Bulletin 19 June 2009

Tours of people’s homes

Do you have a story to tell?
Do you enjoy welcoming people into your home?
Have you ever fancied being a tour guide?
Perhaps you have a collection you want to share, or a talent you want to showcase?
Tours of People’s Homes will be a public programme of events that will take place in and around Newcastle and Gateshead in November 2009 as part of the new Wunderbar Festival.
Members of the public will work with internationally acclaimed artist and director Joshua Sofaer over the next few months to develop a tour, or performance, in their own home. They will give their tour to a paying audience as part of the Festival.

For more information go to www.wunderbarfestival.co.uk/toph

National Body for Youth Leadership Volunteer Internships to your young people

Please note the deadline has been extended to Monday 22 June. The opportunity is for up to 3 months and a minimum of one month from Monday 6 July to Friday 25 September.

Please could you update your records and let your young people know about the opportunity?

London 2012 Open Weekend- 24-26 July 2009

Call for submissions: Middlesbrough Live Site
 
Live Sites
As part of London 2012’s Cultural Olympiad, a network of Live Sites: large outdoor screens with linked performance spaces have been developed throughout the UK. Whilst providing a platform for a wide range of cultural events and performances, the Live Sites will also relay great sporting moments, support 2012 cultural projects and offer an opportunity for local content and opportunities. The first of these sites in the North East is in Middlesbrough.

The Live Sites are a partnership between the BBC, the Local Authority and LOCOG (London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games). Each site has its own BBC Screen Manager, who is responsible for developing, approving and editing content for the screen.

London 2012 Open Weekend
As part of this, we are now looking for content for these screens, to be shown as part of London 2012’s Open Weekend, which will celebrate 3 years to go until the Games in 2012. The London 2012 Open Weekend will celebrate art, culture, sport, and everything that makes up the London 2012 Games. Last year around 700,000 people enjoyed 655 events. This year promises to be bigger and better – a three-day celebration for the whole of the UK. We want organisations and venues across the UK to really open up, challenge themselves to do something different, something exciting. We want the public to take this opportunity to join in, try something new, inspired by London 2012.

Call for Submissions:
As part of this, we are looking for North East content (work made in the region or by regionally-connected makers) for the Live Site in Middlesbrough to screen over the Open Weekend of 24-26 July 2009. This could be short films, games, new media work, artists’ film and video or animation.

If you have already submitted your film for the Glastonbury Screen, and consented for it to be considered for the Middlesbrough Live Site, it will be automatically included in submissions for Open Weekend.
 
Content should be:
• Length: films should be under 12 minutes (if longer, they would need to be edited, with the makers permission)
• Format: Either DVD or miniDV cassette. We can accept them as video files such as AVI or WMV on data discs like CDRom, as long as the quality is high enough.
• Quality: content needs to be of a sufficiently high technical quality (720×576 pixels: DVD quality)
• Sound: Live Sites are equipped with their own audio system
• Rights: Films should be rights cleared, or the maker agree to the public showing
• Type: Film can be narrative or non narrative. Animation, games etc will also be welcome. We are particularly interested in content with a Middlesbrough / Tees Valley focus. Films should be suitable for all audiences.
How to Submit
If you would like to submit a film/s for screening on the Live Site please send a copy along with a completed film submission form (attached) by July 10th 2009.

Films will be selected by a panel made up of London 2012, NE, Northern Film & Media and Arts council England.

Send to:
Live Site Submission
c/o Lorna Fulton
Arts Council England
Central Square
Forth Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3PJ

If you would like any further information contact

Lorna Fulton on lorna.fulton@london2012.com or tel: 0191 255 8535
Amanda Ritson, amanda.ritson@artscouncil.org.uk, tel: 0191 2558553
Lisa Laws, lisa@northernmedia.org or tel: 0191 269 9208