Arts News
Audition for two dancers for Chinese New Year 2009
County card competition winners unwrapped!
Call for applicants to a new Nottinghamshire creative scheme
Earth and Fire 2009
Audition for Professional Development Opportunity – Chinese New Year 2009, Lakeside Arts Centre
Two dancers required for Dance Professional Development with Choreographer and Dancer Rong Tao for two weeks in January 2009
As part of Nottinghamshire’s Chinese New Year Celebrations, the Chongqing based choreographer and dancer Rong Tao will be working in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire during January 2009. This will be the second year that Rong Tao has visited; last year his performance was seen by an audience of thousands at the hugely popular outdoor celebrations at Highfields Park.
Nottinghamshire County Council and Lakeside Arts Centre have created a professional development opportunity for two trained dancers, to work alongside two other professional dancers, and to participate in a creative project with Rong Tao, Professor in Modern Dance Choreography at the Chongqing Meishi Film Academy and Artistic Director of the Yuwu Dance Project. The selected dancers will work together with Rong Tao to create a new dance piece that will be premiered at the Chinese New Year outdoor stage event on Sunday 1 February 2009.
Applications are invited from dancers living in Nottinghamshire who have completed formal contemporary dance training.
Please send an up-to-date CV to Hema Mistry, e-mail: brzdhlp6@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk. You will be contacted during this week if you have been successful in gaining a place at the audition.
Closing Date for receiving CVs: 12 noon, Monday 15 December
Auditions: Saturday 20 December
Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD
Working Period: 19-31 January 2009 inclusive and required for outdoor performance at Highfields Park on Sunday 1 February 2009.
This project is supported by Lakeside Arts Centre, the University of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire County Council.
County card competition winners unwrapped!
Earlier this year we asked you to design a seasonal greetings card for Nottinghamshire County Council to use to send seasonal greetings across the county. A selection of entries along with the winning card designs will be displayed at the 'Rufford Unwrapped' exhibition from 15 November 2008 to 4 January 2009.
Nottinghamshire County Councillors had the difficult task of choosing the winning designs from a huge postbag of entries from across the county.
The designers of the winning cards will be presented with their prizes by the Chairman of the County Council The Hon Joan Taylor at the opening of 'Rufford Unwrapped' on Saturday 15 November at 1.00pm at the Craft Centre Gallery, Rufford Abbey Country Park.
Cards will be on sale on the day. All the proceeds from sales go to the Chairman’s Charity which this year is The Child Migrants Trust.
See the winning designs
Winners
Age 10 and under (three winners)
12 Angels composite design; Mapplewells Primary & Nursery School, Sutton-in-Ashfield (3 and 4 year olds)
Snowman; James Walker, Boughton, Nr Newark (Aged 8)
Snowman; Laura Herrod, Abbey Gates Primary, Ravenshead (Aged 9)
Age 11-18
Robins; Imogen Rose Cotterill, Jacksdale (Aged 14)
Age over 18
Winter landscape; Michael Scott, Newark
Composite Card, entrants participated in silk painting and printmaking workshops at Rufford Craft Centre
Amy Bowns and her mum, Worksop, Notts; Hilary Brock, Southwell, Notts; Celeste Burns, Huddersfield; Mollie Ann Challender, Newark, Notts; Adele Glaser, Southwell, Notts; Daniel Harding and Rebecca Harding, Hucknall, Notts; Sophie Hilditch, Worksop, Notts; Shirley Hingley, Carlton, Nottingham; Pamela Morton and India Freya Morton, Sutton on Trent, Notts; Joshua Newbold, Sheffield; Ceirwen Roberts, Ranby, Notts; Caylie Smith, Lincs; Katy Whitehead-Knight, Nottingham and not forgetting Councillor Steve Carroll and Councillor Joyce Bosnjak and workshop leader Andrew Wynne.
Call for applicants to a new Nottinghamshire creative scheme
Are you an artist/maker who....?
- is a Nottinghamshire resident producing quality contemporary craft
- is just starting out or has been in business for less than three years
- would benefit from support to help you and your creative business thrive
- would relish the opportunity to be part of a group
- is prepared to work towards staging a group selling exhibition at Rufford Gallery.
The Nottinghamshire creative scheme will seek to explore and develop bespoke training including; peer learning and mentoring opportunities, applied business skills and improving and extending curatorial expertise. Successful applicants will work towards a group exhibition at Rufford Craft Centre Gallery in May 2009.
Further details and application forms will be available from Nottinghamshire County Council Arts Service in December.
Please e-mail: artsadmin@nottscc.gov.uk or tel: 0115 977 4589.
Closing date for applications is Friday 23 January 2009.
Earth and Fire 2009
The 15th international ceramics fair will take place in the grounds of Rufford County Park on 26, 27 and 28 June 2009. More information and an exhibitors application form can be downloaded below.
Earth and Fire information [PDF 2.6MB] 
Exhibitors application form [PDF 1.8MB]
Exhibitors application form [WORD 57KB] 
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