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Artist Call Out: Centre Of Excellence in Creative Education
Take A Part are pleased and excited to be able share a call out for artists as part of the Centre Of Excellence in Creative Education (CECE) programme.
In early 2020 High View School, in partnership with Take A Part, were successful in application to Arts Council England to secure funds to create CECE. The project is taking place between autumn 2020 and spring 2022 and explores the models and practice that enables High View to risk-take and collaborate with artists, their community, arts organisations, and venues to;
*Deliver the curriculum in a creative way
*Achieve excellence in every level of teaching and learning
*Undertake artist in residence programmes within schools
*Run family-led art groups
*Connect with and deliver on community projects
*Support in developing community audiences for art in the city
Within CECE High View will continue to test and explore their ways of working whilst also sharing their knowledge and expertise of the creative curriculum and associated practice with two partner schools- Whitleigh Community Primary School and Salisbury Road Primary School. As part of the programme within these two partner schools CECE are pleased to offer up two commission opportunities (one per school) for artists interested in developing or exploring their practice in Creative Education. You can read about the two commissions by following this link. There's a fairly quick turnaround so if you are interested get in touch soon!
Engaging through a screen: the role art has played throughout the pandemic and its future
Our Creative Education Director Gem is speaking at this upcoming Masterclass event hosted by the Barbican Theatre. During the discussion a selection of artists and organisations that support young people in engaging with creativity will share insight into how they kept engagement with young people going during the various lockdowns, it will also discuss the future of digital work as we come out of the pandemic. Gem will be sharing what we did and how we kept connected to our communities and young people as a part of this event. You can read more or book a space here.
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Support for the sector
OPPORTUNITIES, SUPPORT AND NEWS THIS WEEK
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Artist Talk, Jody Mulvey: CAMP
CAMP are hosting an online talk with artist Jody Mulvey, an artist and facilitator based in Scotland. As founder of @sadgrads2020 she has built a community platform for UK art school graduates who had their degree shows cancelled due to COVID-19. in this talk around notions of resilience and radical care, Jody will discuss her journey since graduating; expanding on her experiences building SAD GRADS 2020 and being involved in student-led projects. At the heart of these discussions will be the importance of community and how this has helped her and her peers transition into the creative industry within the context of the ongoing pandemic. You can book a place for this talk by following this link.
Call for Artists, outdoor theatre/performance/live art: Outside The Box
Pandemic response project Outside The Box are looking for four artists (or artistic teams) to produce original outdoor theatre/ performance/ live art works, to be open to members of the public in Exeter in July/ August 2021. The selected works will be created as artistic contributions to ‘Outside the Box: Open-Air Performance as a Pandemic Response’ a research project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project asks in what ways artistic innovation might respond to outdoor, Covid-safe contexts to ‘Build Back Better’ in terms of sustainability and rethinking consumption in relation to leisure. The commissions comprise up to £6,000 artist fee. For further details on what is involved, and how to make application, click here.
How To Create a Rich Culture of Poetry in your School or Classroom: Creative Schools + Colleges
In this pacy and practical session delivered by Jonny Walker, you will explore what you can do in your schools and in your individual classroom to create a rich culture of poetry, where children's reading, writing, oracy and social relationships can all thrive. The session will explore three key themes: how to encourage children to write with authenticity, excitement and meaning; how to balance freedom and constraint; and what it means for us to be poetry teachers. You will explore different approaches, and Jonny will model different lesson structures which can then be taken back to school and try out. As part of the handout after the session, participants will receive suggested poetry lists and selections. Further info and booking can be found here.
Freelance Artist Facilitator: Royal West Of England Academy (RWA)
The RWA has been successful in securing funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund towards the delivery of its Light and Inspiration project. Part of this project is the delivery of an Activity Plan which aims to extend reach across a range of audiences and create a transformational and inclusive welcome for visitors and communities in Bristol. The Freelance Artist Facilitator role is part of a project involving a pop up exhibition tour of artworks from the RWA permanent collection which will tour local community centres. The role is suitable for a visual artists who has experience working with families and community groups. You can read about this role in more detail by clicking here and see the job description here.
Creative Team: IntoBodmin CIC
IntoBodmin CIC have been awarded a grant from Arts Council England to create a year of Enchanting Encounters in Bodmin. Their aim is to establish a Creative Team that will spend this time listening, learning and responding in creative ways to the many and diverse voices of their communities. They are looking to recruit three people to form this Creative Team and would like to work with community artists, creative practitioners, cultural connectors, producers, makers and activators. People who are good communicators and creative thinkers. People who care about community, and the value that art making and creative practice can bring to everyday culture. The Creative Team will work closely with the intoBodmin staff, and collaborate with partners and members of the community to spark conversations, build trust and facilitate creative responses to the needs, interests and tastes of local people. You can find out more via this link.
Administrator: KARST
KARST is seeking an experienced, ambitious and dynamic Administrator, to provide effective and efficient business support services to the management team and staff. The right candidate should be a hugely organised team player with a proactive attitude, good communication skills and a passion for organisation and accuracy. Reporting to the Head of Operations, the administrator will support the smooth running of the premises, office systems, and programmes. The candidate will be un-phased by a diverse and wide-reaching workload and comfortable forming relationships with a range of stakeholders, contractors and suppliers. For more info on this role and how to apply click here.
Freelance Changemaker: Pavilion Dance South West
Pavilion Dance South West are looking to contract a Changemaker to work with them from May-December 2021 to challenge and support through advice, information, networking and programming to become more inclusive to people with a range of disabilities. The right candidate will create or promote Professional Dance-based work and identify as a disabled person. You will have worked in the subsidised arts or dance sector and have a good understanding of the context of working in performing arts-based, publicly funded charities. To find out more follow this link.
Family Friendly Specialist: Portsmouth Museums
Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery, part of Portsmouth City Council, is inviting quotes from suitably experienced family engagement specialists to help the museum to become a more family friendly destination and create resources for a family audience. In order to reopen the museum in a covid-safe way after the first lockdown almost all of their family friendly hands-on activity was stripped out. Following an audit with recommendations and training from Kids in Museums the museum is now keen to reinstate and improve their offer to become a more fun and engaging place for families to visit. They are looking for a practitioner who will be keen to involve the frontline team in the process and has experience of working with families to develop the resources. You can read about the role, and how to apply, here.
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Connecting with communities
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We've been checking out who's connect with communities and audiences right now, and seeing what great work and projects are taking place. This week's highlights include;
Plymouth College of Art have relaunched their gallery space. Now titled Mirror the new space comes with some brilliant new incentives to support and nurture talent in the South West. Catching our eye this week was the awesome Buy Art South West; an advocacy platform, promoting existing shops & sales platforms by South West based visual artists to encourage investment in artists practices by supporting their own entrepreneurial endeavours. You can check out By Art South West here, and read more about Mirror here. Sounds like a great way to source new artwork created by local talent!
Bricks Bristol have created a new creative community hub in St Anne’s, Brislington. They have a mix of workspaces, both private offices, partitioned studios and desk spaces ranging in size available. They want to build a vibrant community including ‘Work Near Home’ local residents and artists/creatives from across Bristol. They’ll be Covid-secure, and will bring people together safely, to create, collaborate and start opening up communities once again. Workspace is avaialable for local groups, artists, social enterprises and community organisations. In addition they are creating spaces for hire for community activities, meetings, health & wellbeing, rehearsal space and creative projects. In addition to having workspace you can help shape this new creative community, with access to a growing programme of events and projects in the building. Sounds Amazing, we can't wait to read more about it, check out the latest info on the space here.
As part of an LGBTQ+ micro-commission for The Box artist Elani Evangelou has created awesome zine 'In Their Image'. The zine is available to buy now here and is a great celebration of, and connection to, Queer artists in Plymouth. For more, check out Elani's work here.
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This week's article in focus is a blog piece on NCVO by Sarah Vibert looking at the role that charities and volunteers have had during the pandemic. A vital tool in bringing different communities together, charities and volunteers have been even more important that ever in supporting people through a challenging time.
"Twelve months ago, few of us could have grasped the collective loss we would experience in the year ahead. Charities and volunteers have had a vital role to playin supporting people and communities in response to this loss: the loss of lives, livelihoods and freedoms...rather than being a ‘great leveller’ as initially described, covid-19 has worsened inequalities within our society. Members of our communities have been disproportionally affected by both the pandemic and the policy measures taken to address it. A number of charities and volunteers have been working tirelessly to expose these inequalities whilst simultaneously offering support."
The blog also reflects on the impact the pandemic has had on charities and volunteers and how things are changing in response to covid-19, the situations and problems it has thrown up and new ways of working that have implemented and may be retained moving forward. You can check out the whole piece here.
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