BERLINER LISTE 2016: Open Call for Berlin’s biggest art fair

BERLINER LISTE 2016: Open Call for Berlin’s biggest art fair

Parallel to Berlin Art Week, the 13th edition of BERLINER LISTE will be held from September 15th to 18th, 2016 in the legendary Kraftwerk Berlin. Emerging gallery programs, project spaces and artists are invited to apply for the fair until June 30th, 2016.

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We Are Resident – Micro-Research Residency in Tampere, Finland

We Are Resident – Micro-Research Residency in Tampere, Finland

A small-scale, artist-led research and development initiative by Nicola Smith, We Are Resident is offering a micro-research residency supported by Tampere Artists’ Association, Finland specifically for an artist whose family or personal circumstances limit participation in normal residency opportunities.

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NEW CREATIVE MARKETS PROGRAMME CONCLUDES AFTER HELPING 500+ LONDON CREATIVE BUSINESSES MAKE OVER £2M SALES IN NEW MARKETS

NEW CREATIVE MARKETS PROGRAMME CONCLUDES AFTER HELPING 500+ LONDON CREATIVE BUSINESSES MAKE OVER £2M SALES IN NEW MARKETS

New Creative Markets (NCM) was a professional development programme for the Creative Industries, delivered by a consortium of four arts organisations -SPACE, Cockpit Arts, Four Corners and Photofusion- which ran between 2012 and 2015. 

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CVAN North East Artists Films: Luke McCreadie

CVAN North East Artists Films: Luke McCreadie

Luke McCreadie discusses the development of projects and his sustained and ongoing interest in language and forms of communication. Commissioned by the CVAN, this is one of seven films to be exclusively launched over the coming months in an on-goingpartnership with This Is Tomorrow.  

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Launch Pad opportunity for new and current CG Associates

Launch Pad opportunity for new and current CG Associates

Launch Pads are short exhibitions/performances/events that punctuate Castlefield Gallery’s main exhibition programme providing artists and curators with the opportunity to use the gallery as a test bed for the production, display and consumption of contemporary art. Launch Pads will feature emerging talent selected from CG Associate members’ submissions (two or three times a year) and the BA and MA contemporary art courses (Interactive Arts and Fine Art) at Manchester School of Art (once a year).

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Visual Arts in Rural Communities (VARC) Artists’ Residencies

Visual Arts in Rural Communities (VARC) Artists’ Residencies

Visual Arts in Rural Communities (VARC) is inviting visual artists to apply for twelve-month residencies at Highgreen in rural Northumberland. The Trust is hoping to appoint two artists from applications submitted; one artist to hold the residency starting October2016 and another artist to hold the residency starting September 2017.  

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A Portrait of the Artist as an Unpaid Man

'The public need to treat the exploitation of artistic labour as some kind of taboo while artists themselves must stand firm and refuse to work for nothing. No amount of government policy is going to change this ... Are you prepared to get real?' Text by James Doeser

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#artistsmatter: But can we put a value on how much?

'We all agree that #culturematters (to borrow from the current campaign). By extension therefore we can presumably all agree that #artistsmatter too. After all they are the architects, creators, enactors and translators of this culture-that-matters-so-much...' Text by James Doeser

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Gaining Resources

Gaining Resources

Castlefield Gallery is running a professional development seminar on Gaining Resources.
This seminar, is the third and final event as part of a year long Emerging Artist Programme created and managed by Castlefield Gallery (Manchester) for the Brewery Arts Centre* (Cumbria), has been tailored specifically for contemporary visual artists who want to develop their art practice.

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