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Abandon Normal Devices (AND), the major festival of new cinema and digital culture which made its debut in Liverpool in September 2009, is a partnership between FACT, Cornerhouse and folly. Based at Cornerhouse, the Festival Coordinator will work alongside the Festival Manager and the wider festival team to help deliver this major event. We are seeking someone with nerves of steel who is deadline focused and enjoys the 100 mile per hour thrill of working in a festival environment.

 
Under the exciting new government initiative, Future Jobs Fund, there is currently the opportunity for young (aged 18-24), long-term unemployed people who may be eligible, to apply for any of the following three posts at folly in Lancaster:
 

New Cultural Journeys is inviting proposals for creative projects that will 'Blaze a Trail' across Lancashire and the Fylde Coast, UK, between March and September 2010.
 
New Cultural Journeys is an ambitious youth led culture and sport participation programme for Lancashire and the Fylde Coast that is part of WE PLAY, the North West cultural legacy programme for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
 

Abandon Normal Devices has hooked up with the North West Film Archive to present a new project, Gleaners. We are offering two filmmakers an opportunity to spend a month each within the archive, exploring the collection and creating a new work.

 What to do in a crisis?

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Project Worker
Cumbria Paid
Closes 18 Jan 2010

Lanternhouse International seeks an experienced Project Worker to work on an exciting young-person-led project.

The role will involve working closely with film makers/animators and Lanternhouse team, co-ordinating all aspects of the project including recruitment, mentoring of young people, application of health and safety and child protection legislation, reporting, evaluation, monitoring and promotion.

Interesting new online project:

http://turbulence.org/Works/stalkingsocial/statusgrabber/

Open Up is a workshop for the development of projects for the digital façade in Medialab-Prado's building. This call is addressed to the presentation of proposals to be developed during the workshop-seminar taking place in Madrid from February 9 through 23, 2010.
Deadline for proposals:  December 10, 2009
 
Projects presented in this call will have to explore one of the following aspects:

The post lasts for a period of 9 months, starting at the beginning of January 2010. The post-holder will be an artist/creative technologist applying their knowledge and understanding as a practitioner to generate new opportunities for practitioners in the form of ! clinics, workshops and commissions across North Wales.

Salary: £10,700 on a freelance basis

Location: Glyndŵr University office at Technium CAST (Centre for Advanced Software Technology), Bangor

MOVES10: FRAMING MOTION | 21-25 APRIL 2010 | LIVERPOOL
OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES
Deadline: Sunday 13 December

moves is now inviting artists to submit their work for inclusion in the 2010 festival programme.
moves10 expands the open call and welcomes screen-based installations as well as films and papers exploring movement through its context. The works must have been completed from January 2008 onwards.