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As we are a new organisation there will be a range of exciting opportunities for joining our team and working with New Art Exchange over the coming months.

 

New Art Exchange, a stunning, award winning arts venue has now been open for a year. We are proud of our achievements in delivering a programme of ground breaking exhibitions, education programmes and events promoting, supporting and advocating contemporary multi cultural arts development in both the visual and performing arts.

 

Do keep watching this space for further opportunities and ways of engaging with us and helping us to make this happen. For our volunteering opportunities, please go to: Support / Volunteers

 

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Call for Workshop Artists

British Art Show 7

 
New Art Exchange is pleased to announce that we are one of the key venues for this year’s BRITISH ART SHOW 7 (BAS7) launch and exhibition from October 2010 to January 2011. To complement the exhibitions we are keen to offer and deliver a series of innovative workshops aimed at young people, adults, families, artists as well as appealing to the diverse communities within the local area (Hyson Green, Radford), as well as attracting visitors and participants from the wider Nottingham area.
 

We are seeking submissions to deliver 2 hour workshops each Saturday from 30th October to 18th December 2010 and would like to hear from prospective workshop leaders about what they could offer to our various users. Fees will be £100 to deliver a 2 hour workshop. You can apply to deliver more than one session.

 

We also have a number of workshop sessions slots available during half term week of 25th October aimed at young people. We are also delivering at least 3 sessions on Tuesday 2nd, 16th, 30th November aimed at adults and or community groups

 

If you are interested in leading some of these activities please contact NAE Education and Learning team with your proposals and a CV for possible workshop sessions. Proposal and CV’s can be sent via email. Deadline for receiving proposals is Friday 20th August 2010.

In order to eligible to deliver workshops we will need to ensure that you have the clearance to work with children and or vulnerable adults (CRB). Further information about the themes and questions developed derived from BAS7 are below and will assist you when thinking about your workshop proposal. For further information please contact New Art Exchange. Send your workshop proposals to:

 

Ian Sergeant, Education and Learning Manager

E: ian@nae.org.uk

T: 0115 924 8635

 

Mervyn Mitchell, Community Engagement Officer

E: mervyn@nae.org.uk

T: 0115 924 8630

 

Rachael Young, Youth Arts Coordinator

E: rachael@nae.org.uk

T: 0115 924 8630

 

BAS7 - In the Days of the Comet

BAS7 takes as its subtitle In the Days of the Comet, employing the motif of the comet to explore and draw together a related set of concerns in contemporary British art. The comet, here, operates primarily as a measure of time, an emblem of historical recurrence, and as a pocket or counter world. It may also be understood as a harbinger of change, an indifferent wished-upon star, and a hidden thing than is always with us.

 

The comet closest to the British public imagination is undoubtedly Halley’s Comet, which was first recorded as passing through these islands’ skies in 1066, and appears in the Bayeaux Tapestry. It was not until 1705 that the English astronomer Edmund Halley established that, far from being a one-off event, this comet passes by the Earth once every 75-76 years, and might be glimpsed twice during a human’s lifetime. Two years later, in 1707, the Act of Union joined the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into a single Kingdom of Great Britain. British history, then, may be said on a number of different levels to take place ‘in the days of comet’.

 

In the Western tradition, comets have long been identified as harbingers of change. In his 1906 novel In the Days of the Comet (set a century ago in 1910, the date of Halley’s last-but-one apparition) the British socialist and science fiction writer HG Wells imagines the appearance of a comet over the United Kingdom which releases a green gas that creates a ‘Great Change’ in all mankind, turning it away from war and exploitation and towards rationalism and a heightened appreciation of beauty. Notably, this shift in understanding is achieved not through human agency, but through an ineffable alien force.

 

While current scientific theory posits that comets are nothing more than elliptically orbiting clumps of dust, ice and gas, utterly indifferent to our affairs, they remain powerful reminders of the way in which our species has attempted to understand experience through the measuring of time, the writing of history, the inference of cosmological influence, the identification of patterns of conduct and form, and the notion of a deterministic universe.

 

In order to develop your ideas for a workshop a number of Other KEY THEMES & QUESTIONS have been developed to widen the focus of the subject In the Days of the Comet.

 

1) PAST AND PRESENT: How do artists use the past to help us understand the present? Can we imagine time as anything other than a line? What role might memory play in this?

2) PARALLEL REALITIES: How do artists imagine worlds different from our own to help understand our own world?

3) THE ORDER OF THINGS: How do artists pay attention to the elements that make up our world categorised? In what ways to artists point to the way knowledge is structured? Who decides these things? What are the alternatives?

4) SIGNS OF CHANGE: How do the artists’ works show and question what makes the present the present? Can we point to things that make now now? How was the future imagined in the past?

5) ORBITS: What does it mean for artists to reference the art of the past? What does it mean when an 'old' idea resurfaces?

 

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Freelance Marketing Opportunity

Approximately 50 days
August 2010 – March 2011

 

Spirit Nottingham is an innovative new partnership which aims to increase audiences across the cultural sector.  An experienced individual/organisation is sought to develop and deliver a Marketing Plan which incorporates PR and Social Media strategies, and uses both traditional and on-line tools. 

Please supply a current CV, together with a letter of application outlining how your experience meets the criteria outlined in the person specification, and confirming your fee/hourly rate for the work.

For detailed information see below

 

Closing date:    Monday 16 August, 12pm  

Interviews:         Thursday 19 August

Applications to: shona.powell@nottingham.ac.uk

 

Information for Candidates:

 

An introduction to Spirit Nottingham

Spirit Nottingham is a new cultural brand which will create a head of steam for Nottingham’s vibrant cultural offer.  Our aims are to:

 

Spirit Nottingham has been developed as a result of an innovative cross-sectoral cultural partnership involving arts venues, museums, galleries together with city centre restaurants, pubs and bars, and is supported with funding from Greater Nottingham Partnership, Arts Council England East Midlands, with match funding secured from the core partners who are:

 

Spirit Nottingham will provide a one-stop promotional platform for events, festivals, performances and exhibitions ranging from the smallest independent galleries to the largest scale Arena events.

Our non-linear web site will provide the potential for personal itineraries to be drawn up, for route-maps to be created, and for the public to rate and comment upon their experiences of the cultural offering in our city.

 

Spirit Nottingham will be launched with a suite of marketing materials (on-line and traditional) and a state of the art non-linear web-site in October 2010.  A social media campaign is currently beginning as part of a soft launch running through August and September.  Individuals are being encouraged to sign up on the holding page of the Spirit Nottingham website (www.spiritnottingham.com), and Twitter and Facebook pages are in development.

 

An experienced marketing individual/organisation is now sought to develop and deliver a Marketing Plan which incorporates the PR and Social Media strategies, which engages existing stakeholders and reaches new stakeholders.

 

Closing Date:   12pm on Monday 16 August 2010

Interviews:        Thursday 19 August 2010

 

For further details, click here to download the full description

 


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Live Art Opportunity

 

New Art Exchange and Nottingham Trent University in association with the Walker Art Gallery present

 

“Lying-down-on-the-ground”

A performance event devised and directed by acclaimed international artist - Sonia Khurana

Part of Liverpool Biennial’s live participatory events programme

 

Key dates and venues:

* Opening weekend of the Biennial - SUNDAY 19th SEPTEMBER 2010, 2pm - 5pm, Lime Street Station

* Long Night of the Biennial - THURSDAY 18TH NOVEMBER, 6pm - 10pm, The Walker Art Gallery

 

Do you want to be part of a public live event? We are looking for volunteers and participants to take part in an international art work by acclaimed artist Sonia Khurana.

 

You could be part of the ‘artwork’ by giving some of your time as a participator.  Or you could help realise the important ‘artwork’ by volunteering your time. To register please email biennial@nae.org.uk  or telephone 0115 924 8630 to register your interest.

 

Information about ‘LYING DOWN’:

 

The live event strives to engage with people both art and non arts backgrounds. Anyone can join in. Sonia invites people who are comfortable with lying down in outdoor and public spaces.  As participants lay down, their shapes are traced using chalk. Over the time period a beautiful interlocking trace of images are left on the floor.

 

“Lying-down” aims to work on various registers, across diverse contexts and audiences. By employing a fairly simple, essential and non-threatening form of social interaction Khurana has been able to draw large numbers of audiences to participate into this act of lying down. This ongoing, public performative event continues to take place across various cities, the most recent being Nagoya, as part of the Aichi Triennale and earlier in the summer a workshop derived from this project, at New Art Exchange in Nottingham.

 

Lying Down brings to focus, albeit in a playful and poetic way some of the essential issues which are to do with embodiment and resistance including: an awareness of the space we occupy; exploring the meaning invested in the image of the body lying down; the sense and meaning we invest in seemingly simple, everyday acts, how these could be dislodged by being performed in unfamiliar settings; transforming a singular act into collective utterance.

 

VOLUNTEERS* - Your role:

 

Also known as information assistants you will be helping to make the live event run by communicating with the audience and participants, acting as a catalyst for the act of lying down and the activity of tracing people’s bodies as they lie down, maintaining registers, disseminating information amongst general public, general co-ordination of visitors in the live space over the period of the event.

*Please note volunteers will need to be free for a briefing by Sonia Khurana on 16th September evening, 18th September afternoon, 17th November afternoon and the dates of the live event.

 

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East Midlands Visual Arts Network

Appointment of a

Part time Co-ordinator

 

EMVAN wish to appoint a part time co-ordinator to manage the network and develop its activities.

 

EMVAN’s key areas of work throughout 2010-11 are:

 

How to apply

Email CV and covering letter to Keith Jeffrey at keithj@derbyquad.co.uk explaining how your skills and experience meet the requirements of this post. Please indicate your daily rate and/or your proposed fee for carrying out this contract.

 

Deadline

August 15th 2010. Interviews to be held Aug 25th.

 

Description of Role

 

Job Title:                                          emVAN Co-ordinator

Reporting to                                    emVAN Steering Group

Key Day to day Relationships:   Chair of EMVAN and ACEEM

Hours:                                               2 days a week

Pay:                                                    Offered on a freelance basis

 

Job Purpose

 

Operational Responsibilities

 

Person specification

 

Management Arrangements

Day to day management will be provided through Keith Jeffrey, Director of QUAD but the post holder is responsible to the Network as a whole.