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NCFA - National Day of Action - posted 10.9.2010  area: RoI
dates: 17 September 2010
On Friday 17 September 2010, arts workers and artists in every constituency around the country will meet their local TDs.
Each of them will convey the demands of the National Campaign for the Arts, as well as raising additional local arts issues. NCFA members will also present a series of events around the country. These are to highlight, to the government and the general public, the important role the arts play in the nation’s economic and social recovery.
See what's going on in your area. Get involved - www.ncfa.ie
Arts and Disability Equality Charter seek Volunteers for Assessment Panel - posted 10.9.2010 area: NI
The Arts and Disability Equality Charter is an award for arts organisations. It recognises their success in opening up the arts to deaf and disabled people.
The Charter Assessment Panel is made up of five Teams. Each has three or four members who have knowledge and skills to assess a particular aspect of each application. Applications are shared between them so not everyone has to do every part of every application.
They are seeking people with skills to assess how well art venues are doing in the following areas as they relate to people with disability:
POLICY TEAM
Planning / Strategy / Policy / Organisational Development
Human Resources / Employment
STAFF TEAM
Staff Training – especially Disability Awareness/Equality Training
Staff development
CUSTOMER TEAM
Communications / Marketing / Websites / Outreach
Customer Service
Audience Development
PHYSICAL ACCESS TEAM
Physical / Sensory Accessibility
Health and Safety Policy and Practice
ARTS TEAM
Professional Arts Programming
Participatory Arts
Induction is provided and all expenses covered. Support for access is arranged as needed (interpretation, Braille, etc). The number of assessments a year depends on availability but likely to be between two and three once or twice a year.
If you would like to put yourself forward as a volunteer, or want to find out more, please contact:
Brenda Kent
Call or text 07764 182 966
Email charter@adf.ie
ArtsEkta calls for Schools for Educational Programme on Fair Trade - posted 10.9.2010  area: NI
dates: Nov - Feb
ArtsEkta, a Belfast based charity that aims to promote cultural diversity in the island of Ireland recently secured funding from DFID to deliver an artistic educational programme looking at the issue of Fair Trade in schools in Northern Ireland.
They are currently seeking schools who are interested in receiving the programme. The programme involves 6 art workshops of 2 hours each on Fairtrade through various art forms. Delivery of the programme will take place during the months of November 2010 to February 2011. For bookings, please contact Paula Guzzanti, T: 028 90 310125, E: paulag@artsekta.org.uk
Are you an Accidental Techie? - posted 10.9.2010 
Are you the person who everyone turns to when technology goes wrong?
Are you an heroic “Accidental Techie”, without formal IT training? This article from LASA Knowledgebase is written to help those who have accidentally found themselves keeping the IT side of things in their group or organisation going and could do with some support. Read more at http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/accidentaltechie
source: LASA ICT e-bulletin BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum - Call for script submissions - posted 10.9.2010 area: Belfast
deadline: 11 October 2010, 5pm
dates: 12 November 2010
Northern Ireland Screen has teamed up with BAFTA Rocliffe to bring the New Writing Forum to Belfast on 12th November.
The BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing forum is both a platform for new writing, and a networking event. Created in 2000, the original format selects three ten minute script extracts - feature film, short film, television drama, sitcom or sketch.
The pieces are cast by a casting director and rehearsed by professional actors and directors on the evening. A narrator sets the piece in context and the extracts are then performed to an industry audience of producers, development executives, directors, actors and literary agents.
The benefits to a writer, new or seasoned, are multiple: hearing their work read by professional actors; a development focused discussion generated by the readings; exposure to and advice from experienced industry members; feedback from an audience and an invaluable method to test out new concepts and material.
This is an excellent opportunity for local writers, Northern Ireland Screen strongly encourage you to participate. Scripts are now being accepted, the closing date for submissions is 11 October 2010 at 5pm.
More details at www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk/newspage.asp?id=100&storyID=2760
European Youtuh Capital 2013 - Practitioners Event - posted 10.9.2010 area: Playhouse, Derry
dates: 15 September 2010
Derry City Council and ILEX in partnership with young people and youth providers submitted an application to the European Youth Capital 2013 back in June. To date Derry ~ Londonderry has been short-listed down to the last four. The three other European cities are Maribor (Slovenia), Goes (Netherlands) and Karlstad (Sweden).
The ‘European Youth Capital’ (EYC) is a title granted by the European Youth Forum to a European City for a period of one year, during which it is given the chance to showcase its youth-related culture, social, political and economic life and development.
The EYC initiative encourages the implementation of new ideas and innovative projects with regard to the active participation of young people in society, and seeks to present a role model for the future development of other European municipalities.
Derry City Council in conjunction with ILEX is hosting a practitioner’s event on Wednesday 15th September 2010 to engage and consult with practitioners / stakeholders and groups from the local council area on the second stage of European Youth Capital 2013 Bid. This meeting will take place on Wednesday 15th September 2010 at the Playhouse, Artillery Street Derry, 10:00am to 1:00pm. Lunch will be provided.
Confirm your attendance with Teresa Bradley or Jackie Heaney at
Development Department
Derry City Council
98 Strand Road
Derry
BT48 7NN
Tel: 02871365151 Ext 6927
Email:
teresa.bradley@derrycity.gov.uk
jackie.heaney@derrycity.gov.uk
Invitation to recite articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - posted 10.9.2010 area: Galway
dates: 29 September 2010
You are invited to participate in the artist Monica Ross' Anniversary - An Act of Memory, a public and participatory
Recitation from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as part of September's Orduithe@Live@8 Programme in Galway.
This event will take place at 6pm in the Museum Square outside Galway City Museum on the 29th September 2010. Monica wishes to stage a diverse and multi-cultural recitation, featuring as many different languages and people from as many walks of life as possible. Each article of the Declaration will be recited by a different participant or group, in any language they wish. Participants are encouraged to choose an article that resonates with them in some way.
Live at 8 is a bi-monthly event of visual art, music, performance, film and other artforms held in Bar No.8. It is curated by a guest curator each month and performance artist and curator Andrew Mitchelson has created an amazing program of artists for Septembers Live @ 8 entitled ‘Orduithe’ (instructions in Irish). One of these artists is Monica Ross, a Brighton-based artist who works predominantly through performance. In her latest work, Anniversary - an act of memory Monica attempts to recite the entire text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 from memory. Ross first attempted this in a performance entitled Rightsrepeated — An Act of Memory at Beaconsfield, London, as a personal response to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes by Police on the London Underground in 2005.
To date more than 170 people, reciting in more than 20 languages have contributed to the recitations in this way; more info about these collective recitations can be found here:
http://www.actsofmemory.net/
Copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 300 languages are here:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/SearchByLang.aspx
For more information and details on the event, contact Áine Kavanagh, ainek412@hotmail.com, 086-3674865.
For those worrying about a letter from the taxpeople - posted 10.9.2010 area: UK / NI
Not quite voluntary arts related but I saw this on the Belfast Telegraph website and thought it was useful for anyone wondering and worrying about whether a letter from HMRC might be in the post. Read the Belfast Telegraph article at http://digbig.com/5bchtc
Quench your creative thirst profitably - posted 10.9.2010 area: Omagh, Armagh and UU Jordanstown
Are you thinking about setting up your own business in the Creative Industries? Or perhaps making a little extra income with your creative skills?
If so, there are three programmes across the province which might interest you. The Strule Arts Cenrte, Omagh, the Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Armagh and the University of Ulster, Jordanstown Campus and the WEA have the programme for you.
They are offering a short, accessible programmes aptly named ‘Creativity Thirst’ to help anyone who is considering self employment or gaining additional income in the Creative Industries develop the necessary skills.
“Creativity Thirst” is made possible due to the Creative Industries Innovation Fund which is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Department of Culture Arts and Leisure, (DCAL). This project is offered FREE to the learner and will commence at the beginning of September. Content is accredited by CCEA and the Open College Network Northern Ireland. Anyone with a level 2 qualification or above in their skill area, and who is considering self employment or gaining additional income in the Creative Industries is welcome to apply. All sessions have been scheduled outside office hours to allow maximum accessibility
Skills can include: music, film, photography, textiles, craft, digital imaging, gaming etc.
Additional taster sessions will also take place in each location in the autumn. Further information about these will be made available on the WEA and related websites (www.wea-ni.com, www.ulster.ac.uk, www.struleartscentre.co.uk, www.marketplacetheatrearmagh.com )
Pauline Matthew, Jewellery designer who participated on a previous project said: “This programme has improved my understanding of setting up a creative business. I feel confident about myself, my product, services and my increased skills and knowledge mean that I am ready to start my creative business, having a good overall knowledge of the basic structure, requirements, legalities and operating procedures. I am also much more aware of the support networks and business development opportunities. I am excited about the future and looking forward to tackling the many hurdles along the way.”
For further information or to apply to the programme contact Carole Kane on (028) 9032 9718 or email carole.kane@wea-ni.com ASAP.
Help us create a healthier civil society - join our Advisory Group - posted 03.9.2010  area: Individuals with NI-focus sought
deadline: 15 October 2010
Voluntary Arts Ireland is expanding its Advisory Group to help create a healthier civil society. Our contribution is through promoting practical participation in the arts and crafts. We believe there is great power in individuals and communities making art. If you agree why not join this dynamic, influential and fun group of people who are committed to making a difference.
Who are we looking for?
Six individuals with a Northern Ireland focus to join our Advisory Group. We are seeking a wide range of expertise and experience and welcome applications from everyone who believes they can contribute to our work and/or learn from it. If you are active or have been active in the following areas (or related areas) we would like to hear from you:
• Individual Arts Practice – across the genres– professional and amateur
• Social Enterprise
• Volunteering
• Commercial business
• Youth policy and action – especially young people in leadership roles or aspiring to be
• Marketing
• Fundraising
• voluntary arts and crafts umbrella bodies and grassroots organisations
• the wider voluntary and community sectors
• festivals and events
• local arts forums / arts councils
• local government
• equality and diversity
Want to know more?
If you have any further questions or want to discuss the possibility of joining the Voluntary Arts Ireland Advisory Group, please call Kevin Murphy, Chief Officer on 07779092023 or e-mail: kevin@vaireland.org. All enquiries will be treated in confidence.
Further information & submission details in the attached document.
More about us: www.vaireland.org
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