callout Archives - Blackpool Social Club

24 Nov

Grundy Art Gallery: Show your work at OPEN 2022

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsLocal News, OpportunitiesArt, artist, call out, callout, Exhibition, open call, The Grundy Art Gallery

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] After last year’s online only exhibition, OPEN 2022 is set to return to Blackpool's Grundy Art Gallery. In line with Grundy’s founding principles of showing the ‘art of the day’ and echoing Blackpool’s motto of ‘progress’, the gallery is looking for artworks that have been created within the last 12 months and that have never been shown at the Grundy Art Gallery before. The exhibition aims to be illustrative of the diverse range of artwork being produced throughout Blackpool and the Fylde Coast today.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="31534" img_size="medium"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Once again they have decided to waive the submission fee for artworks…

24 Sep

OPEN CALL: Blackpool Social Club zine #1

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsLocal News, OpportunitiesArt, artist, author, Blackpool, books, callout, community, illustration, photographer, photography, poetry, zine

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] OPEN CALL: Blackpool Social Club zine #1 Everything not saved will be lost DEADLINE Friday 25 September 2020 Submissions are open for the first issue of the Blackpool Social Club Zine. We welcome contributions from artists and creatives of all backgrounds and all experience levels who live in an FY postcode area. The first issue will be available from early October 2020 online or from a number of Blackpool venues, costing a suggested donation of £2-3 to help cover production costs. Contributors will be paid for their work at a flat rate of £30. Please note that this isn’t…

10 Sep

PIVOT: Development for mid-career North West artists

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsOpportunitiesArt, artist, bursary, callout, Covid-19, development, funding, Visual, visual arts

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Bluecoat and Castlefield Gallery are delighted to announce PIVOT: an 18 month development programme for mid-career artists living and working in North West England. PIVOT is a new artist development scheme delivered in partnership by Bluecoat, Liverpool and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester. Both organisations share the vision that the North West of England is a place where artists are able to live and work whilst experiencing national and international success. Five mid-career contemporary visual artists will be awarded a £5000 bursary and given access to a programme that supports their practice over an 18 month period. PIVOT recognises that existing…

26 Aug

DIY: Live Art research & development workshop with José Oliva Garcia

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsLocal News, OpportunitiesArt, callout, coronavirus, covid, online, project, workshops

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] White Vinegar (each day from 2pm & 4pm) Lancaster Arts invites you to a four day online workshop exploring what it means to clean, and to be clean in a post pandemic world. The White Vinegar Workshop revolves around a quote from leading New York Artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles; “After the revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?” We are inviting applications from artists, cleaners, writers, activists and others to observe and interrogate the iconic act of cleaning, revealing this as a sociopolitical action through performance art and self documentation. This workshop is open to…

13 Jul

My Favourite Things – preserve your lockdown learning in film

David Simper0 CommentsFilm, OpportunitiesArt, callout, covid, Film, memory, posterity, project, Video

‘My Favourite Things’ is an international film collaboration project aiming to capture what people might want to remember about recent events. Amidst the COVID-19 tragedy, it’s sometimes been difficult to see the positive as the country has gone through this unprecedented lock down period. The positive might include cleaner air, recognition for the medical and caring professions and the return of nature, in places. It’s been a time to reassess priorities, spend time with the family and rediscover old pastimes. Although predicted for decades, the virus managed to take the world by surprise, mighty governments behaving like rabbits caught in…

29 Jun

Is There Anybody Out There? Recording disabled people’s experience of lockdown

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsLiterature & Spoken Word, Opportunitiescallout, Disability, performance

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Life over the past few months has been many things; scary, confusing, the world feels smaller. We can’t rely on the things we usually enjoy, or see the people we want to see. Blackpool-based performance artist Helena Ascough is one of four artists to be commissioned by Lancaster Arts. She will create a new spoken word performance that contemplates the things we are thinking about while we cannot leave our homes very often. Helena asks Is There Anybody Out There? [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="29061" img_size="large" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Helena wants to take this opportunity to connect with disabled people who would like to share…