commission Archives - Blackpool Social Club

10 Jun

Creative callout: opportunities & commissions for June & July

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsOpportunitiescommission, opportunities

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] A round-up of opportunities available to creatives based on the Fylde Coast in June and July 2024. These include grant funding, commissions, jobs, consultations, research projects and more. New opportunities will be added to this page as they arise. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1651834823896{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #c4dbff !important;}"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="50074" img_size="medium" alignment="center" css="" title="Artist Residencies: Work/Leisure_4 Open Call"][vc_column_text css=""] Work/Leisure_4 is inviting emerging and mid-career artists to create new work in 2024. Across three previous iterations, Work/Leisure has delivered 9 short-term, non-prescriptive artist residencies, enabling artists to research and develop new work in…

24 Feb

Showtown, museum of fun and entertainment seek artist to work with Young People

Claire Griffiths0 CommentsOpportunities, Visual Arts & Exhibitionscommission, showtown

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Blackpool Council is seeking an individual or a company to design and deliver artwork for the hoardings surrounding the Showtown new museum building in co-production with the young people of Blackpool. https://www.showtownblackpool.co.uk/join/careers/artworker[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The successful artist or artist group will work with Showtown and their Young People’s Steering Group. Blackpool is described as internationally significant as the world’s first mass seaside resort. Today it remains the byword for the seaside holiday worldwide. However, this amazing success story has never been told – until now. Showtown is now entering its most exciting stage as they work toward the opening of the new Museum…

24 Oct

Creative Opportunities & commissions for November 2022

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsLocal News, Opportunitiescommission, funding, jobs, opportunities

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A round-up of opportunities available to creatives based on the Fylde Coast in November 2022. These include grant funding, commissions, jobs, consultations, research projects and more. New opportunities will be added to this page as they arise. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1657909055679{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #ffe758 !important;}"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="36221" img_size="large" alignment="center" title="Stalls available at Blackpool Heritage Action Zone's Christmas Market"][vc_column_text] Blackpool Creative Market is back on December 3rd - this time with a festive flavour! They're pulling out the stops for Christmas, so on the day there will be there will be a variety of creative workshops and…

06 May

Creative Opportunities & commissions for May 2022

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsLocal News, Opportunitiescommission, funding, jobs, opportunities, training

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A round-up of opportunities available to creatives based on the Fylde Coast in May 2022. These include grant funding, commissions, jobs, consultations, research projects and more. New opportunities will be added to this page as they arise. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1651832893246{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #ffe758 !important;}"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="10892" img_size="medium" alignment="center" title="National Lottery Heritage Fund: Helping You Apply: Grants for £3,000 - £10,000 (North)"][vc_column_text]2pm - 4pm, Wed 11 May 2022. This informal 2 hour session will explore: how heritage can be used to transform places and change lives; what a well-planned project looks like and; how to write a…

04 Feb

Creative Opportunities & commissions for February 2022

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsLocal News, Opportunitiescommission, jobs, opportunities, workshops

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A round-up of opportunities available to creatives based on the Fylde Coast in February 2022. These include grant funding, commissions, jobs, consultations, research projects and more. New opportunities will be added to this page as they arise. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="34451" img_size="large" alignment="center" title="Help Musicians’ Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund 2022"][vc_column_text] The Help Musicians’ Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund has confirmed a further £1m to help musicians struggling to make ends meet. ACE and DCMS have provided £650k of hardship funding so that Help Musicians is able to extend hardship funding into 2022, making further payments to musicians facing financial hardship due to…

04 Jan

Creative Opportunities & commissions for January 2022

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsLocal News, Opportunitiescommission, consultation, funding, Grant, opportunities, research

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A round-up of opportunities available to creatives based on the Fylde Coast in January 2022. These include grant funding, commissions, jobs, consultations, research projects and more. New opportunities will be added to this page as they arise. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Arts for Wellbeing Practitioners Pendle Leisure Trust are about to embark on a two-year programme of Arts for Wellbeing work in Pendle. They are seeking experienced practitioners who work across community arts and health settings and/or those wishing to grow their experience of working in this way. Are you based in Pendle or surrounding Lancashire areas? Do you have experience…

19 Apr

SHINE Emerging Artist Programme 2021

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsOpportunitiesartist, artists, commission, funding, illuminations, light, lightpool, lights, opportunities

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Light Up the North (LUTN) is a network of 6 light festivals across the north of England. In 2021, four of the festivals are joining together to award funding to emerging artists working with light, to produce and exhibit new commissions at their 2021 light festivals. The SHINE programme aims to nurture and develop new talent, giving artists the opportunity to exhibit or perform new work at four of the LUTN festivals (Light Night Leeds, Light Up Lancaster, Lightwaves at Salford Quays and Lightpool in Blackpool). Up to two artists or collectives will be awarded substantial commissions of up to…

09 Aug

Applications open for creatives in Blackpool.

Claire Griffiths0 CommentsLocal News, Opportunities, Visual Arts & ExhibitionsArt, commission, community, leftcoast

Leftcoast's continuing creative legacy in Blackpool has thrown a number of opportunities across the creative community in Blackpool and in recent times further afield. Earlier on in the year Leftcoast placed a call out for a long term socially engaged artists residency in Fleetwood and Haweside. Born from these placements new micro commissions have come to light. The third bedroom micro residencies invite artist to respond with an initial expression of interest to take part in the residencies from December 2018 to June 2019. Described as an opportunity to be experimental and test ideas the successful applicants are encouraged to…