MYAN e-Newsletter August 2009

News

New MYAN website

Events & projects

Call for expressions of interest, Contacting the World
Call for expressions of interest, KINOFILM
UK Young Creative Entrepreneur awards 2009-2010 (UKYCE)

Funding & other opportunities

Media Box funding available
Learning Launchpad
First Light Movies
BBC Children in Need
Wellcome Trust ‘Engaging Science’ Arts award
Freelance drama facilitators needed
Activity development workers, Oldham (19 posts)

Conferences & meetings

Creativity: Luxury or Lifeline?

Training

Using the arts to develop leadership, aspiration and potential

News

New MYAN website
The new MYAN website went live in July 2009 and is being updated regularly with new events and news. We would also like to encourage artists and arts organisations involved in or running activities for young people to register.

If you are a Manchester-based arts organisation or are an artist that works with young people, you can register on the website. Once registered, if you’re an artist, you can post:

information about your arts practice (you can upload a copy of your CV and/or artist statement)
examples of your work (you can easily upload photos, audio clips and video clips)
a link to your own website and/or Facebook/MySpace/Twitter etc
your contact details for commissioners to get in touch with the offer of work!

If you’re an organisation, you can post:

information about your organisation and the kind of work you do
information about upcoming events and ones you’ve hosted in the past (you can easily upload photos, flyers, audio clips and video clips)
a link to your own website and/or Facebook/MySpace/Twitter etc
your contact details

If you’d like to find out more, email us at info@manchesteryoutharts.org.uk

Events & projects

Call for expressions of interest, Contacting the World
Contacting the World 2010 seeks expressions of interest from young performance companies to participate in a pioneering, intercultural project.

Contacting the World is a biennial international performance project developed by Contact in Manchester, one of the UK’s leading organisations creating work by and for young people. It aims to increase the skills, understanding and experience of young people from around the world in a unique theatre project facilitated by the internet. Twelve theatre companies from Europe and overseas will be twinned to work collaboratively over a seven month period, devising twelve new productions which will be premiered together in the UK July 2010. This is a unique opportunity to take part in an extraordinary project that focuses on exchange and genuine creative collaboration.

Contacting the World is due to take place from January to July 2010 subject to funding. Applications to participate are currently being invited from young theatre makers, emerging artists, youth theatres and other organisations creating theatre with young people.

You’ll need to meet the following eligibility criteria as part of the application process:

Participants of companies must be aged between 15 & 25 years of age
Be available to collaborate on the project from January-July 2010
Be creating work that is groundbreaking. You must be able to demonstrate how your work is innovative. This can be through your artistic product, how you are organised, how you recruit and work with other young people or your aims in creating performance work
Provide at least one representative from the company to take part in an exchange visit with an international partner
Availability to perform and attend a week long event in July 2010
Ability to fund own production costs and travel costs to Manchester
Access for participants to the internet

If you’re interested in finding out more about taking part and receiving an application form, please register interest by contacting the Project Administrator at aaroncunningham@contact-theatre.org

Deadline for applications: Sunday 6 September 2009.

Alternatively you can download an application form from the website at http://www.contactingtheworld.org

Call for expressions of interest, KINOFILM
Kinofilm announces the call for entries to its new European Short Film Festival in 2010.

The 11th edition of the Festival will take place in Manchester from 23-28 February 2010, as a European Short Film Festival and invites submissions from all over Europe including former Eastern European and Baltic States.

Submissions are open until 10 September. To submit a film please email the Festival for the festival rules, regulations and procedures and application form: info@kinofilm.org.ukTo see more details view the separate post in the news section.

UK Young Creative Entrepreneur awards 2009-2010 (UKYCE)
On 27 July, Secretary of State for Culture Rt Hon Ben Bradshaw MP launched eight UKYCE awards.

These awards celebrate the role of young entrepreneurs in creating a sustainable and dynamic creative economy. The awards are open to individuals aged 25-35 with at least three years industry experience.

Applications are accepted from those who aren’t self-employed as long as they can demonstrate their entrepreneurialism within their organisation and from those working in the social enterprise and not-for-profit sector.

Following is a brief definition of each of the awards and the market focus country that 6 finalists from each award will visit to meet industry leaders and their peers.

Design (UKYDE 09) – architecture, product and furniture design, exhibitions, events and consultants. The market focus tour is to Turkey in November. Applications close 24 August. www.creativeconomy.org.uk/ukyde09
Communications (UKYXE 09) – graphic design, print & broadcast media, PR, advertising, branding and photography. The market focus tour is to India in November. Applications close 7 September. www.creativeconomy.org.uk/ukyxe09
Interactive (UKYIE 09) – digital and interactive multimedia, leisure software publishers, developers and marketing specialists; entertainment developers for the internet, digital television, radio and mobile phones, internet and web design and experimental media. The market focus tour is to India in November. Applications close 7 September www.creativeconomy.org.uk/ukyie09
Visual Arts (UKYVAE 09 ) – owners, curators, directors, managers and other professionals working in both commercial and public galleries; auction houses and other forms of distribution or agency; developers of visual arts publishing (magazines, books etc), communications or websites all within the visual arts sector. The market focus tour is to India in December. Applications close on 21 September. www.creativeconomy.org.uk/ukyvae09
Screen (UKYSE 09) – feature film, documentary, shorts, television production, and animation – development, production, post-production, distribution and/or sales, exhibition, marketing, journalism, PR. The market focus tour is to Mexico in November. Applications close on 21 September. www.creativeconomy.org.uk/ukyse09
Music (UKYME 10) – record companies (including A&R) production, recording or engineering, licensing and distribution, venue and/or festival programming and management, artist management or agents music broadcasting, journalism and publishing, retail and marketing. The market focus tour is to China in February. Applications close on 30 November www.creativeconomy.org.uk/ukyme10
Fashion (UKYFE 10) – this includes textiles, accessories, perfume design, shows, exhibitions, retail, research, marketing, fashion PR and journalism. The market focus tour is to Indonesia in March/April. Applications close on 30 November. www.creativeconomy.org.uk/ukyfe10
Publishing (UKYPE 10) – publishing, e-publishing, agents, literary festivals, retailing (including e-tailing). The market focus tour is to South Africa in February. Applications close on 30 November. www.creativeconomy.org.uk/ukype10

For more information please visit www.creativeconomy.org.uk

Conferences & meetings

Creativity: Luxury or Lifeline?
Survive and Thrive in a changing Educational Landscape
Wednesday 30 September 2009
National Media Museum, Bradford

There’s still time to book your place on the conference at the National Media Museum, Bradford. The programme of provocative key note speeches and targeted seminars and workshops interrogates 3 key themes:

creativity at the centre of learning for young people
partnership at the centre of practice
enquiry at the centre of professional learning

For more information and speaker biographies visit the CapeUK website – www.capeuk.org/news/capeuk_conference.html

Funding & other opportunities

Mediabox Funding Now Available
Mediabox funds media projects that use print, television, film, radio, digital, or online media projects in order to enable young people aged 13-19 to express their ideas and views on issues that matter to them.

Mediabox offers a variety of different grants ranging from £1,000 to £40,000.

Mini Mediabox and Mix Mediabox – Now open

Mid Mediabox – Open for applications on 11 September 2009

Big Mediabox – Open for applications on 25 November 2009

For more information about Mediabox go to www.media-box.co.uk
For pre-application support email lwimbok@visionandmedia.co.uk or call 0161 244 3350.

Mediabox Roadshows
26 August 2009 – Mediabox Surgery @ The Queens Hotel, Chester. email lwimbok@visionandmedia.co.uk to book your slot

3 September 2009 – Mediabox Information Day @ Radio City, Liverpool. http://mediaboxnorthwest.eventbrite.com

16 September 2009 – ‘Are You Game?’ Mediabox project exhibition and information day in association with Onteca @ Toxteth TV, Liverpool email max@onteca.com for more information

Learning Launchpad
Learning Launchpad is a fund for ambitious people who have a passion to make a difference. Their goal is to discover and support groundbreaking ideas that will raise the aspirations and release the potential of young people aged 14-25 in their transition to adulthood.

They help innovative organisations to grow or get off the ground through a combination of financial investment and tailored support. They’re looking for ideas that help young people reach beyond academic paths to success, encourage learning-by-doing and develop their non-cognitive ’soft’ skills.

The Learning Launchpad fund provides investment to organisations in their early stages of development. They offer investment at two stages:

Stage one investments
These investments of up to £30,000 are suitable for people who are starting out with a new idea.

Stage two investments
These investments of up to £100,000 are typically suitable for organisations or initiatives that are already up and running and want to grow.

If your idea delivers its social goals via a social enterprise or for-profit commercial organisational business, they’ll usually look for either a recoverable loan or an equity stake in your business, or a convertible grant that they can make back once your cash flow can sustain it.

They care about making a lasting difference and know that the opportunities to do this can take many different forms. So, if you meet their criteria, the fund is open to you, whether you’re an individual, a team or an early-stage organisation; and whether you’re a charity, a for-profit business or a social enterprise.

For application guidelines & further information visit www.learninglaunchpad.org/what-we-look-for

Next application deadlines:
Thursday 3 September 2009
Tuesday 24 November 2009
Tuesday 16 February 2010

First Light Movies
First Light Movies funds groups of young people, 5-19 years old, through three funding schemes.

There are two main production funding strands available, the Pilot and Studio awards, and they also offer support with generating those first film ideas through the What’s the Big Idea? award.

First Light Movies funds filmmaking projects throughout the UK. You can see films from your area or find out about the people First Light works with near you on our map.

N.B. They don’t fund individuals so if you are a young person who wants to make a film, you need to encourage your teacher or a leader of an after school club to apply to them.

All applications to First Light Movies are made online. The information below will help you select the best pathway for your First Light Movies grant application.

Get some inspiration for your film or script idea from other First Light Movies projects by visiting the ‘Films’ page. Why not get some inside knowledge by checking out First Light Movies’ filmmaker blogs on the Lightbox? Interested and want to find out more about filmmaking? Then visit their ‘Get Involved’ page for tips on how to get started.

The Big Idea award is funding for script development projects that team young people with script professionals. The maximum grant is £3,000 and you need to provide10% match funding.

Forthcoming dates:
Deadline 13 October 2009 – Decisions announced 24 November 2009
Deadline 19 January 2010 – Decisions announced 2 March 2010
Deadline 27 April 2010 – Decisions announced 8 June 2010

Pilot award is funding for one short film of up to 5 minutes in duration. The maximum grant is £5,000 and you need to provide 20% in-kind match funding.

Studio award is for between two & four films of up to 10 minutes in duration. The maximum grant is £30,000 and you need to provide 40% match funding. You must have a track record of filmmaking with young people.

Forthcoming dates:
Deadline 5 October 2009 – Decisions announced 5 February 2010

First Light Movies allocates £700,000 of National Lottery funding per year to its funding schemes.

First Light Movies, Unit 6 Third Floor, The Bond, 180 – 182 Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5SE. Tel: 0121 7534866 email: info@firstlightmovies.com

Guidelines and application forms can be downloaded from www.firstlightmovies.com/funding

BBC Children in Need
Children in Need gives grants for projects delivered by organisations working with disadvantaged children & young people, 18 years and under, living in the UK, Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.

Disadvantages experienced by children and young people include:

Illness, distress, abuse or neglect
Any kind of disability
Behavioural or psychological difficulties
Living in poverty or situations of deprivation

The application should focus on the children your project will work with and the differences that your project will make for them. You should clearly be able to demonstrate how your project will change the lives of the children involved for the better. Where possible, it should take into account their views and involve them in decisions that affect them.

You can contact them by email on pudsey@bbc.co.uk or through the helpdesk from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm – 020 8576 7788.

The next deadline for applications is 15 October 2009.

Please note: Applications are accepted exclusively online.

Full guidance and application forms are available on their website: www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/grants/apply.shtml

Wellcome Trust ‘Engaging Science’ Arts award
Biomedical science is part of every day life. The Wellcome Trust wants to encourage people of all ages and from all walks of life to consider, question and debate the key issues of now and the future.

Their Engaging Science grants programme offers over £3 million per year to support projects that aim to inform and inspire the public about biomedical science and its social contexts.

Their funded activities also include directly commissioned work and partnerships with other organisations to reach broader audiences and support innovative practice.

The Trust’s ‘Engaging Science’ Arts Awards support imaginative and experimental arts projects that investigate biomedical science.

The scheme aims to:

stimulate interest, excitement and debate about biomedical science through the arts
examine the social, cultural, and ethical impact of biomedical science
support formal and informal learning; encourage new ways of thinking
encourage high quality interdisciplinary practice and collaborative partnerships in arts, science and/or education practice

All art forms are covered by the programme: dance, drama, performance arts, visual arts, music, film, craft, photography, creative writing or digital media. The Trust invites applications for projects which engage adult audiences and/or young people.

For small to medium-sized projects (up to and including £30,000) upcoming deadlines are:
16 October 2009
29 January 2010

For large projects (over £30,000) the next deadline will be in January 2010 (date to be announced).

Decisions will be made approximately 6 months after the deadline.

Freelance drama facilitators needed
Bigfoot Arts Education, the UK’s largest provider of creative education workshops in primary schools, is currently recruiting for a pool of freelance drama facilitators in the North West for adhoc work in primary and secondary schools in Bolton and Liverpool. Further information regarding the type of work available and our company can be found at www.bigfoot-theatre.co.uk

The deadline for applications is Friday 4 September 2009. A selection day with be held in Bolton, on 8 September.

Bigfoot Arts Education is committed to being a safe organisation in regards to child protection and safeguarding children.

Bigfoot Arts Education has a rigorous selection process and the identity of all successful candidates will be checked thoroughly. Successful candidates will be offered freelance contracts which are conditional upon the candidate being in possession of a current CRB check and the taking up of references.

For more information, contact Wendy Ellis on wendy@bigfoot-theatre.co.uk.

Activity Development Workers, Oldham (19 posts)
Fixed Term Contract until March 2011
Ref: PCS09/0433

The purpose of the posts are to work in partnership with a group of local schools to increase levels of participation through the delivery of responsive and needs led provision for children, young people and families in the local area. The posts will deliver a range of positive activities and may have a specialism in sport, youth, music, play or arts. The posts will involve delivering within a range of school and community settings and have an emphasis on collaborative local working. The posts include working evenings and weekends.

These posts will be subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Criminal Records Bureau.

The council is conducting a job evaluation exercise which may affect the grade and salary of this post.

£16,991 – £18,937 p.a. (pro rata)
22 hours per week
Based in various schools across Oldham

You can apply online or download a job application pack at www.oldham.gov.uk, or phone 0161 770 4677 or text 07732 596009.

Please return applications to Central Recruitment, PO Box 25, Civic Centre, West Street, Oldham OL1 1UN

Closing date: 27 August 2009

Training

Using the arts to develop leadership, aspiration and potential
12 November 2009
10am-4.15pm
Cornerhouse, Manchester
£75

This course is suitable for anyone, professional or voluntary, seeking to use or develop the arts in their work with young people.

It looks to demonstrate how the arts can be used as a mechanism to develop young people’s leadership skills, aspiration and potential. It celebrates inspirational examples of young people who have excelled through engagement in youth-led arts projects, continue to achieve well and are an inspiration to both the youth and cultural sectors at large. The course also benefits from being part facilitated by young people who have taken on leadership roles within a creative setting.

For more information on the course and to book a place, please contact The Artsplan Team, on artsplan@artswork.org.uk or call 023 8063 0960.

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