Funding

Women Make Music Opens for Applications ( UK )

The Performing Right Society (PRS) has announced that its Women Make Music grant scheme is now open for applications. The second year of Women Make Music comes after a successful pilot programme in 2011. Through the programme, financial support of up to £5000 is available to women musicians; and new music in any genre is welcome, from classical, jazz and experimental, to urban, electronica and pop.

The aims of Women Make Music are:
•Break down assumptions and stereotypes within the music industry by encouraging role models for future generations
•Raise awareness of the gender gap and to ensure that women are aware that support for new music is available to them
•Increase the profile of women who are creating new music in the UK
•Stimulate new collaborations between organisations and female music creators

Through the scheme support is available to both individuals and organisations/groups including:
•solo performer
•solo songwriter or composer
•promoter or event producer
•band/ensemble/orchestra
•collective
•charity
•community interest company
•company limited by guarantee
•local authority
•school, college or university
•festival/promoter

There are two funding rounds in 2012 and the application deadlines are the 17th May 2012 and the 10th October 2012. For information visit: http://tinyurl.com/dyqwcgm

Funding

Foyle Foundation

Applications are welcomed from charities that have an annual turnover of less than £100,000 per annum. Larger or national charities will normally not be considered under this scheme, nor will the Scheme generally support charities that are able consistently to generate operational surpluses or which have been able to build up unrestricted reserves to a level equivalent to three months turnover.

Find out more at: www.foylefoundation.org.uk/small-grants-scheme/

This information has been taken from the very useful, informative Voluntary Norfolk newsletter distributed by email.  To find out how to become a member go to www.voluntarynorfolk.org.uk .

Good news: Target Opportunities Programme

Great Yarmouth’s Target Opportunities programme has been commended for its ‘innovative practices’ by the Council of Europe as part of the Best Practice Award – Regeneration of Coastal Towns scheme.

Target Opportunities – a partnership between Voluntary Norfolk and Great Yarmouth Borough Council – is a pre-employment advice flagship project that assists residents living in Great Yarmouth to become job ready by removing barriers to employment. Funded by Working Neighbourhoods Fund, the project assists residents to indentify career paths, training and volunteering opportunities and offer general pre-employment preparation.

The Target Opportunities programme was nominated for the 2012 Best Practice Award and made it to the final round of judging but was not selected as the eventual winner.

Volunteers sought to work with ArtLat to create Out There Festival float

SeaChange Arts are looking for ten local volunteers to work with Latin American Carnival Arts Company ArtLat to make a large scale float, which will be used in the Amazonas Spectacular performance at the Out There Festival in September.

As a volunteer you will get to work with the company on carnival arts construction and sculpture, to make sections of the giant float. Lead artist Raul Ordoñez is a dominant figure in southern Colombia’s art and has been instrumental in developing one of the most beautiful carnivals in the world, Carnival of Blacks and Whites.

Sessions will run daily from 1-4pm during the week from Tuesday 15 May to Friday 25 May (excluding Thursday 17 May and weekends) at the Drill Hall, York Road, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2LZ.

Volunteers need to be 18 years +. A keen interest in visual arts, or a visual arts background would be useful but is not essential.

For more information or to apply please contact Laurie on 01493 745 458 or email laurie@seachangearts.org.uk by Friday 11th May 2012.

Broadlanders art club Spring Exhibition

Amazonas Spectacular

WORKSHOP FOR ARTISTS AND CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS WITH  COLOMBIAN CARNIVAL FLOAT ARTIST, RAUL ORDONEZ on SAT 19 MAY, 3pm –6pm.

SeaChange Arts is offering a free creative professionals’ masterclass in Carnival Sculpture with leading Latin American carnival artist Raul Ordonez (Columbian Carnival of Blacks and Whites – UNESCO World Cultural Heritage) who will be in residence at Seachange Arts’ Drill Hall this May.

Artists and creative professionals are invited to join this leading Latin-American carnival  artist for a workshop in the practice of carnival sculpture.

Raúl will return to Great Yarmouth with a large scale production Amazonas Spectacular, a contemporary Latin American experience, for the Out There Festival in September.

For more information or to book a place at the session, please contact Sarah James on sarah@seachangearts.org.uk.

www.seachangearts.org.uk

Norwich Castle Open Art Show

Norwich Castle Open Art Show 2012 (20 October – 9 December)

 Norwich Castle Open Art Show 2012 will be one of two related exhibitions showing at Norwich Castle this Autumn.  Shown in conjunction with Cedric Morris and Christopher Wood: A Forgotten Friendship (20 October – 31 December 2012), the broad theme for this year is Vision & Reality. This phrase is taken from the words of Cedric Morris who became one of the region’s most influential artistic mentors through establishment of the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing. We hope this opportunity will provide real inspiration and a unique opportunity for artists to show and sell their work at Norwich Castle.

Submissions are invited from artists who live in and are inspired by East Anglia, reflecting the considerable talents of the region’s vibrant visual arts community. An experienced panel of distinguished artists will make the final selection, we are delighted that the panel will be chaired by John Wonnacott.

Norwich Castle Open Art Show 2012 is presented in partnership with East Anglia Art Fund.

All works will be for sale. Submission fees and commission on sales will be retained by East Anglia Art Fund (reg. Charity No.1014349) to support the art programme at Norwich Castle.

 The closing date for submissions is FRIDAY 8 JUNE 2012.

Full details can be downloaded along with the Call for Entries form from the NMAS website homepage at www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk.

Celebrating older people in the Borough

I am on the search for some inspirational older people (over 50 years of age).  The criteria for this is that they

· Must be over the age of 50 years
· Must live in the Borough of Great Yarmouth (Hopton all the way through to Martham?)\
· Have inspired you or others in some way either in the past, or currently.
 or
· Have had an achievement, either sporting or otherwise, in the past. (for example we have one person who swam the channel for charity some time ago)
 or
· An outstanding volunteer, maybe that person who makes the tea or puts the chairs away ………
 or
· Overcome some challenges in their past…….in any way shape or form
· Or just simply a wonderful person who deserves some recognition

All I need is
· Their name
· Their dob or age
· Their contact details (I need to be able to contact them with an invitation to a celebration event)\
· Your contact details
· A short piece about why you are nominating them, and why they deserve to be celebrated.
· Nominations must be with me by the 16th of May 2012

The celebration event will be on the 16th of June held at the Masonic lodge.
If you have any questions then please let me know
Rachael Hardie
Community Projects & Ageless Opportunities Co-Ordinator
Great Yarmouth Community Trust
Priory Centre
Priory Plain
t. 01493 743042

www.priorycentre.co.uk/what-we-do/adults

Rigajigjig at St. Nicholas

A fund-raising evening has been organised, in aid of the restoration of the organ, by the St. Nicholas Minster Preservation Trust (www.sncpt.co.uk) on Saturday 26th May 2012 at 7.30 pm.

Rigajigjig, are a band of Norfolk musicians who play traditional music and country dance tunes. The repertoire consists of jigs, hornpipes, polkas, schottishes and waltzes played on fiddle, banjo, mouth organs, melodeon and banjo. There will be dancing with a caller.

Tickets are £5 and are available from Paul Davies (01493 843647) or Brahams in Market Row or on the door. Cheques made payable to: SNCPT. A bar will be available.

Burgh Castle Walk & Poetry Workshop, Saturday 5th May.

Don’t miss this fantastic Waveney & Blyth Arts Poetry Workshop.

Meet at the Fort Car Park at 11.30 .  Then, a shortish walk of about one and a half miles around the fort and down to the river.  There is much to see and read (information boards are very good).  The site is quite inspirational.

Walkers/workshoppers should arrive at The Fisherman’s Inn between 12.30 and Ipm.  The Inn serve good and reasonably priced food.

 The poetry workshop is to be conducted by Joanna Guthrie and will take place at the pub from 2pm until 4pm.  Poems produced will be laminated and put on display along a longer walk which will take place in September and will take in more of Breydon Water.

Wheelchair access from the Fort to the Fisherman’s Inn is difficult.  This could be overcome by any wheelchair user returning to the car park and then driving via the road to The Fisherman’s Inn, instead of taking the narrow footpath along the river bank..

 The cost for the workshop is £18.     For more information and to book your place email Janet Wright janetggv@yahoo.co.uk