Get up early and share your experiences working as an arts freelancer at our informal breakfast club!
Join Lewisham Education Arts Network and the Albany at Deptford Lounge, 9 Giffin Street, SE8 4RJ between 08.30 and 10am to:
'10 Steps to a Successful Event' will give you the skills and knowledge you need to put on any event.
Event management is an exciting, fast paced and expanding industry that ANYONE can enter. The transferrable skills acquired through this master class can be applied to all careers and industries.
Date: Sat 23 June 2018
Time: 10:30am – 4pm
At: Canada Water Culture Space, 21 Surrey Quays Road, London, SE16 7AR
This Master Class is aimed at those who want to enhance their knowledge and skill set in event management.
The aim of our 10 Steps seminars is to provide people, regardless of industry, the support, contacts and resources required to deliver an event.
Attendees will cover the 10 following areas:
1. Managing Events
2. Planning an Event
3. Budget & Forward Planning
4. Venue Reconnaissance
5. Marketing & Promotion
‘Active You’ is a series of Beginners African and Caribbean Dance Classes aimed at our local community.
These sessions are aimed to provide a gentle introduction to physical activity for those in the community who are less active and interested in positive health.
‘Active You’ will ensure that participants become more active, meet new friends and learn some new dance steps along the way!
‘Active You’ will ensure that participants become more active, meet new friends and learn some new dance steps along the way!
We are running a series of dance classes aimed at 4 different groups within the community:
Active You – Youth
Aimed at young people aged between 11 and 16 these classes will allow young people to try a new style of dance to add to their ever growing list of talents.
Active You – Women
This free CPD session explores this partnership between four SEND schools and two cultural institutions and provides an opportunty to experience and understand the principles of multi - sensory teaching/pedagogy to access arts and culture.
Date: Wednesday the 16th May
Time: 4.30- 6pm
At: The Lyric Theatre, King Street, London, W6 0QL
The West London Inclusive Arts Festival was a collbaoration between 4 London Special Schools, The Lyric Hammersmith and the Wallace Collection.
Hosted as part of Westminster Special Schools' Residency at the Lyric Hammersmith this session is led by A New Direction Advocate, teacher and artist Paul Morrow. Paul is the author of the Cultural Inclusion Manifesto and particpants on this CPD session are invited to join the first launch event for the Manifesto at the Lyric Hammersmith from 6.30-8.00.
Join the October Gallery for an evening of inspiring teaching, ideas and examples of activities.
Date: Mon, June 11, 2018
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
At: October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, WC1N 3AL
With the incredible educator Ney Da Silva-Reed, we will be exploring and sharing innovative ways of teaching in the gallery specifically with school groups and discussing the role of the museum/gallery within learning outside of the classroom.
The Rio Ferdinand Foundation are offering a free course for the OCNLR Level 1 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for 14-24 year olds this June and July.
Course length
1 day for 6 hours / e.g. 10am - 4pm)
Attendance numbers
Minimum 16 – 20 max participants per course
Who is it for?
This qualification is aimed at helping young people develop their skills as local community leaders and peer mentors. It will help young people to understand what is meant by equality and diversity and their role in promoting inclusion.
Learning outcomes:
Valuing equality and diversity in society
A Churchill Fellowship is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand your professional and personal horizons and, crucially, make a difference to communities and professions across the UK.
It begins with a travel grant for you to spend up to two months overseas, researching innovative practice on a topic of your choice. This is not an academic study, it’s a practical exploration of how things work in other countries, yielding global insights that can be brought back to the UK to influence change here.
Panic! Social Class, Taste and Inequalities in the Creative Industries is the first sociological study on social mobility in the cultural industries, and was released by Create London and Arts Emergency on April 16th, 2018.
The paper is part of the wider Panic! project initiated in 2015,which investigates social mobility and inequality within the cultural and creative industries in the UK.
Led by academics Drs Dave O’Brien, Orian Brook, and Mark Taylor from the Universities of Edinburgh and Sheffield, the paper highlights the significant exclusions of those from working class origins, women and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds across the cultural and creative industries, which include the arts, music, publishing, advertising and IT.
Dance Umbrella is embarking on a 20 month residency in partnership with Croydon Council. We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, articulate individual to work with a range of stakeholders in the borough to devise an imaginative programme of dance engagement and participation for children and young people. The residency will culminate in Dance Umbrella launching the 2019 Festival in a weekend takeover at Fairfield Hall.
Deadline: Wednesday 16th May, 5pm
LAHF is seeking a visual artist to help document its annual festival Creativity and Wellbeing Week. The artist will be expected to attend between 2 and 4 key events in the festival and capture them visually in a way which can be recreated digitally. This documentation will sit alongside the organisation’s evaluation of the week and will be used to summarise the festival and help with communication for future development of the festival.
Deadline: 20 May 2018
We are open to artists who work in a range of ways including scribing, illustration, cartoon, photography, painting and sketching. The artist will need to be available on at least 2 days in London in Creativity and Wellbeing Week (4-10 June).
Fee for this work £500 (inclusive)
RefugeeYouth is an organisation dedicated to tackling the isolation experienced by young people who are forced to navigate an increasingly difficult immigration and asylum system, often on their own.
We are looking for someone with excellent team leadership and organisational development skills, who has a passion for working with young people who are creating change in their lives.
Deadline: 21 May 2018
You must be a great communicator, highly organised, good at planning, sourcing funding and resources, and willing to be flexible, working evenings and weekends where necessary.
You will have an understanding of the issues facing young people who are experiencing the UK immigration and asylum system and we’re actively encouraging people who have been through this experience themselves to apply.
This is an exciting role at a time of change for RefugeeYouth – you could make all the difference by applying your excellent skills when you join our committed team!
Youth Music are a national charity investing in music-making projects for children and young people experiencing challenging circumstances.
We believe everyone should have the chance to make music. Our projects help young people develop musically, of course, but they have personal and social outcomes too.
The Programme Coordinator will ensure the smooth running of Youth Music’s grants programme and provide effective office administration.
Deadline: 1 June 2018
You will coordinate the funding decision-making panel meetings, grantholder meetings and events; administer the grant payment process; and be the first port of call for daily queries from prospective applicants and current grantholders.
Essential
Madcap Coalition are a voluntary community creative project, a [not-for-profit] registered charitable business. We offer free, family-friendly inclusive urban village fêtes & carnival arts and event equipment & tent hire . We also operate a time-bank exchange & in return offer reduced rates & access to our resources & facilities, experience & expertise to community groups & voluntary organisations delivering local festivals & community events.
All income generated from hiring our tents & equipment contributes to our overheads, predominantly our warehouse rent, maintenance of equipment, purchase of materials, tools & equipment, admin costs & volunteer expenses.
All enquiries welcome for hiring the complete Madcap Urban Village Fete tailored to suit your needs [incl. site plan, risk assessment, licences, programming, carnival arts].
This conference at Museum of London Docklands aims to reflect upon, and gather responses to, the London, Sugar & Slavery gallery ten years after its installation. It will feature academic papers and creative responses related to themes exhibited in the gallery, as well as workshop sessions to discuss how the gallery could be used and developed in the future.
Date: Saturday 19 May 2018
Time: 9.30am - 5.30pm
At: Museum of London Docklands
Exploring the multiple modes of expression within facilitation practice: How do we train Designers, Managers, Makers and Artists to use their specialism to empower others?
Date: Friday 15 June 2018
Time: 9.30am-3.30pm
At: The Ugly Duck, 49 Tanner Street, SE1 3PL
As we know Applied Theatre is a term used to describe drama and theatre practice which is used in an education or community setting for transformative purposes. Whether one trains directly in applied theatre or as an actor with skills in contemporary community practice such work requires an understanding of facilitation techniques.
Phoenix Community Housing is inviting tenders for Freelance Artists for delivery of five arts projects for 8-12 year olds, in July and August 2018, in the London Borough of Lewisham (Bellingham, Beckenham Hill and Downham).
Fee: £200 per day inclusive of VAT (pro rata where applicable), duration varies (see briefs)
Deadline: 12 noon, Monday 21 May 2018
Interviews: Tuesday 29 May & Thursday 31 May 2018
Young Promoters is a project for 13-19 year olds, managed by Phoenix Community Housing in association with Bellingham Regeneration Arts Group. This project is funded by AND (A New Direction) London Cultural Education Challenge and Phoenix Community Housing. The group was set up to advise on, produce, promote and help deliver arts projects and cultural events for a wider group of young people (8-19yrs) in their own neighbourhoods.
LAHF is seeking a visual artist to help document its annual festival Creativity and Wellbeing Week. The artist will be expected to attend between 2 and 4 key events in the festival and capture them visually in a way which can be recreated digitally. This documentation will sit alongside the organisation’s evaluation of the week and will be used to summarise the festival and help with communication for future development of the festival.
Deadline: 20 May 2018
We are open to artists who work in a range of ways including scribing, illustration, cartoon, photography, painting and sketching. The artist will need to be available on at least 2 days in London in Creativity and Wellbeing Week (4-10 June).
Fee for this work £500 (inclusive)
RefugeeYouth is an organisation dedicated to tackling the isolation experienced by young people who are forced to navigate an increasingly difficult immigration and asylum system, often on their own.
We are looking for someone with excellent team leadership and organisational development skills, who has a passion for working with young people who are creating change in their lives.
Deadline: 21 May 2018
You must be a great communicator, highly organised, good at planning, sourcing funding and resources, and willing to be flexible, working evenings and weekends where necessary.
You will have an understanding of the issues facing young people who are experiencing the UK immigration and asylum system and we’re actively encouraging people who have been through this experience themselves to apply.
This is an exciting role at a time of change for RefugeeYouth – you could make all the difference by applying your excellent skills when you join our committed team!
