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 this year.

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 Chris Moore from St Georges Trust, Maritime House, 25 Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth. NR30 2EN   email mailto://chris.moore@newstgeorges.co.uk

A deputyis required to work with Chris  to represent Great Yarmouth and if you are interested in being involved, please get in touch with the Secretary, details below.

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

ELEMENTS, EASTERN REGION OPEN EXHIBITION

This is an important announcement from the NCAS exhibitions sub-committee! This year our main art exhibition will be an open exhibition for the Eastern Region, Elements: Material Worlds, mounted in partnership with the Forum Trust. This will continue our growing collaboration, which has seen us stage Making Faces (2006), NCA08, Photo-ID (2009) and NCA10 in The Forum, Norwich, and it follows the success of Elements: Man and the Environment shown in early 2010. The theme of the new exhibition is Material Worlds, offering artists the opportunity to submit work addressing a variety of ideas and concerns based around the theme.

The show will be chosen by an independent and expert selection panel (to be announced) and will be curated and hung by NCAS. It is open to all artists in the East of England region. The Forum Trust and Norfolk Contemporary Art Society (NCAS) are looking for recent works by artists who particularly engage with habitat, environment and both the natural and man-made world in their creative practice. The resulting exhibition will also include the juried Bayer Prize of £1000.

The exhibition will take place at The Forum from Tue 12 – Thu 28 July. The deadline for submissions is Friday 15 April 2011. Further information and a Submission form  can be found at: www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/events/elements-material-worlds