SPAN – CALL FOR ARTISTS

SPAN: OPEN SUBMISSION EXHIBITION  1 SEPTEMBER – 22 SEPTEMBER 2012
at the Minster Church of St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth

This year will see the first annual Great Yarmouth Arts Festival: A festival to celebrate and exite.

As a major element of the festival we are organising an open submission exhibition to be selected by three highly respected artists who have links with Norfolk.: Jonathan P Watts, Ivy Smith and Lee Grandjean

The exhibition will be organised and curated by Rebecca Weaver

To take part you must complete and return an entry form by Monday 23rd July 2012 to Sarah Campling, 2 Trinity Avenue, Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, NR31 7DD

email address: span@greatyarmouthartsfestival.co.uk

Please note that SPAN is a truly open exhibition

Flyers with information and entry form have been distributed to local libraries and you can also download the  Entry Form from www.greatyarmouthartsfestival.co.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.

News from the Upstairs Gallery

The Upstairs Gallery has won a BRONZE AWARD for the SUFFOLK CARBON CHARTER!

NEWS about  a major show for May 17th – 31st 2012 : we are looking for artists to exhibit alongside the many talents in the main show. If you are an artist that has work of emotive content, or stigmatic issues, we would like to hear from you. Please email; bigartgallery@aol.com

Current Show:
OPENING Hours 10 – 4.30 Tuesday-Saturday Closed Sun and Monday only
Richard Parsons and Christine Parsons, 16th February – 3rd March
From abstracts to still life to landscapes, Richards graphic training is clearly evident throughout, marking a unique and distinctive talent. Richard’s legacy of work is as much a part of East Anglia as the scenes that inspired him. His work is widely collected and has been exhibited at galleries in London and throughout East Anglia. His wife Chris carries on the tradition today, exhibiting and selling prints of his work alongside her own photographs of East Anglian landscapes.

Olympic Arts Show 23rd July – 17th August
Cultural Arts Show displaying works from Artists in East Anglia – open submissions, please apply to:  bigartgallery@aol.com

We are currently taking bookings for all artists for the coming year. Gallery space available from 2ft width, 6ft Height – ranging to 11ft width, 6ft height.  Main Gallery is available from March (No Bookings May or September) to December.  The Gallery Team is changing this year, with more volunteers to cope with additional workloads. At the height of the year, we coped with over 4000 visitors in one month, on average throughout the year we guarantee a 2000 footfall per month.  The gallery is regularly featured in many publications, and is supported by many businesses and clients, both for being dynamic and enthusiastic in its approach to supporting both clients and artists.

Artists are now able to book their time more freely at our gallery, with 2 week bookings, monthly bookings or 6 month and yearly bookings.  With 89 spaces available at any one time, we are able to suit the  requirements of all artists, from students through to professionals, and have a variety of artists with proven sales that remain within our gallery from year to year.  To make your booking for your exhibition this year, call 01502 717191  or email: info@theupstairsgallery.co.uk
The Upstairs Gallery Team, The Upstairs Gallery, Exchange Square Beccles Suffolk NR34 9HH
www.theupstairsgallery.co.uk

The World in Great Yarmouth

Call for Participants

Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life are planning an exhibition for 2012 and are looking for people who would  like to share their story with our local museum.

Time and Tide museum was developed in consultation with local people to present their stories and ensure the community was at the heart of its displays. The diversity and richness of our community is forever growing and has developed significantly since the museum was first opened.

As a transient maritime community, changing and welcoming new influences is nothing new to Great Yarmouth. The presence of the port has long meant that people come and go with the boats and the seasons and trade relations across the North Sea, especially with Europe, have been important to the town’s prosperity. Sailors returning from world-wide journeys would bring back exotic objects, which have become part of the museum’s collections via the Sailors’ Home. At the height of the herring boom thousands of Scottish workers followed the fishing fleet to set up home here for the duration of the herring season.

For 2012 we are developing an exhibition to explore the journeys of people and objects to Norfolk, in particular, Great Yarmouth. The exhibition will reveal the paths those objects and people took to reach Great Yarmouth and celebrate the cultural diversity of our museum collections and the communities of our town.

We would like to tell the stories of more recent settlers, alongside objects which tell of Great Yarmouth’s historic cultural and trading exchanges taking the Olympic Values of Respect, Excellence and Friendship as our starting point. We want this exhibition to explore the world-wide cultural influences and histories that contribute to Great Yarmouth’s history and identity today.

We are looking for individuals, families and community groups who would like to share the story of their journeys to and lives in Great Yarmouth to form the core of the exhibition. We would like people to lend us something that is important to the story of their journey to display and share with others. We’d also like to interview as many people as possible to give them the opportunity to tell us why and how they came here and to present this an oral history. It would be wonderful to have photographs as well to add to the variety and colour of the exhibition. We plan to show all the contributions in our exhibition galleries alongside museum objects from our World Cultures collections. The exhibition will open at the end of March 2012 and run until the end of September.

If you or someone you know is interested in getting involved, please contact:
Alison Hall, Exhibitions Coordinator on 01493 743945 or email alison.hall@norfolk.gov.uk

Participants Submission form which can be copied and printed off, or alternatively, contact Alison at email address above to request an emailed or a hard copy.

Creative England Launches Film Networks Fund

Launched in October, Creative England is the first agency to provide dedicated support to film, television, games and digital and creative services in the English regions, outside London. The agency has recently opened the new Film Networks Fund.

Funding is available towards a range of activities including
•provision of editorial and technical support for emerging talent looking to produce work;
•delivery of networking;
•screening and industry speaker events and master classes; and
•provision of peer-to-peer support, mentoring, training and advice.

The Film Networks Fund is a fixed call with £150,000 to award in the current round. Awards will range from £2,500 to £25,000.

Applications can be made by
•legally constituted organisations operating in the English regions (outside Greater London); and
•legally constituted organisations operating outside the English regions that wish to develop and deliver activity in the English regions (outside Greater London)

The deadline for applications is midday on 30 January 2012.

For further information and to download application forms please visit: http://www.creativeengland.co.uk/news

Flintknappers wanted for the Hospital Arts Project

The Hospital Arts Project is looking for Flintknappers to join our Register of Artists!

Please forward your details to:

Emma Jarvis, Hospital Arts Coordinator, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Colney Lane, Norwich, NR4 7UY.

Email mailto://emma.jarvis@nnuh.nhs.uk/

‘Facing Hard Times’ – An International Open Exhibition

Don’t miss out on your chance to be part of an International Open Exhibition for contemporary art: ‘Facing Hard Times’.  An email version of the entry form is downloadable from http://www.barringtonarts.com/Events.html.  Deadline for submission is Thursday 8th Sept 2011.

Curated by Out-of-the-Box Independent Curators, this exciting international open art exhibition is to be held at Greyfriars Art Space in Kings Lynn, Norfolk for  two weeks from Saturday 1  to Sat 15 October 2011.

Led by curator Joa Manninen and artist Phil Barrington, OOTB Curators are looking for recent 2D works by artists in any medium, who particularly engage with social or economic issues; the broad concept of the exhibition is the impact of recent global economic crises on all our lives.

The resulting exhibition will also include the juried Best of Show Prize of £200 plus international publicity, a Best Emerging Artist Prize and all successful entrants have NO COMMISSION on any sales made of their work.

A very memorable Opening Event is also planned for the exhibition!

Click here for further information and entry form, or go to http://www.facebook.com/OOTB.Curators, or email to  joamanni@ulapland.fi

Alienation in the City 2, watercolour, 2011

26.009.11: In fact I decided to submit to this and had the above piece accepted.  The exhibition will run from 2nd – 15th October, 2011. Bridget Heriz

Waveney and Blyth Arts

New arts organisation, “Waveney & Blyth Arts”, got off to a flying start at its launch at The Cut arts centre in Halesworth in February 2011.

Over eighty creative individuals and members of arts organisations from music events producers to puppet, dance and theatre companies to writers, film-makers, artists and craftspeople came to The Cut to hear speakers, take part in discussions, pick up information and exchange ideas.

“Waveney & Blyth Arts” new President, author and naturalist Richard Mabey, got the day off to an inspiring start by talking about the Waveney and Blyth valleys’ distinctive identity and unique qualities.

The day’s schedule included a short AGM to elect the Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, eight Local Co-ordinators for Diss, Harleston, Bungay, Beccles, Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth, Southwold and Halesworth areas, and eight Substitutes. The Local Co-ordinators and their Substitutes will represent their town and surrounding area at future management committee meetings.  The Great Yarmouth Co-ordinator is Thom Bailey from St Georges Trust, Maritime House, 25 Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth. NR30 2EN  who can be contacted at thomas@stgeorgestheatre.com and the  deputy local coordinator is Steve Drummond who can be contacted at sjdrummond1975@gmail.com.

Membership to Waveney and Blyth Arts is £10 per annum for individuals and is free for organisations and associations.  Please click here  to go to the website for more details about what membership offers and how to apply.

To profile the Waveney and Blyth valleys through the arts, September has been allocated as the Celebration Month highlighting events at all locations within the Waveney and Blyth region, so if you have an event taking place in September, please let Waveney and Blyth Arts know.  Your event can then be included in publicity and reach a wider audience.

For more information about Waveney & Blyth Arts contact Jan Dungey, Secretary, by ringing her on 01986 895227, or emailing her on jan@ollandstreet.co.uk