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Artists’ Advisor e-group bulletin 292

Artists’ Advisor e-group bulletin 292

1/ EMERGING ARTIST AWARD/DIGITAL STAGES 2011
2/ CR8NET
3/ TAMASHA OPPORTUNITIES
4/ CLARENCE MEWS
5/ TRAINEE PRODUCTION ASSISTANT/OVALHOUSE THEATRE

1/ EMERGING ARTIST AWARD/DIGITAL STAGES 2011

Emerging Artist Award 2011 – as part of Digital Stages Festival 2011

The Digital Stages Emerging Artist Award will celebrate the work of emerging artists which demonstrate an exploration of any area of digital performance. We invite submissions for artworks which explore new media in the context of performative installation art and use digital technology as an integral part of the creative/presentation process.

Artworks must be able to be installed within a gallery space and have a durational or looping timing. Artists must be based in East London and have been showing professional works for less than five years. Artworks must not have been created as part of an undergraduate or post-graduate degree project.

For further information and details of how to apply contact
emerging@digitalstagesfestival.co.uk

Submission Deadline: February 11, 2011

2/ CR8NET

Event: Cr8net
Location: Royal Institution of Great Britain, Mayfair
Date: Thursday 24 March 2011
Time: 9.30am – 5pm

A conference for the creative industries especially for those whose role it is to support and develop others, Cr8net will bring together leaders in the sector from across the globe to discuss the pressure points of the industry.

The one-day conference – one of the most significant gatherings of industry practitioners, policy makers and businesses ever held – will be taking place in the prestigious Royal Institution of Great Britain in Mayfair.

Compered by Natasha Kaplinsky, formerly of Channel 5 News, Cr8net will be hosting Dr Richard Florida, best-selling author of The Great Reset and The Rise of the Creative Class, Director, Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Founder, Creative Class Group in what will be his first ever keynote speech in London.

More than 10 speakers including Feargal Sharkey, CEO UK Music, John Howkins, author of the 2001 best-seller, The Creative Economy, and John Newbigin, Chair of Creative England are lined up to address the creative industries and debate on key topics including ‘Big Society and Creativity’, ‘Thriving in a cold funding climate’, ‘Arts and Cultural Degrees at that price, who needs them?’ and ‘the IP Review’.

“Cr8net aims to set the tone for a renewed relationship between Government and creative industries support agencies like CIDA, highlighting the importance of creative minds supporting creative minds to the Big Society and the economy”. Toks Majek-Akisanya, CIDA’s Operations Manager.

Full details available at www.cr8net.com

3/ TAMASHA OPPORTUNITIES

Mulberry School for Girls.

Tamasha in collaboration with Mulberry School for Girls in east London is inviting applications for 8 playwrights for a pilot attachment scheme running February - May 2011.

This is an opportunity to create a new piece of writing and develop practical workshop skills in a school environment.

The scheme will be overseen and dramaturged by Mulberry playwright-in-residence and Tamasha Associate Writer, Fin Kennedy. There will also be input from Tamasha Associate Filmmaker Tanya Singh, including the opportunity to develop multimedia performance ideas.

This is a unique opportunity to develop a relationship with both organisations, learn some practical workshop skills from experienced practitioners, and develop a new piece of writing (10-15 mins long) for and about a specific inner London community. A small bursary and some training will be provided.

For the full brief and application forms please email admin@tamasha.org.uk with “Tamasha/Mulberry pilot scheme” in the subject line, or contact Felicity at the office on 020 7633 2270.

Open to artists from all cultural backgrounds
Deadline for applications: Monday 31st January at 5pm

‘Small Lives Global Ties’ Writer’s Group

Tamasha is looking for ten experienced writers to join a new writers group for a period of 4 months (February to May 2011), to collectively explore and feed into a central theme running through our current projects - ‘small lives, global ties’.

It is hoped that by collectively examining this theme, the writers group shall pioneer writings that succeed in demonstrating the complexities of contemporary British culture by focusing upon that which is particular. Tamasha is keen to provide a space to develop personal, nuanced voices, yet reach outwards to the broader theatrical and political landscape.

This opportunity is open to all writers who have experience of writing for performance (poets, playwrights/scriptwriters, lyricists, etc.), however you must be able to demonstrate your capacity for culturally specific writing, in its broadest sense.

Collaboration

Writers forming the group shall contribute in informing the direction of work explored, whilst also being lead by Tamasha’s associate artists Avaes Mohammad (playwright, poet, performer) and Kuldip Powar (film-maker). This collaboration shall engage in a call and response with the writer’s group, providing audio/visual as well as text based provocations, seeking to creatively ignite writer’s responses through alternative means. As well as leading the writer’s group, Avaes and Kuldip shall also be embarking upon a creative collaboration of their own exploring the same theme and as such will be sharing the results of their partnership amongst members of the writers group. Web-presence in the form of a Blog shall be created to document and share work with one another and also facilitate creative conversations between members.

For the full brief and application forms please email admin@tamasha.org.uk with “Small Lives Global Ties Writers Group” in the subject line or contact Felicity at the office on 020 7633 2270.

Open to artists from all cultural backgrounds
Deadline for applications: Monday 31st January at 5pm

Tamasha Theatre Company
Unit 220
30 Great Guildford Street
London SE1 0HS
020 7633 2270
020 7021 0421
admin@tamasha.org.uk
W: www.tamasha.org.uk

4/ CLARENCE MEWS

INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCIES Spring 2011 April 4th – May 16th
CREATE WORK IN 7 DAYS

Personal studio time combines with work-in-progress meetings. The 7 days culminates in an evening studio presentation, and a post-residency mentoring session with Caroline Salem.

2 or 3 artists/companies per week
25 or 36 studio hours per artist/company
Work-in-progress meetings
Post residency mentoring
Studio presentation for an invited audience
Access to garden, kitchen, Wi-Fi
Live-in accommodation available

'Residency for 2' Full Cost: £370 Supported Cost: £250 per artist/company per week

'Residency for 3' Full Cost: £260 Supported Cost: £180 per artist/company per week

APPLICATIONS are invited from artists/companies working within or across all disciplines (dance, performance theatre, music, circus etc.) who are committed to pushing the boundaries of their own process and practice within a mutually supportive context. Artists at different stages of their careers, and with a diversity of obsessions and processes, are all welcome. DEADLINE for Supported Cost: Feb 14th 2011.

APPLY AS AN INDIVIDUAL OR WITH OTHERS as a ‘2’ or ‘3’ (please send your applications together).

APPLY FOR SEVEN DAYS OR MULTIPLE WEEKS

For more information and an application form, please contact:

CAROLINE SALEM 07871190500 / frith.salem@virgin.net.
SPACE @ Clarence Mews E5

5/ TRAINEE PRODUCTION ASSISTANT/OVALHOUSE THEATRE

Trainee Production Assistant

Closing date for applications:
2 February 2011

Interviews will be held: wk commencing 7 Feb 2011

Oval House Theatre offers a trainee Production Assistant placement, supporting the work of the Theatre Department and specifically working on LONDON via LAGOS, Oval House Theatre’s summer season of three new plays by British Nigerian writers. The position is ideally suited to someone with an interest in producing or theatre administration.

The placement is full-time, for a fixed period of 10 weeks, starting on 21 February 2011 and terminating on 6 May 2011.

It is paid at the CIPD’s recommended training wage of £100 per week.
Oval House Theatre is committed to on-the-job training. You will be working in a busy office, supporting an exciting new theatrical venture through providing administrative, production and marketing assistance to the Director of Theatre and Project Manager.

To apply
Send a covering letter (no more than 2 pages A4) and your CV to:
Sarah Cook
Theatre Manager

Email:
sarah.cook@ovalhouse.com

Oval House Theatre
52-54 Kennington Oval
London
SE11 5SW

Michael Atavar
Artists’ Advisor
Oval House
0207 582 0080

http://www.ovalhouse.com/artists/
 

Posted by Michael Atavar, Friday 21st January, 2011