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Performing Arts
Extant present Forum 4US
Forum theatre for young visually impaired people
Are you aged between 18–30 and visually impaired? Are you interested in drama, want to develop new skills? Would you like to be part of an interactive project and share your work with an invited audience who will be encouraged to join in? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
Who are EXTANT and what is Forum Theatre?
Extant is Britain’s only professional performing arts company of visually impaired people. We are setting up a drama project based on Forum Theatre, which is about giving a voice to those not usually given a voice. It aims to encourage interaction and discussion between audience and actors about issues relevant to the participants. Originating in Brazil, this form of theatre has been successfully used to empower people on the streets as well as in parliament.
What will you get?
• The opportunity to receive training in Forum Theatre techniques from a professional director and workshop leader
• The opportunity to work with a professional writer who will help you to put your ideas into short scenes
• The opportunity to share your work in a showcase presentation to an invited audience who will be encouraged to join in
• The opportunity to meet with other young visually impaired adults, sharing the experience in a friendly atmosphere
You will need to be available
on Saturdays during April and May 2012 and Friday 25 May (additional rehearsal days may be added). Workshops are likely to take place at a venue in Waterloo.
EXTANT will provide
• Access support workers to help where necessary
• Assistance with travel and refreshment costs
This project will be documented and broadcast on Aculco internet radio. Also we aim to develop a Forum theatre team from this project that will enjoy further exciting opportunities once this project ends.
EXTANT is working with Aculco Radio and the Royal London Society for the Blind to put this project together.
This project has been funded by the British Council’s Youth in Action programme.
For more information please contact Liz Porter email Liz@extant.org.uk Tel/text 07824 344828 or Emily at the Extant office on 0207 820 3737 emily@extant.org.uk
www.extant.org.uk
Writing
Call for submissions for The Live Art Almanac Volume 3
The Live Art Almanac Volume 3 is an international publication of writing on and around Live Art.
The publication will draw together all kinds of writing about and around Live Art, and aims to be both a useful resource and a great read for artists, writers, students and others interested in the field of interdisciplinary, performance-based art.
Live Art Development Agency is looking for submissions and recommendations for The Live Art Almanac Volume 3 - from more traditional forms such as journal essays, newspaper reviews, transcribed interviews, symposium papers, public lectures or book chapters, to digital forms such as blog entries, Facebook pages and Twitter conversations, to even less conventional forms of “publishing” such as emails, diary entries, and letters.
LADA want to widen the international framework futher to reflect the dynamic, international contexts in which Live Art is happening and represent a broader range of writings from around the world. To help us do this we also have the additional support of our international Associates Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong), ArteEast (New York/Middle East) and Ashkal Alwan (Beirut).
If you read something interesting between January 2010 to December 2011, then LADA want to know about it.
Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2012
http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/projects/publications/almanac_3_call_2011.html
Visual Arts
Spark 2012: Arts Commissions for 2012
FUSE Medway Festival is a free, outdoor arts festival for the people of Medway and beyond.
The festival draws on the best talent Medway has to offer and gives the area a link to the newest and most innovative arts from the rest of the UK and Europe. For one weekend in June, Medway’s public spaces are transformed, creating exciting, unexpected happenings and spectacular events.
FUSE is committed to the development of new work and to supporting local artists. It is offering three Local Arts Commissions for 2012: one commission of up to £5,000 and two commissions of up to £2,500.
The Spark commissions provide an opportunity to explore new ways of working and to develop your practice. We have tried to keep the criteria as simple as possible to allow greater opportunities for creativity.
The criteria are as follows:
• Applicants must be based in Medway.
• Projects must take place in Medway.
• Projects must be specifically designed for the outdoors.
• Applications are welcomed from any art form.
• Projects must have an element of community engagement, which can be delivered in the week prior to the main festival (11-15 June).
• Projects must be accessible and innovative.
• The work must be delivered within budget.
• The finished performance / installation must take place between 15 – 17 June.
• Projects that link with the river theme will be given particular attention.
The full commissioning brief can be requested on fuse@medway.gov.uk, stating Spark 2012 in the subject line. Applications can be submitted by e-mail to fuse@medway.gov.uk or by post to Fuse Medway Festival, The Brook Theatre, Old Town Hall, Chatham, Kent ME4 4SE.
The deadlines for submissions is 12 noon on Monday 23 January 2012.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to interview on Monday 6 February 2012.
http://fusefestival.org.uk/
Outside In Surgery Days
Pallant House Gallery presents Outside In: 2012, a unique open-entry arts prize for Outsider and marginalised artists.
Submissions remain open until 20 July 2012. Selected works will be showcased in a major exhibition at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex from 27 Oct 2012 – 3 Feb 2013.
Surgery Days are coming to a range of venues in the South East providing an opportunity to support artists to get their work online who may not have the skills or facilities to do so otherwise. The Outside In website allows artists to have a gallery where their work is shown to the public. This allows artists to have an online presence, creating ownership and access for the artist. We are also providing a sense of community for artists who may otherwise feel isolated and allowing artists to gain new skills.
The Outside In team will help you photograph and upload your artwork, write your artist statement and sign you up for your online gallery. Places are limited. Please bring a helper with you if required
12/01/2012
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
16/01/2012
Royal Academy of Arts, London
20/01/2012
Cooltan Arts, London
03/02/2012
Hastings Gallery
16/02/2012
Arts and Minds, Cambridge
22/02/2012
Artventure Trust Ltd, Guildford
24/02/2012
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
29/02/2012
Creative Response, Farnham
08/03/2012
Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
14/03/2012
MK Gallery Project Space, Milton Keynes
26/03/2012
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
04/05/2012
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
For more information go to www.outsidein.org.uk/outside-in-events?offset=0
Art Competition - for Heavy Load's Wild Things compilation project
Heavy Load are looking for an image to use to launch the next Wild Things compilation with their online ‘virtual world music festival’.
The image will be used on their website to celebrate the release of the next Wild Things compilation which will feature music made by people with learning disabilities from around the world.
The next release is on the theme of the Olympics so the image should reflect the aims of the Olympic movement in some way. BUT for legal reasons you are not allowed to use any Olympic images (rings, torches, 2012, logos etc).
The competition is open to anyone with a learning disability. The winning image will be used on the Stay Up Late website and the publicity leaflets about the release.
The deadline is 31st January 2012
For more information go to http://stayuplate.org/wordpress/?p=1007
Funding
Straid Collection Awards
The annual Straid Collection Awards are open for submissions of full poetry collections.
Submissions are invited from poets writing in English anywhere in the world. Up to three full length collections may be chosen for publication and the successful authors will have a launch event at the Derwent Poetry Festival, along with additional support in successfully publishing their work.
Deadline: Tue 28 February 2012
Further information is available
www.templarpoetry.co.uk/awards.html
Catalyst Arts and Catalyst Endowment schemes
Catalyst is the new £100m culture sector wide private giving investment programme aimed at helping cultural organisations diversify their income streams and access more funding from private sources.
The new programme is made up of investment from Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
Catalyst offers organisations the opportunity to move their fundraising and development expertise on to the next level, whatever their current starting point. Through all strands of the Catalyst initiative, we aim to attract creative and innovative applications that will test a range of fundraising approaches, from bottom-up audience development and other fundraising techniques, to the development of an endowment fund.
The deadline for applications for these schemes is 16 January and 31 January 2012. Decisions will be announced at the end of March.
www.catalyst-artsandheritage.org.uk/
Funding Central
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