FWD: SLAPmoves Prize - Applications now open.

SLAPmoves Prize
17th April 2014, The Duchess, York.
Supported by- Regional dance agency Yorkshire Dance

SLAP (Salacious Live Alternative Performance) are very proud to announce an exciting opportunity for individuals and companies who have graduated within the last year and final year students. 

The SLAPmoves prize is all about emerging art from the next generation of pioneering talent. SLAP invites recent graduates and final year students (of dance/theatre/film whose themes of focus are based upon ‘movement’) to submit proposals of work for the chance to be shortlisted for a professional platform on the 17th of April at the Duchess, attended and judged by industry specialists and the audience.

The successful artist or company will then be offered a place in Yorkshire dance’s spring platform dedicated to the region’s most exciting emerging talent, taking place on May 2nd. The artist / company will also receive two days of studio space, a one to one meeting with a producer, artistic mentoring and technical support.

Please use the online form found here to apply. More information can also be found at slapyork.co.uk 
If you have any questions about applying please contact us by email slapyork@yahoo.co.uk 

Deadline for applications 31.03.14 12noon 
nb Open to Northern graduates and students

Victoria Melody Masterclass, Thu 20 March @ Contact, Manchester

Dear Artist,
 
As Flying Solo Festival takes off next week (see www.contactmcr.com/flyingsolo for more info) we prepare to welcome some exciting national and international artists through Contact’s doors. One of those artists will be the wonderful Victoria Melody, who brings her solo show Major Tom to our main stage on Thursday 20th March. During her visit Victoria will be running an exclusive Masterclass in performance for artists. Details of which can be found below, along with an eshot about Major Tom.
 
A bit of background on Victoria first though:
 
Victoria Melody is a British artist with a background in fine art. She makes one-woman theatrical shows, performance interventions and films mainly about England’s pastimes, passions and tribes. Fascinated by anthropology, she immerses herself into communities and becomes an active participant in their rituals as research for her work. In the past she has become a pigeon racer, a northern soul dancer, a championship dog handler and a beauty queen. Victoria has presented her work nationally and internationally at venues including Soho Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, The Lowry, Bristol Old Vic, Battersea Arts Centre, Summerhall (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Push Festival (Canada), Aarhus Festival (Denmark) and Brisbane Festival (Australia).
 
..and some info on the masterclass itself.
 
Victoria Melody: Masterclass
Thu 20 Mar, 12pm to 3pm. £10/8. Over 14s.
Book via 0161 274 0600 only.
To accompany the touring of her new show Major Tom, Victoria has created a workshop that offers an insight into the strategies and methodologies she uses when creating new work. The workshop will look at her creative triggers and approach to creating research based work.  Participants will experiment with creating solo performances, confessional performances, humorous performances, performances from observed behaviour and performances using video and collected paraphernalia.
 
Please note places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.
 
We look forward to seeing you during Flying Solo!
 
Kind regards,
 
Barry Priest
Senior Marketing Officer
Contact
 
 

FW: Lancashire Artists Database

Calling all Lancashire Artists...

Lancashire Arts Development Team is currently creating a database of artists working in Lancashire. 
If this includes you, they'd love to hear from you.

You can do this by completing the survey by clicking the link below:

https://lccsecure.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/questionnaires/runQuestionnaire.asp?qid=581659

Lancashire Arts Development Team 
Lancashire County Council - Cultural Services Room 201, Park Hotel, PO Box 162, East Cliff, Preston, PR1 3EA Tel: 01772 533040

Flare Support team - call for expressions of interest

Flare Support Team

The Flare Weekender, Manchester, UK 13+14 June 2014

Flare is looking to form the Flare Support Team to assist in the delivery and hosting of the Flare Weekender at Z-arts, Manchester. A voluntary arrangement, aimed at anyone interested in gaining experience of contemporary theatre producing, the Flare Support Team will be entitled to free entry to all aspects of the Weekender, including performances and food. The team will meet twice in Manchester before the Weekender (dates tbc), and be responsible for assisting the festival organisers in the following areas:

Catering , Technical (light/sound/AV/staging), Documentation (video/stills), Evaluation (blog/review writing), Front of House (staffing and décor), Transport (including driving).

The Flare Weekender is a two day, international micro-festival of high quality new radical theatre-based performance. The little brother of the major Flare International Festival of New Theatre, the Flare Weekender will present up to 10 performances, alongside discussions, workshops, networking events, live music and a party. The Flare Weekender is presented in conjunction with Word of Warning and is supported using public funding by Arts Council England, by Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford.

Anyone interested in becoming part of the team should contact Kevin Egan by email, outlining in no more than 200 words 'why I would be good for Flare', highlighting which area(s) you would be suited to, and giving the name and email address of one referee.

Expressions of interest should be received by 7th March at the latest.

Come and join us!


Kevin Egan: kevin@flarefestival.com 

Flare General Director 

www.flarefestival.com 

FWD: Contact Open Invite: Artists Meet and Greet

I have been asked to forward the following:

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Open Invite: Artists Meet and Greet

Contact, Oxford Road

Saturday 22 February, 4-6pm.

 

We’re planning a get together with local artists and creatives at Contact and we’d love you to come.

 

The event will comprise of an informal meet and greet followed by an open space session where you’ll hear about our plans and get chance to discuss Contact's wider activity, from business services to programming and commissioning.

 

Please RSVP to Kate Gambrell by 6pm on Thursday 20 February if you would like to attend on kategambrell@contactmcr.com or 0161 274 0605.

 

If you know a local artist of creative who has not received this invitation but would like to attend, please provide their contact details to Kate.

 

Thanks and best wishes,

 

Matt Fenton

Artistic Director / CEO

 

FWD: Call for applications for M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2015: Art and Loss

Reminder: Call for applications for M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2015: Art and Loss
REMINDER: Call for applications for M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2015: Art & Loss
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Dear friends,

With the successful completion of M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2014: Art and the People, we would like to send out a gentle reminder that the call for applications for 2015's Festival ends on 7 March 2014.

The M1 Singapore Fringe Festival is an annual festival of theatre, dance, music, visual arts and mixed media created and presented by Singaporean and international artists. Themed differently each year, the Festival aims to bring the best of contemporary, cutting-edge and socially-engaged works to the Singapore audience. The M1 Singapore Fringe Festival is set to be a creative centre, with a twin-purpose of innovation and discussion; a platform for meaningful and provocative art to engage our increasingly connected and complex world.

The theme for M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2015 is Art and Loss. We are looking for works in all disciplines that will fall within that theme. We accept applications from professional Singapore and international artists / companies.

For an insight into the programmes, venues and workings of the Festival, please visit the website (http://www.singaporefringe.com) which has information about 2014's Festival.

A write-up of our curatorial statement and more information about the Fringe can be accessed at http://www.singaporefringe.com/fringe2014/#17 (please wait a moment for the right page to load). The application form can also be downloaded from the link above.

Please note that the applications close on 7 March 2014, 5pm Singapore time (we require the submission of both a hard and soft copy of your application).

If you are interested in viewing the Sponsors' Report for 2014, it can be accessed at the following link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/205953064/M1SFF14-Sponsors-Report

Do feel free to contact Jezamine Tan at jezamine@singaporefringe.com if you have any questions about the application process.

Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you soon!


Best wishes,
The Fringe team


Flare Weekender, 13+14 June 2014, call for new theatre makers.

Flare, the Manchester-based organisation committed to the support and profiling of the next generation of radical theatre makers, is currently programming its next 'micro-festival', the Flare Weekender, scheduled for 13+14 June 2014.

If you are a new maker of high quality theatre-based performance, or if you know of any, who might be interested in showing work as part of a two day international gathering of new theatre makers at Z-arts in Manchester in June, then we would be most grateful if you could forward this email (full details below), or direct them to the website:

www.flarefestival.com

Thanks a million!

Neil Mackenzie and Kevin Egan Flare Festival Directors Manchester, UK

The Flare Weekender, Manchester, UK

13+14 June 2014

After a quiet year in 2013, Flare is back!

Once again aiming to bring to Manchester the best in brand new radical theatre practice from the UK and abroad, following the success of the Flare International Festival of New Theatre 2011 and the Flare Weekender 2012, the Flare Weekender 2014 promises a unique, theatrical, 2 day encounter for artists, producers, promoters and the public.

Having been amongst the first in this country to profile the acclaimed performance work of Sleepwalk Collective, Jolika Sudermann, Andy Smith, Leen Dewilde, Ana Mendes, and many more, Flare once again sets its sights on the theatre of the future, and on profiling those most likely to take us there.

What is the Flare Weekender?

The Flare Weekender is a two day, international micro-festival of high quality new radical theatre-based performance, presented at Z-arts in Manchester in conjunction with Word of Warning. The little brother of the major Flare International Festival of New Theatre 2015, the Flare Weekender will present up to 10 performances, alongside discussions, workshops, networking events, live music and a party. The Flare Weekender is supported using public funding by Arts Council England, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford.

Who is Flare and what does it do?

Flare, directed by Neil Mackenzie and Kevin Egan, is a project committed to supporting and profiling the work of the best new makers of radical theatre. Flare works to curate the best new radical theatre practice, selected internationally, in consultation with other performance curators and producers across Europe. It runs international festivals and weekenders in the heart of Manchester, in partnership with some of the leading contemporary theatre producers in the city.

What does the Flare Weekender offers theatre artists?

€ A high profile public performance in the characterful Z-arts (Zion Arts Centre) building in Manchester (main theatre 210 seats, studio theatre 70 seats, plus other performance spaces/sites).

€ 2 days of performing, watching, participating and networking with international peers in the newest community of new theatre makers.

€ The prestige of selection for an international event committed to the presentation of the very best new theatre work (Flare 2011 saw 20 works selected from 120 applications, and was described as Œa brilliant line-up¹ by Lyn Gardner, in the Guardian newspaper).

€ A chance to profile work to significant theatre festival and venue programmers.

€ Free food and access to all performances, discussions and workshops.

€ Travel expenses, accommodation and financial support to be agreed.

In addition: € The Flare Weekender 2014 is offering two selected companies a development residency (studio rehearsal space, accommodation, per diems) for the week leading up to the Flare Weekender.

A word from an artist who was selected for both the Flare International Festival of New Theatre in 2011, and the Flare Weekender in 2012.

³What's so thrilling, and vital, about Flare is the intricately balanced shared-space it creates for both emerging and more established artists, managed with as much generosity as artistic rigour. Consequently it's that rare and precious thing: a festival able to accommodate a fantastically adventurous and cutting-edge program of unusual quality alongside a genuine commitment to the artists of the future.²

Sammy Metcalfe Sleepwalk Collective Vitoria-Gasteiz Spain

Are you interested in presenting work at the Flare Weekender, or do you know an artist or theatre group who you think would be good?

If so, please forward contact details, 200 words describing the performance, 100 words describing the artist or group, a link to any video footage, and an outline of any significant technical requirements, as soon as you can to:

neil@flarefestival.com

Please also state whether you would be interested in a development residency (as detailed above).

The deadline for applications is 21st March 2014.

We really look forward to hearing from you!

Neil Mackenzie Kevin Egan Flare

Neil Mackenzie Axis Arts Centre/Flare Festival/Plane Performance Department of Contemporary Arts Manchester Metropolitan University Crewe Cheshire CW1 5DU United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)161 247 5353 Fax: +44 (0)161 247 6377 http://www.cheshire.mmu.ac.uk/dca E-mail:n.k.mackenzie@mmu.ac.uk

http://www.mmu.ac.uk/dca/neil-mackenzie http://www.flarefestival.com http://www.planeperformance.co.uk http://www.axisartscentre.org.uk

FWD: The1st4, Liverpool

Event: The1st4
Venue: Camp and Furnace - 67 Greenland St Liverpool L1 0BY   
http://www.campandfurnace.com/finding-us/
Date: Tuesday 11th February
Time: 6.30pm
 
Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1418184851757672/?ref=22
Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the1st4-tickets-10330102615
Facebook: thefirstfour
Twitter: @the1stfour
Contact: thfrstfur@gmail.com
 
We are very pleased to announce the launch of The1st4, a new live art platform based in Liverpool, aiming to provide a space for North-West based artists working with the spectrum of live and performance art. The1st4 is a chance for established and emerging artists to show and develop work for the first time in Liverpool.

Every new event needs a start and this is it. Curator, artist and live art critic C James Fagan has brought together four contemporary artists for a special launch evening of performance ...and dance -- Mark Greenwood, Frances Kay, Steve Boyland and Ane Iselin Borgeland -- whose work reflects the inter-disciplinary nature of live and performance art.

New commissions and new collaborations on the night include: ‘The Grabber’ by performance artist Mark Greenwood (Lad Broke), features a performance score by visual artist Jayne Lawless, and explores the erasing of housing across Liverpool and the displacement caused;
Improviser/performance artist Steve Boyland will perform Unruly Liturgies, a series of spontaneously-composed contemplations for solo voice, created in response to the specific physical and allusive properties of the space/location
Returning to Liverpool after an appearing at 2013’s Poolside Emergency, Frances Kay (Emergency MCR ‘13) will perform ‘Sorry’, addressing notions of female identity; 
And Ane Iselin Borgeland (Manifold) will perform ‘Micophono’, a dance piece which explores notions of identity through language and movement.

This evening of contemporary live art and performance at Camp and Furnace is free and all are welcome (free parking available). There will also be a paid bar running on the night.

The1st4 has come into existence in response to a gap in the cultural landscape of Liverpool. The1st4 aims to fill this gap with a regular series of events which will offer a space for locally based artists to show and develop new work, to network and collaborate. The1st4 also has ambitions to bring in some of the best national and international live and performance artists to ensure Liverpool’s standing as a major cultural centre.

FWD: Slung Low are looking for a Producer

Producer, Slung Low, Leeds, United Kingdom

Slung Low are looking for a Producer with project management experience to work on our outdoor autumn season.  We are looking for someone with 2 years project management experience and ideally with experience of working outdoors, although this is not essential.
The role will focus on The White Whale, a new version of Moby Dick by James Phillips to be performed on water.
Information about The White Whale is below.

http://www.slunglow.org/slung-low-looking-producer/