creative learning.

•Mentoring by some of the best creative practitioners and agents.

•The opportunity to contribute to a promotional catalogue.

*The enquiry question is the purpose for why a school is undertaking a Creative       Partnerships programme

Here’s what people on last years programme said:

“The Black Swan's Programme has given me the confidence to… literally let children go, give them a chance to discover things for themselves, decide when it is appropriate to teach and when it is best to step back and facilitate learning.”

“My Black Swan experience has clarified for me how I can adapt my practice to ensure that the individual needs of each pupil / school are met.”

To apply please send electronically:

•A C.V. of no more than 2 sides of A4

•A letter of no more than 2 sides of A4 outlining why you want to work in education,

what you can offer, and any experience you may have.

Please do not exceed the 500 word limit and only electronically submitted application will be considered.  Please make sure the CV and letter are in one attachment.  If you want to send images of your work one additional page of digital images can be included in the attachment. Hard copies or multiple attachments with an electronic application will be discounted.

To:      Vicky Goodwin at Creative Alliance          

Email: vicky@creativealliance.org.uk

Deadline: 10.00am Monday 4th October

Interviews will be held from Wednesday 6th October at Creative Alliance’s offices at The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham, B9 4AA.

The dates for all the seminar sessions are to be confirmed but we will start with a whole day induction on Saturday 23rd October at Creative Alliance’s training room at The Custard Factory.

At this day you will have the opportunity to find out about the schools participating in the scheme and to indicate the type of school you might like to work in: nursery, junior, special needs or secondary and whether in a rural or urban location. There are 10 schools participating in the scheme and individual preferences cannot be guaranteed.

You will need to have or willing to get an enhanced CRB.

The dates of the work in schools will be arranged to suit individual practitioners/ schools.

After the initial induction day, you will be informed of the dates of the rest of the programmed across the autumn and spring terms.  This will include at least one other Saturday and evenings.

For further information about the programmed please contact Noel Dunne

07793 200 701 / noel@creativealliance.org.uk, or, noel@jobdunne.com

Creative Practitioner Opportunity

Edgar Stammers Primary School.

Harden Road,

Coalpool,

Walsall.

West Midlands.

WS3 1RQ

We have recently become a Creative Partnerships Enquiry School, and as part of that we are looking for a practitioner who is passionate about making literacy exciting for young people.  We are looking for a practitioner who will inspire our children and staff with new approaches to make our pupils read & write. We would also like to work with our parents to support our children’s reading.

The staff at Edgar Stammers are committed to giving the children the best education we possibly can. Through creativity and imagination we can give them opportunities they would never experience through their every day lives .We are all keen to participate in this project and the staff want to learn alongside the children .

Our enquiry questions is:

How as a whole school community can we develop our children's writing skills through original ideas and actions which will impact on the standards of all pupils?

We are planning for the practitioner to work with a year 2 & year 4 class (separately), we have planned about 12 days contact time over the school year. We are also hoping to run some CPD sessions for our staff.

The project is to start after half-term and we are planning a launch event in June 2011.

We would welcome to plan the details of contact time and frequency in close collaboration with our Creative Agent & Lead Teachers.

We are looking for an inspirational and dedicated practitioner who will help us develop the project. We are hoping to learn strategies for our teaching and learning in how to engage all our pupils better. We have left the brief deliberately open, so the practitioner can form the project with the pupils and staff.

The project budget is up to £3,000 for practitioner fee (includes travel) with a an additional small budget for materials and the launch.

We are not fixed on the practice of our practitioner but would like you to inspire us with new ideas how we can make literacy enjoyable & exciting.

So please surprise us……is it printmaking, cooking, filmmaking, poetry, knitting, ceramics, drama etc., or something we cannot even imagine-

surprise & excite us with your ideas…….we are looking forward to hearing from you.

Here the details how to apply:

We are looking for an exceptional creative practitioner who has:

-  An enhanced CRB disclosure (less than two years old)

- You will need public Liability up to 5million

-  An understanding of or an interest in how young people learn

-  A commitment to genuine collaboration

-  An ability to reflect and communicate

-  A willingness to learn and share skills

If you are interested please send us:

- A short statement, explaining why you want to work with us (no more than one page), please state clearly any technical requirements you will have.

-CV (no more than two pages)

- Two references

- Date of your CRB check

-a link to examples work or 6 images ( if applicable)

If you need to send a DVD please get in touch.

Please send all documents in the old word format or PDF, no docx please.

Selection:

For the interview we will ask you to prepare a 30min activity to demonstrate your approach to collaborative working, this will be followed by questions from students & staff. We will pay an interview reimbursement fee of £50 to the unsuccessful candidates.

Deadline:  13. October 2010   5pm

Interview date:  22. October 2010

If you cannot attend the interview date please get in touch.

All applications to be emailed to Iris Bertz, Creative Agent: ibertz@gmail.com

The project is part of Enquiry School project supported by Creative Partnerships www.creative-partnerships.com 

 and Black Country Creative Partnerships www.blackcountrycreativepartnerships.co.uk

 

Opportunity-short notice

Dear All

Grove Community Project, a small independent nursery (for children aged 2-4) in Handsworth, Birmingham has just been awarded a grant from Youth Music for a year-long early years music project. As well as employing me as their Music Leader for 20 days they are also looking for someone to work with me on a more regular basis at the nursery for 40 days across this academic year. The person that we had in mind now has other work and is unable to do it. At very short notice we are looking for someone to take up this exciting opportunity.

My role will be to deliver CPD, deliver some practical activity (both at Grove and the nearby nursery class of James Watt Primary School), support the relationships between the music leader and nominated early years practitioner, mentor the musician, support reflective practice and documentation, and look at music provision across the nursery.

We are looking for a musician who would deliver the weekly practical activity at the nursery. It would suit a musician who is open to child- initiated/adult responsive ways of working and who maybe has some experience of this. It would suit someone who has experienece of early years music but is maybe looking to build a longer-term relationship with a setting and develop their practice. It would be extremely helpful if they had Mondays or Tuesdays free. The fee is £175 per day.

The project is managed by Sarah Wood who is project manager for Grove Community Project.

Please send this to anyone you think might be interested. If they are interested they should get in touch with me by email in the first instance sending a CV or biog and a covering letter stating why they would be interested in being part of the project. I'm also very happy to for people to call me on my mobile 07786 736 861 if they want to know more about the project

Apologies for  the very short notice - we would like to start as soon as possible and therefore ask that if people are interested to get in touch asap.

With best wishes

Nancy

nancy@neruda.demon.co.uk

Turves Green Boys School are Staging the Good Person of Sezuan

Exhibition in Rugby & West Bromwich

Community Artists needed

I am looking for an artist (any arts form) who has been developing their community arts practise over the last year or two and has been successful and become experienced in running one-off workshops, small-scale projects (maybe for other arts organisations), experiencing in planning projects and fund-raising would be fantastic too - but not essential.

The artist needs to consider that they have some interesting insight in the value of networking and developing links with arts/non arts organisations to help them start to forge their career in this area of arts practise.

Must be available:

EVENT  ONE Date: 28th September 2010 Venue: Rugby Time: 4.30pm- 6.30pm

EVENT TWO Date: 30th September 2010 Venue:  Leamington Spa Time: 6.30pm-8.30pm

The practitioner must put together a max. 10min presentation together and be available both evenings.

There is a fee for prep and delivery.

For further information or discussion please contact Cathryn on 01926 412355 or cathrynravenhall@warwickshire.gov.uk

please forward to people that you think may be interested.

Best wishes

Cathryn

Cathryn Ravenhall
Community Arts Officer
County Arts Service
Environment and Economy Directorate
Warwickshire County Council
Phone: 01926 412355   
Fax: 01926 412641
e-mail:  cathrynravenhall@warwickshire.gov.uk
Coming up ...
'KREATIVE KOLLECTIV'
An international arts exhibition celebrating the work of artists with learning difficulties in Warwickshire and Stetten, Germany
1st - 30th September 2010

Vacant Spaces to vibrant places-artist opportunity

INHABIT: Vacant spaces to vibrant places

 

Overview

Inhabit is part of the Empty Spaces initiative.  It’s a programme of activity part funded by DCLG to re-invigorate local high streets and raise community confidence in local spaces. It aims to support local areas during the economic downturn, reviving shopping centres by transforming vacant spaces into vibrant places.  As a result of further funding from Arts Council England, we are able to offer further commissions. 

Our approach is to provide a pleasant place for people to meet, have a cup of tea, enjoy taking part in creative workshops or simply talk and share stories about what the local high street used to be like and how it could be in the future.  The activities will take place throughout 2010 and across Birmingham in Erdington, Hodge Hill, Ladywood, Perry Barr and bringing everything together at the Pavilions in the city centre. 

Artists Commissions

As part of Inhabit there are a small number of artist’s commissions available.  We have transformed the first empty shop at 173 Hagley Road, Ladywood, into a local tearoom.  Tea has shaped England’s national identity, but was first brought to the country from India and China.  Newer communities have very different relationships to tea, and to the manner and space in which it is, and isn’t, drunk.  We believe that this provides us with a route to draw individuals and communities out of their houses and into the local tearoom.  The tearooms recognise this curiously English tradition but also its global roots. 

The commissions should therefore pick upon but not be constrained by the notion of transforming space, community engagement and participatory led activity.  At the core of the work should be a strong concept but one that is easily communicated to those unfamiliar with the arts sector and who may not have engaged with the arts in any depth.  We expect artists to be committed to and interested in how the arts can work as a catalyst towards social and community development. 

All artists commissioned must regularly contribute to Hybrid’s forum/ blog on this subject. 

Artists will be required to work across two shops, or for the inter-disciplinary commission collate materials from all shops, with the final display taking place in the city centre shop at the Pavilions. 

Each of the commissions (apart from the Open Brief commissions) has a budget attached to enable ‘Mentoring Connections’.  We will therefore work with you to identify routes for development to explore how you can further your professional and creative development. 

 

The commissions:   

Promenade

(Fee £7, 500 to include all expenses, Up to £1, 000 mentoring connection)

Taking each empty High Street space as a starting point, we wish to commission a promenade performance that propels participants through the history and culture of the local High Street.  This could involve using drama, theatre or audience engaged in exploration to see more of the High Street.  This may include other shops, local buildings such as places of worship, public art in the vicinity as well as activities and work in our Inhabit unit.  We want to surprise the participants, make them stop and think and in essence encourage them to revisit the High Street after we have gone.  Ideally this promenade would be aimed at a mix of age ranges, we don’t want to exclude people who haven’t previously engaged in promenade style work, the work must be accessible and consider how to draw people on a learning journey – both about art and their local High Street. 

We are interested in talking to artists who are excited at the possibilities that this commission presents.  We would seek to have a promenade performance in at least two High Streets, with the potential of applying the promenade to other areas.  This may mean having a template that is then adapted to each area.  To complement the promenade we would like a ‘trail’ created that could be taken by families on their own (similar to those created by heritage sites or museums) as those who are able to access the performed promenade are likely to be limited in number.

Word based

(Fee £5, 000 to include all expenses, up to £1, 000 mentoring connection)

We are interested in exploring the possibility of drawing upon words/ text in the spaces.  We are including within this text/ language/ literature/ spoken word/ calligraphy/ typography.  This commission needs to incorporate community/ participant involvement.  We would like to add to the atmosphere of the tearooms, and develop its theme by exploring the possibility of a commission that considers the written and spoken word.  The thinking behind this commission are the conversations that were and are held in tearooms, what are the topics of conversation today, what themes could or should be encouraged? 

We are interested in hearing from performers/ writers/ visual artists who have created contemporary work and have an interest in developing their practice in new ways, keeping word/ text at the heart and working across languages.  If you work in one area, you may wish to collaborate with another artist to deliver this element. 

Reminiscence/ Film / Animation/ Drama

(Fee £7, 500 to include all expenses, up to £1, 000 mentoring connection)

We are looking for an artist, partnership, collaboration or group to deliver an inter-disciplinary arts commission.  The commission will pick upon local residents’ stories and produce an audience experience that draws together stories (could be verbatim), images, sound and music that produces considerable texture.  The work may take inspiration from the stories that are collected within the programme, producing new work, or it may be verbatim.  The work produced should connect with the overall theme and consider past, present and future in its content. 

There should be a strong digital media presence, with at least some of the work web based, for example through work in progress on youtube.  The final work should also be uploaded onto vimeo or similar. 

We would expect the chosen artist to engage with participants, residents and audiences in all four wards but for the final work to be shown in the city centre.  The commissioned artist will be responsible for installation and technical maintenance as well as all technical/ production needs. 

Open Brief

For the Open Brief, we are open to and interested in new ideas and art forms, particularly those that are not covered elsewhere in the artists’ commissions.  We are especially interested in arts forms or ways of engaging that are accessible to communities and individuals who haven’t previously engaged with the arts. 

There are no guidelines for this commission beyond the information that is available in the programme overview.  This is deliberately open as we wish to encourage artist’s own thinking and ideas on engagement.  We do, however, expect the ideas to tie in with the overall vision of the programme and to have a strong sense of how the work will engage audiences and inspire interaction.  We are looking for artists who can engage with the space to profile their own arts practice and alongside this, deliver a few participatory sessions.

The commissions provide a small number of artist’s opportunities to:

·        Display/ produce work

·        Hold performances

·        Run participatory workshops

·        Drop in sessions

·        Demonstrations

·        Show or develop work in progress

·        Use the space for meetings

At the core of your work should be a clear concept but one that is easily communicated to those unfamiliar with the arts sector.  We expect artists to be committed to and interested in how the arts can work as a catalyst towards social and community development. We are especially interested in arts forms or ways of engaging that are accessible to communities and individuals who haven’t previously engaged with the arts. 

The fee for these commissions is between £500 and £1500, however, you will need to be responsible for: 

·        Transport

·        Insurance

·        Technical Needs

We will be accepting applications for this element through till February 2011.

However, the longer you leave it, the greater the competition is likely to be

How to apply

Please send us the following information:

·         An outline of how you would respond to Inhabit (max 500 words)

·         A loose budget

·         An up to date CV

·         Images/ CD featuring your work

·         How you would recruit and engage local residents (max 500 words)

·         How much time you would spend working in the tearoom (max 200 words)

BY 5pm, MONDAY 20^th SEPTEMBER

Feel free to ask questions first. 

We may have an open day for artists, please let us know if this would be of interest to you.

TO

Samina Zahir

Hybrid, 504 Islington Gates, 4 Fleet Street, Birmingham, B3 1JH

samina@hybridconsulting.org.uk

Tel: 0121 270 6389 (messages only)
mob: 07946 579655

Short-listed applicants will be asked to attend ‘Ladywood – Inhabited’

on Wednesday 6^th October 2010 from 4 – 6.30pm.

Building Sights VIP Exhibition Launch Invite 5pm - 7pm Friday 3rd September 2010

We all love Nuneaton & Bedworth - what sites do you love?

Significance -  Rare - Good looking - Well made - Something happened - Group   

We want to prove that there are good things about Nuneaton & Bedworth and help people appreciate what we have and to see things in a new light. We also believe that we shouldn't wait until something is gone or has been knocked down before we make a fuss of it.

  You are invited to attend the launch of our celebratory exhibition at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery, Riversley Park, Nuneaton. Come along to nominate and celebrate the places important to you. 

5pm - 7pm Friday 3rd September 2010
 VIP Launch from 5pm, Speeches at 6pm - All Welcome!
 Celebratory Refreshments will be available

please RSVP ness@buildingsights.org

 Our exhibition is open to the public 4th September - 24th October 2010 at the following times:
Tuesday - Saturday 10.30am - 4.30pm
Sunday 2.00pm - 4.30pm 

For more information visit our website:www.buidingsights.org

 Building Sights is a Mercurial Arts Project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund's Young Roots Programme
and supported by Warwickshire County Council, Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery and Abbeygate Shopping Centre

For more information about Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery:
 http://www.nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk/leisure-culture/museums-galleries/museum-and-art-gallery

For information about car parking:

http://www.nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk/transport-streets/parking/car-parks

For information about Nuneaton train station:

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/nun/details.html

Funding in Warwickshire&more

http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/grants  

Articles in this month's Newsflash include:

1. Arts on our Doorstep
2. Gimple's Green Grants
3. The Monument Trust
4. The Will Conservation Trust
5. The Mark Leonard Trust
6. The Woodward Charitable Trust
7. The Ethnic Minorities Award Scheme for Environmental Projects
8. BBC Children in Need Grants Scheme
9. Stratford District Events and Festivals (application form is attached to this email)
10. Ford Britain Trust
11. CSW Sport Physical Activity Small Grants Scheme
12. CSW Sport Coach Bursary Scheme
13. Sport Unlimited
14. Funding for Playgroups and Pre-Schools
15. Links Foundation
16. The Prince's Countryside Fund
17. Unltd Sport Relief Award Programme
18. Allotments Regeneration Initiative
19. Transversal Study visits to other European Countries
20. Church and Community Fund
21. Social Enterprise Training - FREE
22. Lottery Consultation - school sport
23. Henry Smith's Charity
24. National Churches Trust
25. Co-op Community Fund
26. Pearson's Holiday Fund
27. Drinkaware
28. Landfill Communities Fund - Warwickshire

Creative Leadership Seminar, Monday 6.September 2010

Amazing Collaboration Penn Hall Wolverhampton Art Gallery Private View Invite

Featured in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/gallery/2010/jul/15/unlocked-photography-project

Researcher in Residence in Schools

Engaging tomorrow's talent today Researchers in Residence (RinR), funded by RCUK with support from the Wellcome Trust, brings together researchers, young people and teachers via exciting and innovative placements in secondary schools across the UK. RinR enriches the classroom experience, engages young people with real-life research and gives researchers the opportunity to develop new skills. RinR benefits everyone involved. Open to all secondary schools in the UK. Open to all PhD and post doctoral researchers funded directly or indirectly by one of the seven UK Research Councils or the Wellcome Trust. Got a question? Call us on 0845 365 7470 http://www.researchersinresidence.ac.uk/cms/

Artist’s Studio Spaces

 Eastside Studio, open plan workshop in Digbeth, Birmingham (near the ‘Custard Factory’), shared by 10 artists, various sized partitioned spaces

Suitable for painters and sculptors

Priced @ £27 - £31 per week

(One shared space available @ £15 per week)

For further details contact:

Michael Scheuermann

T: 07752 643660

email: contact@michaelscheuermann.com