// POP NEWS / ISSUE 14 // Hello and thanks for signing up! As I write, we are teetering on the brink of a Tier 4 lockdown, and uncertainty is definitely an underlying feeling... In this issue I’ve highlighted a number of links to the current Hardship Funds available to creative freelancers as well as giving a big shout out to the Scottish Artists Union’s #SeeingRed campaign. Sign up and get involved! As ever, I have also tried to share info about national and local funding, support, creative call outs, opportunities and inspiration as well as showcasing the work and projects of Renfrewshire-based creatives and organisations. The next edition will come out on Mon 30 Nov. Please get in touch if you have news of an event, workshop or opportunity you’d like included: // NOVEMBER 2020 // [email protected] In the meantime, stay safe and creative - and look after yourselves. // FUNDING & SUPPORT // The CULTURE COLLECTIVE is Creative Scotland’s new pilot programme that aims to establish a network of creative practitioners, organisations and communities, working together to create a positive difference locally and nationally in response to COVID-19. The Culture Collective provides an opportunity for organisations to explore and test new models and to learn from each other, whether this is how they Ciaran Glöbel with Paisley Grammar School provide opportunities and support to creative practitioners or how they McKerrell Park, Seedhill, Paisley actively engage communities in their work. RENFREWSHIRE'S CULTURAL RECOVERY AND RENEWAL FUND has been A key aim of the programme is to provide paid opportunities for creative developed to support the cultural ecology of Renfrewshire in adapting to the practitioners to work with communities and activities that may include one or impact of Covid-19. more of the following broad categories: Artist-in-residence programmes The TOWN CENTRE & NEIGHBOURHOOD CREATIVE INSTALLATIONS GRANTS Reactivating the use of community venues, spaces or assets have been established to support the animation of defined sites, such as empty Exhibitions, concerts and performances shop windows or pedestrianised areas, in town centres and neighbourhoods Festivals and participatory events across Renfrewshire. Awards will be made to enable artists to create and install artistic interventions that add value to civic and outdoor spaces, that can be For more infromation, visit: enjoyed during lockdown restrictions. For information on how to apply visit: www.creativescotland.com/funding/funding-programmes/culture-collective www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/TCNCreativeInstallations EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: To be submitted by 5pm, Wed 18 Nov DEADLINE: Sun 22 Nov The Hardship Fund for Creative Freelancers and the Screen Scotland All applicants must be based in Scotland and must be able to demonstrate Hardship Fund (includes photographers) reopened on Tues 10 Nov. they were working and making income as a freelance creative professional before lockdown began (in March 2020). The fund will support creative freelancers working in Scotland who are experiencing immediate financial hardship due to the loss of income as a The funds are offered on a non-competitive basis and require minimal result of the COVID-19 pandemic; offering a one-off monetary contribution to information to enable the awards to be made as quickly as possible; the fund those who are most deeply impacted and disadvantaged by the cancellation aims to ensure that all eligible recipients receive money in their account of work as a result of the emergency situation. within 6 weeks of submission. There are no deadlines for this programme, the nature of this fund is that it www.creativescotland.com/funding/funding-programmes/ will only remain open whilst budget remains available. Approximately £3m was allocated during the first round. The remaining budget will be allocated www.screen.scot/funding-and-support/screen-scotland-funding/ through this second round of funding. AN ARTISTS RESOURCE FOR CREATIVITY & SUPPORThttps://survey123.arcgis.com/share/66c9acc84d9448ae8552b24fb5788973 DURING COVID 19 To receive emails with future issues - please subscribe here 1 // OPPORTUNITIES // www.nhsggc.org.uk/your-health/public-health/health-improvement/arts-and-health/ NHS GREATER GLASGOW & CLYDE (NHSGGC) PUBLIC HEALTH AND physical and biological effects of arts participation and cultural attendance. HEALTH IMPROVEMENT, ARTS & HEALTH PROGRAMME The main aim of the Arts & Health Programme is to create enhanced If you are interested in creating group exhibitions, public art installations physical, emotional and social environments in healthcare settings, or digital content for Renfrewshire hospitals and healthcare settings please providing patients and visitors positive distraction, and encouraging get in touch. positive interaction between clinical staff and patients. For more information or to discuss an idea please contact Jackie Sands, Launched in July 2017, the Animating Public Spaces programme is a Health Improvement Senior: Arts and Health. music, visual and performing arts programme which has been developed in [email protected] | 07534 228563 collaboration with arts, education and voluntary sector partners to create Team Secretary: 0141 2014876 safe and welcoming spaces which celebrate creative talent The programme Animating Public Spaces programme of Exhibitions and Live Arts Events is based on a growing body of research on the positive psychological, and it is supported by the NHSGGC Endowments Fund. TRAMWAY // PERFORMANCE NOW - LIVE ART COMMISSION Tramway is pleased to announce two commissioning opportunities for artists based in Scotland working in Live Art or Contemporary Performance. Artists in receipt of each commission will receive: Either one commission of £12k or one commission of £6k Up to 3 Weeks Rehearsal and Development Space in Tramway's Studio #FeatureThursdays is a weekly takeover of Paisley Arts Centre’s In-House Technical Support social media where we give the spotlight to local creatives. We are For more information, and details of how to apply, visit: looking for entries from Renfrewshire-based artists, creative www.tramway.org/blog/Pages/Tramway-Live-Art-Commission.aspx practitioners, arts organisations, with a range of interests, skills and backgrounds. This project is supported by the Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund. Email [email protected] to get involved. DEADLINE: Fri 4 Dec TRAMWAY // REMOTE RESIDENCIES Tramway’s Remote Residencies programme is a call out to Scotland-based artists working in the fields of dance or contemporary performance with a desire to collaborate and participate in a virtual/online international exchange. The residencies are designed to offer a context for artists to test pilot solutions to developing their work across borders whilst COVID 19 continues to reduce international mobility. MOUNT STUART TRUST’S VISUAL ARTS PROGRAMME OPEN CALL: EMERGING ARTIST RESIDENCY IN SOCIALLY ENGAGED PRACTICE 20/21 Tramway are accepting proposals from a team of two artistic collaborators This specialist opportunity will give an emerging artist time and space to who would like to work together remotely between January and March 2021. explore their practice in relation to Bute island communities and to this The lead applicant must be a dance, live art or contemporary performance end will focus on socially engaged practice. artist based in Scotland who would like to collaborate with an artist or creative Length of residency: 4-8 weeks. practitioner based internationally. Up to 3 Remote Residency Applications will Date: February-March, 2021. be supported. Residencies must take place between January and March 2021. Accommodation: accommodation on Bute will be provided. Each residency has a fee of £1400. Fee: £472 per week Full details of the programme can be found here: For more information, visit: www.mountstuart.com/news www.tramway.org/blog/Pages/Tramway-Call-Out-Remote-Residencies.aspx DEADLINE: Fri 4 Dec Submit your Expression of Interest by Fri 4 Dec AN ARTISTS RESOURCE FOR CREATIVITY & SUPPORThttps://survey123.arcgis.com/share/66c9acc84d9448ae8552b24fb5788973 DURING COVID 19 To receive emails with future issues - please subscribe here 2 // NETWORKS, ADVOCACY & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT // 2020 WTF: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? DELIVERING YOUTH ARTS ONLINE - GLASGOW CONNECTED ARTS Fri 20 Nov | 10.30am-2.30pm (ZOOM) NETWORK A free online Open Space event hosted by 101 Outdoor Arts Creation Space Wed 25 Nov | 10am - 12pm (Zoom) in partnership with Improbable. FREE Training Webinar about best practices and guidance when it comes to delivering Youth Arts Activities Online. How do artists and producers working outdoors plan for this rapidly changing world and how might we work to shape the near and not so near We have seen a huge shift in thinking and practice over the past 6 months future? Is it all doom and gloom or could the pandemic lead to cultural and in relation to youth arts activity with young people. This session will be an societal renewal? How do we find our cultural compass in such uncertain opportunity for youth arts practitioners and coordinators to come together to and rapidly changing times? How do we hold tight to what is dear yet share their experiences, best practice and hear from Glasgow CAN’s Director embrace new possibilities? Or if that is all too much, tune in quietly and tap about how together with the Bold Collective, they approached delivering an in to some solidarity in the hope that we might all feel a bit less crappy.