arts.community.media

  May 4th-26th sees the 47th annual Brighton Festival – a three week celebration of music, theatre, dance, circus, art and film that takes place across Brighton & Hove. This year the Guest Artistic Director is children’s author, broadcaster and former Children’s Laureate, Michael Rosen, making his own special mark on the Festival. RadioReverb, Brighton’s local community… Read more

Artists and Trainers – Call for Expressions of Interest Heads Together Productions http://headstogether.org/ is putting a call out for people interested in delivering training for our community radio projects; ELFM in East Leeds http://www.elfm.co.uk, and Two Valleys Radio in Kirklees http://www.twovalleysradio.co.uk With both community radio projects developing strongly and with new opportunities on offer for both;… Read more

BROADCASTING HISTORY Giant radios make waves across Liverpool city centre From 18 – 22 February 2013, Liverpool is to welcome some radio interference to its streets, created by young people broadcasting their passion for local history. Waves on the Mersey, an idea created by Open the Door Theatre in Education, will bring five giant radios… Read more

The Rural Media Company have made a short film highlighting the Bacc for the Future campaign and the importance of creative subjects in schools. Please click the following link to see the short film and we’d appreciate if you could click support with either Twitter or Facebook we need to reach 500 supporters! http://thndr.it/VUaYEY

basic.fm are inviting proposals to commission four new audio art works that will form part of basic.fm’s library collection. basic.fm’s new audio commissions will feature frequently in the programme between events, broadcast takeovers and regular shows. This growing collection represents a library of works for broadcast, which to date includes commissioned work from Mark Vernon,… Read more

First Spark celebrates the overlooked festival of Imbolc, or Candlemas,  the earliest signs of spring, and a time for new ideas in radio, transmission art and electronic music. First Spark 2013 has the subheading ‘Alternatives to Journalism’ as we explore many ways to tell the stories that cross our path or affect us from far… Read more

MAPPING THE NORTH’S DIGITAL ASSETS A commission opportunity by Pixel Palace at Tyneside Cinema (UK) http://thepixelpalace.org Pixel Palace is the digital media arts programme at Tyneside Cinema working with new media artists, technologists, curators and audiences to reflect upon cinema’s past, expanded present and its all-pervasive future. Tyneside Cinema has been awarded a grant by… Read more

Call for submissions: Plymouth Community Radio engagement project We are looking for audio submissions, for use in a short radio production which aims to engage thought and participation in Plymouth Community Radio (launching on FM, July 2013). Suggested responses: Experimental Music | Poetry | Soundscapes | Electroacoustic Works | Spoken Word Deadline for submissions is… Read more

‘Cornucopia Radio’ was created in 2008 by a number of local writers and performers to create professional produced audio-drama/comedy shows which could be re-broadcast by the growing number of ‘Community Radio’ stations across the UK and also distributed to a potential international audience through digital platforms like ITunes. Their latest drama débuted online last week,… Read more

or-bits.com is inviting artists to submit work for inclusion in the project 128kbps objects, a week-long internet radio broadcast on basic.fm that will explore the idea of objects in transformation. basic.fm is a net radio broadcast project initiated by Pixel Palace. We are looking after it and nurturing it in the hope that one day… Read more