Next day

We survived, woke upbto find mini storm raging but everything still intact , group jointly decide that the race course is not where we all want to be . A mixture of landscape, lorries, close to the rubbish, an uncomfortable feeling of distinctly inferior and nostalgia for all the lovely people and places who we have stayed with over the last month who have embraced us, the idea and particularly the donkeys, the race course didn't quite feel the same . Gorgeous lovely generous and quite brilliant postlip hall have allowed us back for the weekend .thank god .

Firstly we walked into chelt with the donkeys and Paul mckee chelt art officer . Great day , Paul a total laugh , donkeys behaved great, chelt folk loved them being right in the centre of town, only one poo to clear up . Really nice to have them in town, rural into urban , real big animals in the centre of a city, then back over cleeve common almost exactly the same way that we had come 24 hours before. The relief to walk back into postlip hall after the chelt and the race course was huge , to feel welcome is really important . am tucked up, warm ,well fed and relieved to be sAfe out of the rat race .   
Sent from my iPhoneYAYW8 at Arnolfini, November 2010

 

TRANSIENT LIVING: 1625 INDEPENDENT PEOPLE COMMISSION

 

Commission Partners: Who we are

 

Groundwork South West

Groundwork South West is the regional body of Groundwork UK, a national environmental regeneration charity. We regularly commission socially-engaged practitioners to work with us and our partners in a diverse range of environments and on a broad range of issues. For Transient Living, we are commissioning in collaboration with 1625 Independent People.

 

Independent People is the leading provider of housing, support and advice to young homeless people aged between 16 and 25 in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. They exist to support young people to build independent lives, by helping people find (and keep) a safe and stable home and develop the skills and confidence to achieve positive outcomes in all areas of their lives.

 

YaYW

You and Your Work is an artist-led not-for-profit Bristol-based arts organisation, which seeks

to facilitate and provide a platform for innovative and socially engaged projects between artists,

communities and audiences. We aim to support high quality work from emerging

performance artists and link them to marginalized communities who are not primarily engaged in the arts. Since 2007 we've showcased seven performance platforms involving more than 80 artists, commissioned five artists and companies and engaged more than 1200 audience members. YaYW8 is the first platform event to take place at Arnolfini.

 

Arnolfini

Arnolfini is one of Europe's leading centres for the contemporary arts based at the heart of

Bristol's harbourside. As a multi disciplinary art centre Arnolfini has regular exhibitions, film,

live art, dance, music and literature programmes.

Arnolfini's live art programme has developed a reputation for taking innovative risks, showing

the most provocative and uncompromising work from emergent artists and practitioners

working on the edges of established art forms or criteria.

Each season all Arnolfini programme areas converge to consider a themed research area,

the current thematic is 'Old Media' which investigates technologies considered to be old or

redundant, and questions their relationship to a given place in time.

 

YaYW8 is produced by artists and YaYW curators/ producers Sylvia Rimat and Rhiannon Chaloner - in collaboration with Ray White, Cultural Programme Manager for Groundwork South West, a key partner over the last three platforms, and Sarah Warden, Assistant Producer (Live) at the Arnolfini.

 

Commission objectives

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To make a new work with service users of Independent People.

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To provide an opportunity for young people who have been homeless to express and develop their skills, abilities and shared experiences through the creative arts

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To raise awareness of the issues of youth homelessness.

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To highlight the responsibility we all share for ensuring that young homeless people receive the home and support they need to achieve their potential

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To engage at least 10 service users from Independent People in the project

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To consider ideas around neighbourhood and belonging. Shared identity, community, and location are strong themes in the overall 'Transient Living' programme and the selected artist(s) should have one of these at the heart of their proposal.

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To open links between the art centre and the young people involved in the project.

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For the selected artist to develop a project for public presentation at the Arnolfini in November 2010 with the support of Groundwork.

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If possible we would be keen to see a piece of work which will be in such a form that it can have a continuing platform /presence for the public to experience - at a given location outside the Arnolfini.

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For the selected artist to participate in one interim discussion/informal showing of

your project and in an online conversation with the other artists and curators involved

with the Transient Living project, which will endeavour to talk about experiences, ask

questions, and create links between the individual projects, approaches, and

research in the programme.

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Potentially to respond to a wider research strand within Arnolfini's programme relating to the theme of Old Media: see Arnolfini section above.

 

 

The Community

The young people supported by Independent People have all been homeless people or are leaving authority care and form part of a wider community of young people in Bristol. Young people are supported by Independent People to build independent lives and aspirations. This project forms part of a programme to offer new opportunities for young homeless people to develop their aspirations, options and skills whilst expressing their experience through the creative arts.

 

Potential outcomes

At this stage we are open to all proposals or methods of approach to working with Independent People. We are interested in your practice and would like to hear your response to this

invitation. Outcomes could be site specific event based, performance, film, research based

but must sit within the live programme at Arnolfini for the YaYW8 Festival.

 

Availability

You should be available on the Event Date 13/11/2010. How you use your time to develop

the project and work with the community over the period leading up to November is your

decision. However artists not based in Bristol please take into account that travel expenses will not be refunded.

 

Resources

We will endeavour to accommodate artist's requirements with resources such as work space as the project is clarified.

 

November Event

The exact format and content of November's event is flexible, we will work with you to create

the right context for audiences to engage with your work /process.

The core Arnolfini spaces available for use will be: Dark Studio, Light Studio, Reading Room.

There is also the potential to use the Auditorium space. For more information and images of

facilities please see:http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/pages/hires/

The other communities selected for inclusion in this project include the Roma Community in

Bristol (commission led by YaYW), The Boat Dwelling community on the Harbourside in Bristol (commission led by Arnolfini) and a group consisting of primary school children and elderly people (commission led by YaYW).

In addition to the commissions, four performance art projects relating to 'Transient Living',

will be selected from an artist call out and presented at YaYW8 festival, as well as an

international writing project with previous YaYW artist Malcolm Whittaker and Performance Space, Sydney.

 

Proposal:

Please outline your ideas to this invitation on a max two sides A4. Please state:

• Why you are interested in the commission.

• Methods of working with the community in question.

• What potential outcomes you envisage ie. event based, film based etc

• How this commission would inform and relate to your wider practice

 

Fee

Commission fee: £1850, paid in installments

Materials budget: £150

A translator budget of £50 is available if required

 

Selectors

Ray White, Groundwork South West

Tom Dunn, Youth Involvement Worker 1625 Independent People

Pilar Garcia, Funding and Communications Officer, 1625 Independent People

Sarah Warden, Assistant Producer Live Art and Dance

Sylvia Rimat, Co-Producer / Director YaYW

 

Contact:

To have an informal conversation with Ray about this invitation please contact him on 01752 217721 extn 332

or email Ray.White@groundwork.org.uk

 

Proposals should be sent to:

 

Pilar Garcia
Funding and Communication Officer 
1625 Independent People
Kingsley Hall, 59 Old Market Street 
Bristol BS2 0ER

 

Deadline for submissions: 5pm, Monday 2nd August2010. Shortlisted candidates will be called for interview the week beginning 9th August. It is envisaged that the commission will start by the beginning of September, subject to agreement from all parties.

 

This artist(s) commissioned will be working with vulnerable young people, and for this reason an enhanced CRB check will be required/carried out.