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In this issue: Momart Fellowship 2002 Wellcome Trust Artist in Residence Ernest Cook Trust Educational Grants Bay Lit 2002 New web-based information for the music industry Wales Millennium Centre update Euroscript Film Story Competition Part time lectureships in Creative Writing Eggplant Literary Productions call for genre work Umbrella Art Group New gallery opens in Wrexham Oxo Peugeot Design Awards Digital Visions Welsh Short Film Commissions Free training - Women's Enterprise Wales The Bigger Picture - free one day course Who Supports the Arts? NALGAO Conference 2002 Arts and Entertainment learning advice line ACW New Schemes Bristol Animation Festival Industry Day --------------------------------------------------- Momart Fellowship 2002 Classification - Funding The Momart Fellowship consists of a grant of 8,000, plus studio space at Tate Liverpool. The fellowship lasts 6 months, is open to artists who have been resident in the UK for 10 years and will start in this Autumn. For further details send an SAE to the address below. Contact Info: Momart Fellowship 2002, Ref. C, Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 4BB Deadline Date - 6th May 2002 --------------------------------------------------- Wellcome Trust Artist in Residence Classification - Funding Submissions are invited from artists with an interest in biomedical science for two six-month residencies. A fee of 11,500 plus studio accomodation is attached. To qualify, you must have completed a postgraduate degree in visual arts between 1997-2002 and be eligible to work in the UK. Contact Info: Sarah Wang, Exhibitions Department, The Wellcome Trust, 210 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE email: artistinresidence@wellcome.ac.uk website: www.wellcome.ac.uk/artistinresidence Deadline Date - 29th April 2002 --------------------------------------------------- Ernest Cook Trust Educational Grants Classification - Funding This grant-making trust supports the educational aspects of conservation and the rural environment, the arts, crafts and architecture, education and young people and research into all these areas. The next deadline for grants over 3,000 is 31/08/02 but smaller grants can be applied for throughout the year. Contact Info: The Ernest Cook Trust, The Estate Office, Fairford Park, Fairford, Gloucestershire GL7 4JH. tel: 01285 713273 fax: 01285 711692 email: grants@ernestcooktrust.org.uk website: www.ernestcooktrust.org Deadline Date - 31st August 2002 --------------------------------------------------- New web-based information for the music industry Classification - Business A major new web-based information service for the music industry was launched in February 2002. META aims to provide '' a one stop resource for anyone who lives, works and breathes music''. The site includes lists of small venues, information about promoters and business contacts, funding for music activities in every area of the UK, as well as pages of practical advice on many aspects of the music industry. META also aims to provide a forum for all those working in music in the UK to have a voice. The information resource has also been set up to aid partner organisations who can upload its data for free and publish it on their own websites. Contact Info: website: www.metamusic.org.uk No Deadline --------------------------------------------------- Bay Lit 2002 Classification - Marketing The Academi's second festival of literature will take place in Cardiff Bay over the weekend of 19-21 April 2002. Poets, novelists, photographers, singers, historians and storytellers will celebrate the cutting edge of writing in the twenty first century. The Academi is now the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for writers and represents writers, readers and writing across a broad front. It runs competitions, conferences, readings, and other activities through a network of field and development officers. The Academi has offices in Llanstumdwy, Ruthin and Swansea in addition to the main office in Cardiff. Contact Info: Academi, Mount Stuart House, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff CF10 5FQ tel: 029 2047 2266 fax: 029 20 49 2930 email: post@academi.org website: www.academi.org Deadline Date - 21st April 2002 --------------------------------------------------- Euroscript Film Story Competition Classification - Training Open to all screenwriters, whether new or experienced. Euroscript look for new talent; selected writers go on to receive free development assistance by working with an experienced script consultant for nine months. Stories can be in any genre which will appeal to a contemporary audience. Ideas will be accepted as 4 page treatments, narrating the entire story. You will also need to send a 10 page sample of any completed screenplay you have written. All applicants will be invited to attend a free workshop in June 2002 in London on ''How to improve your treatment''. Copyright for the screenplay developed through Euroscript remains with the writer.Since ceasing its involvement with the European Media II programme Euroscript now works solely with English language material. There are two competition calls each year. Contact Info: Euroscript, Suffolk House, 1-8 Whitfield Place London W1P 5SF email: info@euroscript.co.uk website: www.euroscript.co.uk Deadline Date - 30th April 2002 --------------------------------------------------- Wales Millennium Centre update Classification - Business The National Assembly for Wales recently gave the go ahead for the funding of the multi-million pound Wales Millennium Centre, an arts centre complex to be situated in Cardiff Bay. The Arts Council of Wales has awarded the project 10 million of capital funding; other major contributors include the National Assembly and the Millennium Commission, who have awarded 37 million and 31 million respectively. A further 10 of private finance has also been secured. Wales Millennium Centre Ltd was set up in 1997, aiming to create a focal point for Welsh culture, identity and talent. The Centre will provide facilities for the preparation, rehearsal and performance of opera, drama, dance and other performing arts, also platforms for film screenings, the creation of poetry and prose, and space for workshops, lecturers, seminars and courses. A number of leading Welsh creative sector organisations, including Diversions Dance, Academi, Welsh National Opera, Urdd Gobaith Cymru and Ty Cerdd will eventually be based within the complex. Contact Info: website: www.wmc.org.uk No Deadline --------------------------------------------------- Part time lectureships in Creative Writing Classification - Business Cardiff University is looking for part time associate lecturers in creative writing to take up posts in autumn 2002. Specialists in all genres with university teaching experience, significant writing credentials or strong indications of potential will be considered. Cardiff University houses one of the Uk's oldest creative writing programmes, which includes an MA in the Teaching and Practice of Creative Writing, MPhil in Creative writing and a PhD in Creative and Critical writing. Informal email inquries are welcome. Contact Info: Dr Laura Ramey, Convenor of Creative Writing, Cardiff University, PO Box 94, Cardiff CF10 3XB fax: 029 20 874 647 email: RameyL@cardiff.ac.uk website: www.cardiff.ac.uk Deadline Date - 1st September 2002 --------------------------------------------------- Eggplant Literary Productions call for genre work Classification - Marketing Eggplant Literary Productions/ Jintsu Electronic Texts has started publishing novella length genre work of 20-40,000 words. All type of speculative fiction are welcome. Reprints will be considered in some cases, but you are advised to query first before submitting. No advances are offered but the company pays a 50% royalty on books sales for First Electronic Rights. They purchase an exclusitivity period of 18 months, after which time the author can request to be removed from their catalogue or kept on under a non -exclusive agreement. Online submissions only. Contact Info: website: www.eggplant-productions.com/jintsu No Deadline --------------------------------------------------- Umbrella Art Group Classification - Marketing Umbrella was formed as a non-profit making organization by a dynamic and diverse group of contemporary artists living in Wales in June 2001. Umbrella is a much needed platform for newly graduated artists, unemployed artists and artists in the early stages of their careers. If you would like to become involved with an organisation committed to improving the profile of new contemporary art in Wales, you are welcome to attend one of their fortnightly meetings which are held at University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC). For more information please contact the email address below. Contact Info: Mike Murray email: umbrella_artsgroup@ureach.com No Deadline --------------------------------------------------- New gallery opens in Wrexham Classification - Marketing A new gallery has opened at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education (NEWI). Gallery 103 will feature work by renowned artists from Wales and abroad, as well as NEWI art and design students. NEWI aims to increase interest in the visual arts within the community and to attract increased numbers of visitors to the area with the opening of the venue. NEWI has undergone a number of developments since 2001, including the launch of the Ian Anderson Animation Centre and a recording studio. Contact Info: Andrew Parry at NEWI tel: 01978 293360 website: www.newi.ac.uk/news No Deadline --------------------------------------------------- Oxo Peugeot Design Awards Classification - Marketing Designers working in ceramics, glass, lighting, furniture, textiles or applied metal are invited to submit to this award of 15,000. The award is designed to support the best new product designed and made in the 12 months to March 2002. Each category has a first prize of 1,000 and a runner-up of 500. Each category winner is also put forward for the overall prize. For details send an A4 SAE (54p stamp) to the Awards' organisers. Contact Info: Oxo Peugeot Design Awards, South Bank Management Services, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, South Bank, London SE1 9PH website: www.oxotower.co.uk Deadline Date - 26th April 2002 --------------------------------------------------- Digital Visions Welsh Short Film Commissions Classification - Funding Sgrin the Media Agency for Wales and BBC Wales are commissioning short films by new directors. Three 5-10 minute fiction or documentary films will be shot and post produced on digital formats this Summer and will be broadcast on BBC Wales. Sgrin will also distribute the films internationally. Applications to this scheme are especially welcome from ethnic minority filmmakers who have been under-represented in previous awards schemes run by Sgrin. Companies and students are not eligible to apply. Applicants must be resident in Wales. For further details contact Gaynor or Judith at Sgrin. Contact Info: tel: 029 2033 3300 email: sgrin@sgrin.co.uk website: www.sgrin.co.uk/production Deadline Date - 28th May 2002 --------------------------------------------------- Free training - Women's Enterprise Wales Classification - Training The following free courses are currently being offered by Women's Enterprise Wales / Menter Merched Cymru: Exploring Change A two day course for women who want to build confidence and take the next step with their business ideas. 13/06/02 - 14/06/02 - Llandysul Exploring Enterprise A three day course for women who are considering self employment as a career choice 9,16,23 / 05/02 - Cardigan 14,21,28 / 05/02 - Aberystwyth Sustainability Workshops Maintaining health and life / work balance, and learning about sustainable business 16/004/02 - Dolgellau 23/04/02 - Cardigan 30/04/02 - Aberystwyth For booking and further information contact: Contact Info: Karen, Women's Enterprise Wales / Menter Merched Cymru tel: 0800 0522255 Deadline Date - 13th June 2002 --------------------------------------------------- The Bigger Picture - free one day course Classification - Training Run by the Welsh College of Music and Drama in association with Arts Training Wales, The Bigger Picture is a series of free one day courses for visual artists and craftspeople. Subjects to be covered include career options after graduating, self employment, accounting, public liability insurance, and computing. At the end of the day participants will be able to form a strategic plan for the future and put project planning ideas into action. 18/04/02 Canolfan Ucheldre, Caergybi, Ynys Mon 19/04/02 Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Llanbedrog, Penrhyn Llyn 25/04/02 Canolfan Hafod, Llanrwrst, Conwy 26/04/02 Canolfan Crefft Rhuthun Craft Centre 23/05/02 Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth 24/05/02 CARAD, Rhaeadr 30/05/02 Oriel Myrddin Caerfyrddin 31/05/02 Canolfan Hyfforddiant Glynneath Training Centre Times: 10am - 5pm Places are limited so please book early. Contact Info: Zoe Rozelaar, Arts Training Wales, PO Box 5, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, CF62 3YG tel: 01446 754112 email: admin@a-t-w.com No Deadline --------------------------------------------------- Who Supports the Arts? NALGAO Conference 2002 Classification - Business The National Association of Local Government Arts Officers (NALGAO) is holding its annual conference between 8-10/05/02 in Newcastle Upon Tyne Civic Centre. NALGAO 's membership includes 325 local authorities and over 360 groups and individuals from across England and Wales. Delegates will be able to listen to high level platform debates, take part in break out sessions and participate in four study tours visiting arts and creative industries organisations. The conference also features artists in residence, fringe meetings, stalls and displays and networking events. Sessions include: Arts and Urban Regeneration, Arts and Rural Renaissance, Arts and Creative Industries, Arts and Skills Partnerships, Cultural Strategies, and New Theatre Practice. Conference fees vary for members and non-members. Contact NALGAO for more information. Contact Info: Pete Bryan, NALGAO administrator, 36 Gwendolin Avenue, Birstall, Leicester LE4 4HD tel/ fax: 0116 2671441 email: nalgao@aol.com website: www.nalgao.org.uk Deadline Date - 10th May 2002 --------------------------------------------------- Arts and Entertainment learning advice line Classification - Training learndirect and Metier, the National Training Organisation for the arts and entertainment sectors, have set up a free helpline. Advisors will offer information on specialist training and professional development opportunities, from full time further or higher education study to short courses provided by organisations in your area. Contact Info: tel: 0800 093 0444 No Deadline --------------------------------------------------- ACW New Schemes Classification - Funding The Arts Council of Wales has published its new funding schemes for 2002 - 2007. The schemes include: * Professional Development: Training * Professional Development: `Creative Wales Awards * Production and Audience Development * Presentation and Audience Development * Capacity Building and Development Fund * Taking Part and Arts in the Community * Cultural Diversity June 2002 - March 2004 * Children, Young People and the Arts * Publications Some schemes are yet to be finalised. The Guide to the new schemes is available for download from the website or can be ordered in hard copy. Contact Info: Arts Council of Wales, 9 Museum Place, Cardiff CF10 3NX tel: 029 2037 6500 fax: 029 2022 1447 minicom: 029 2039 0027 email: info@ccc-acw.org.uk website: www.ccc-acw.org.uk No Deadline --------------------------------------------------- Bristol Animation Festival Industry Day Classification - Marketing The Festival's Industry Day covers recent changes in broadcasting, how to raise funds for animation projects and technical aspects of the production process. There are also a number of screening events and talks with key figures in the animation industry including Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons. Contact Info: Animated Encounters, Watershed, 1 Canon's Rd, Bristol BS1 5TX tel: 0117 927 5102 fax: 0117 930 9967 email: info@animated-encounters.org.uk website: www.animated-encounters.org.uk Deadline Date - 26th April 2002 -------------------------------------------------- Cultural Enterprise, Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff, CF5 1QE Tel:029 2034 3205 Fax: 029 2034 5435 email: mail@cultural-enterprise.com web: http://www.cultural-enterprise.com |
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