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Opportunities in the Arts within Dorset & The RegionOpportunities for commissions for Artists will be listed here.Borough of Poole – Arts Development Unit BRIEFCREATIVE WRITER & MENTOR Strong Words - A creative writing project for adults with physical health needs and mild / moderate mental health needs The Borough of Poole is seeking to recruit a professional writer to work with adults who have a range of physical health conditions with anxiety and depression as a secondary diagnosis. This creative writing project is part of the Flourish Arts and Health Programme.Background Flourish is a two-year arts and health programme comprising 7 carefully targeted projects engaging people with mental health needs and older people and is funded by Arts Council England and Borough of Poole. Project outline Strong Words is a twelve-week project that forms a part of Flourish. The project will involve a professional writer working with a group of 8 –12 adults in Poole, enabling them to engage in creative writing. This may be as a means of expressing feelings and views, or supporting people to create stories or poems. The writer will be required to encourage and support participants who may never have undertaken any creative writing before and who may have low confidence, low mood and low self-esteem. He/She will be experienced in working with vulnerable adults and ideally have previous experience of creative writing as a group and one to one activity. We are committed to seeking ways of developing a sustainable venture, according to the needs and wishes of the group, and the writer will be required to be pro-active in supporting this. A support worker will work alongside the writer to provide social and practical support to group members as required. Throughout the project the writer appointed will also mentor a mid-career writer who will be working alongside them throughout the Strong Words project. The lead writer will be involved in the selection of this mentee post. The mentoring scheme has been created in partnership with ArtsMatrix, who will oversee the scheme on behalf of Borough of Poole. Throughout Flourish we wish to engage artists in critical debate around the quality of arts practice in the area of arts and health. The lead artist will be required to host a critical debate session to which the mentee and other writers/artists will be invited to view work, learn about working in arts and health, and debate processes. We will widen this debate by hosting a seminar in 2009 that we will promote to creative artists working across the South West and encompassing all the 7 Flourish projects. Person Specification – what we are looking for The selected writer should have: • At least 2 years experience working as a professional writer. • Experience of working creatively with community groups and facilitating their ideas. • A good understanding of working creatively with people who have mental health needs and other health conditions. • A current CRB Enhanced Disclosure certificate (one can be arranged if necessary) and public liability insurance up to £5million. • Ability to mentor other creative artists. General Responsibilities • To ensure the full involvement of participants throughout the project. • Guide and support the mentee artist, liaise with ArtsMatrix and attend an initial meeting with ArtsMatrix and the mentee to draw up a mentoring agreement. • To encourage and enable opportunities for the group to share their work with invited audiences. • To complete the project within the given timescale and budget. • To encourage and enable the development of a sustainable venture according to the needs and wishes of the group and supported by the Arts Development Unit • To play an active part in project evaluation, as directed by the Flourish Evaluators. • To host a critical debate session for other arts practitioners to learn about the project and engage in debate. Management Systems Your main contact will be the Flourish Programme Coordinator. Timescale The first development day will be scheduled for the week of 15th or 23rd September for a meeting with ArtsMatrix. The project will run from the 1st week of October until January 2009. We anticipate that the project will run on either Wednesday or Thursday mornings. Artists fee £ 2,000 12 x ½ days @ £100 per session for participatory workshops (October – January) 4 x ½ days @ £100 per session for planning / development / meetings 4 x ½ days @ £100 per session to meet and work with the mentee plus 1 x ½ day @ £100 for critical debate event at the end of the project and £100 for materials How to apply Please submit a written proposal to the address below indicating why you would like to undertake this project. Please show evidence of previous work that reflects your understanding of participatory arts work with people with mental and physical health needs. Please include your artist CV including 2 references. Address for applications: Anna Shiels Arts Programme Manager (Adult Social Care and Well-Being) Arts Development Team Poole Museum 4 High Street Poole Dorset BH15 1BW Tel: 01202 633971 Email:a.shiels@poole.gov.uk Deadline for proposals: 5pm, 27th August 2008 Interviews will be held on: Thursday 4th September 2008 The successful applicant will need to be available during the week of September 8th as they may be needed to be involved in short listing for the mentee. B-SIDE (the seaside) Weymouth and Portland 19th – 28th September 2008. INFORMATION FOR ARTISTS"B-Side" (the seaside) is a multi-media arts festival, animating public spaces in Weymouth and Portland during September. It will prioritize younger artists (including students) in Dorset and recent arts graduates/emerging artists from across the South West region. Eight venues and two local routes have been chosen for this year’s event. These include a nuclear bunker, a cafe`, a deconsecrated church, a prison sports field, a dance hall and a museum. These venues will host installations, dance, theatre pieces, text-based work, music, projections, computer animations, film and video, light, sound, community radio and social/participatory works."B-Side" will open the Cultural Olympiad in Weymouth and Portland alongside other theatre, dance and live music productions. We envisage that participating artists will spend the first few days of the festival on site installing and creating, working towards the festival being fully open between 25 – 28 September. Information about the sites will be on-line shortly at: www.b-side.org.uk “B-Side” is inspired by the b-side of vinyl recordings, which often represented the less commercial but more revealing side of a band’s repertoire. “B-Side” (the seaside) offers the opportunity to reappraise and represent some of the issues, which affect traditional South West seaside towns, of which Weymouth is a classic example. Organising partners have identified a number of areas of interest, or themes, for B-Side including: • Animating and humanizing public spaces • Migration / Journey • Sense of Place • Coastal Voices • Turning out your pockets / discovering the hidden • Feeling the pinch • Release, re-organize, re-new • Lucky Dip Artists from all disciplines are invited to engage as follows: 1. Submission of material for showcase Open to artists born or living in the South West region, including students of FE / HE and recent graduates. If you have work which addresses any of the general themes and is already recorded in audio / mac or pc cd / dvd (must be self-launching), or flash / animation formats, these can be submitted to be shown in number of prepared beach huts/changing rooms which will mark the route. Submissions invited for material up to 3 minutes / 3 -10 minutes / over 10 minutes. Please make sure the length of all material and the theme is marked clearly on the outside of the package and include a brief curriculum vitae or details about yourself. All material is non-retunable. Post to B-Side c/o Norman Lomax, Head of Creative Arts, Weymouth College, Cranford Avenue, Weymouth, Dorset DT4 7LQ Deadline 30th August 2. Site-specific / Artist-in-Residence There are a small number of opportunities for South West artists to make installations within the identified places and spaces. We are looking for ideas, which are either site-specific but not expensive to produce, or installations which have possibly been given one outing, but which might be easily adaptable and fit within another space. We can offer some materials, accommodation and out of pocket expenses. If you work in installation, with multiples, text, projections, sensors, audio or your practise is in site-specific work please send images, video clips, descriptions of the work and information about yourself electronically to alan_rogers@weymouth.ac.uk. Deadline: 15th August Notification of selection 25th August 3. South West Screen “Moving Image” commissions We have secured funding for four new “moving image” commissions from South West Screen. This is a professional development scheme for practitioners in all disciplines wishing to work with the moving image format. PVA Media Lab in Bridport will facilitate the production of small-scale (1-3 minutes) moving image works exploring the following themes: • Public places, hidden spaces – an examination of ownership, freedom of action, rules, rights of way and what is permissible within the space that the work takes place in. • Welcoming the world – how the South West engages with non – nationals and tourists and how this could change for 2012. • Open up / Turning Out Your Pockets – revealing and exposing what we have in terms of private obsessions, both personally and as a borough. • Migration / Coastal Voices / Sense of Place. We are looking for exciting narratives, visual flare, new voices and extraordinary characters, which utilize mobile phone, HDV, animation or 8/16mm to tell a story effectively. The chosen artists will work together in residence at PVA Media Lab for approx 5/7 days: 7th – 14th September. Workshops, studio space, technical help, camera, sound, script and editing etc, together with self-catering accommodation will all be provided free of charge. We will also pay an artist’s fee of £500. The scheme is open to practitioners in Dorset and the South West and two bursaries will be prioritized for the age bracket 18-30. The works will be profiled in September at the B-side festival to coincide with the launch of the Cultural Olympiad in Weymouth and Portland. To apply send a synopsis/storyboard, CV/statement and supporting materials electronically or by post to Mandy Rathbone: mandy@pva.org.uk PVA MediaLab 1 King Square Bridport Dorset DT6 3QE Deadline 10th August 2008, 6pm Notification 15th August 2008 Residency 7-14 September 2008 4. Weymouth College Short Film Weekends Subject to to an Awards for All funding application. An opportunity for young film-makers of all ages to work on intensive film making weekend and produce a short film which will be shown at the festival. The workshops will be on either the 13/14 or the 20/21 September, facilitated by professionals and B.A. students at Weymouth College. Contact alan_rogers@weymouth.ac.uk for further details, how to apply, deadline and funding update. 5. Dance, performance and theatre In 2008, working with partners Activate and Weymouth College, we have identified Dorset-based performance and dance groups to work with. However if you are a performance artist or a performer who responds to site or this year’s themes, we would like to hear from you now for inclusion in future programmes. Please send information and images about yourself and your work, marked “B-Side” to: beccagill@activateperformingarts.org.uk 6. Building business relationships There is an opportunity to build relationships with particular businesses and industries, which are relevant to your practise as an artist and show the results at the B-Side festival. If you have a proposal, which could be mutually beneficial both parties, we would like to hear from you. It may be that you would like to use either the products or processes to further your own research or show your work in the best possible circumstances, but you must consider your ideas from the businesses point of view – does it help them with their research, give them a new advertising angle, meet their community obligations, furnish their offices, light their building etc. In our working partnership with Arts and Business, we can try and broker the deal and offer a conference platform to show the results. This is a longer process and it may not be possible to show in this year’s event, but we would like to hear from you straight away. Businesses showing interest at this moment are an IT solutions company, a mobile phone company, a property tax consultancy and a mobile advertisement company. However the onus is on you to propose others. Mark “B-Side Arts and Business” and send ideas to: alan_rogers@weymouth.ac.uk and elaine.arnold@AandB.org.uk Deadline 30 August. 7. W.A.N. Members of Weymouth Arts Network have a dedicated venue at Brewers Quay and will be working together to make a group contribution B-Side are: Weymouth and Portland Partnership, Weymouth College, PVA Media Lab, Activate (The Theatre and Dance Development Agency for Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole), Departure (Dorset`s Arts Education Agency), Weymouth Arts Network, The Engine (Young Writers Group, Poole) and Dorset Community Music. Call for entries Get Fresh Emerging designer-makers from the South West Saturday 17 January – Sunday 1 March 2009Can you answer YES to any of the following: Are you a recent Graduate? Have you recently set up your own studio or received a setting up grant? Are you self-taught and starting your career? And: Are you resident in the South West? Are you working in an area of craft (including photography, printmaking & sculpture) producing innovative, imaginative work coupled with a sensitive use of appropriate materials? Can you demonstrate the potential to achieve the highest standards of workmanship and design, together with a clear sense of personal direction? If you can then this is the exhibition for you. Now established as a key exhibition in the South West, the aim of Get Fresh is not to repeat a graduate show but to celebrate and expose the commitment, diversity and outstanding craftsmanship of emerging designer-makers from the South West (Bath, Bristol & Somerset, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire). Supported by the Devon Guild of Craftsmen’s Associate Membership Scheme, Get Fresh will: Profile the South West’s exceptional emerging makers Celebrate commitment and diversity Present a sponsorship award Promote the Devon Guild’s Associate Membership Scheme Award free Associate Membership for 1 year to selected exhibitors Provide support & encouragement Facilitate critical debate Mount educational seminars A panel consisting of craft commentators, artists and designers along with Devon Guild exhibition staff will select exhibitors via image submissions. If you can positively contribute to this exhibition please submit an artist’s statement, CV, price list and up to 10 slides/digital images by 8 August 2008 to: Get Fresh Saffron Wynne, Exhibitions Officer The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 9AF Or send digital submissions to saffron.wynne@crafts.org.ukOpportunity for Sponsorship - Moors Valley Wildlife Photographer of the YearWould you benefit from sponsoring this fantastically supported exhibition in the Moors Valley Visitors Centre? If you would like to know more about this opportunity contact Katie Birks kbirks@eastdorset.gov.ukNew Exhibition Space - The Hub VerwoodHub at Verwood offers a fabulous new free space for artists to exhibit work. The space is open to East Dorset based Artists and Photographers to exhibit for 6 week spaces. Any Artist able to offer workshops, slide shows, talks or any related activity will be particularly sought for this space to assist in promoting the this exhibition project. For a tour of the space or to talk more about the opportunity please contact Tracy Cooper (01202) 639012.Keep up to date with regional news with Arts matrix... 2012 Arts Network www.2012artsnetwork.org.uk A new website has been set up to help all arts organisations to look forward towards the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This is a free, voluntary service for everyone to join and use as a forum for discussion, make connections with other organisations in the arts world and beyond, and start thinking about what can be gained from London 2012. The Olympics are closer than you think! For more information please visit http://www.2012artsnetwork.org.uk Or email Glyn Ley on mailto:glyn@2012artsnetwork.org.uk ARTSMATRIX EBULLETIN SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION To subscribe to the ArtsMatrix eBulletin, please visit www.artsmatrix.org.uk/bulletin_registration.php Alternatively, send an email with `Subscribe eBulletin` in the subject field to info@artsmatrix.org.uk Please include your full name and address in the body of the mail if you would like to receive our free bi-monthly print Bulletin. To unsubscribe, please send an email with `Unsubscribe eBulletin` in the subject field and your full name in the body of the mail to the same address. Submissions to the bulletin are welcome, but please note that it may not be possible to include all submissions and information sent in may be edited. Exhibit at Moors Valley Country ParkArtists: if you are interested in exhibiting 2D art work at Moors Valley Country Park, please contact Katie at the Rangers` Office on 01425 470721. 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