The Werkhouse Weekend

Following the success of the first werkhouse weekend in 2017, we’re back again this year. This time our weekend workshop is for 2nd year university students, so they can take their experience of Werkhouse into their final year of study. Once again, we’ll be at Taxi Studio, with some of the region’s most respected design industry professionals.

It’ll be a challenge — a deep dive into the creative and interpersonal skills you need to succeed in a design studio. We’ll show you how we rapidly develop concepts for clients and help you to sell your ideas. We’ll do this with a project scenario, five teams and some real pressure – to better prepare you for what design businesses need. Applications are open (deadline 30th April).

Participants work in teams, each led by a designer. Senior professionals rotate throughout to provide their input and ensure that all participants get time with everybody involved. Day 1 is about exploring the client situation and generating ideas within teams. Day 2 is about filtering, visualising and then sharing team ideas with the whole group. Participants share ideas, process and thinking. They do not create finished designs or make formal pitches. The expectation is that everyone contributes and collaborates, shares ideas and listens to others. Ask lots of questions, feel free to challenge, learn from each other and have fun.

For more information: Booklet About the Weekend

Werkhouse Website: www.werkhouse.co.uk

To apply, please fill out this short form. It takes place from 8.30am to 6pm on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th June 2018 at Taxi Studio in Bristol. The deadline for applications is Monday 30th April 2018.

 

Mayfest 2018

Mayfest is Bristol’s unique international festival of contemporary theatre, dedicated to presenting a broad range of unusual, playful and ambitious work from leading theatre makers from Bristol, the UK and beyond.

“A mix of work so tasty it makes you want to up sticks and move to Bristol permanently.” The Guardian

Mayfest is produced by MAYK, in partnership with arts organisations across Bristol. From pubs and clubs to community centres and libraries, from theatres and galleries to streets and woods; the city is a playground.

Through Mayfest we have built collaborative relationships with nearly every arts organisation in the city, from Bristol Old Vic to Tobacco Factory Theatres, from Arnolfini to the Cube, from Trinity to Circomedia.

Each festival we invite the most extraordinary theatre artists we can find into the city for an explosion of culture. Our programme emerges from conversations with artists and producers, from months travelling the world to find the best new theatre and performance, from collaborations with organisations locally and nationally.

Mayfest is MAYK’s gift to the people of Bristol – a feast of performance for a diverse, multi-cultural city – things we know you’ll love, things we hope you’ll love, things we know you’ll be challenged by, things we think you’ll never forget.

Mayfest’s Artistic Directors are Matthew Austin and Kate Yedigaroff.

 

More information: http://mayfestbristol.co.uk/ 

Designer Needed for Charity Pamphlet

The film maker Matty Groves is looking for a graphic designer to design a programme for a short screenwriting course, Open Script Lab.

 

Open Script Lab
Open Script Lab is a screenwriting course aimed at the short script and story form. It’s been designed for participant groups who are marginalised and vulnerable, such as, people with learning disabilities, older people, homeless adults, prisoners and ex-offenders and ethnic minorities.

 

It’s partnered with Open Cinema, a non-profit charity that enables any community to have a cinema or make a film.

 

Fee
The fee is £50. I realise that this is below a standard rate but due to the voluntary nature of the programme this is all I can afford.

 

Design
Clean and simple design with not too many colours. I have a few ideas, but, I’m looking forward to getting some input and guidance.

 

Filmmaker
I’m based at Spike Island Bristol.
Please email: email@mattygroves.co.uk

Assistant Project Manager role with Ginkgo Projects – Deadline 21st March

Ginkgo Projects are looking for an Assistant Project Manager to work on delivering a large public commission in Amesbury/Stonehenge.  They would also be involved in delivering some other projects at Ginkgo.

This would be approximately one day a week for about a year (overall fee of £7200) on a freelance basis with quite a flexible approach to fit in with the ebb and flow of this project.  The Amesbury/Stonehenge project should be complete by late spring 2019.

This would ideally suit someone with some project management experience although this is not essential if they bring enthusiasm and a common sense approach!  This might be someone with their own practice, part time employment or study that they could fit this round. It will involve working with artists and communities, so someone who enjoys working with people would be good.

This is not an artist role and would involve desk based work, meetings and some travel to oversee project delivery where necessary.  Access to a car would be ideal.  It is important that this person is self-reliant and can work independently as well as in a team.  Some time may be spent working from home, some in the Ginkgo office and some on site as appropriate.

Deadline: 21 March / Person appointed by 4th April  Application by letter of interest and CV.

Knowle West Media Centre’s creative agency is looking to expand its team!

Eight is based at Knowle West Media Centre in South Bristol.  It supports emerging creatives to pursue a career in the creative industries by pairing them with experienced professionals who mentor and work alongside them on commissions.

Eight can offer paid work for both trainees and mentors to work on a variety of freelance projects. Find out more below:

Trainee opportunities

Eight is looking for trainee creatives to work in: film, photography, web design, graphic design and animation.

Trainees are paid to work alongside experienced mentors in their field until they are ready to work alone.  Eight also offers training and careers support for trainees to help you identify your next steps in the creative industries.

The Eight team are keen to hear from individuals from a variety of backgrounds and with different levels of experience. If you have a passion for your desired industry and have the drive, creativity and dedication to pursue a career in the creative industries, please get in touch: send a CV and examples of your work with a short paragraph explaining why you would like to be involved to hello@eight.org.uk

Mentor opportunities

Eight is looking for experienced freelance professionals to lead paid creative projects and mentor emerging creatives.  The Eight team are particularly looking for professionals in: film, photography, web design, graphic design and animation.

If you share Eight’s commitment to championing diversity in the creative industries and want to freelance on a range of exciting projects, please get in touch: send your CV, portfolio and a short paragraph explaining why you would like to be involved to hello@eight.org.uk

Eight is keen to hear from groups that are under-represented in the creative industries, including residents of South Bristol and BS4 postcodes, BAME, disabled and LGBTQ creatives.

For more details about Eight and its opportunities for trainees and mentors please call 0117 903 0444 and ask for Noomi or Jen.

Artist Residency at Filwood Community Centre

Knowle West Media are inviting three artists or artist groups to spend time in Knowle West:

  • To explore how Filwood Broadway could become a new site for artistic production and exchange with local spaces and people.
  • To create outcomes that can be shared in the community and through a culminating exhibition in the KWMC Test-Space in the Autumn (this could be documentation if work is live).

Key themes and questions include:

  • How FCC and Filwood Broadway could become a new site for artist production and collaboration
  • New uses for FCC
  • How FCC could become a social space for artists and local people of different ages

Artists should create material that can be shared with and in the community, including site specific and outdoor display etc. As well as generate content that can be included in an exhibition at KWMC Test-Space in the Autumn. (this could be documentation if work is live). Artists can propose to generate new work through the residency or to explore a specific aspect of existing work in a new context. We welcome proposals from any discipline; outcomes could vary from – book-works, sculpture, sound-works, print works, photography, project documentation, performance, workshop-series etc.

Full Brief & Further information: Knowle West Residencies brief

I-AM Graduate Internship Competition

Always keen to find new talent, we run an annual internship competition: looking for two superb graduates to spend a year working with our design team in London. We visit universities across the UK, spreading the agency gospel to future designers and introducing them to the competition. With excellent feedback from students and lecturers and lots of interest on social media, the competition always attracts plenty of strong applicants. Being a design agency, it may not come as a surprise that we set applicants a creative task. This year the theme is to re-invent the humble match box. Along with their portfolios, we ask graduates to send us their creative ideas for what else a match box can do, say or be by uploading their entries to Instagram tagging♯iamgrad18

To download the application & competition details, please click link below:

https://i-amonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IAM-GRAD-2018-Brief.pdf