The jobs page at www.creativeleicestershire.org.uk is updated regularly & includes job ads with short deadlines that don’t make it into the ebulletin

Musicians - Leicester-Shire Schools Music Service
WANTED! Musicians to play for a prestigious new Philip Wilby composition The Shoemaker & the King' is a prestigious new choral piece that has been composed by Philip Wilby with lyrics by Ian McMillan. The piece has been commissioned by Leicester-shire Schools Music Service and will be premiered at Leicester Cathedral on Friday 11th July. We need musicians to accompany the singers and are currently recruiting for the following; Keyboard Harp Timpani Flute Clarinet (Bb) You will need to play to a high standard and be able to attend rehearsals on Sunday 29th June at Oakham School (where Philip Wilby will lead the rehearsal) and then on the 11th July all day and early evening at the Cathedral. Scores will be sent out at the end of May to allow for preparation. The performance will be recorded professionally for CD. If you are interested in being part of this unique experience then please contact Sarah Barton on 0116 3050411 sarah.barton@leics.gov.uk.

Junior Designer - Moving
We're currently looking for a talented junior designer, for a full time permanent position at our studio in Leicester City Centre. We're a friendly studio, and all we want to do is produce great work and keep our clients happy. Your position will be varied, supporting existing and forthcoming projects. We need someone who can turn up on time, contribute ideas and help with the workload. In return, we'll offer good pay, experience, and a chance to work on the good stuff. You'll need to be intelligent, interested and aware of the design industry. It doesn't matter if you're only strong in one area, we can help with the rest. We're not hiding the fact that sometimes you'll be working on some boring stuff but you need an eye for detail, work quite quickly and be able to spot mistakes. If you can fit this description, get in touch with your portfolio and CV to careers@movingstudio.co.uk.

Museum Administrator - Lakeside Arts Centre
Applications are invited for the above position based at the University Of Nottingham- Museum Of Archaeology, based at Lakeside Arts Centre. The Museum Administrator will provide high level administrative and organisational support to the Museum Keeper, and freelance Collections Management staff. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Clare Pickersgill tel: 0115 951 4815 or email clare.pickersgill@nottingham.ac.uk. Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted. For the job description and application process please follow this link Application deadline: 28 May.

Current Vacancies - Royal & Derngate & The Core at Corby Cube
We are entering an exciting time at  Royal & Derngate and The Core at Corby Cube and we are currently recruiting for some fantastic permanent opportunities working across both organisations in our Marketing and Sales, Fundraising and Programming teams. To see all current vacancies visit the website

Box Office Manager - Nottingham Playhouse
Nottingham Playhouse, one of the UK’s leading producing repertory theatres is looking to appoint a Box Office Manager to lead the box office sales team and manage the running of the busy box office at Nottingham Playhouse. We are looking for a highly organised, energetic individual with experience of managing and motivating a sales team. The successful candidate will also have a commitment to, and the ability to deliver, exemplary customer care. Closing date: Friday 30 May 2014 at 5pm. Interviews w/b 9 June 2014. For more information about the post, including details of how to apply, please visit our website

Chief Operating Officer - Curve
Salary circa £60,000. Full Time, Permanent. We seek a highly motivated person with senior experience across a broad range of business operational areas to join the senior team at Curve, one of the UK’s leading producing theatres, based in Leicester’s vibrant cultural quarter, in this newly created role. The successful candidate will have a track record in ensuring effective and efficient business and financial planning, and oversight of business systems, people and physical resources. To apply for this vacancy please log on to our website and submit an application, or alternatively, please send your CV and covering letter via email to careers@curvetheatre.co.uk or via post to Julia Bates, Head of HR Curve, Rutland Street, Leicester LE1 1SB. Closing Date: 31 May 2014. Interview Date: 17 June 2014.

Pianist for Dance Classes - Ballet Theatre UK
Ballet Theatre UK are seeking a part-time classical pianist to accompany professional and pre-professional ballet classes. Experience of playing for dance is not essential as training will be given but an interest or understanding in classical dance is preferred. Application deadline: May 31st 2014. Contact info@ballettheatreuk.com for more information.

Street/Hip Hop Teacher - Ballet Theatre UK
Ballet Theatre UK is seeking a part-time teacher of commercial dance to deliver weekly term time classes to students of the full time HNC/HND vocational training programme. Applicants should have a number of years experience as an industry professional and able to give constructed classes in current commercial technique. Application deadline: May 31st 2014. Contact info@ballettheatreuk.com for more information.

Contemporary Dance Teacher - Ballet Theatre UK
Ballet Theatre UK is seeking a part-time teacher of contemporary dance to deliver weekly term time classes to students of the full time HNC/HND vocational training programme. Applicants should have a number of years experience as an industry professional and able to give constructed classes in Graham/Hawton/Cunningham/Lemone based technique. Application deadline: May 31st 2014. Contact info@ballettheatreuk.com for more information.

Theatre / Sound Technician - Robert Symth Academy
Technician (Temporary for 1 year in the first instance) Required from August 2014 a Theatre/Sound Technician to provide technical support within our high achieving and award-winning Performing Arts Faculty, comprising music, drama and dance departments. Knowledge and experience of operating sound and lighting equipment is essential, as is the flexibility to work in a variety of performing arts disciplines. Salary: Grade 4 pts 6-8 £13,320 - £14,190 pa (pro rata) (Actual salary: £9,966 - £10,617 pa) Hours: 8.30 am -4.00 pm, 32.5 hours, 39 weeks per year Some evening and weekend work will be required for which there will be time off in lieu. Closing date for applications: Noon on Monday 2nd June 2014. Further details for all posts and an application form can be downloaded from our website

Trustee - The Mighty Creatives
A voluntary role: Are you a change-maker? The Mighty Creatives – the children and young people’s creative development agency – is looking for up to 5 new Board Members to guide the next exciting phase of its development. Board Members can be aged 16 or older and should be passionate about creating new opportunities for children and young people across the East Midlands, UK and Europe. Our volunteer Board Members attend meetings and events every 3 to 4 months. They are involved in the organisation in an important and influential way – in how it runs, how it raises and spends its money and what its priorities are for the future.  In legal terms, they ensure the organisation operates as effectively as possible and within legal and best practice guidelines. If you think you’ve got what it takes we’d love to hear from you. Please download a full application pack from our website or call Jackie Sloan on 0116 2161834 for further information about this exciting opportunity. Application deadline: Monday 2 June.

Chair of the Board of Trustees - Phoenix
A voluntary role: based in Leicester, Phoenix is a charity engaging approximately 190,000 people annually in world cinema, digital arts and education services. A high profile and rapidly developing cultural organisation, Phoenix stakeholders include Leicester City Council, De Montfort University and Arts Council England. Phoenix is now looking for a new Chair to work with the established Board of 10 experienced Trustees - and its management team - to build upon its success. Due to work commitments, Phoenix's current Chair will stand down in July after three years in office. We are looking for a strategic thinker who has the confidence, integrity and credibility to interact persuasively with people at senior leadership levels. Applications should be received by 5th June 2014. Interviews will take place in the week commencing 14th July with a view to making an appointment on 30th July. The full role specification and application procedure is available on our website at: Phoenix vacancies

Audience Development & Community Liaison Officer - Nottingham Playhouse
Nottingham Playhouse, one of the UKs leading producing theatres, is strongly committed to growing its audiences, participation and outreach work with all sectors of the community, believing that the power of theatre, story telling and self expression can add value to every person's life. In support of this ambition, we are seeking a passionate, positive and people-focused person to broaden and deepen our meaningful connection with a wide variety of people and places. Closing date: Friday 6 June 2014 at 5pm. Interviews w/b 16 June 2014. For more details, job description and application pack please see our website

Programme Co-ordinator, Derby Theatre
Derby Theatre is seeking a Programme Co-ordinator to primarily work alongside the General Manager & Artistic Director to provide administrative support for the theatre programme. The role will involve liaising with artists and companies as well as internal departments involved in the presentation and delivery of the theatre programme. The Programme Coordinator will also be required to undertake general administrative tasks. Salary: £16,000 - £19,000 per annum (depending on experience) Find more information, the full job description and application details here. Deadline for applications: Saturday 7th June

Administration Apprentice - Spring
Spring are delighted to be offering a Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Business Administration alongside on the job learning to an Apprentice. You will support the administration needs of the business, helping us to change people’s lives by starting and running their own businesses. Your role will be varied, challenging and rewarding. Based in an office environment, learning from the Directors and working alongside our support team you’ll learn a range of essential administration skills. Please contact michelle.stevens@learndirect.com to read the Job Specification for this role. The deadline for CVs and a letter outlining why you are interested in this position is 9th June 2014. Find out more here.

Trustees - Cotesbach Educational Trust
Cotesbach Educational Trust is a start up SME and registered charity in Cotesbach south of Lutterworth. In spring 2013 we completed a Heritage Lottery funded renovation of three old buildings (a Georgian Schoolhouse, Milking Parlour, and Victorian Coach House which now houses 400 years’ worth of archives). The building works also provided a new café/activity space. We are now moving into a new phase of activity, programming, fundraising and audience development delivering and hosting a broad range of learning opportunities for all under the broad themes of Heritage, Environment, and the Arts. The Trust is staffed by a part-time project director and education officer and supported by a team of enthusiastic volunteers. We’re looking for Trustees to join our Executive Board. An average commitment of around 1 - 2 hours per week and attendance at quarterly board meetings are a minimum requirement. For more information please contact Project Director Tatty Scott on 07511.007.340, director@cotesbachschoolhouse.org.uk, or see our website www.cotesbachschoolhouse.org.uk Deadline: 14 June.

 

Studio Spaces Available at Two Queens
Artist's studio spaces are available at Two Queens' studio complex in Leicester's cultural quarter. Prices start from £50/month inclusive of bills and rates and benefit from 24/7 access, natural light, Wi-Fi and the chance to take part in member's activities, group critiques and professional development sessions. For more information and to register your interest please email info@2queens.com

Workspaces Available at LCB Depot
We have workspaces to lease to creative businesses at LCB Depot and at Phoenix Square from just £209 + VAT per month - find out more here. A new flexible workspace package has opened at LCB Depot, for more information go to http://www.lcbdepot.co.uk/flexible-workspace-package

Opportunity for Lease of Ground Floor Studio in LCB Depot
LCB Depot has a large, visible, accessible space at the front of its building available for lease. Light, airy studio with large glass front, facing Rutland Street in the Cultural Quarter. Close to Curve and Charles St. LCB Depot provides workspaces for creative industries, meeting rooms, an art gallery and has a busy public onsite cafe. 1100 sqft or 102m2, £12k p.a. Separate front door access and security system. Suitable for exhibition/sales use. Space currently divided into two rooms by a partition wall and door, but can be opened up into one space at no additional cost. Deadline for applications is the end of June 2014. Please contact Julia Hamer on 0116 2616800. You will need to complete an application form for the space, available by emailing info@lcbdepot.co.uk More information here. 

Free Jewellery studio space!
Jewellery Bench/Studio available to use on Saturdays 10am - 4pm. Set within the rural setting of The Cotesbach Stable Yard in a beautiful old building amongst textile designer, blacksmith and cafe shop, the studio is part of a contemporary gallery! Access to double bench, pendant drill, pillar drill, vice, stakes, soldering station and more. No bills, just bring your own hand tools! All I require in return is for you to have the gallery open from 10-4 on Saturdays and serve customers. I am open to every other Saturday if more suitable. Please email cdsgallery@live.com for further information and terms and conditions

Work Space in Enderby
Creed Design Associates has a self-contained office/studio to let, at the Old Bank, Enderby, Leicestershire. Freshly decorated, these bright and airy spaces would be ideal for a small creative businesses. The ground floor open plan office is 457 square foot or the first floor consists of a 734 square foot large space and includes a smaller integral office. Both rooms have shared use of toilets and kitchen facilities. Rent starts from £1,200/£1,925 per quarter (plus utilities and service charge).  For more information or to arrange a viewing please contact Georgia on 0116 275 2592 georgia@creeddesign.co.uk

Creative Leicestershire Business Surgeries
Book a one-to-one session with our business advisor, Fred Brookes. 

• Leicester 27 May, LCB Depot, LE1 1RE. One hour slots available.
• Melton 10 June, Melton Mowbray Library, LE13 0UJ. One hour slots available. 

 

These sessions are only available to residents of Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland. This is a Creative Leicestershire event

Digital Sparks - Amazing Activities for Children at Phoenix
Tuesday 27 May - Sunday 1 June 11am - 5pm. Our Spark Festival programme for 2014 is packed with amazing interactive digital experiences and activities for all ages, including handpicked films, unique free exhibitions and fascinating one-day workshops giving children the opportunity to play, learn and invent with the latest technologies. Come to Phoenix and join in with these FREE digital delights.

UK Young Artists - Call for Submissions
This November UK Young Artists will be presenting the best of the UK’s young creative talent at a three day festival taking place in Leicester. We are now looking for submissions from artists aged between 18 and 30 from across the UK to take part. The art forms we cover are: Applied Art, Literature, Moving Image, Music, Performance and Visual Art, cross art form collaborations are also welcomed! Call for submissions runs from Monday 26 May until Monday 30 June. From the submissions received artists will be selected to take part in the Leicester Festival by a panel comprising of representatives from the four founding universities; De Montfort, Derby, Loughborough and Nottingham Trent plus curators and programmers from our host venues. Submissions can only be accepted via the online application process.

Arduino - Phoenix Interact Labs Workshop 
Sat 14 Jun, 1pm – 5pm. Price: £45 Arduino is a microcontroller development board - a cheap little computer you can programme to readsensors and control things like motors and lights. It’s a fantastic tool for artists, designers and hobbyists. This workshop will get you up and running with this hugely adaptable technology, showing you how to program the device and make simple electronic circuits. The course fee includes a complete Arduino kit - yours to keep after the workshop. Please bring a laptop to program on. A limited number of computers can be provided. Please let us know if you need us to supply one. Find out more at Interact Labs and follow us on Facebook for the latest news.

IdeasTap Graduate Award: Design
IdeasTap Graduate Awards recognise the high standard of work being produced by UK-based graduates each year. Working with the industry, we've come up with a package of support to help graduates get a foot in the door. Apply for the IdeasTap Graduate Award: Design for the chance to win career coaching, funded exhibition space at Designersblock (during London Design Festival 2014), and up to £1,000 prize money! The award has four categories: Graphics and illustration, Digital design, Product and furniture and Theatre design (set or costume). This brief closes on Thursday 31 July 2014 at 5pm. It is open to all IdeasTap members who graduated from a higher education course (e.g. HND, undergraduate and postgraduate degrees) in 2013, or are due to graduate this year. Find out more here. 

£2,500 Prize for DepicT!  International Short Film Competition 
The Watershed in Bristol has launched the 2014 DepicT! competition for short films and animations of just 1.5 minutes. Running for the nineteenth year, the competition is free to enter. The overall winner will get a cash prize of £2,500 and all of the shortlisted entrants will be invited to network at the Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival in September. Open to filmmakers across the globe, films can be on any subject and in any genre and previous winners have had their work screened at international film festivals. The deadline for submitting films is 5pm on Monday 7th July 2014. Read more at: http://www.depict.org/

Roundhouse Online Film Fund
This brilliant bursary will give three emerging filmmakers everything they need to transform their online film idea into reality: a £400 production budget, the use of equipment and facilities, and mentoring from the Roundhouse. That’s right – you’ll get four months, £400 and access to equipment to create your own short film showcased on the Roundhouse’s YouTube channel – as well as on IdeasTap, of course. And that film can be anything you like, from narrative to animation, documentary to video art, even a multi-camera shoot in the Roundhouse Studios. This brief closes on Monday 2 June 2014 at 5pm and is open to IdeasTap members aged 18 to 25. Find out more here.

Film Theory Courses at Phoenix

• Distributing your Film: Tutors: Rhys Davies. Dates: Tuesday 3 - 24 June (4 sessions) Times: 7pm-8.30pm. Cost:  £48 / £44 conc. We follow the distribution journey all the way from initial concept through the stages of production to festivals, premiere and sales.
• Talk Cinema: Dates:  Tutor: Keith Allott Dates: Mondays 21 Jul - 29 Sep 2014 (10 sessions). Times: 10:30 am - 12pm. Cost:  £80/ £70 conc. Join us for this discussion group examining the weekly movements in the industry, new releases and the reasons and practicalities behind the production decisions made by their cast and crew to create them.
   

 

Contact Phoenix Box Office on 0116 2422800 or for more information go to www.phoenix.org.uk and look for ‘Short Courses for Adults’

Creative Leicestershire Business Surgeries
Book a one-to-one session with our business advisor, Fred Brookes.

• Leicester 27 May, LCB Depot, LE1 1RE. One hour slots available.
• Melton 10 June Melton Mowbray Library, LE13 0UJ. One hour slots available.

 

These sessions are only available to residents of Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland. This is a Creative Leicestershire event

Handmade in Leicestershire Summer Craft Fair
Saturday 19 July, 11 – 5. HandMade in Leicestershire is a prestigious contemporary art, craft and design fair that this year returns to the beautiful setting of Belgrave Hall and Gardens.  A wide range of arts and crafts will be on sale in the newly refurbished rooms of the Hall and Gardens with demonstrations and workshops on offer throughout the afternoon. Adults £2.50 / some workshops may charge. This event is supported by Creative Leicestershire.

Two Queens - Call for Artwork
Two Queens is holding an 'after-party' for this year's DMU degree show opening on the 13th June. This is a call for artwork for inclusion in this one night exhibition/event and is open to current and graduating students (in any subject) from DMU and Loughborough Universities, including Foundation, BA and MA students. In particular we are seeking Video works (less than 15 minutes duration) to be played in a 'showreel' format and performance-based work. These restrictions are open-ended and all submitted work will be considered. Artwork can be newly produced or pre-existing, the event will feature DJ'ing throughout so video works will need to be silent/be playable without sound. Closing date for entries is Thursday 29th May, successful applicants will be contacted by email by Sunday 1st june at latest. For any additional information please contact info@2queens.com. To submit your work or ideas for this opportunity please complete the online form.

UK Young Artists - Call for Submissions
This November UK Young Artists will be presenting the best of the UK’s young creative talent at a three day festival taking place in Leicester. We are now looking for submissions from artists aged between 18 and 30 from across the UK to take part. The art forms we cover are: Applied Art, Literature, Moving Image, Music, Performance and Visual Art, cross art form collaborations are also welcomed! Call for submissions runs from Monday 26 May until Monday 30 June. From the submissions received artists will be selected to take part in the Leicester Festival by a panel comprising of representatives from the four founding universities; De Montfort, Derby, Loughborough and Nottingham Trent plus curators and programmers from our host venues. Submissions can only be accepted via the online application process. 

Commission Opportunity- Loughborough
The Refectory Table are managing a commission for the Love Loughborough Partnership. This commission will support the perception of Loughborough as a place with it’s own distinctiveness that encourages independent creative and artisan businesses. The site is 55 meters long by 2.25 meters high. The work will be installed as a linear run of 10 panels. The artist will produce a design that will be passed onto separate contractors who will transfer the design digitally onto, and install the panels at a key site in the town centre. We are particularly interested in hearing from practitioners such as printmakers, illustrators, designers or makers from Leicestershire or Rutland with a strong track record. Fee 3k. Application deadline – end of June. The full Commission Brief will be available from Janet Currie, Commission Manager from the 30th May 2014. Go here to register interest in receiving a copy.

Sock Gallery - Open Exhibition Submissions 2014
Sock Gallery's Open Exhibition was established in 2012 to provide a platform for local and national, professional and amateur, Artists to exhibit their work. The Open invites you to submit two-dimensional work ranging from paintings, photographs, drawings, original prints and mixed media work. Submission dates: Thursday 31st July 9am-5pm, Friday 1st August 9am-7pm & Saturday 2nd August 9am-5pm. For more information and an application form visit here or you can pick one up from Sock Gallery.

Wysing Arts Centre Residencies
Four artists will be selected to be in-residence at Wysing Arts Centre for six weeks. Artists propose how they would spend six weeks in-residence at Wysing taking the theme of "The Future" as a starting point for research. During the residencies, we will organise a series of talks and events to expand thinking around the theme and artists are also invited to propose papers, talks, or performances that might be included in this events programme, if appropriate. The artists’ fee and production budget for a residency is a total of £4,000. Find out more here. Deadline: 16 June.

Jerwood Drawing Prize
"An exhibition that explores and celebrates the diversity, excellence and range of current drawing practice in the UK." Open to all UK based artistsworking with drawing. From an anticipated submission of over 3,000 entries, the selectors will bring together up to 70 works for an exhibition in the Jerwood Visual Arts programme, at Jerwood Space, London from 17 September – 26 October 2014. The exhibition will then tour to venues across the UK, including Cheltenham, Leeds and Bournemouth. First Prize is £8,000, Second Prize is £5,000 and two Student Awards are £2,000 each. Visit the website to find out more. Deadline: 16 June.

Leicestershire and Rutland Young Artists Open Exhibition
A partnership project between Creative Hinckley and Charnwood Arts. Free entry to any young person aged 8-19 years living or studying in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Your chance to exhibit in this prestigious gallery space in Hinckley. All works in different age categories will judged by a panel of experts and prizes awarded including an opportunity for someone in the 16-19 years category to experience mentoring for a week within a major regional design company. Art works will be accepted between Monday 9 and Friday 13 June 2014 from 9.30am to 4pm at the Atkins Building, Lower Bond Street Hinckley LE10 1QU. Exhibition dates: Wednesday 2 July – Friday 1 August 2014. For more information visit the website.

The Temp Exhibition - Call for Artwork
The Temp Exhibition is a one night only exhibition to be hosted at The Font Pub in Leicester during the Autumn term. Students art will be curated around the venue, breaking down the boundaries of an art gallery in a unexpected and alternative pub setting. Students must be based in Leicester and can be from any art discipline or any University. We want to see students do something that could be site specific to The Font Pub or curated to be enjoyed by visitors. Visitors will be voting for the art work they like curated the best within the pub setting. We are looking for applications from now until the 31st July and will be selecting artists based on innovation and creativity. Please send us max.350 words summarising and explaining your idea of your art you would create/display/curate in the pub to project19degrees@gmail.com

Call out for Artists / Makers – Crafted 2014
Crafted is being held at the Creative Hinckley Gallery at The Atkins Building, Hinckley Saturday 28th & 29th June. This 2 day event is well attended and showcases high quality arts and crafts from regional artists and makers. If you would like to book a stall please complete the online application form on: www.creativekinckley.co.uk or contact Jen.Jarvis@hinckey-bosworth.gov.uk

Ten2Gallery Open Summer Exhibition 2014 - Remembrance
The Ten2Gallery is again offering the exciting opportunity to artists in the area to submit up to 3 pieces of their work for consideration to be included in the open “Summer Exhibition” to be held at the Ten2Gallery during August and September 2014. This year the theme of our exhibition is REMEMBRANCE. An entrance fee of £4.00 per item, or £10.00 for three will be charged (non- refundable). Maximum size of work accepted is 1m square. Work must be delivered to 102 Castle Street, Hinckley between Monday 14th and Saturday 19th July between the hours of 9.00 - 5.00. Payment must be made at the time of delivery. Contact rose@ten2gallery.co.uk or see the website for more details.

De Montfort University Art and Design Degree Show
The Art and Design Degree Show 2014 is an annual exhibition showcasing the talent and innovative work of our final year art, architecture, design and fashion students. The event will give you the opportunity to view the exciting creations by the next generations of artists and designers across our range of courses, and attracts over 4000 visitors. The show is taking place in various locations across the De Montfort University campus from Saturday 14 June. For more information, please visit dmu.ac.uk/degreeshow

The Refectory Table - NGS Loughborough Open Gardens & Secret Craft Fair
7th & 8th June 12 - 4pm. Janet Currie & Pete Mosley are opening their garden to the public as part of the National Gardens Scheme and also holding a Secret Craft Fair. You will find Helen Rhodes with her prints, brooches and cards, ceramics by Bridget McVey, Olivier Marc Thomas Leger will be here with his hand drawn fantastical creatures, The Green Woodpecker are bringing beautiful bird boxes and see Jane Bevan’s crafts from the woods. We’ve got acoustic music and real live faeries at the bottom of the garden by anon.creatives. Bridget and Pete will be throwing pots in the shed on Sunday – come and have a go! 7th June: 134 Herrick Road, admission £2. 8th June: 134 & 80 Herrick Road, admission £3, children free. Go to www.thesecateur.com or www.ngs.org.uk for more information.

Mural Painting Workshop - Creative Hinckley
In connection with exhibition: Large Scale Drawings in Black and Red - by Satta Hashem. The aim of the workshop is to give participants an introduction to how murals are used in architecturally different settings. At the end of the workshop, the participants will produce some large scale painting and drawing. Atkins Building, Lower Bond Street, Hinckley LE10 1QU. 30th May, 11.00 - 16.00. COST £35.00 pp. 01455 440500 (telephone) info@creativehinckley.co.uk   www.creativehinckley.co.uk

Beginners Jewellery classes
 at CDS Gallery
Textured/hammered Jewellery

One to one jewellery sessions - learn the basics of jewellery and silversmithing.
Jewellery studio set within the CDS Gallery.

 During your session learn how to make any of the following: 
Earrings, 
Rings, 
Bangles, 
Cufflinks, 
Pendants
. 
£65.00
 10am – 1pm Thursdays or Fridays. Silver sheet included
. Extra silver available to purchase on the day
. A lesson plan can be agreed before attending.
 Please email cdsgallery@live.com for further information


Katherine Fortnum Ceramics Workshops
15 knoll street, market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 9QR www.katherinefortnumceramics.com / kfortnum@hotmail.co.uk / 07732789997. Ceramics workshops are great for anyone looking to learn a new skill whilst creating something beautiful and unique. Whether there's a specific item you wish to make or simply just to have a play and explore the world of clay, we have a range of workshops available designed around you. Available for: one-to-one/group workshops, parties, Hen parties, schools, after school clubs, craft groups and care organisations.

Art & Craft Courses & Events at Embrace Arts

• Experimenting with silk painting Saturday 31 May, 10am – 4pm. Tutor: Linda Harding. £40 / £22. Using basic techniques from tracing designs with metallic pens and gutta, blending vibrant silk paints adding interesting salt effects.
• Life drawing: Shapes and proportion Tutor: Diane E Hall. Saturday 31 May, 10am – 3.30pm, £40 / £22. Focus on observing the proportions of the body and how the shapes, mass, solidity and energy of the human form can be expressed in exciting ways.

 

• Abstract watercolour Tuesdays, 3 June – 8 July, 1.30pm – 4.30pm Tutor: Lois Gardner Sabet £70 / £40 for 6 sessions. Work with the basics of colour theory, using watercolours to develop a catalogue of expressive brush strokes which will lead to compositions and completed paintings.
• Decorative paper making Saturday 7 June, 10am – 4pm Tutor: Joy Norman £40 / £22. Create unique, textured and patterned paper samples using impressions, inlays and a host of other embellishments.

 

 

Embrace Arts, Richard Attenborough centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 7HA. www.embracearts.co.uk

Upcoming printmaking courses at Leicester Print Workshop

• Linocut Saturday 31st May 10.00am - 4.00pm. Discover the versatility of this popular relief print technique. This course will introduce the basic skills of linocut from designing your image, cutting your block and printing. In addition you will have the opportunity to experiment with mark making, colour and collage. £75 / £67.50 concessions.
• Monoprinting Sunday 1st June 10.00am - 4.00pm. Experiment with monoprinting on this day course and create vibrant, one off prints. Using a host of techniques and a range of colours you will experiment with mark making, stencils, painterly techniques, transfer monoprinting and use of mixed media to create simple unique prints quickly and with stunning effect. £75 / £67.50 concessions.
• Introduction to Print Thursday 5th June until Thursday 10th July 6.00pm - 9.00pm. This popular 6 week evening course is the perfect introduction for those new to printmaking and wishing to explore it further. You will learn drypoint, monoprint, linocut, hard ground etching and collagraph techniques. With three hours per evening there is plenty of time for learning, development and experimenting. £175 / £157.50 concessions.
• Textile screenprinting Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th June 10.00am - 4.00pm. This weekend course will provide an introduction to textile screenprinting and to a range of techniques designed to develop your creative ideas. You will learn how to transfer your image onto your screen and print, experiment with layering colours and imagery and apply heat press techniques such as foiling, flocking and puff binder to further enhance your designs. £125 / £112.50 concessions.

 

Leicester Print Workshop,  50 Saint Stephens Road, Leicester, LE2 1GG
www.leicesterprintworkshop.com

Workshops from Emily Found A Thing
Bookings now being taken for workshops at Emily Found A Thing, Wymondham, Melton Mowbray

• Embellish a straw hat, June 5th 7-9.30pm £25, Get creative with an old or preloved straw hat, decorate it with flowers, bows and other trimmings made using reclaimed and vintage materials. You will learn how to make flowers from old tights and bows with old ties! You will need to bring your own straw hat to work on. All other materials will be provided but feel free to bring your own.
• ‘Cabinet for Keeps’  Make a case for keepsakes, June 15th and 28th 2 days, 10.00-2.00pm £60 make a ‘cabinet’ from old boxes, drawers and cases to display your collection of personal objects, mementos and memories to commemorate an event or occasion or remember a special person. Boxes and cases will be provided but please feel free to bring your own.

www.emilyfoundathing.co.uk

 

Creative Leicestershire Business Surgeries
Book a one-to-one session with our business advisor, Fred Brookes.

• Leicester 27 May, LCB Depot, LE1 1RE. One hour slots available.
• Melton 10 June Melton Mowbray Library, LE13 0UJ. One hour slots available.

 

These sessions are only available to residents of Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland. This is a Creative Leicestershire event

National Poetry Competition 2014 is GO!
The National Poetry Competition is now open! Judges are Glyn Maxwell, Roddy Lumsden and Zoë Skoulding. The first prize winner will receive a £5,000 prize, publication in The Poetry Review and the chance to read at some of the UK's top literature festivals. For more information click here

The 3rd Annual Commonword Diversity Writing for Children Prize
Are you an unpublished writer of children's fiction? Commonword, Puffin Books and Catherine Pellegrino literary agency are looking for novels from unpublished children's authors resident in the United Kingdom whose writing embraces ethnic diversity either through their own ethnicity and culture and/or in their writing. The winner will receive a £500 cash prize, professional and detailed feedback on their text from Catherine Pellegrino, and Puffin books of their choice to the retail value of £100. Closing date: 1 September 2014. More information can be found at the prize website. 

UK Young Artists - Call for Submissions
This November UK Young Artists will be presenting the best of the UK’s young creative talent at a three day festival taking place in Leicester. We are now looking for submissions from artists aged between 18 and 30 from across the UK to take part. The art forms we cover are: Applied Art, Literature, Moving Image, Music, Performance and Visual Art, cross art form collaborations are also welcomed! Call for submissions runs from Monday 26 May until Monday 30 June. From the submissions received artists will be selected to take part in the Leicester Festival by a panel comprising of representatives from the four founding universities; De Montfort, Derby, Loughborough and Nottingham Trent plus curators and programmers from our host venues. Submissions can only be accepted via the online application process.

Fractured Lines - Call out for great Writers
Would you like to join us on our new project called Blaggards, which has a regular new writing night at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre in London. This is the new writing project and is a ‘from script to stage in seven days’ project. Each week a newly written script will be cast on the Monday evening, rehearse dTuesday and Thursday evenings, with a performance on Sunday at 7pm, including an additional opportunity for some performances to be recorded prior the live performance. This is a fantastic opportunity to network and start creating on a very low investment of time, which you can fit around your other commitments. You will also get audience written feedback. For more information and to apply visit the website. 

Cotesbach Educational Trust - Open Archive Day
Archives are normally open by appointment only – but on Saturday 24 May 2014 we’re opening our archive for the whole day to celebrate our new listing with the National Archives and to declare our archive open for research. We’ve over 400 years of history in our archive – but as the Marriott family, the current owners of the estate, arrived in Georgian times, we’re holding a Georgian themed day with tours for all and activities for children. Join us and learn about the Georgian impact on our lives – and how you can make the most of your local archives to research your family tree or your next best-selling novella. More information here.

Fully-funded PhD Studentships - Loughborough University
The Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University invites excellent applications for two PhD Studentships starting October 2014. The Studentships are open to home/EU and international/overseas students. They will run for three years and include: A stipend of £13,863* p.a. plus fees paid at the home/EU rate for three years. We encourage applications that have the potential to make a substantive contribution to our current research activities, which span six key areas represented in the Department’s research groups. Our research is interdisciplinary in nature and we welcome the submission of high-quality proposals focusing on topics related to literary and cultural studies, drama and theatre studies, linguistics and related areas, creative writing, and publishing and communication studies. Please use the online application form. Early application is strongly encouraged, and shortlisted candidates may be required to attend an interview in June or July 2014.

Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2014
The Poetry Society and judges Grace Nichols and Simon Barraclough are leading the call for the very best new poetic talent amongst 11-17 year olds. Take a chance on the ‘one to beat’ – the award is open to all young writers worldwide writing in English. Deadline for entries : 31st July 2014 www.foyleyoungpoets.org

Edge-Lit 3 - science-fiction, fantasy and horror day, QUAD, Derby
EDGE-LIT 3 – a day of science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing Saturday 19th July, 11am-11pm, QUAD, Derby. Tickets £25, including access to all activities on the day. Book from QUAD Box Office on 01332 290606 or online at www.derbyquad.co.uk Derby's annual genre fiction extravaganza returns for a third installment in 2014, once again featuring some of the finest in UK writing talent. Expect a great range of panels, workshops, readings and much more on the day, including the brain-taxing Edge-Lit Quiz, the near-legendary Edge-Lit raffle and a special science-fiction and fantasy instalment of the HOW TO WRITE BADLY WELL comedy show. EDGE-LIT 3 is the ideal day out for anyone with an interest in reading or writing in the fields of science-fiction, fantasy and horror. Find out more at http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/special-event/edge-lit-3 or join us on Twitter @EdgeLitDerby 

Writing School Leicester
All Leicester courses take place at Leicester Adult Education College, Wellington Street, Leicester LE1 6HL. 

• Crafting Your Writing 5 Sessions from 2 June, Monday 1pm – 3pm. Publisher’s note for submissions: ‘you should present your work to a highly professional standard and ensure that you have edited the text to the best of your ability.’ Whether you’re thinking of agents and publishers or self-publishing, you need to give your work the best chance of shining. This course looks at the building blocks of the craft, helping you to shape whatever you’re writing with more confidence, in your own voice. Price: £75.
• Writing from the Body 5 Sessions from 5 June, Thursday 10 – Noon. Writing is a physical experience. In this course we’ll
  be experimenting with how to let your body do the talking. Using a variety of writing exercises, we will also make use of breathing meditation and other gentle physical methods of letting the body tell its story. Price: £75.

 

 

• How to Hone Your Poetry Writing 2 hour course on 11 June, Wednesday 1pm – 3pm. A one-session workshop aimed at helping you to assess which of your (previously written) poems work best. This will be done by reading, discussion and an appreciation of new, different and exciting ways to write, and things to write about. Our target is to present two or three poems, in their Best Draft, for publication, both in reading and for consideration in a magazine. Price: £20.
• The Business of Writing One day course 14 June 2014, Saturday 10.30am – 4pm. So you’ve written your novel/screenplay/script (delete as applicable). You’ve got some interest from agents/publishers/producers (ditto). Now what?
  This course isn’t going to tell you how to edit, redraft or improve your work (well, maybe a bit). What it will do is address some of the things you’ll definitely need but might not have thought about. In short, the hard graft, nose-to-the-grindstone business side of a writing career. Price: £60.

 

All courses have a 4% PayPal fee if booked online. More courses are available on the Writing School Leicester website

Creative Leicestershire Business Surgeries
Book a one-to-one session with our business advisor, Fred Brookes.

• Leicester 27 May, LCB Depot, LE1 1RE. One hour slots available.
• Melton 10 June Melton Mowbray Library, LE13 0UJ. One hour slots available.

 

These sessions are only available to residents of Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland. This is a Creative Leicestershire event

Step Change Applications now open
Step Change is a national programme for professionals seeking to progress/develop their careers in the performing arts. Providing coaching, mentoring, masterclasses and experience-based learning, Step Change supports those in need of a change of direction. Focusing predominantly on producing and management roles, Step Change expands the range of opportunities for those hoping to make a transition into or within the arts, especially those who are overlooked and underrepresented. In its sixth year and led by the National Theatre, the programme’s key aim is to develop confident, experienced, daring and aware professionals that will strengthen the heart of the sector. Deadline for applications: Monday 23 June, 10am. For more information see the website.

UK Young Artists - Call for Submissions
This November UK Young Artists will be presenting the best of the UK’s young creative talent at a three day festival taking place in Leicester. We are now looking for submissions from artists aged between 18 and 30 from across the UK to take part. The art forms we cover are: Applied Art, Literature, Moving Image, Music, Performance and Visual Art, cross art form collaborations are also welcomed! Call for submissions runs from Monday 26 May until Monday 30 June. From the submissions received artists will be selected to take part in the Leicester Festival by a panel comprising of representatives from the four founding universities; De Montfort, Derby, Loughborough and Nottingham Trent plus curators and programmers from our host venues. Submissions can only be accepted via the online application process.

Fractured Lines - Call out for great Actors
Would you like to join us on our new project called Blaggards, which is at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London? This is the new writing project and is a ‘from script to stage in seven days’ project. Each week a newly written script will be cast on the Monday evening, rehearse dTuesday and Thursday evenings, with a performance on Sunday at 7pm, including an additional opportunity for some performances to be recorded prior the live performance. This is a fantastic opportunity to network and start creating on a very low investment of time, which you can fit around your other commitments. You will also get audience written feedback. For more information and to apply visit the website.

Centre For Advanced Training FREE Teacher Training Day
Tuesday 10 June 2014, 10am-4pm at Embrace Arts, Leicester, LE1 7HA. Dance4's Centre for Advanced Training Scheme is inviting teachers from across the East Midlands with an interest in dance to attend a free and motivating teacher training day in Leicester. The day will be aimed at secondary school level teachers, specialist, non-specialist and independent dance artists who are leading or aiming to run sessions with young people. To book your place visit the Dance4 website or e-mail cat@dance4.co.uk or phone 0115 941 0773.

Centre for Advanced Training Annual Audition 2014
Sunday 22 June 2014, 10am-4:30pm, Djanogly City Academy, Nottingham, NG7 7AR. Dance4's Centre for Advanced Training invites young people aged 11-17 years with exceptional potential in dance to audition for the scheme for September 2014 intake. The audition is an opportunity to demonstrate potential by taking part in a practical contemporary dance class and a creative workshop in front of a selection panel. To apply, complete an application form or e-mail cat@dance4.co.uk

Get your summer off to a great start at FCD's Summer School
With two months to go, there's still time to book onto one of our six Summer School courses, 8-11 July 2014 at the PACE studios at De Montfort University, Leicester. Wherever you are in your career, join like-minded dance artists from across the world to participate in this brilliant professional development experience. Whether you want to develop your creative skills or learn to become an adaptable, versatile practitioner who is able to lead dance in a range of contexts, there's something for you. Places are filling up fast so book soon to secure your place.

Community dance - an online resource designed to help you in your work
Animated magazine aims to support the important work of community dance by revealing diverse dance practices. In 2013 the archives of the magazine articles were made open and freely available, which span from the present day back to 1996. Whether you are an artist, a researcher, a student, are involved in running projects or you simply want to know more about community dance, take a look at this unique online resource and gain access to a wealth of experiences.

Phd in Music - University of Nottingham
The Department of Music at the University of Nottingham is pleased to announce the availability of funded support for a postgraduate student of composition, registered for a PhD in Music.  The funding support is through the generosity of a Radcliffe Trust Composition Bursary and consists of three annual payments of £6,000. The current tuition fee for postgraduate study at the University (HEU students) is £3,980 per year (subject to review). The Bursary is open to UK applicants who must be starting full time PhD studies in September 2014. Applicants will normally have an MA in Composition with at least a Merit. For an application form and a reference form please visit the website. Deadline 30 May. 

Mobilisation - Community Arts Event
As part of the Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland’s commemoration of the centenary of World War I, and by kind permission of 49 (East) Brigade Commander and the Head of Establishment for Kendrew Barracks, Arts for Rutland are hosting a large scale community arts event at Kendrew on Sunday 15th June 2014. The event is intended to embrace both the army and the wider Rutland community in a range of cultural activities linked by the theme of “Mobilisation”. The principal art forms will be music, drama, visual art, and commemorative displays with a centrepiece performance by an international aerial ballet company. See the website for more information.

De Montfort University's Dance Festival
Friday 13-Saturday 14 June 2014, Curve Theatre. De Montfort University’s annual dance festival showcases the best student work produced over the year. The event makes new dance available to a wider audience in the form of fresh, exuberant and challenging performances. Why not come along to see original choreography and stunning live performance at the state-of-the-art Curve Theatre in Leicester. Booking required. Tickets from £6. For more information please visit dmu.ac.uk/udf

Become a member of the Foundation for Community Dance
If you're a dance teacher or leader, Professional Individual Membership of the Foundation for Community Dance offers a range of benefits to support your practice including; Public Liability and Professional Indemnity insurance cover up to £10m, Legal Expenses and Personal Accident cover, giving you peace of mind. Prices start from £83 for a whole year. Visit the website for more information. 

 

Performing Arts & Music Courses/Events at Embrace Arts

• Burlesque for beginners Mondays, 9 June – 14 July, 7.30pm – 8.30pm. Learn about styles of walking, posing, glove removal, stocking removal, the use of props and some fun routines as well. You will need opera gloves and stockings (this will be discussed at the first session) – bring your high heels. £36 for 6 sessions
• Intermediate hula hoop dance Mondays, 9 June - 14 July, 8.30pm – 9.30pm. Move on from the beginner’s course to tackle combinations and simple routines to link moves together, making your hooping much smoother and really taking your dancing to the next level. Hula hoops provided. £45 for 6 sessions.

 

• Dance Improv Open Lab with Lin Snelling
  Monday 30 June, 10.30am - 5.30pm, £30 / £20 at the PACE building, DMU. This Open Lab explores a practise created by Lin Snelling and Guy Cools- It is called Rewriting Distance. Rewriting Distance allows for questions, problems, solutions and re-invention as it asks participants to move, speak, read and write to collectively and individually further the telling of the physical/verbal/and written stories at hand.
• Sax from scratch Sunday 22 June and Saturday 27 September, £40 / £22. A new workshop for absolute beginners or those returning to the instrument, with some saxophones provided. – It’s about trying something new and exciting, working together and having fun.

 

 

 

Embrace Arts, Richard Attenborough centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 7HA. www.embracearts.co.uk

Creative Coffee
Phoenix cafe-bar, Midland Street, Leicester LE1 1TG. Creativity, Coffee & Conversation. We're a free fortnightly networking meet-up for creative people and those looking to meet creatives. Next event Wednesday 28th May 10-12. See www.creativecoffee.org.uk

Writers Meet Up Leicester
The monthly meet up sees an average of 6-10 writers from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds come together.It is a friendly group and everybody is always made to feel welcome. Sign up to our next event by visiting our Facebook event page  where there is also a brief report about each meet up. 2014 dates: DAYTIME MEET UP 1st TUESDAY in: July, Oct, Nov at The Curve cafe. EVENING MEET UP 1st WEDNESDAY in: June, Sept, Dec 6pm at The Exchange

Open Coffee - Leicester Tech Startups
This is a networking and community event for existing and aspiring tech startup entrepreneurs. Aimed at geeks, techies, scientists, coders, students, entrepreneurs and innovators who are serious about turning great tech ideas into money via startups, spin-offs and joint ventures. See http://www.leicesterstartups.com/

Professional Development Planning Workshop with Cathy Grindrod
This is a FREE workshop for Creative Leicestershire subscribers. Professional Development Planning (PDP) provides an opportunity for you to explore your current position as an artist, and to gain clarity regarding future steps you might take, with the help of a guide who will assist you in the goal planning process. During the session, which will be delivered in a small group, you will look at your past journey, your present creative life balance, and how you can overcome barriers and confidence issues and identify the support you most need. Click the link to book, place are limited:

• Loughborough University Arts - Wednesday 11 June, 10:00 - 1.00pm*
• * Now fully booked, please email creative@leics.gov.uk if you are interested in attending the next one of these sessions

 

Presenting and Marketing your work: Self Image Management for artists led by Emilia Telese
Tuesday, 10 June 2014 from 12:30 to 6:00pm, Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre, Leicester LE1 1TG. Book your place here. This one day practical and theoretical workshop will explore techniques and strategies for visual artists to interact with the art world in the most effective way, through written and visual presentation aimed at galleries, commissioners and funders, effective marketing and self-image management strategies. Emilia Telese is an artist, writer and broadcaster based in Sussex. Born in Italy, Emilia graduated in painting from the Fine Arts Academy in Florence in 1996, following studies in literature and philosophy. Her practice spans several art forms, including interactive and body-responsive technology, film and live art, installation, literature and public art. She has exhibited around the world in venues such as the Freud Museum, the Royal festival Hall, ZKM, Ars Electronica and the Venice Biennale. Supported by Creative Leicestershire.

Arts Award Training
Do you work with young people? Support their creative development with Arts Award. Arts Award is for all young people and can work through any arts, cultural or media activity. Training as an adviser is the first step in getting going with Arts Award. Advisers support each young person and assess their progress. When you train as Bronze & Silver adviser you will learn how to deliver and assess Arts Award at QCF* Levels 1 and 2. Monday 16th June - 9:30 - 4pm - LCB Depot, Rutland St Leicester. Book now

Arts Award Support Surgeries
Support surgeries provide an opportunity for existing advisers to explore and develop the delivery of Arts Award in their setting, with the help of trained support consultants. Tuesday 17th June, LCB depot, Leicester, 2-5pm. Free. For further details or to book your place visit the website. 

Courses at The Refectory Table
Janet Currie & Pete Mosley run sociable and relaxed creative business courses that help you get better at the business of being creative. They take a different approach to courses - running them in creative and friendly homes, including their own in Loughborough, for creative people who want to find a fresh way of thinking about the way they work. Relaxed friendly venues, great lunch and home made cake. www.therefectorytable.com

• What am I worth - How to think about price and value. 30th May 10-4 Loughborough
  Max 6 people. Explore the way you value yourself and price your work, and how that impacts on your income. This day is for anyone who feels uncertain about issues around value and how it affects the way they price their work. £80.
• How to be a Confident Creative 12th June 10-4 Loughborough. Max 8 people. We will help you find the mindset, tools and techniques to boost your confidence, give you more energy and sense of direction. Your confidence will be significantly harder to rock and easier to recover when it is shaken and the task of self-promotion suddenly gets a lot easier. £80.

 

Know How Launch
Know How is a new programme designed to take your organisation on a journey placing digital and design thinking at the heart of what you do. Organisations working in the arts, culture and heritage sector in the East Midlands can access a supportive and structured process developed by Broadway's Near Now programme and the award-winning service design agency Snook.  Over a six month period we will help you conceive new ideas enabled by digital tech, bring them to life and explore their potential before refining your ideas through prototypes. Join us in Nottingham on Monday 2 June for a chance to find out more about Know How, meet our partners Snook and hear about the new spaces we are creating at Broadway. Visit the website for more information.

TMC The (Cultural) Life of the Child: Summit #3
Wed 18th June 2014, Derby. Following on from The Mighty Creatives’ inspiring summits focussed on the Early and Primary Years, we warmly invite you to join us for the next event in this series - Summit #3: The Secondary Years (11-18). The (Cultural) Life of the Child Summits bring together children's service leaders, practitioners and educators from across the East Midlands and nationally to look at what makes a #goodchildhood.  The summits will identify what children and young people need and how professionals from different sectors can work together to improve opportunities and outcomes. Click here for more information and to book your place.

LCB Business Development Team
LCB Business Development Team can help you start your creative business or help you grow your existing creative business. We offer one-to-one coaching and advice sessions, delivered by experienced and qualified professionals. In addition, we are currently developing a new programme of workshops to cover all aspects of starting and running your creative business. More details soon. Finally, we also provide networking opportunities and grants. For more information please contact the Business Development Team on: T: 01162422900 E: develop@lcbdepot.co.uk

FREE training opportunities with Pedestrian
Pedestrian are launching a FREE training programme for creative entrepreneurs. Whether you are a graduate looking to turn your skills into employment or a creative/artist currently employed outside of your area of specialism, we aim to provide a meaningful training opportunity for 19-25 year olds interested in working in the creative industries. For more information and to apply visit the Pedestrian website. 

 

Training from Voluntary Action Leicestershire

• Introduction to Funding Applications 4 Jun 2014 - 9:30pm, Innovation Centre, Market Harborough, LE16 7WB. This half-day course is an introduction to funding applications and covers: assessing need, project planning and helpful tips on written style and completing grant applications.
• Collaboration and Partnership Working 11 Jun 2014 - 11:00am, Virtual Session. This online web conference facilitated by our Group Support Team Manager David Sharpe will take you through some helpful case studies to help you get started. As this session is an online web conference all you need is a computer with an internet connection to take part. 
• Roles and Responsibilities of Trustees 11 Jun 2014 6pm, Voluntary Action LeicesterShire, LE1 5SN. This session uses the National Occupational Standards for Trustees to give you a clear idea of what your role should entail.
• Financial Management 12 Jun 2014 - 10:00am, Marlene Reid Centre, Coalville, LE67 3PH. The course will give you confidence in completing cashbooks, bank reconciliations and managing petty cash using friendly and interactive activities.

 

For further information & training visit the Voluntary Action Leicestershire website. 

 

 

Creative Leicestershire research programme: Organisations please help!
We are currently completing our latest research programme with De Montfort University and hope to share the final report on the state of the sector with you by June/July this year. We're asking all organisations (not sole traders; unless you are incorporated) to please fill in the following short questionnaire before the end of May. Thank you for your time! More information about the research can be found here or contact rfletcher@dmu.ac.uk

Creative Enterprise Hub
If you are about to, or have just started your creative business you can take advantage of our incubation scheme with: 6 months free access to hot desk office facilities including a business postal address, access to one to one support and access to our workshop programme. To find out more email matt.bateman@lcbdepot.co.uk or call on 0116 242 2955 or visit the website to download an application form. Deadline for applications is 27th May 2014.

£2k UK Growth Vouchers & Leicester 50% Grants for B2B Businesses
Anicca is the biggest AdWords agency in the Midlands with 10 Google accredited staff. We are actively promoting two grants: £2k Growth Vouchers – nationwide for companies employing less than 49 staff (50% funding for a £4,000 consultancy project) and Leicester City Grants for B2B companies employing less than 250 staff – 50% grants for projects of £2k – £50k (depending on length you have been trading). You can read more about the grants here and how Anicca can help you.

Free support for Blaby District enterprises
Growing businesses in Blaby District have the chance to benefit from a free package of business support worth up to £500 to help kick start their expansion and improvement plans. The Growth 4 Enterprise scheme is open to applications from independent small firms located in Blaby District who have plans to develop and grow and currently employ less than 50 staff.  The package of support includes a business assessment, followed by one to one professional advice and access to a choice of training masterclasses. Blaby District Council is working in partnership with Nottingham Business Venture to run this pilot business support scheme. Contact Carole Troake, Principal Economic Development Officer on 0116 2727735 for more information or find the details here

Leicestershire County Council SHIRE Community Solutions Grant Fund
The Council is committed to supporting voluntary and community sector organisations to work alongside us to design and develop innovative solutions, to enable the delivery of key services for our communities and has committed £260,000 (in 2014-15) for the SHIRE Community Solutions Grant Fund. The key focus of the fund will be to prioritise projects which address vulnerability, disadvantage and access to essential services. The maximum amount which can be applied for is £10,000 and grants will only be available to projects which benefit residents of Leicestershire County. Further information regarding the SHIRE Community Solutions Grant Fund is available here. 

The Mighty Creatives: Embridge Arts Award Grant Programme 2014 – 2015
As the East Midlands Bridge organisation, The Mighty Creatives has been working to help more children and young people access more great art and culture more of the time. We have been working with Trinity College London to develop Arts Award within our region. Arts Award offers young people an inspiring arts and culture journey. This year we have developed an Arts Award Grants Programme to extend the reach of Arts Award and to further develop where and how Arts Award is being delivered to young people in the region. You can apply for up to £5,000 to help you to develop or start your Arts Award offer. To find out more and down load an application form click here. Application deadlines: Round 2 - 9am 30 June 2014 | Round 3: 9am 6 October 2014

Voluntary Action Leicestershire - application support
VAL offers free, confidential and impartial advice to voluntary and community groups completing funding applications. We are able to review draft funding applications, offer advice on structuring your funding bid and advise and facilitate a consortium approach. To access this service call our Helpline on 0116 257 5050 or email helpline@valonline.org.uk.

Wellcome Trust – Arts Awards
The Wellcome Trust is inviting organisations and individuals to apply for funding through its Arts Awards. The Arts Awards support projects that engage the public with biomedical science through the arts including: Dance, Drama, Performance arts, Visual arts, Music, Film, Craft, Photography, Creative writing and Digital media. Applications are invited for projects of up to £30,000 through their small grants programme, and for projects above £30,000 through their large grant programme. The aim of the awards is to support arts projects that reach new audiences which may not traditionally be interested in science and provide new ways of thinking about the social, cultural and ethical issues around contemporary science. The scheme is open to a wide range of people including, among others, artists, scientists, curators, filmmakers, writers, producers, directors, academics, science communicators, teachers, arts workers and education officers. The next application deadline for small projects is the 27th June 2014, the deadline for large projects has now passed. Read more here

Government Growth Vouchers programme opens
The Government has launched a £30m ‘Growth Vouchers’ programme to help small British businesses grow. The programme will offer advice and guidance to businesses taking part and see subsidies of up to £2,000 offered to many to spend with advisers. It’s expected to help 20,000 of the smallest British businesses over the 15 month life of the initiative. The Enterprise Nation Marketplace is the place to find Growth Voucher advisers. Creative Leicestershire will be glad to hear of your experience of using this scheme. Let us know how it works for you.

Idlewild Trust
The Idlewild Trust has announced that the next closing date for applications to its grant making programme is the 24th September 2014. The Idlewild Trust is a grant making trust that supports registered charities concerned with the encouragement of the performing and fine arts and crafts, the advancement of education within the arts and the preservation for the benefit of the public of lands, buildings and other objects of beauty or historic interest in the United Kingdom. Read more at: http://www.idlewildtrust.org.uk/

Music Grants for Older People
The registered charity, Concertina which makes grants to charitable bodies which provide musical entertainment and related activities for the elderly has announced that the next deadline for applications is the 31st October 2014. The charity is particular keen to support smaller organisations which might otherwise find it difficult to gain funding. Since its inception in 2004, Concertina has made grants to a wide range of charitable organisations nationwide in England and Wales. These include funds to many care homes for the elderly to provide musical entertainment for their residents. Find out more here.

New £30 Million Package to Help Improve the Prospects of Young People
The Government has announced that organisations, including those from the voluntary sector can bid for funding through a new £30 million scheme to help improve the prospects of up to 20,000 vulnerable young people. The funding will help disadvantaged young people improve their prospects and prevent them from falling into a situation where they are not in education, employment or training (NEET). This investment is made up of 2 new programmes specifically targeting 14 to 24-year-olds. Find out more here.

Community Grants 2014 Fund Open for Applications
The £3.25 million Community Assets and Services Capital Fund is now open for applications. Community-led organisations can apply for grants of £100,000 to £500,000 for the purchase and refurbishment of land and buildings. The closing date for applications is the 26th June 2014. Read more here.

BIG Announces New £150 Million "Power to Change" Initiative
The Big Lottery Fund has announced that it will launch a new £150 million fund to support the development of sustainable community-led enterprises. The fund aims to respond to the many economic challenges facing local communities. Challenges that have led to empty shop premises and the closures of pubs, libraries, community centres and sports facilities. The fund wants to support communities to come together using creative approaches that involve local people and resources to improve their local neighbourhoods, villages and town centres. Find out more here.

The Arts Marketing Association
Founded in 1993, the AMA is a not-for-profit organisation with around 1,800 members, providing a community of knowledge for arts professionals passionate about bringing arts and audiences together. We support the professional development of AMA members through events, courses, training and resources. We run a range of practical, strategic and conceptual level events and courses each year, in locations across the UK. These are designed to help our members develop practical skills relevant to their job, encourage debate, share experience and knowledge of leading practitioners and provide opportunities for networking with other members.

Kickstarter
Kickstarter is an exciting and rewarding platform used to fund creative projects. They're a home for everything from films, games, and music to art, design, and technology. Kickstarter is full of projects, big and small, that are brought to life through the direct support of people like you. Since their launch in 2009, 5.3 million people have pledged $894 million, funding 52,000 creative projects. Thousands of creative projects are raising funds on Kickstarter right now! Click here for more information.