Ampleforth College seek a Stage Manager with creative flare and technical expertise in equal measure. Ampleforth College Theatre puts on a varied programme of student performances throughout the year and the Stage Manager will be responsible for designing and delivering sets, lighting, SFX and all other technical aspects for each production.
The right candidate will have a talent and enthusiasm for working with young people and would be able to confidently train them in technical theatre production and the safe use of our facilities. Skills in publicity design, web content management, photography and video production would also be highly desirable. This full time role will require flexible working hours during term-time to meet the full demands of our productions but school holidays are given.
Closing date for applications - 4 July 2011.
Interviews will take place 8 July 2011.
Salary - circa £21,000 per annum.
Ampleforth College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and a Criminal Background check will be carried out on all successful applicants.
For more information and to apply, click here.
has gained a nation-wide reputation for its live-event and film programmes, which has grown over time. The venue, which has a 140-seat auditorium and 40-seat studio/exhibition space, has provided film screenings, live music, theatre performances, comedy clubs, art exhibitions and workshops/classes to tens of thousands of people since opening its doors.
Sunday, 26 June 2011
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
What's happening at The Milton Rooms?
Over the last couple of years ambitious plans have been drawn up for the transformation of The Milton Rooms in Malton into a new centre for the arts in Ryedale. A number of dedicated people have been working to translate those plans into action. And this summer sees the first fruits of their labours ripen in a short programme of exciting events both inside the building and outside, in the town.
Helmsley Arts Centre is pleased to be in partnership with The Milton Rooms. We have set up together a framework for future collaboration and mutual support, so that together we can provide Ryedale with an exciting range and balance of arts events and activities.
The Milton Rooms aims to collaborate with established and emerging artists, to make Malton a hub of excellence for the arts, in all creative fields.
With the dedication of a new, energetic team of artists and performers and the support of world famous Patrons (Kathy Burke, Imelda Staunton, Jools Holland and Bill Nighy) the Milton Rooms is set to Launch with an ambitious program of events starting from June an id well under way with the re-animation of this historic building.
"Oh, my word. Brilliant. When can I come up?"
- Imelda Staunton
With the largest sprung dancefloor in North Yorkshire, and a new forty seat Studio Theatre and plans for Artist Studios, the Milton Rooms will be turned into a state of the art venue for visiting productions, community events and in house productions.
"Really Exciting. Makes perfect sense for this to be happening."
- Kathy Burke
The Milton Rooms is launching it’s new program of events with a night of Music, Comedy, Magic and Dance at its Gala Evening hosted by Barry Cryer (June 12th). This is followed on by a night with the Peatbog Faeries and then a unique in-house production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream Directed by Nick Bagnall (The Milton Rooms co-artistic Director). With a cast of over 170 taking place throughout Malton for one night only this promises to be an event like no other (June 26th).
For further information on events or how to get involved get in touch, check out the website or visit The Milton Rooms as the doors are always open.
Click image above to view our events calendar
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Remembering Tony Burns, ARIBA FRSA 1936-2011
Tony Burns was the Arts Centre’s architect for 20 years, and one of its most devoted supporters. He came on board when the project was still no more than a loose collection of ideas about what to do with the semi-derelict Old Meeting House, and his patience in drawing and re-drawing endless versions of what we might build was remarkable — but he loved the design process itself just as much as he loved eventually seeing the building come to life. He even forgave us when opted to keep the stage at the west end, rather than turning the building round and putting the stage where the garden is, which was his preference. His patience in waiting for years before we were able to pay him was also exemplary, and a hugely valuable contribution in kind.Tony was a modernist at heart — as a student he once hitchhiked to Finland to meet one of his architectural heroes, Alvar Aalto. But like most British architects he was rarely given the opportunity to design anything that approached the avant-garde. So it is good that the Arts Centre shows off some characteristically bold Burns design touches — the roof shape at the east end, the round window from the office to the foyer, the strongly contemporary west frontage. He was very proud of the Arts Centre, both as a building and as a living institution, and I personally felt privileged to have worked closely with a professional who was so tolerant and encouraging of an opinionated amateur architect like me. I miss the Sunday afternoons when he would call in, en route home to Castle Eden in County Durham from his (very contemporary) weekend hideaway in Sproxton, for a session of scribbling on tracing paper to see how we could improve on the latest plans.
Tony had been unwell for some years but was working almost to the end, and had recently received a Gold Medal from the RIBA and been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. The Arts Centre was well represented at his funeral in Castle Eden on 27 May. All our condolences go to his widow Maureen and their children and grandchildren.
MVW
Friday, 27 May 2011
Website helps companies recycle unwanted sets
Theatre companies can now advertise and recycle old sets and costumes on a new Freecycle-style website specifically designed for the sector.
With the tag line “giving your unwanted set a new home”, Set-exchange.co.uk has been launched with the aim of encouraging production companies to share unwanted sets, costumes and props with other theatre organisations across the UK for free. Companies including the Royal Court, Glyndebourne and the Lyric Hammersmith have already pledged their support to the website.
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With the tag line “giving your unwanted set a new home”, Set-exchange.co.uk has been launched with the aim of encouraging production companies to share unwanted sets, costumes and props with other theatre organisations across the UK for free. Companies including the Royal Court, Glyndebourne and the Lyric Hammersmith have already pledged their support to the website.
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Friday, 20 May 2011
Andrew Lloyd Webber announces £32m arts fund
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s charitable foundation is to embark on a £32 million grant-giving programme targetted at supporting the arts.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has announced that it will use the money generated from last year’s sale of the composer’s Picasso portrait - Angel Fernandez de Soto - to help fund culture, heritage and the art.
The foundation today announced a £250,000 donation to UK charity Nordoff Robbins, which specialises in providing music therapy sessions to people suffering from autism, dementia, depression, stroke or terminal illness. It will use the money to help maintain its music therapy unit at the BRIT school in Croydon and to fund their work at the unit.
Mark Wordsworth, chairman of the trustees of The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, said: “Previously we have concentrated on fine art and arts education, but we have decided to help a broader scope of people and projects directly with the funds invested from the Picasso sale. Andrew Lloyd Webber is delighted that the money he gifted to the foundation is now being used to contribute to a wide range of projects and is making a significant difference to many people’s lives.”
Other beneficiaries of the Foundation’s support announced today include Chickenshed, All Saints Church, Margaret St, London, Burghclere Primary School Band, Time Spanners, the Monega Association, Haringey Shed and The Orpheus Centre.
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Yorkshire Artspace Starter Studios - apply for 2011 intake
From their website:
The Starter Studio for Designer Silversmiths is located at Persistence Works Studios and offers early career silversmiths access to a large 108m2 shared and equipped workspace at Persistence Works Studios. Now in its 10th year, the programme provides ongoing business, mentor and technical support as well as commission and exhibition opportunities. This year all our current and many of our previous beneficiaries were included in Galvanize Sheffield, our bi-annual festival for contemporary metalwork taking place across the city. For our programme details, background on our mentors and a website list of previous beneficiaries, please click here
First deadline for applications for the Starter Studio Programme for Silversmiths is Friday, 13th May 2011 with interviews taking place on Monday 23rd May.
The Starter Studio Programme for Ceramicists is based at Manor Oaks Studios and offers early career ceramicists/potters access to a fully equipped 55m2 shared workspace for two years with ongoing business, mentor and technical support and exhibition opportunities at Museums Sheffield’s Millennium Galleries. For further details click here.
All our ceramicist starters also benefit from having dedicated time with our Manor Oaks artist in residence which, for 2011, is Edinburgh based ceramicist Frances Priest.
First deadline for applications for the Starter Studio Programme for Ceramicists is Wednesday 18th May with interviews taking place on Thursday 2nd June 2011.
The Starter Studio Programme for Engaged Practice will be located at our soon to be completed brand new Knutton Road Studios in the Parson Cross area of Sheffield. This programme is designed for artists who want to develop a career as artists whose practice is concerned with community/social engagement.
Apart from access to a workspace, the selected artists will also be offered paid work opportunities, dedicated time with the Parson Cross artist in residence (currently Lisa Gallacher) and access to mentor and ongoing business support. You will be based in one of new studios at SOAR Works which houses Knutton Road Studios.
Artist Ruthie Ford, who joined the first programme in 2010, has already benefited from paid work opportunities through the links we have with Sheffield City Council, Museums Sheffield and programme funding through Paul Hamlyn Foundation. For further details click here
If you want to visit us or like further information on our programmes, please contact Mir Jansen, programme manager for the Silversmiths and Ceramicists Programmes on mir@artspace.org.uk or Rachael Dodd, programme manager for the Engaged Practice Programme on rachael@artspace.org.uk or telephone 0114 2130111 or 0114 2130111.
Thursday, 14 April 2011
TV arts channel offers funding for new projects
Sky Arts is launching what appear to be good and extremely welcome schemes for new arts projects and emerging artists.
There are two strands for which the channel is promising generous amounts of cash.
The Sky Arts Ignition Series involves collaborating with six arts organisations over the next three years in the creation of new works. It will provide cash of up to £200,000 for each one and will clearly be in a good position to help bring them to a wider audience.
The channel's blurb says this:
The Sky Arts Ignition Series seeks to work closely with as yet unselected artists and arts organisations, in order to equip both organisations and broadcasters with a true understanding of each other's process, combining their expertise to produce the best possible work and offering a unique support system in which to develop and produce brand new projects. Sky Arts, in partnership with the organisations, will determine how best Sky can give the project prominence on-air, on demand, online and on the ground, as well as providing marketing, publicity and new media support for each project.
Applications can be made here where there should also be much more detail.
The other scheme is for emerging artists, a Futures Fund which promises to give five individuals a bursary of £30,000 "to help young talent to bridge the development gap from school or college to becoming a working artist."
The director and former National Theatre boss Richard Eyre has been helping Sky Arts to come up with the Ignition series. he said: "This is an exemplary partnership between a broadcaster and the arts. I hope Sky's model will be copied. It's to everyone's advantage." Source
There are two strands for which the channel is promising generous amounts of cash.
The Sky Arts Ignition Series involves collaborating with six arts organisations over the next three years in the creation of new works. It will provide cash of up to £200,000 for each one and will clearly be in a good position to help bring them to a wider audience.
The channel's blurb says this:
The Sky Arts Ignition Series seeks to work closely with as yet unselected artists and arts organisations, in order to equip both organisations and broadcasters with a true understanding of each other's process, combining their expertise to produce the best possible work and offering a unique support system in which to develop and produce brand new projects. Sky Arts, in partnership with the organisations, will determine how best Sky can give the project prominence on-air, on demand, online and on the ground, as well as providing marketing, publicity and new media support for each project.
Applications can be made here where there should also be much more detail.
The other scheme is for emerging artists, a Futures Fund which promises to give five individuals a bursary of £30,000 "to help young talent to bridge the development gap from school or college to becoming a working artist."
The director and former National Theatre boss Richard Eyre has been helping Sky Arts to come up with the Ignition series. he said: "This is an exemplary partnership between a broadcaster and the arts. I hope Sky's model will be copied. It's to everyone's advantage." Source
Kirkbymoorside Camera Club members receive international recognition
To the delight of club members husband and wife, Richard and Janet Burdon, have each recently been granted an international award recognising their artistic skills in amateur photography.
Richard and Janet joined the camera club in the 90’s as complete novices. Their aim, to learn more about their shared new hobby. Many new members do likewise and get their enjoyment from the club activities and from its social life alone. Other chose to challenge their skills by entering our club competitions and exhibitions. Some ‘push the boundaries even further’ and enter competitions and exhibitions beyond club level.
In addition to these challenges some will seek to achieve formal recognition in photographic excellence by gaining national awards. The most well-known being those granted by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB) and the Royal Photographic Society (RPS). Hence you may notice that some of our members have letters after their names indicating their acquired award(s). These groups of awards are not mutually exclusive and some members have gained awards from both societies.
Despite their quiet and unassuming nature the couple not only achieved national recognition by way of the PAGB but then chose to look beyond the shores of Great Britain by seeking international recognition by working towards an award from the Fedération International de l’Art Photographique (FIAP).
Thanks to their tremendous efforts the club can now boast membership ranging from beginners to internationally acclaimed photographers. Interestingly though, one of our recent club competitions was won by a relative beginner; beating much more experienced club members!
If anyone seeks to emulate Richard and Janet they should be aware of the minimum criteria for their ‘award’ category:
· 30 acceptances in FIAP approved exhibitions, using a minimum of 10 different works from 10 different salons and 5 different countries, (England, Scotland and Wales qualify as three different countries.)
· And much more!
Their efforts began when they started to enter FIAP approved exhibitions in 2005 and has culminated in both gaining the distinction of ‘AFIAP’.
They have each provided The Blog with one of their images submitted during the course of their efforts. One taken by Janet at Whitby on the sea-front; one from Richard taken at Saltburn when he photographed a surfer practicing his skill on ‘the board’.
Richard and Janet joined the camera club in the 90’s as complete novices. Their aim, to learn more about their shared new hobby. Many new members do likewise and get their enjoyment from the club activities and from its social life alone. Other chose to challenge their skills by entering our club competitions and exhibitions. Some ‘push the boundaries even further’ and enter competitions and exhibitions beyond club level.
In addition to these challenges some will seek to achieve formal recognition in photographic excellence by gaining national awards. The most well-known being those granted by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB) and the Royal Photographic Society (RPS). Hence you may notice that some of our members have letters after their names indicating their acquired award(s). These groups of awards are not mutually exclusive and some members have gained awards from both societies.
Despite their quiet and unassuming nature the couple not only achieved national recognition by way of the PAGB but then chose to look beyond the shores of Great Britain by seeking international recognition by working towards an award from the Fedération International de l’Art Photographique (FIAP).
Thanks to their tremendous efforts the club can now boast membership ranging from beginners to internationally acclaimed photographers. Interestingly though, one of our recent club competitions was won by a relative beginner; beating much more experienced club members!
· 30 acceptances in FIAP approved exhibitions, using a minimum of 10 different works from 10 different salons and 5 different countries, (England, Scotland and Wales qualify as three different countries.)
· And much more!
Their efforts began when they started to enter FIAP approved exhibitions in 2005 and has culminated in both gaining the distinction of ‘AFIAP’.
They have each provided The Blog with one of their images submitted during the course of their efforts. One taken by Janet at Whitby on the sea-front; one from Richard taken at Saltburn when he photographed a surfer practicing his skill on ‘the board’.
Monday, 4 April 2011
Helmsley Arts Centre looks to the future despite funding setback
Helmsley Arts Centre was disappointed not to be included in the Arts Council’s new portfolio of funded organisations announced on Wednesday 30 March. But the Centre — which provides an arts hub for northern Ryedale and beyond, and runs very successful youth theatre and children’s dance programmes — is ‘not disheartened’, says director David Powley.
‘We felt we put in a very strong and imaginative proposal, and we were given every support both by Arts Council officers and by Ryedale District Council. I think we weren’t chosen in the end because the Arts Council had the very difficult task of creating a ‘balanced’ portfolio, and that meant many good applicants like us were dropped in the final cut. It’s very sad — and perhaps a debate for another day — that the portfolio includes nothing in Ryedale and so few arts organisations across the whole of rural North Yorkshire.’
‘But we are already talking to the Arts Council and the District Council about other funding streams that could enable us to go on developing what the Arts Centre offers — which is unique in this area, and based on very strong foundations and the enthusiastic support of the community it serves. We have a wonderful multi-purpose building, which has just been enhanced with a beautiful new entrance foyer, and our finances are solid.
Most importantly, we have a very capable body of volunteers who enable us to do everything we do on a relatively low-cost basis, plus a very loyal core audience. That is the real secret of our success, ever since we first opened our doors almost 20 years ago.
Of course public funding helps a lot, and we’re grateful for the grants already promised to us by the Arts Council and Ryedale District Council for 2011/12. Not winning a place in the national portfolio is a blow, but I’m certain we’ll recover from it.
Meanwhile, The King’s Speech has been playing to packed houses all week, and we’re going to press with a fantastic programme of music, theatre, cinema, talks, exhibitions and classes for the second half of this year. So we look forward to seeing all our friends, old and new, and talking to them about exciting projects for the future.’
Friday, 1 April 2011
Helmsley Arts Centre loses out on Arts Council Funding
Around 1,300 theatres, galleries and arts groups applied for funding under the new regime imposed after the Government spending review cut Arts Council England's (ACE) annual grant.
The Helmsley Arts Centre, currently an Arts Council England funded organisation, was one of those groups. Sadly on Wednesday the Centre was told they had been unsuccessful.
Support for Ryedale's most successful arts venue therefore ends next year.
In total, 695 organisations were however successful in their applications for funding from 2012 to 2015, including 110 new groups. But that is down on the 849 organisations funded before now. One of the biggest losers is the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London which faces a cut of 42.5 per cent.
Arts Council Chairwoman Dame Liz Forgan has described the process as a series of "painful decisions".
She said: "This is about a resilient future for the arts in England. We have taken the brave path of strategic choices not salami slices which has meant some painful decisions, and it is with great regret that we have to cease funding some good organisations."
Shadow Culture Secretary Ivan Lewis said the cuts would have a "chilling impact" and warned some organisations would close down and others would have to increase ticket prices.
He said: "I fear a return to the 80s and 90s when the arts were for the few, not the many."
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The Helmsley Arts Centre, currently an Arts Council England funded organisation, was one of those groups. Sadly on Wednesday the Centre was told they had been unsuccessful.
Support for Ryedale's most successful arts venue therefore ends next year.
In total, 695 organisations were however successful in their applications for funding from 2012 to 2015, including 110 new groups. But that is down on the 849 organisations funded before now. One of the biggest losers is the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London which faces a cut of 42.5 per cent.
Arts Council Chairwoman Dame Liz Forgan has described the process as a series of "painful decisions".
She said: "This is about a resilient future for the arts in England. We have taken the brave path of strategic choices not salami slices which has meant some painful decisions, and it is with great regret that we have to cease funding some good organisations."
Shadow Culture Secretary Ivan Lewis said the cuts would have a "chilling impact" and warned some organisations would close down and others would have to increase ticket prices.
He said: "I fear a return to the 80s and 90s when the arts were for the few, not the many."
Related articles
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