Ferment Fortnight Jan 2018

Here’s to a fine, fine, crop of South West artists, rolling up sleeves and inviting us into their art-worlds.

To properly kick off the New Year we are opening the Fortnight on our big stage here, and then taking Ferment out across the city to our friends at Watershed and Loco Klub. At these uniquely different venues, we will offer up some wonderful new ideas for you to try on for size. Amongst all the sharings, there is some interesting wrap around activity in the form of a nice chat with last year’s Leverhulme scholars and the first South West Artists and Venue’s meet up (in the form of a speed date. Of course). Definitely worth a look.

http://www.bristololdvic.org.uk/ferment-fortnight-jan-2018.html#hollering

 

Career Opportunity: Junior Designer at Hide the Shark

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Junior Designer with 1-2 years digital/graphic design experience to join a creative agency based at The Fire Station in Bedminster, Bristol.

About Hide the Shark
Hide the Shark is a small but perfectly formed agency that punches above its weight. We are looking for an ambitious and creative individual to work with us on a range of diverse projects and integrated campaigns – from digital to print, brand, advertising, video and motion graphics.

The Role
The right Junior Designer will support the production of creative campaigns for clients, ranging from responsive websites, creative online content, client literature, branding and advertising. This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual to work towards the next step in their career.

Are you the right fit?
– Minimum of 1-2 years` experience within a similar Junior Designer role, working for design, brand or creative agency
– Experience of core Adobe CC packages including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
– Experience of Premiere Pro, After Effects, Lightroom and XD packages (desirable but not essential)
– Able to apply strong core design skills to a diverse range projects
– Able to produce creative well-crafted design with good attention to detail
– Able to liaise with key clients on smaller projects
– Able to take direction and support more senior staff in the delivery of larger projects

£19,000 – £22,000 per annum depending on experience

 

No Agencies

Full Time Fixed Term Contract (12 months) with flexibility for extending the role.

Workplace Pension with Legal & General.

If you would like to apply please send an email outlining why you would be perfect for the role and a link to your portfolio of work to jobs@hidetheshark.com

Deadline for applications: 5pm, Friday 26 January 2018

Interviews to be held: Thursday 1 & Friday 2 February 2018

Feminist Archive South – 40th Anniversary

The Feminist Archive South is planning to kick start a year of projects to celebrate its 40th anniversary with an invitation to explore some of the most radical and striking posters held by the University of Bristol’s Special Collections. The event, which will take place on 31st January from 2-5pm, will be the first of a series of monthly collaborative workshops seeking to engage new audiences with the archive.

Our drive for the next era in the FAS is to create new opportunities for discover the diversity of our collections, explore the intersectionality of materials and bring untold feminist narratives to light.

These sessions will enable participants to learn about archive cataloguing, have a good rummage in our collections and meet people who are interested in the feminist archive. No previous experience is necessary – we welcome anyone curious about the archive to come along and find out more.

The archive sessions will lay the foundations for the 40th anniversary projects, within which we plan to develop cutting-edge learning resources and a new exhibition based on topics such as gender in education, migration and transnational feminisms.

The workshop launch on 31st January will be a chance to see and research posters ranging from politics and performing arts to violence and Reclaim the Night.

The dates for the first three events are 31 Jan, 28 Feb and 21 March at 2-5pm at Special Collections, UoB Arts and Social Sciences Library (wheelchair accessible). If you are interested in attending or have any questions please get in touch by emailing feminist.archive40@gmail.com.  Numbers are limited therefore registration is essential.

We look forward to hopefully seeing some of you there!

£250 for a Poster to be used at the Hippodrome

BLOC productions is a Bristol based theatre Charity and every year they produce one full blown West End Show at the Bristol Hippodrome theatre. The most recent 2017 production was My Fair Lady, which ran in September.

My Fair Lady was a sales success and a big part of this we felt was the professional artwork we had created by Local Artist Matthew Jeanes.

The images are used within the Hippodrome brochure, on the ATG website and ultimately on posters and the big board that over looks the city centre fountains outside the theatre. This is a great opportunity for a young artist or graphic designer to get their work seen in a big way within the city. 

The commission is paid but as a charity we can only afford to offer £250. 

 The criteria are we must receive high resolution electronic image files, which are in a photoshop CS5/7 or equivalent format for editing. We produce lots of different image packs so need open files our marketing team can manipulate. If an artist wins the bid, and they produce an original image on a medium such as the watercolour in My Fair Lady, this art piece must be scanned in at high resolution, in order for us to use it.

The entries must include the show name in text as pictured above. With a font for show dates. BLOC productions do not have a specific logo, the name must appear but it is at the artist / designers digression as to how it is represented.  

The 2018 production is Guys and Doll’s  by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.

 

The proposal for final submissions to be received by December 30th 2017 for selection. The final image pack will then need to be finalised within 2 weeks of the competition closing date by the winning artist (deadline January 12th 2018).

 

Included with the £250 cash prize will be a press release featuring the artist and 2 free tickets to the show which opens in September.  

Wednesday December 13th: Fil(l)wood Full of Alternatives

A collection of stories, written by UWE Graphics Designers, that explore the current and future possibilities for Filwood Community Centre.

There will also be a bar and music!

Location – Filwood Community Centre, Barnstaple Road, Knowle West, BS4 1JP

Time & Date – December 13th, 6pm-10pm

Facebook Event – https://www.facebook.com/events/308116746356347/

Logo competition with a prize of £200 for UWE FET Enterprise project

FET  Enterprise project would like to arrange a series of fun  extra- curricular  activates that develop a “can-do” confidence in their students.

FET  Enterprise project is centred upon ensuring that our students not only have the technical knowledge and skills associated with their chosen subject but also possess enterprising skills. We seek to equip our students with the skills, experiences and aspirations they need to succeed not only at work but in life. Enterprising skills are those which support decision making through application of: creativity; innovation; problem solving; collaboration; group / team working; networking; risk taking; effective communication; critical analysis; and judgement. We want to form more effective individuals by developing a “can-do” confidence in our students.

 

In this exercise/ competition you are invited to design a logo to embed the elements of this initiative

·         The logo should be in high resolution with minimum 300 DPI.

·         The logo should be designed on a digital platform.

·         The winner of the competition shall be required to submit the design in an editable and open file format.

·         The logo should be usable on the website/social media such as Twitter/Facebook

·         Logo should be designed in colour

·         The winning design of the logo would be the intellectual property of the University of the West of England, Bristol  the winner cannot exercise any right over it, after acceptance of the prize.

 

The deadline is: 18/12/2017

Email all entries/artwork to Ramion Amali

Ramin2.Amali@uwe.ac.uk

Bristol Feminist Archive Meeting – 16th November

Feminist Archive South are holding a meeting about possible activities we might run next year to celebrate 40 years of the Feminist Archive.

This will take place next Thursday 16 November at 7pm upstairs in the Watershed cafe.

We are looking for people to get involved – we need energy, creativity, ideas, fundraisers and people who can take the initiative to make stuff happen…

Over the next few years we want to increase our public presence in Bristol. We need to create a volunteer base who can help us with stalls, marketing, fundraising and cataloguing.

Come along and find out more!