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Hi All,
Welcome to the third edition of the CCS Connect e-news, with loads more opportunities to get creative and try something new. The weather has been fantastic this weekend, hope you managed a well-deserved break and enjoyed the bank holiday.
Hopefully you’ve been able to follow up on some of the great opportunities highlighted in the last two newsletters. If you missed the last two editions, or want to revisit them, they are available on the CCS website - https://www.cultureconsortiumshropshire.com/ccs-connect--news.html
We would like to invite you to a Webinar on Thursday 4th June, 6-7pm. Being led by Rose Hooper, the Head of Virtual Schools in Shropshire, the session will explore how to positively engage and inspire Looked After Children (LAC) and their carers.
To book a place, or for more information, please email alexa.pugh@shropshire.gov.uk. Thanks to those of you who have booked a place already.
In response to the current crisis, Shropshire Council has provided emergency grant funding to 23 arts organisations, venues and festivals in the county. The funding is supporting a huge amount of high-quality arts activity, with something on offer for everyone.
Over the next six months, communities from across Shropshire will have the opportunity to get involved in a range of exciting online and digital arts activities. It’s estimated over 23 thousand people will benefit, as either participants or audience members.
For a full list of organisations and festivals who have been awarded funding and to find out more about the opportunities available, please go here.
Please continue to send us your digital and online opportunities and we will share them in this fortnightly e-news and via social media. See below for details of how to do this.
Take Care
CCS Management Group
 If you would like CCS to share the online and digital opportunities you have available for children and young people and their families, please contact Alexa Pugh, email, alexa.pugh@shropshire.gov.uk
We’re looking for local workshops, performances, film, animation, virtual tours, exhibitions, talks, mentoring, articles, CPD and resources etc. Content needs to be accessible and age appropriate for children and young people and their families.
The deadline for inclusion of information in the next e-news is Thursday 4th June.
Please follow the government guidelines on COVID-19 when delivering activity. For updates, take a look at the NHS and Gov.UK webpages.
 Please tag us in events on Facebook and we will share them - https://www.facebook.com/cultureconsortiumshrops/
Twitter – Culture Consortium Shropshire @CultureShrop #spotlightshropscyp
Website – https://www.cultureconsortiumshropshire.com/
 OPEN SPACE STUDIOS CIC in partnership with CHLOE ELIZABETH DANCE COMPANY
Free online dance classes for children and young people and their families, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, including online videos available.
Classes include pilates, dance fitness, family fun dance, street dance and contemporary dance.
https://www.facebook.com/OpenSpaceStudiosCIC/ and https://www.facebook.com/ChloeElizabethDance/
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Arts Alive launches programme of online shows
Arts Alive have curated a programme of online performances for communities in Shropshire and Herefordshire. ArtsAlive@Home will feature a mixture of pre-recorded shows and live streamed events, most of which are being held exclusively for Arts Alive.
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Organisers have said they are committed to keep bringing arts events to local communities in rural areas. They are asking audiences to tune in on a specific date and time so that viewers can collectively enjoy a post show chat with one of the performers via group video conferencing.
Details of all the events are listed on the website (www.artsalive.co.uk) and details will be released on the ‘Arts Alive & Flicks in the Sticks’ Facebook page as well.
 The Earth Art Project – Live
The Earth Art Project – Live invites you (professional artists and the public) to share images of artwork created during the coronavirus pandemic. This live global art gallery will be added to every day and built up over the following two weeks.
The artworks will give a global picture about peoples’ experience of the pandemic through a number of different categories.
A selection of 12 artworks will be chosen from the following categories (3 from each):
- Children
- Young Adults
- Adults
- Professional artists
Please get involved by visiting our website and share your story with us!
https://theearthproject.world/art-lockdown-people-and-planet/
Shropshire Imagines
An On-line Arts Response as part of REFUGEE WEEK 2020 15th– 21st June 2020
Shropshire Supports Refugees working with Participate Contemporary Artspace invite you to be part a new collection of on-line Art content and creative responses to the experience of refugees and imagining a better world.
To raise awareness of the plight and promise of Refugees in our communities in Shropshire. The theme of the exhibition is ‘Imagine’.
All submission works must be received between 25th May and before Monday 8th June
Please contact niki@nikiholmes.co.uk for more information.
Lovelyland Growing Packs
Lovelyland Growing Packs, available from 19/05/2020 to 01/06/2020are a creative and educational resource to inspire families during lockdown. They contain seeds, instructions and a Land Art programme. They are designed to support and enrich families lockdown experience by providing inspiring growing and art activities, delivered to your door.
To apply for a pack e-mail clare@lovelyland.co.uk
https://www.lovelyland.co.uk/new-page
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 Meadow Arts - Layers of Beauty – LIVE Create-Along Art Lesson
Saturday 30 May 2pm
Meadow Arts presents Layers of Beauty - a fun LIVE art lesson, experimenting with collage, to create a 2D Frankenstein picture on Instagram LIVE @meadowarts. Gather together things from around the house (check the website for materials), and Jamila & Emily of Elixir Arts will guide you through simple and fun techniques to create your very own artwork, inspired by Oliver Jones drawings in the Skin Deep exhibition at National Trust's Berrington Hall (re-opening later in 2020).
www.meadowarts.org/events/layers-of-beauty
Online ArtGallery launch
Arts for Health – Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, would like to invite you to submit photographs of your artwork via email. Selected artworks will be exhibited in a virtual gallery, so you can see what other people have been getting up to creatively. We hope this will be a bit of fun as well as a source of inspiration for everyone and an opportunity to exhibit your work.
For more information and details of how to submit work, please email - eleanor.babb@mpft.nhs.uk
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ArtShack Members Group
Ongoing high-quality creative opportunities in a digital capacity for ArtShack members including challenges, tutorials and creative support.
£10 per person, per month.
www.myartshack.co.uk
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The Photographers' Gallery – New programme for 14-24 year olds: Develop at Home has been launched- a digital programme of photography-focused events, articles and resources to help young people stay connected, inspired and informed at this time of isolation. https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/visit-and-do/develop
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Mythstories - Let's Create at Home
Wednesday 10th June 2020 11.00am to 15.00pm
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This month we'll be making 'Koloboks' to a traditional Russian recipe and retelling their story. The link to the story will be on our Facebook Group page at 11.00am... so listen and let inspiration strike. Share your progress with messages and pictures and post up your finished culinary creations or maybe a video with you telling the tale with your Koloboks so we can all share our creations. The basic ingredients will be listed on the Group page in late May. Join the Group now.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/194482241513463/
The Story Site - a website full of stories and activities
You can be confident you can let your child loose on this site to explore. They will find stories from close to home and all over the world, all with activities and background information. There are videos of young storytellers, audio stories, songs to sing – even Shropshire stories to read in French.
https://www.mythstories.com/options.php
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Web Based Resources
If you missed Mythstories live online “Let’s Create at Home” sessions on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, you will find the workshop outlined here. This a growing resource, with more worksheets to be added every fortnight until the end of August.
https://www.mythstories.com/options.php. Choose the Create at Home drop down.
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Anne Frank Writing Awards – For 10 to 15 year olds – Write a poem or story to help create a world free from prejudice! Top prize: a trip to @annefrankhouse Amsterdam ⠀ https://annefrank.org.uk/the-anne-frank-creative-writing-awards-2020/
 Cultural education charity Art UK has unveiled a digital tool for people to develop online exhibitions.
Curations, which is free to use and has been released to coincide with International Museum Day, allows users to create exhibitions drawn from Art UK’s online collection. Museums and other public collections can also mount digital versions of shows that have closed during the Covid-19 crisis. It also allows them to plan exhibitions that they would like to stage in the future.
Art UK has more than 250,000 artworks by 46,000 artists from 3,300 collection venues on its online platform.
“Curations is an example of what is possible when you digitally connect the national art collection” Art UK director Andrew Ellis said. “It means museums and the public alike can now bring together artworks from institutions across the country, tell the stories behind the art, and share their Curations with others. Art UK is all about democratising the nation’s art collection and Curations takes this a step further.”
The Curations initiative is designed to support learners online learning, with teachers able to use the tool to plan lessons and activities. Students can use it to support their studies and present their own work.
Curations can be kept private or published publicly and can be shared on social media through the hashtags #CurateYourOwn and #ArtUKCurations.
The development and build of Curations has been supported by the Ampersand Foundation. Curations was built by the London agency Keepthinking.
Arts Council’s Digital Culture Network – Online safety for organisations working with children and young people – Wednesday 3 June 2020 – 14:00 – 15:00 – The webinar will be led by Julia Lawrence and is designed to help arts and cultural organisations intending to work with young people online create robust safeguarding policies and procedures as well as raise awareness of good practice in online safety. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-safety-for-organisations-working-with-children-and-young-people-tickets-104663132246
The Audience Agency – Our three hour Masterclasses are focused sessions in which you will both learn and participate. Online Community Participation – 10th June | Social Media Effectiveness – 15th June | Evaluating the Impact of Digital Activity – 17th June | Audience Development in time of Covid-19 – 18th June www.theaudienceagency.org/events/masterclasses-full-series
Free webinars from Creative England – In light of the current coronavirus crisis, Creative England has adapted the Future Studios programme by hosting a series of six free online webinars to support screen companies. Find out more about each webinar below. https://filmbirmingham.co.uk/2020/05/creative-englands-future-studios-online-webinars/ Creative England is also hosting two free to attend webinars as part of Ideate Plymouth, in partnership with Creative Kickstart.
https://creativeengland.clickmeeting.com/demystifying-tax-credits-for-creative-and-digital-businesses/register/
https://creativeengland.clickmeeting.com/what-are-audiences-looking-for-from-immersive-tech/register/
 R&D Bursaries for individual artists and small arts and culture organisations in the West Midlands
Arts Connect has repurposed its funding in order to invest in the cultural sector to innovate in their practice and in particular their digital work with children and young people aged 0-25yrs.
Our plan is to deliver a range of interventions that will support individual artists and smaller arts and cultural organisations to use the next 6 – 12 months for research and development work including training.
A key priority is that Local Cultural Education Partnerships (LCEPs) will benefit from the outcomes of the research and development work undertaken by arts and cultural sector learning and engagement professionals in the West Midlands. Successful applicants will be supported in connecting and working with their LCEP which we hope will support further growth and opportunity in your local area for children and young people.
The R&D bursary should enable you to look at new ways of developing your artistic/ creative practice in relation to your work with children and young people. This could be through developing audiences, engagement or participation. We are particularly interested in ideas which link into a digital field or digital practice.
For the funding criteria and how to apply please find the full details can be found on our website: www.artsconnect.co.uk/commission-thrive-research-development-fund and please see the attached document.
Application deadline: 5pm on Monday 12th June 2020
Funding for Organisations Supporting Children at Risk of Youth Violence – The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) is providing the funding with the aim reaching and helping vulnerable children (aged 10-14) who are at risk of being drawn into crime and violence and who, as a result of coronavirus/COVID-19 and social distancing measures, may have lost the support they rely on. Grants are intended to fund and evaluate work that can be delivered while adhering to UK government coronavirus/COVID-19 social distancing and stay-at-home guidelines, to establish what activities are effective in reaching and engaging vulnerable young people. Applications are accepted from any legally constituted organisation delivering in England and Wales, including charities and social enterprises; for-profit companies; and public sector agencies, such as councils, schools, health, or police forces. Deadline: 3 June 2020 (midday). https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/grants-2/covid-19-round/
Larger Grants Now Available Through Heritage Emergency Fund
Past and current National Lottery Heritage Fund grantees can apply now for emergency grants of between £50,000 and £250,000 to cover essential costs for up to four months. This funding is part of the £50 million Heritage Lottery Fund which launched in mid April with smaller grants of between £3,000 and £50,000. (Applications are still being accepted for the smaller grants until 30 June.)
The funding aims to help organisations that manage a heritage asset that is at risk over the next four months. This can include immediate costs, as well as costs to help organisations look towards longer-term recovery. Support will focus on heritage that has been significantly funded in the past, and that can demonstrate the vital contribution it has made to local communities.
Applications will be accepted from 21 May to 30 June 2020.
Pilot Project Call for New Online Media Offer for Young Europeans
This pilot project aims to engage with young Europeans by creating curated online spaces that gather thought-provoking content around themes and topics that are discussed at EU level. These spaces should allow them to compare perspectives from across Europe and empower them to discuss and discover how their interests link to interests of youngsters in other countries, and to relevant EU initiatives. Proposals should foresee selection and production of new content, to inform and engage young audiences across Europe in an open and constructive debate about recent and future life in Europe.
Proposals must be submitted by 22 July 2020 (Midnight CET/CEST).
£300k funding available through Clinks – Working with HM Prison and Probation Service, Clinks - the criminal justice charity - has been given £300k to share with organisations working with people in the criminal justice system and who have an annual income of less than £500k. Bids should be directly related to Covid-19 and meet an immediate requirement or anticipated gap in provision. Bidding opens this week and the funding is available for six months, or until the funding runs out. www.clinks.org/community/blog-posts/new-funding-available-covid-19-response-grants
Doing Things Differently – Heart of England – There’s grants of between £3,000 and £20,000 available to enable organisations to change the way they deliver their work to continue to meet the developing needs of their communities during Covid -19. This could include moving services to provide them digitally or redeploying staff to meet the changing needs of the community. www.heartofenglandcf.co.uk/doing-things-differently
Severn Trent Community Fund – Reopening on 1st June – The programme will distribute grants of £2,000 - £250,000 for local initiatives that meet the following aims:
- People - Projects that facilitate healthier lifestyles and skills development
- Place - Projects that help create better places to live in and use
- Environment - Projects that facilitate a healthier natural environment, greater access to that environment or support the preservation of water
www.stwater.co.uk/about-us/severn-trent-community-fund/how-to-apply/ virtual workshops or phone call support for applicants available
Resourcing Racial Justice Fund – Providing financial support to organisations, community and grassroots groups that are working to redress the impact of COVID-19 and beyond on those who identify as POC. Deadline: 15th June 2020 http://resourcingracialjustice.org/
Funding for Organisations Supporting Children at Risk of Youth Violence – The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) is providing the funding with the aim reaching and helping vulnerable children (aged 10-14) who are at risk of being drawn into crime and violence and who, as a result of coronavirus/COVID-19 and social distancing measures, may have lost the support they rely on. Grants are intended to fund and evaluate work that can be delivered while adhering to UK government coronavirus/COVID-19 social distancing and stay-at-home guidelines, to establish what activities are effective in reaching and engaging vulnerable young people. Applications are accepted from any legally constituted organisation delivering in England and Wales, including charities and social enterprises; for-profit companies; and public sector agencies, such as councils, schools, health, or police forces. Deadline: 3 June 2020 (midday). https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/grants-2/covid-19-round/
 'Remote Collaboration' – Flexus Dance Collective – Are seeking 6 Creative practitioners from across the West Midlands Arts and Cultural Sector to be part of a new project ‘Remote Collaboration’. The project will partner a Creative Practitioner from outside of the Dance Sector with an Emerging Dance Artist, in order to create a new short work in collaboration through digital exchange.
The new works of ‘Remote Collaboration’ will be streamed as part of ‘A Captured Moment’ Digital Arts Festival hosted by Flexus Dance Collective in Partnership with Arena Theatre Wolverhampton.
Thanks to funding from Arts Council England, we are able to offer successful applicants a small commission payment of £200 and online profiling during the process and as part of the Festival.
For further information contact flexusdanceco@outlook.com. Deadline: Friday 5th June.
Artist Commissions Available – Creating Art in a Different Landscape – Festival Stoke have four artist opportunities as part of our Arts Council England Emergency Fund programme. These will form part of the six-month Festival Echoes programme from June to November 2020. Artist Fee: £1,250 (includes up to £250 for materials and expenses). Deadline: Sunday 7th June – 6pm www.festivalstoke.co.uk/news
Grain Photography Hub – Open Call Commissions – various opportunities. Deadlines 10th & 15th June https://grainphotographyhub.co.uk/portfolio-type/open-call-2020-commissions-bursaries/
Please forward this e-newsletter to interested parties. Apologies for any cross posting. If you have been sent this e-news by a colleague and would like to sign up to become a member of CCS and receive the e-news direct please email alexa.pugh@shropshire.gov.uk
Please note: this information has been forwarded to you because we think it may be of interest. We make every effort to ensure that any information that is forwarded is appropriate, however CCS (Culture Consortium Shropshire) can accept no liability for any inaccuracies or omissions contained in this e-news. Forwarding the creative sector opportunities does not represent any endorsement of projects or initiatives by CCS and readers should take their own steps where necessary to check the reliability of any organisations or projects featured.
If you are interested in any of the opportunities or events we ask that you get in touch with the relevant named persons, using the contact details within the text.
Get in touch
To find out more information about CCS, please contact:
Alexa Pugh, member of CCS and Arts Development Officer, Shropshire Council. email: alexa.pugh@shropshire.gov.uk
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