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Lancashire is bidding to become UK City of Culture 2025. It will be the first time that a county has envisaged itself as a virtual city and the team at Lancashire 2025 needs you, the citizens of Lancashire, to help build a programme that will win this prestigious competition. Winning will bring about major change and lasting benefits for all of Lancashire.
The Lancaster Arts Partners (LAP) are hosting two Get Together zoom networking events for creatives in the Lancaster & Morecambe district and we’d love for you to join us at either one of the two events, which are being held on zoom on Sat April 24th from 10.30 to 12.00 or Weds 28th April from 6.30 pm to 8 pm.
The Oct-Dec 2020 season events brochure from Lancaster Arts is now available
Keep A Light On (KALO) Open Call for Projects Artists in Lancaster district are invited to submit project proposals for KALO About KALOIt will invoke the spirit of Lancaster’s much-loved annual Light Up Lancaster (LUL) at a time when people
Unfortunately due to the ongoing situation regarding COVID-19, this November’s Light Up Lancaster festival including the Fireworks on the Saturday evening will not go ahead.
Since the lockdown we have been very busy at Lancaster Arts! We’ve reflected on how we, together with artists, can best contribute to these very hard times and have been looking at imaginative ways of enabling artists to ease isolation and disconnectedness. Each strand of our Breathing Space programme (listed below) is designed to help people connect with each other and at the same time, support the freelance artistic community in the northwest.
LAP Chair Jocelyn Cunningham talking on BBC Radio Lancashire about how local arts organisations are responding and working together during lockdown.
The Arts Council (England) have published a page of FAQs on their public-facing website to help manage the high volume of queries from grant holders and applicants.
Vacancy For Marketing Manager at The Dukes. The Dukes is Lancashire’s leading producing theatre, independent cinema and creative learning centre. We work across a range of art-forms in indoor and outdoor settings. We wish to appoint a Marketing Manager to ensure the effective and efficient marketing of The Dukes and the maximum possible audience development in line with the Company’s artistic policy. 39 hours a week, £25,000 – £26,500 per annum dependent on experience.
Litfest (Lancaster Literature Festival) – requires an Administrative assistant for 7 hours per week (flexible working). This will be a one-year contract at £10.16 per hour. The closing date is 5pm, 19th January and interviews will take place on the evening of the 27th January at The Storey, Lancaster. The successful candidate should be able to start at the beginning of February if at all possible.