OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS

Twenty Ethnic Minority Placement Opportunities Across ITV, BBC & LIME Pictures

The Media Foundation Placement Scheme is now recruiting for 20 individuals from the North West who will participate in a year long paid training scheme under supervision by industry professionals.

The roles are varied ranging from HR assistant to production runner. This Positive Action scheme is aimed at giving individuals from an ethnic minority background the opportunity to gain skills and experience within the media industry, which in turn will help individuals compete fairly for that first foot on the career ladder!

For further information please visit the website www.mtnw.co.uk or contact Michele Bentham on michele.bentham@itv.com or 0161 827 2734

LUCAS ARTISTS PROGRAM, CALIFORNIA

Arts Council England - www.artscouncil.org.uk/diffraction>,
Adobe/Macromedia - www.adobe.com
Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga California - www.villamontalvo.org
The Junction - www.junction.co.uk

are pleased to announce an opportunity for an artist to work with Adobe's San Jose and San Francisco based research labs while in residence at Montalvo's Lucas Artists Program.

Adobe/Macromedia are interested in exploring the creative boundaries of their product vision for mobile technology. They wish to collaborate with an artist who has an established practice in visual, narrative, communicative or interactive/social media, and a high level of computer skill. The artist will be expected to collaborate with Adobe staff, potentially including technicians, programmers, designers and product development teams.

This placement will explore the boundaries between creative, social and technical practice and could focus on audio/visual, sensory, graphical and video presence within geographic, conceptual or social spaces. The chosen artist will be invited to question notions of performance and audience, and the part that mobile technology can play within dispersed collective social experience.

The placement will be managed by the Junction, providing support for the artist and giving opportunities for the presentation of work in progress.

For further information and to download an application form please visit www.junction.co.uk/diffraction or contact E: chris@junction.co.uk

OPPORTUNITIES: COURSES FOR PRACTICING ARTISTS AT CIA

Opportunities at Cumbria Institute of the Arts for practising artists who would appreciate having their professional work challenged academically so that its value can be confirmed by an academic view.

At MA level there are programmes in Community Arts, Contemporary Applied Arts
Contemporary Fine Art, Digital Media, Graphic Design, Landscape and, Environmental Arts, Media Futures, Performing Arts, Scriptwriting

while at undergraduate level there are programmes in Ceramics, Contemporary Applied Arts, Contemporary Jewellery, Creative Writing, Drama and Performance in the Community, Drawing, Fine Art, Furniture Crafts, Graphic Design, Journalism, Media Production, Multimedia Design & Digital Animation, Performance, Festivals and Events, Performing Arts, Photography, Surface Design

Contact Alison Roberts for more info: E: Allison.Roberts@cumbria.ac.uk
V: www.cumbria.ac.uk
(courtesy folly online - see Folly under FINE ARTS SECTION)

Cumbria Cultural Skills Partnership (CCSP)

Recent funding of £27,000 from the Arts Council, through our Grants for the arts scheme, has allowed CCSP to develop a range of responses to the skills needs of the cultural sector and creative industries in Cumbria.

For example, CCSP is looking to build on a pilot project which successfully delivered a series of seminars for the Creative Industry Affinity Group in Kendal developing a further series of seminars on topics such as intellectual property rights, exporting, international trade, and business innovation.

CCSP's training bursary programme continues to grow to meet the demands of individuals and small organisations within the sector. Bespoke and tailored to the users needs, awards can fund up to 50 per cent of training costs.

In partnership with St Martin's College, CCSP is developing a pilot graduate apprenticeship programme which aims to provide a bridge into employment for recent graduates. Our regularly funded organisations and other creative and cultural organisations or businesses will have the opportunity to take on a graduate for six months with a subsidy provided by the scheme.

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