Deadline – 16 January 2012, 5pm
Applications are now open for the 2012 Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists. The award offers performance opportunities to the best of the UK’s young musical talent, whilst providing an affordable and high-quality option to voluntary concert promoting groups seeking to hire soloists for their concerts.
Through the awards, artists gain valuable experience and exposure at a critical stage in their careers, while Making Music member promoters are given a subsidy to engage these top flight soloists.
Auditions will take place between 26 and 30 March 2012 at the Royal Academy of Music, London. To apply visit www.makingmusic.org.uk/ayca.
What do the world’s smallest solar-powered cinema, a 190-strong male voice choir, a community circus, and an organ preservation society have in common? They’ve all made the shortlist for the 2011 Epic Awards. And now’s your chance to vote for your favourites to win a People’s Choice award.
The Epic Awards have proven once again that the UK and Republic of Ireland are bursting with amateur arts and crafts talent. We’ve had entries from groups being creative in every way imaginable, from painting and film-making to Morris dancing and mixed-art festivals.
One of things that impressed us most was how many groups were using their skills and passions to improve life in their community, raise money for charity, help with health problems and tackle social issues.
The shortlisted entries are showcased on the Epic Awards website http://www.epicawards.co.uk/ and the public can vote for their favourites until mid-January when a People’s Choice winner from each country will be declared.
9th - 13th July 2012
Our Behind The Scenes Work Weeks are exciting opportunities for young people to spend a week observing, learning from and working with the professionals behind the scenes at the Royal Exchange.
This one-week course will comprise a series of workshops led by staff from across the Royal Exchange Theatre Company and will cover areas such as Sound, Lighting, Design, Marketing, Wardrobe, Writing, Stage Management, Casting, Make-up, Technical Theatre, Front of House and much more.
Further details including downloadable application forms are available here.
Closing date for applications is Friday 27th January 2012.
| August 17, 2011 6:00 pm | to | August 19, 2011 6:00 pm |
17th-19th August, 2012
The team from Mintfest, Lakes Alive, Streets Ahead and Feast have been chomping at the bit to announce that they are putting the cart a little before the horse with the UK’s first street-arts camping festival, Masquepony, in the beautiful surroundings of Cartmel Racecourse on the edge of the Lake District.
This will be a weekend packed with some of your favourite artists and performances from the UK and beyond – certainly eclectic and sometimes eccentric, live world music, dreamy delights and special shows. The weekend will feature about 70 different shows and the full programme will be announced in February but we can already confirm:
Osadia (Spain) – fantasy hairdressers
Quidams (France) – with the magical and ethereal ‘Herbert’s Dream’
Festival Circus in the Big Top
Firework opening from the fantastic pa-BOOM!
There’ll also be plenty of activities, delicious food stalls, bars, quality toilets, hot showers, power points for camper vans and a few surprises.
The programme will run from early evening Friday until Sunday evening, although the campsite will open on the Thursday afternoon (so you can enjoy a day out in the Lake District or stock up with delicious treats from the shops or food market in Cartmel) and will remain open until lunchtime on Monday.
Register at http://masqueponycatchtheworm.eventbrite.co.uk/
The new Greater Manchester Arts Health website has been developed as a useful information portal and one stop shop for information, documents and news about arts health and wellbeing for professionals working across the sectors.
The website can be found at www.greatermanchesterartshealth.org.uk
It features a comprehensive and growing searchable library primarily founded from a public health approach to arts and health. It is anticipated that it will build into a useful one stop shop for documents about arts and health for local authorities, arts, health and voluntary sectors. Contributions to the library are welcome at any time.
Although it has a Greater Manchester focus, much of the information on the website is relevant to a wider framework of arts and health in other settings and on a wider geographical footprint. Membership of the network is open to anyone working in arts and health locally, regionally, nationally or internationally.
Greater Manchester Arts Health Network promotes arts and cultural interventions as an integral part of the offer to address public health and health inequalities challenges. The positioning of the network within a wider GM Public Health Network builds critical cross sector understanding and support.
