Enabling: Digital Development in the Arts, one of Bolton Council Arts Development‘s series of one-day conferences designed to support the growth of arts organisations in the region, succeeded in trending in Manchester on Twitter with the hashtag #enabol.
Photo: Andy Whitehead
Taking place on 21st February 2012, the event was delivered by Events Northern and chaired by Patrick Hussey, Digital Manager for Arts & Business who was recently name checked by Ed Vaisey at his State of the Arts conference speech for his breakthrough work on cultural algorithms.
Speakers and workshop leaders included (L-R in photo): Marcus Lilley-Marcus Lilley Consultancy, Tamar Millen-Community Media Association (front), Karen Shannon-Lets Go Global (back), Esko Reinekainen-self-described government hacker, Sam Elliott-Bolton Libraries & Museums, Graham Mallinson-D2 Digital (back), Patrick Hussey-Arts & Business, Richard Lace-Prescap, Liz Hardwick-freelance digital trainer, Paul Oliver-University of Bolton.
- Photo: Andy Whitehead www.andywhiteheadphotography.com
The day was a great success with inspirational ideas, new theory and plenty of practical tips for artists, arts and community organisations to get started with digital strategy or use further innovation in their current practice. There was even a brand new event app for Android and Apple.
A web page with full details of speaker presentations, a multitude of resources and handy links will be available soon here.
You can also read an excellent blog article on the conference from Marcus Lilley here.
Watch this space for follow-on workshops in the summer.
An exciting new service has been launched for anyone involved with amateur groups. Running Your Group is a web-based resource designed to give people all the tools they need to start up, fund, market and manage their organisation. Running Your Group provides a number of packages, from a free quick reference tool to in-depth interactive guides.
Running Your Group has been launched by Voluntary Arts – the national development agency for the voluntary and amateur arts – who identified the need for clear, up-to-date and expert information to help group leaders with issues such as securing funding and the recruitment of new members.
The service has four levels of subscription. The first level is completely free of charge and includes a range of resources and localised weekly enews. To celebrate the launch of Running Your Group, the first 100 subscribers receive special discounts on the premium subscriptions. Try it for yourself at www.runningyourgroup.org
| June 14, 2012 9:00 am | to | July 28, 2012 5:00 pm |
About the prize:
neo:artprize is an open exhibition inviting work in any media from artists of all ages and nationalities who practice contemporary visual art in the UK. The prize aims to support artists and to bring to Bolton the best contemporary art from across the UK.
Works are selected anonymously from an open submission by the independent jury, who also award the main prizes.
Deadline for online submissions, midnight Sunday 13th May 2012
Jury: (selection and curating)
Kwong Lee (Castlefield Gallery)
Aileen McEvoy – former Executive Director at Arts Council England
Prizes:
1 – neo:artprize: £1000
2 – GreatArt Prize: £500 vouchers
3 – Ken Bromley Prize: £200 vouchers
additional prizes will be listed soon….
The exhibition:
The exhibition will run from 14th June – 28th July 2012 and will be held at:
neo:gallery22
The Market Place,
Bolton,
BL1 2AL
To register, see http://www.neoartists.co.uk/artprize.asp
For terms and conditions, see http://www.neoartists.co.uk/artprize_terms.asp
Without Walls invites artists and companies from any discipline to propose ideas for the development of new outdoor work for presentation in 2013.
Without Walls is a consortium of 8 UK arts festivals who work together to deliver an annual programme of new outdoor arts by British artists.Since 2007 we have supported 45 companies and delivered 31 new commissions, reaching an audience of over 1.3 million people. With support of Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts we are continuing our programme into 2012 and 2013 with a new programme of commissions and research and development support for artists.
Research and Development Support
We have a limited budget to invest in Research and Development support for artists. We recognise that ambitious new work takes time to bring to fruition and that artists can benefit from the opportunity to explore new ideas as part of the development process, before committing to a production. We also know that this type of planning process can assist with fundraising for a new project and that it can be a useful way of engaging commissioners, supporters and partners in new work.
Eligibility and Guidance
Without Walls exists to support the development of new and ambitious work by UK artists; we can support projects that are developed in association with International Artists but the lead partner on the project must be based in the UK. Please do read our request for ambitious work as a reference to the quality of your ideas and the development of your artistic practice rather than as a reference to scale.
We encourage proposals from culturally diverse and deaf and disabled artists.
We are looking for work from all disciplines and genre. We are looking for work that is innovative and ambitious and challenges the idea of what outdoor arts can be.
We are looking for work from all scales from small to large scale work.
The work must be suitable for touring. The pieces we support need to be suitable for both civic, urban spaces and park sites/ suburban locations. The festivals take place in a range of locations across the UK, so the ideas proposed must be suitable for touring to a minimum of 4 consortium members and other festivals in addition to the Without Walls partners. We are keen to ensure that the work we support will have a touring life after it has been presented at Without Walls festivals.
If your idea is based around a specific site, community, targeted age group or geographical location, please give details.
Proposals for work could be adaptable in scale, be suitable for daytime and/or evening presentation and may also include promenade or processional based elements.
R+D Award
We expect to invest between £2000 – £5000 in each research and development award. We hope that several of the projects we support with an R+D award will be supported by Without Walls in the next stage of its development for production and presentation in 2013.
Deadline for submission of proposals is: Wednesday 4th April 2012, 5pm
The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) has announced that the first application round to participate in study visits for educational and vocational training specialists and decision-makers is open now. Eligible specialists can apply for the study visits that will take place between September 2012 and February 2013.
130 study visits will take place in 30 European countries and will cover a number of topics of common interest to those responsible for educational and vocational training policies at local, regional and national levels as well as to providers of education and vocational training and the social partners. People from all areas of education and training can take part. This includes those working in Government, local authorities, schools, colleges, adult education organisations, trade unions, companies, sectoral organisations, the voluntary sector and non-governmental organisations.
Interested candidates should consult national agencies in their countries and submit their applications online at the study visits website by 12 noon Central European Time on the 30th March 2012. For more information visit: http://tinyurl.com/7hctfdv
