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  • admin 1:55 pm on March 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Owl Project present FLOW at AV Festival 10 

    The north east winners of Artists taking the lead, one of the major projects for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, will introduce their winning project FLOW this weekend as part of AV Festival 10.

    The north east winners of Artists taking the lead, one of the major projects for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, will introduce their winning project FLOW this weekend as part of AV Festival 10.

    FLOW, an environmentally sustainable floating waterwheel for the River Tyne, which responds to changes in the river, including temperature, speed and salinity, will be introduced at the Tyneside Cinema on Saturday 13 March from 10.30-11.30am by Simon Blackmore from artists’ collective, Owl Project and Nicky Kirk from project partners Amenity Space.

    The launch of FLOW is part of AV Festival 10, the north east based international festival of electronic arts. Ten days of visual art, music and moving image are inspired by the theme of energy and its power to transform, renew and destroy. The festival includes 15 world premieres, 24 exhibitions, 20 performances, 10 screenings, three symposia and a special Festival café; by over 100 artists working with live electricity, blocks of dry ice, carillon bells, underwater sound, recycled film footage and much more.

    Owl Project and Ed Carter were selected as the north east winner of a £500,000 commission for Artists taking the lead, one of 12 commissions that will be realised across the UK over the next three years, each inspired by their location and celebrating the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

    The talk will take place on Saturday 13 March, 10.30-11.30am at the Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle. The talk is free, but booking is required at http://www.avfestival.co.uk

     

  • admin 1:55 pm on March 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Information Digest 

    News about the Information Digest from Arts Council England, North West

    We are sorry to let you know that the February Information Digest was the final issue.

    We’ve really enjoyed producing the Digest and hope you have found useful opportunities through it. We have made lots of recent improvements to the Arts Jobs and News website and this is now the best way to find out about opportunities for artists and arts organisations. You can use it both as a source of information and as a way to share information about your projects http://www.artsjobs.org.uk

    To stay in touch with news from Arts Council England please sign up to our enewsletter


     

     

     

  • admin 8:44 am on March 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Towner nominated for Art Fund Prize 

    Towner in Eastbourne is one of eleven organisations nominated for the £100,000 Art Fund Prize, the UK’s largest single arts prize.

    Towner in Eastbourne is one of eleven organisations nominated for the £100,000 Art Fund Prize, the UK’s largest single arts prize.

    Towner, the contemporary art museum in the South East, is the £8.6 million new home of Eastbourne’s Towner Art Gallery which opened to the public in April 2009.

     

    The new building has created a new opportunity to present the museum’s bold vision by showing its award-winning community outreach work alongside new commissions from internationally renowned artists. A fresh, new home has also allowed the Towner collection to flourish and be seen by more people across the region and beyond.  

     

    Arts Council England, South East has invested £2million into the new building. As one of our regularly funded organisations we are also providing £185,000 per year during the current funding period which runs to 2011.

     

    Towner has already made a significant artistic contribution to Eastbourne, the south east and to England as a whole. 

    The gallery was funded through a range of partnerships funders, including Arts Council England, South East, Eastbourne Borough Council, SEEDA, the Heritage Lottery Fund and The New Towner Trust.

     

    Show your support for Towner in the south east. Vote here: http://www.artfundprize.org.uk

    The Art Fund Prize, which has been sponsored by the UK’s leading independent art charity, The Art Fund, for three years, aims to increase public appreciation and enjoyment of the UK’s museums and galleries. The nominations have been selected by a panel of Judges chaired by broadcaster Kirsty Young.

     

    The other nominations are:

     

    ·     The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    ·     Blists Hill Victorian Town, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust

    ·     Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle

    ·     Hampton Court Palace, Surrey, for Henry VIII: heads and hearts

    ·     The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry

    ·     The Leach Pottery, St Ives

    ·     The National Army Museum, London, for Conflicts of Interest

    ·     The Natural History Museum, London, for the Darwin Centre

    ·     The Royal Institution of Great Britain, for Science in the Making

    ·     The Ulster Museum, Belfast

     

     

  • admin 8:44 am on March 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Theatre Network Call for Yorkshire Partners 

    Sustained Theatre – a network of entrepreneurial Black, Asian and minority ethnic artists has called for innovative partnership proposals from Yorkshire for a new capital project.

    Sustained Theatre – a network of entrepreneurial Black, Asian and minority ethnic artists has called for innovative partnership proposals from Yorkshire for a new capital project.

    Sustained Theatre is an Arts Council funded initiative that arose out of Baroness Lola Young’s ‘Whose Theatre?’ report It makes a number of recommendations to ensure the further development and long-term success of Black, Asian and minority ethnic theatre.

    The artists are looking for partners around the country to create a network of spaces that enables the development of work by Black, Asian and minority ethnic artists.

    The ‘Making Spaces’ project is one of Sustained Theatre’s five key work streams and is intended to address the need to create access to spaces for the Sector to develop work.

    George Matheson, Yorkshire representative of Sustained Theatre, welcomes the move, ‘The partnership call is a fantastic opportunity to provide creative space across Yorkshire for our members to develop as artists. The spaces we choose might be arts based already but they could equally be from the education, voluntary or commercial sectors. The possibilities are endless. Our driving force is simply to make sure that all of our members have the opportunity to access first class, fit for purpose facilities and resources.’

    Sustained Theatre has issued a Call for Partners to assemble a national network of spaces for the Sector. Download the proposal and read more about it here

    The deadline for responses is 29 March.

     

     

     

  • admin 3:42 am on March 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    New awards for northern talent 

    The Civic in Barnsley is hosting a new, annual northern art and design award – Northern Futures.

    Northern Futures recognises and rewards the best emerging talent, age 21-40, from the North of England, and will showcase prize winners and runners up at the Northern Futures Award Exhibition at The Civic from 28 July to 3 September 2010.

    The judging panels for this innovative award will include Yorkshire Sculpture Park, British Fashion Council, BFI Southbank and the Baltic Gallery. For the inaugural year there are four entry categories: Fine art, Fashion, Film and 3D Design.

    The North of England has produced some of the most innovative and respected creative individuals the world has seen. Artists and innovators which include Henry Moore, Dame Vivienne Westwood, Damien Hirst, Mike Leigh, Danny Boyle, David Hockney and Peter Saville, illustrate the wealth of talent that the North produces.

    Art and culture are integral to the renaissance of the North. Northern Futures celebrates the future talent emerging from the region and aims to cement the North as a hotbed of new creativity and showcase its talent to the world. 

    Chief Executive of The Civic, Fergus Justice-Mills, commented: ‘Northern Futures offers a great chance to see some of the best emerging talent in this country, it’s fantastic that this is happening in Barnsley. The combination of art, film, fashion and design will appeal to audiences of all ages from the region, nationally and internationally.’

    Director of Northern Futures, Patrick Murphy, commented: ‘One of the main reasons for the creation of the Northern Futures Awards was to celebrate and acknowledge creativity in the North of England, a region that has already given the UK and the world some of its leading artists, designers and filmmakers. The Civic is a fantastic multi million pound arts venue and a great home for Northern Futures.’ 

    Entrants can visit http://www.northernfutures.co.uk to take part in the award. 

     

  • admin 3:42 am on March 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Latest Grants for the arts awards – February 2010 

    In February we have awarded £633,770 to artists and arts organisations across London thrugh our Grants for the arts programme.

    The Usurp Art Collective is opening a new art gallery and studios in Harrow, with the first exhibition running from 12 February until 31 March 2010. The space, a former butcher’s shop and Fovea Gallery on Vaughan Road (West Harrow), closed in 2007 but has reopened as the Usurp Art Gallery for a two year programme funded by Arts Council England – Usurp were awarded £47,720 through our Grants for the arts scheme towards this project ad this will be the only gallery of its kind in the borough. To fid out more visit our virtual press office

    In February we have awarded £633,770 to artists and arts organisations across London through our Grants for the arts programme.

    The Red Room has been awarded £84,514 for multi-platform theatre productions in a specially built space in Southwark. The structure will be built from sustainable materials donated by the public, and will host an exhibition exploring sustainability and climate change.

    Book Slam, an award winning literary event that takes place at the Tabernacle every month, has been awarded £22,000 to establish a new night in East London. These events will focus on new, emerging and experimental literary talent, as well as develop new audiences for live literature in London.

    The Nash Concert Society has been awarded £9,375 for a weekend of events in memory of the victims of Theresienstadt – one of Nazi Germany’s brutal propaganda lies. The programme will feature talks from survivors, exhibitions as well as work by composers whose lives were cut short by the Holocaust.

    For a full list of Grants for the arts awards in February 2009, please download the PDF document on the top right, or download previous months

     

  • admin 3:42 am on March 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Olympic connections 

    On 14 March, A New Direction will be taking a group of students from Stoke Newington School to Vancouver to document and report on the Paralympic Winter Games.

    On 14 March, A New Direction will be taking a group of students from Stoke Newington School to Vancouver to document and report on the Paralympic Winter Games.

    The six students will develop the skills and confidence to film, blog and document the experience via a range of social media platforms. They will explore what it is like to be a young person in an Olympic city, attending a range of sporting and cultural events, and interviewing Paralympic athletes and young people from Vancouver.

    One of the lucky six, Jake, said: ‘I’m really looking forward to the trip because I think it’s going to be really interesting learning how big events like the Paralympics get reported. I am always using the internet so I’m looking forward to actually contributing in our own way using Twitter, blogging, video and photography to show people what’s going on at the Paralympics from our perspective.’

    Another student, Kimberley, added: ‘When I go to Vancouver, I’d really like to find out more about the culture there and how they incorporate and use it when hosting the Paralympics. This could be interesting to report when we get back as we could embrace all things quintessentially British to make the 2012 games our own.’

    The group’s experiences will be fed directly to a dedicated microsite – you can follow their progress between 14-21 March.

    A New Direction is the strategic body for connecting young Londoners with the city’s creative and cultural energy. They design and run creative programmes in partnership with schools, local authorities and businesses, and collaborate with London’s leading arts organisations to provide a platform for young people to share their creative work and gain critical exposure.

    Olympic themes run through their upcoming Enquiry Schools programme, launching this Autumn. For further details, visit the website

     

  • admin 10:39 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink  

    Our Visual Arts team recommends 

    Each month we see as much as possible of the work produced by the hundreds of artists, organisations and projects that we fund across the capital. This month it’s the turn of our Visual Arts Team to pick their highlights.

    Each month we see as much as possible of the work produced by the hundreds of artists, organisations and projects that we fund across the capital. This month it’s the turn of our Visual Arts Team to pick their highlights.

    Michael Landy : Art Bin – South London Gallery
    ‘Artist Michael Landy, who once destroyed all his possessions in an act of creative destruction, recently transformed the South London Gallery into a giant bin for art. A fascinating exhibition which created a ‘monument to creative failure’, Landy invited members of the public to bring their own artistic failures along to the gallery, where their value was assessed. Gary Hume, Julian Opie, Gillian Wearing and the Arts Council’s very own Julie Lomax were amongst the contributors.’
    Ross Head, administrator

    Emily Wardell : Game Keepers Without Game – Showroom gallery
    ‘The thing you need to know: It’s a feature-length artist’s film, exhibited in a gallery. Emily Wardell has been one of the consistently strongest young artist film-makers in the country and Showroom Gallery’s commitment to exhibiting high-quality work remains unabated. Moving, powerful and at times violent, it is a hugely ambitious piece made to the highest standard.’
    Ajay RS Hothi, officer
     
    Deutsche Borse Photography Prize – The Photographers’ Gallery
    ‘Capturing the essence and dynamics of photography as a medium, this year’s contenders offer a magnificent selection of rich and interesting work, from children in fancy dress to the dark images of Maze prison in repetition. Anna Fox, Zoe Leonard, Donovan Wylie and Sophie Ristelheuber illustrate variety and ambition in the latest international photography. See for yourself who you think should be the winner of the Prize.’
    Wing-Sie Chan, administrator
     
    Florian Hecker – Chisenhale Gallery
    ‘Florian Hecker’s new 5-channel sound installation is well worth a visit. The work challenges the viewer’s perception of a gallery exhibition by creating a virtually empty space which disrupts the special perception through disorienting acoustic effects.’
    Sabine Unamun, officer

     

  • admin 7:27 am on March 5, 2010 Permalink  

    Tender for the evaluation of Be Creative Be Well 

    Be Creative Be Well is the arts and creativity strand of Well London – a health and wellbeing programme happening in 20 of London’s most deprived communities.

    Be Creative Be Well is the arts and creativity strand of Well London – a health and wellbeing programme happening in 20 of London’s most deprived communities.

    Arts Council England has commissioned a broad range of creative projects of various sizes and scales, which can contribute towards improving wellbeing. We now wish to appoint an evaluator to help us document the programme and produce a final report by February 2011.

    To apply, please see the attached brief (in the right hand panel, under ‘Related Files’).

    Total budget: £16,000

    Application deadline: 19 March 2010

     

  • admin 7:27 am on March 5, 2010 Permalink  

    Audiences Yorkshire’s Annual Conference and CEO Symposium, 25 March, Barnsley 

    Audiences Yorkshire’s Annual Conference, The Magic of Multi Channel Marketing, will be held on Thursday 25 March, 9.45-5pm at the Civic, Barnsley.

    This year’s Audiences Yorkshire conference will explore The Magic of Multi-Channel Marketing. Delegates will be able to discuss, debate and explore the merging lines between traditional and digital approaches in communicating with their audience.

    Speakers include Andrew Keen, commentator and renowned critic of Web 2.0 and social media, and William Shaw, web editor from the RSA Arts and Ecology Centre.

    Book your place at the conference now

    The CEO Symposium, On Not Being Born Digital, runs in conjunction with the conference. You will hear from keynote presenters and be given the opportunity to discuss the topics in more detail.

    Book your place at the symposium now

    Conference fee:
    £150+VAT (Booking deadline – Friday 19 March 2010)                  

    For more information please contact Events and Professional Development Coordinator, Becky Kasumba on 0113 320 0160

    Follow the conference on twitter for the latest information: @AYConference

     

     

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