Creative Arts East is offering young people the opportunity to perform at a Showcase Event during the Money, Employment & Learning Fair as part of the somewhereto_ project at The Forum, Norwich on Wed. 25 January 2012 from 10am – 4pm!

The Showcase offers 16-25 year olds somewhereto_ perform their comedy, music, magic, acting, performing, dancing, whatever their act, to a fresh audience in the centre of Norwich!

This is an AMAZING opportunity for young people to get their performance seen, and there will also be an opportunity to have 1:1 guidance sessions with an industry expert. Please share this information with young people and forward it to any relevant contacts, as we don’t want any young performers to miss the opportunity to perform!

Amplification is prohibited at this event.

If you would like more information about the Showcase, or to pre-book a slot please e-mail Elly Wilson at elly@somewhereto.org

somewhereto_ is a nationwide project, inspired by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, to help young people find the space they need to do the things they love within sport, culture and the arts. somewhereto_ is run by Livity, a youth engagement agency, in media partnership with Channel 4 Education and funded by Legacy Trust UK. Creative Arts East is the Regional Coordinator for the East. ‘somewhereto_Showcase’ Events are supported by the Norfolk Community Foundation.

www.somewhereto.com

Press & PR Manager (full-time; permanent)
Salary in the range £22,000-£27,000 pa
Working with the Director of Communications, to take the lead role in the planning and implementation of the press and public relations strategy for all activities of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival.

Marketing Manager (part-time – 22½ hours per week; fixed term Jan/Feb-August 2012)
Salary in the range £22,000-£27,000 pa pro rata
Working with the Director of Communications, and with other members of the Communications team, to take an active role in the planning and implementation of the marketing strategy for all activities of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival including 2012 Norfolk & Norwich Festival (11-26 May), the Festival’s two London 2012 Festival projects and a number of Participation and Engagement projects.

Application Process
Further information about both these posts and an application pack(s) are available from  the N&NF website www.nnfestival.org.uk. The closing deadline for receipt of completed applications is 9.30 am Friday 9 December.
Interviews will be held in Norwich on Wednesday 14 December (Marketing Manager) and Friday 16 December (Press & PR Manager).

New volunteer run organisation, “Waveney & Blyth Arts”, has been awarded a £9,349 grant from the Big Lottery Fund’s Awards for All programme.

The grant will mean that the organisation will be able to get posters and booklets designed and printed to publicise 16 short “creative” walks along the Waveney and Blyth valleys that will take place between Saturday 3rd and Sunday 18th September this year.

It will also mean that Waveney & Blyth Arts will be able to pay sessional fees to creative professionals to provide free creative activities on the walk routes.

As well as the walks the grant money will pay for a new, multimedia, web site, a camera and computer for shared use, and training for volunteers to learn how to make multimedia features for a new online monthly Waveney & Blyth multimedia arts magazine.

“We are thrilled with the grant” said Waveney & Blyth Arts secretary Jan Dungey. “Great Yarmouth and Waveney NHS are helping us organise the free walks – that will be strolls rather than hikes! – so that children and adults of all ages and abilities get the chance to enjoy the wonderful Waveney and beautiful Blyth – and be creative en route!”

The grant will also benefit the 200 or so creative community organisations in and around Diss, Harleston, Bungay, Beccles, Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth in the Waveney valley and Halesworth and Southwold in the Blyth valley who will be able to get free multimedia features made about their work and published online in the new Waveney and Blyth monthly multimedia magazine.

Jan added: “The Waveney and Blyth valleys are crammed with creative

talent, from the visual artists who take part in the Harleston & Waveney Art Trail, to the people who perform in Diss Corn Hall, the Fisher Theatre in

Bungay, The Cut in Halesworth, the Seagull Theatre in Lowestoft and venues galore in Great Yarmouth, to the singers in choral societies and bands, to poets, novelists and other creative writers, to circus performers, storytellers and puppeteers!

We hope the grant will help promote all these and put the Waveney and Blyth valleys firmly on the creative map”.

Addenbrooke’s Arts is inviting submissions from artists working in sculpture for consideration for future commissions. Submissions will be retained as reference for future projects on the Cambridge University Hospitals campus.

Addenbrooke’s Arts is the arts project for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a large teaching hospital on the southern edge of Cambridge. The hospital serves the local community and is also a regional and national centre for excellence in healthcare.

Artwork and sculpture displayed in the hospital has the potential to dramatically improve the experience of patients, staff and visitors and so it is important that the selection process is done with the utmost of care and sensitivity. We endeavour to provide a wide variety of artwork, but when submitting your proposals please consider the limitations (of form and content) that are placed on artwork by being sited within a healthcare setting.

This opportunity is designed for sculptors working with different material and creating work on a range of scales for display internally and externally. It is not for a specific commission but selected artists may be invited approached to discuss specific possibilities for commissioning work for the hospital.

Please email your contact details, artist statement, a few photos of your work (small memory JPEG format appreciated) to arts@addenbrookes.nhs.uk

As the UK’s biggest professional bicycle race and a centrepiece of the British sporting calendar the event will receive massive media coverage in the UK, and around the world, presenting a major opportunity  for Norfolk artists, arts and cultural organisations to profile their work, promote special events and encourage new audiences. A website including dedicated pages and links for each district area is in development. To find out more about what is being planned in your local area and how you can get involved contact Fiona Roberts, Tour of Britain Manager for Norfolk : fiona.roberts@norfolk.gov.uk

Following the popularity of  The Artist in Our Midst series of books, Green Pebble are planning a new series celebrating the living artists who so richly depict the people and scenes of East Anglia. The first book in the new series will be on the People of East Anglia and is due to be published this year.

These books will represent a permanent record reflecting the skill, perspicacity and sensitivity of our local artists. The reader will be able to observe life as seen through an artist’s eyes, engage with the artists’ perspective and empathise with the subject; our heritage as created and captured by our artistic neighbours.

If you are a professional artist with strong ties to East Anglia and have produced work on the people or scenes of East Anglia, you may qualify for inclusion in the book. Selection will be curated and a modest fee will apply.

For more details, please email mailto://michael@greenpebble.co.uk for an information pack. Please make the subject of your email “As the artist sees – people” or “As the artist sees – place”.

Des Barrit, who took part in the National Tour and is playing the role of Hector,  will be taking a master class.

Sheilagh Pascall is directing this performance and is looking for a bunch of bright, funny and enthusiastic individuals to take on the roles of the History Boys.

Auditions are to be held on Saturday 16th January at 7.00pm. Anyone interested  can contact the theatre on 01493 662832 or turn up on the evening.  To go to the Gorleston Pavilion Theatre website click here.

Voluntary Arts England is the national development agency for arts participation, raising awareness of the contribution that the voluntary and amateur arts and crafts make to the well-being of communities, social inclusion, lifelong learning, active citizenship and volunteering. 

For example, there is useful information about Grassroots Grants which has funded thousands of projects, from sports for the disabled to arts for older people, activities for young people, counselling services, employment programmes, food parcel services, music groups and village halls. It is these small, volunteer led groups that make a real difference to the lives of local people, and often a small amount of money can go a long way.

To view the wealth of information available on the website click here.