Monday 18th January 2021, 1.30-3.30pm, Walsall Cultural Compact Strategic Planning Meeting with Lara Ratnaraja and Helga Henry. An afternoon of presentations and discussions designed to aid the Compact in its priority setting at a strategic level.
Caring Christmas at The People’s Studio. On Wednesday 23rd December 2020, Andre and his team opened The People’s Studio to homeless, disadvantaged and vulnerable people from across Walsall. Led by Bluuprint CIC, the People’s Studio’s Caring Christmas event successfully delivered a free food service, a Covid-secure Christmas grotto and arts workshop for younger guests to enjoy. With less than four weeks of planning, organising and coordinating, the team were able to serve over 100 households in need with free food parcels and essential items. Further details and some wonderful photographs of this event can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BQ97xuWLX- EJvxsSfG4cES9YG6ADM_IRfaTRfiencOk/edit#
The British Art Show 9 Learning Programme ‘Art Challenge’ Created by Flexus Dance Collective as part of their BAS 9 Partner School programme and open to all young aspiring visual artists in the West Midlands aged 11-21 years, the ‘Art Challenge’ is asking for creative responses to a given stimulus through the visual arts, inspiring expression and capturing the perceptions of young minds and imaginations. Entries can be in the form of drawing/painting/photography/film/digital art/ textiles. All entries will be exhibited as part of an ambitious visual & performing arts installation event in May 2021, with a selection of the visual art entries used as the artistic starting point for bespoke performing art projects. Contact Flexus for further information and registration form.
Deadline, Friday 22nd January.
Arts Connect has launched a one-stop-shop of listings of links and curated resources to key trusted sites, one list is there to provide guidance, advice, support and inspiration for arts and cultural organisations and freelancers, the other list is for educationalists, parents and all those involved in arts and creativity at home and at school. This page will be updated regularly and highlight West Midlands resources and advice as well as providing links to national and international resources and information, find it here.
DESIblitz.com, provides work and skills development opportunities for young people and has developed into the leading British Asian lifestyle/news magazine with over 4m website visits per annum. DESIblitz.com is looking for a highly skilled and focused Digital Marketing Manager to leverage its reach by developing its capacity and capability for both inbound and outbound marketing to increase sales and revenue and we are also looking for a bright and enthusiastic Digital
Marketing Assistant to provide day to day support to the Digital Marketing Manager. The deadline for both jobs is 31st January 2021 and full details and how to apply can be found here: Digital Marketing Assistant apply now ; Digital Marketing Manager apply now
Heritage fund is accepting small and medium project funding applications. Read more: heritagefund.org.uk/news/new-proje…
Spending Round Briefing: what it means for arts and cultural learning. On 25th November 2020, Rishi Sunak (Chancellor of the Exchequer) announced the details of this year’s Spending Round, meaning that he set the budgets for government departmental spending for 2021-2022. Policy and Practice round-up December 2020 – Cultural Learning Alliance
CLA Policy and Practice round-up December 2020. A range of reports highlighting the impact of Covid on children experiencing disadvantage; new Covid guidance from government; how to get involved in the UNESCO Futures of Education initiative; STEAM activities; and a DCMS report investigating the role of arts in improving health and wellbeing. Policy and Practice round-up December 2020 – Cultural Learning Alliance
Make a commitment to change with Stage Sight. Stage Sight’s vision is to create an off-stage workforce that is more reflective of our society today, inclusive of ethnicity, class and disability : www.stagesight.org
Creative Connection Commissions are now open: apply for between £500 and £2000 for a project in Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall or Wolverhampton. Last year, Creative Black Country (CBC) created a new strand of commissioned work to share creativity during lockdown and social distancing. CBC is bringing Creative Connections back for 2021 and are offering small commissions of £500 – £2000 for projects that develop creative activity with and for local communities in the Black Country. CBC is looking for creative, socially distanced/lockdown activities which bring fun, joy and creativity to local people in the Black Country and keep people connected. The deadline for submissions is midday on Monday 25th January 2021. Please find additional information here.
The Creative Industries Federation is conducting a new survey, which aims to analyse the impact of the pandemic over the last year, as well as assessing how resilient the creative industries are, and how leaving the European Union is affecting creative businesses and freelancers. CIF would be incredibly grateful if you could take 15 minutes to complete the survey and then share it with your network, so that it can strengthen its case to government on behalf of the UK’s creative industries.
