Vacant Studio at Manchester Craft and Design Centre
Vacant Studio in the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter
Manchester Craft and Design Centre have a studio vacancy in Manchester City Centre. Are you a professional craftsperson or designer looking for city-centre studio space to work and sell from? MCDC provides a sympathetic working environment, encouraging the development of new businesses and supporting the growth of established enterprises. We also welcome joint applications from more than one artist.
If you have creative flair plus strong business planning and ambition the go to www.craftanddesign.com/studios to download an application form to be considered for studio 21 or call 0161 832 4274 for more information
Avaliable for hire – circus skills, hoop dance and performance
Frenchy is available for hire for events and workshops – she can offer hula hoop and poi classes and workshops and fire and LED performance that can include stilt walking – with over 15 years experience working with challenging young people she has excellent experience…please visit her website for more info – www.dreadsnhoops.com or contact her on 07960 165 272 Hoop workshop with rainbows
Children & the Arts partner applications now open
The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts is inviting arts organisations across the UK to apply to become arts partners for their flagship program ‘Start’.
Through ‘Start’, Children & the Arts provides funding and practical support to enable arts organisations across the UK to form partnerships with primary and secondary schools in their local area.
‘Start’ allows children who have little or no experience of the UK’s rich culture, children who may never have been to a play, heard a live piece of classical music or even visited their local art gallery to experience the very best of the UK’s glorious arts heritage.
Children & the Arts are seeking to work with between 6 & 10 partners for the 20010/11 academic year who can deliver projects that:
- are high quality
- target children who are unlikely to have visited venues before
- accessible for the audience targeted
- offer opportunities to create learning and skills development
- can be sustained over a period of time
- build upon an organisation’s current education programme
Deadline for applications is 29 Jan ‘10.
For more information visit www.childrenandarts.org.uk/arts-community/start-how-you-can-get-involved
More time to nominate a young person for the CHANGEit awards!
CHANGEit recognises, supports, rewards & inspires 11-18 year olds who want to make a difference in their communities.
If you know a young person who deserves to be recognised for their hard work, innovative ideas or creativity – you still have time!
The closing date for nominations has been extended to 22 Dec ‘09.
This is a tremendous opportunity to boost young people’s confidence and inspire more young campaigners. As well as cash prizes, all finalists benefit from training workshops to help further their campaign ideas and build practical skills.
For more info & to nominate a young person visit http://www.changeit.org.uk
Grimm Tales
The Library Theatre Company presents:
GRIMM TALES
Suitable for young people aged 6 upwards, their teachers, friends and families.
Children – £9
School parties of 10+ – £8.75
Adults – £16 (£14 concessions, not Saturday evening)
Family tickets – (2 adults, 2 children) £45
Visit the Library Theatre Company website to book tickets
On until 23 Jan 2010
The Brothers Grimm’s dark and spooky stories have always captivated children, with their enticing mix of mystery, enchantment, and humour.
Rachel O’Riordan directs this atmospheric adaptation by Carol Ann Duffy, the recently appointed Poet Laureate, which promises to provide a feast of first-rate physical, musical and mythical theatre. Classic stories such as Hansel and Gretel you may know; but there are several you may not!
COMPETITION: Young Environmental Photographer of the Year
The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management’s Environmental Photographer of the Year is one of the fastest growing photographic competitions in the world, with 2,500 entries from photographers in over 60 countries in 2009. EPOTY is open to all professional and amateur international photographers of any ages and encourages entries that are contemporary, creative, experimental, resonant, original and beautiful.
CIWEM’s Young Environmental Photographer of the Year promotes the talents of anyone under the age of 21, whilst the remaining categories are open to photographers of all ages.
The other categories are Changing Climates, The Natural World, Quality of Life, Innovation in the Environment, The Underwater World, and A View From the Western World.
CIWEM’s Young Environmental Photographer of the Year is divided into 2 groups, one open to anyone under the age of 16 and the other open to those aged between 16 and 21. The youngest entry in 2009 came from a 9-year-old boy!
Photographers are encouraged to highlight issues important to their generation, explore their place in society or celebrate people, places and animals that they value. This competition actively encourages entries from beginners as well as photography students.
Winners receive cash prizes, and all winning and highly commended entries are displayed in the international Environmental Photographer of the Year exhibitions.
This year, particular recognition was given to CIWEM’s Young Environmental Photographer of the Year 2009 by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown who selected Jordan Mary, 19, to take Number 10’s official Christmas card.
Entry details can be found at www.ciwem.org/arts/photographer. The competition is open until 5pm on 31 July 2010.
Applications now open for the 2010 International Youth Arts Festival
After a successful launch year in 2009 the International Youth Arts Festival will be back in July 2010 with an even bigger programme showcasing the highest quality youth arts. This year’s programme will showcase the very best in youth theatre, dance, music, visual arts, circus, mixed media, carnival, film and a variety of other art forms from around the world.
The festival is created and produced by young people, giving young people opportunities not only as performers, but as event managers, producers, creators and innovators.
Applications are open to any art form involving young people (0 to 26 years old). These may involve young people as performers, creators and artists or as producers and event managers. IYAF is also happy to receive applications for adult work which is specifically targeted at young people.
Guidelines and application forms are available at www.iyafestival.org.uk
Deadlines for applications are 5.00pm, 31st January 2010
Start Programme now open for applications
The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts is inviting UK arts organisations to apply to be involved in their Start Programme.
Start introduces children to a local cultural venue to experience the very best of the arts. Through Start, pupils begin to develop a lasting relationship with that venue and art form.
Children & the Arts is actively seeking passionate and committed partner organisations to work with us to develop and deliver Start for Primary and Secondary school pupils in their local area.
We are looking to recruit 6-10 new partners for the 2010/11 academic year.
Our aim, and that of our partners, is that pupils will develop the confidence and enthusiasm to continue their engagement with their local cultural venue beyond the life of the project.
Applications are welcome from all parts of the UK
The deadline for Stage One applications is Friday 29th January, 2009.
Please read the application guidelines for arts partners before applying.
You can download the Stage One Application form by visiting: www.childrenandarts.org.uk
Skills for the Future programme open for business
The Heritage Lottery Fund’s (HLF) Skills for the Future programme is now open.
This new £5million grant programme will deliver up to 1,000 paid training opportunities for people across the UK seeking a career in heritage.
It will not only support traditional conservation training but also a wide variety of skills needed to engage people with heritage and utilise new media and technology.
Skills for the Future will help equip organisations to engage with the widest possible range of people and inspire them to get involved with heritage. Its focus is on vocational learning. It will train people in how to best work with families, schools, young people and communities and teach the skills needed to use new technology to bring heritage sites and collections alive for new audiences.
Skills for the Future will also help meet the skills gaps identified by heritage conservation bodies. Organisations will be able to apply for funding – from £100,000 to £1million – for a number of traineeships over a period of up to five years with an emphasis on high-quality work-based training.
There’s only one opportunity to apply and the closing date is 19 March 2010 with awards being made in May 2010.
Skills for the Future is complementary to HLF’s Training Bursary Programme which is already delivering a wide range of skills training – including blacksmithing, botanic gardening, stone masonry, gold leafing and thatching.
HLF recently announced that it was helping seven projects under the programme with an additional £2.85m investment for placements that will provide accredited work-based training with highly-skilled crafts people and environmental specialists.
Find out how to apply by visiting http://www.hlf.org.uk/news/Pages/SkillsfortheFutureprogramme.aspx.
Young Brits at Art 2010: Turning young people’s vision into art
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is re-launching its Young Brits at Art awards, inviting 11 to 19 year olds from all walks of life to express their vision of this year’s theme: ‘What would the world look like if we lived without prejudice?‘.
This academic year, Young Brits at Art offers new resources for educators which complement and reinforce learning under the National Curriculum in England and Wales and the Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland. The resources aim to model good practice in facilitating young people’s creative work exploring equality and human rights. They are also designed to help educators and group leaders organise activities to support young people’s entries to the Young Brits at Art awards.
The awards can benefit young people in schools, youth clubs, Connexions services, pupil referral units, faith groups, libraries, leisure centres and other local council facilities. Charities and museums can use the awards as part of their existing youth programmes. Individual young people can also develop their own artwork and enter independently.
After the success of the first year of the awards in 2009, Young Brits at Art 2010 includes new categories such as photography, sculpture and motion animation, as well as its previous sections for painting and drawings. Its goal is to get more schools and youth centres involved by providing new and innovative resources that support the teaching of arts and citizenship as well as ongoing work with young people outside the school system. It will also host 45 artist-led workshops to support those taking part, with a particular emphasis on young people from disabled, hard to reach and vulnerable backgrounds.
For more information and to sign up to the awards, visit
www.equalityhumanrights.com/fairer-britain/youth-projects/young-brits-at-art
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