Chris Joseph

BBC Radio Leicester presenter Tony Wadsworth is campaigning for Leicester to have its own flag. Leicestershire already has one, but could you design one to represent the city?

The flag should represent the city, but what that means is up to you! It could be based on Leicester’s history, sports teams, diversity or anything else that you think is central to the city.

Take a look at some of the designs that have already been submitted..

The competition is open to all individuals, groups, schools and universities. The best design will be featured on the BBC Leicester website and the winning entry will be made into a flag, which will hopefully be flown with pride across the city.

So if you’ve got a design for Leicester’s flag, email it to leicester@bbc.co.uk or send it to:

Tony Wadsworth
BBC Radio Leicester
9 St. Nicholas Place
Leicester
LE1 5LB

The closing date for entries is Friday 16 March 2007, so make sure you’ve sent your design to Tony by then!

A bit of background

Like most counties, Leicestershire already has its own flag.

It is a banner of the county council’s arms, with each quarter representing well-known people in the county’s past like Sir Robert Dudley (who was made Earl of Leicester by Queen Elizabeth in 1564) and Simon de Montfort.

After a campaign by BBC Radio Derby presenter Andy Whittaker, a flag for the city of Derby was designed by a listener and made into a flag, so Tony’s hoping the same will be possible for Leicester.

The leader of Leicester City Council, Roger Blackmore, has backed the campaign to create a flag for Leicester and suggests it should have a purple background to acknowledge the city’s Roman heritage.

Sir Peter Soulsby, the MP for Leicester South, goes further and suggests the flag should have a background of blue (representing football), green (for the rugby) and white (for the cricket) with the city’s Coat of Arms in the centre.

Contributors on the BBC Leicester message board have also suggested that Leicester’s ethnic diversity, the area’s fox-hunting background or a recognisable landmark like the Clock Tower would be good aspects of the city to feature as well.

Two powerpoint presentations from yesterday’s meeting of the PaRT group. Bruce Mason and I talked about how we might begin to think around the issues of Research (Bruce) and Production (me) in Transliteracy, along with the ongoing question of what we actually mean by this term. Toby Moores of Sleepydog also sat in and gave some valuable feedback from a non-PaRTy perspective.

For more about the PaRT group and transliteracy visit http://www.transliteracy.com

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Artist and Writer in Residence Opportunities

Part-time (17.5 hours per week) May – October 2007
Salary - £6000 per residency

Closing date 09/03/2007

The Gallery of Modern Art is seeking one visual artist and one writer whose work has previously addressed issues of social justice and is prepared to investigate the issues of sectarianism, territorialism and identity.

As part of the Gallery of Modern Art’s Contemporary Art and Human Rights programme, the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (GoMA) is offering two residency positions, one for a visual artist and one for a writer, with the opportunity for artists to work on issued based collaborative projects with community groups. The artists will be required to respond to the issue Sectarianism (identity, neighbourhood and nation) and develop new work to be shown. The residency will be for 6 months starting May 2007, the artist and writer will be expected to facilitate weekly community workshops with identified youth groups across the city, one open studio day, an artists talk, and a final display of work being shown at GoMA. The artist and writers time would be split 50% for their own work and 50% for work with the community groups.

Applicants should have a clear idea of how this residency will benefit their practice along with experience of working collaboratively with community groups. To apply for either of the residency posts please send a CV, a letter of application outlining your approach to the residency and up to 12 slides or photos of own work (visual artists) and examples of your published work (writers) to Alicia Watson, Education & Access Curator, Gallery of Modern Art, Royal Exchange Square, G1 3AH.

http://www.glasgowmuseums.com
Email - Alicia.Watson@cls.glasgow.gov.uk
Phone - 0141 229 1996

Maps and Skins media project

Artist brief

Fee: £6,000 (30 days)
Additional funds are available for materials and equipment

Timescale: March – August 2007

Deadline for applications: Wednesday 28th February 2007
Interviews in Newcastle: March 2007 (tbc)

English Heritage and ISIS Arts are seeking to appoint an experienced artist, to work alongside a media company, to work with young people to produce an interactive game as part of a high profile exhibition at Belsay Hall in Northumberland.

Applicants will be expected to have the relevant media skills, experience and an enthusiasm for working with young people from a hard-to-reach audience and proof of producing high quality work in this field.

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http://www.filmsharing.eu/
2nd International NoBudget VideoFilmfestival Heilbronn/Weimar, Germany & European Tour-
Deadline 1st of May 2007

WE want to show YOUR work!

WE = the different festival for independent filmmakers from everywhere.
The motto GELD SPIELT KEINE ROLLE (~money is not an issue/it’s only money)is the key to our expectations of No Budget art and quality production.
YOU = filmmaker of narrative or fiction films, independent in mind & approach, who wants to spread his original ideas among an enthousiastic audience

Be quick and send us your work! You’ll find the entry form and more details on our homepage. Deadline for entries is the 1st of May!

http://www.filmsharing.eu/

Gavin Stewart has an interesting post about the ‘long tail’ of blogs and Technorati rankings. Of course these rankings only measure perma(nent)links to your blog, rather than visits or any of the ‘old’ measures of a website’s popularity. But to confirm his findings - yesterday, with no Technorati links, I was ranked 2,700,000 + change. Today, with one link (from Writing and the Digital Life), I’ve moved up a million places in the rankings. More links please!

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Now seeking submissions that expand the definition of a portrait, to be exhibited April 28 - June 9 2007 at Eyedrum.

Portraiture is the practice and result of documenting a person. Its nothing new. Commonly portraits communicate a visual appearance. When it acts outside the norm, the subject of a portrait may not be a visual depiction of a person. Other clues are present that give the audience information about the subject. Their mannerisms, emotions, hobbies come to life. Imagine what iconic representations, even allusions to reputations begin to describe a person.

The goal of this exhibit intends to illuminate the full spectrum of portraiture. Any way an artist can convey the essence of a person, visually, written or in 3/4d is now a Contemporary Portrait.

deadline for submission: March 10, 2007
notification of selection: March 31, 2007

contact: anneditor@gmail(dot)com
Alyson Laura, curator

for more informaiton: community/calls:
www.eyedrum.org

Art and Technology Grant
http://www.aec.at/en/prix/cat_next_idea.asp
deadline online submission: march 9, 2007

Discovering ideas for tomorrow in young minds today is the aim of this grant supported by voestalpine and focusing on the intersection of art and technology. The category’s target group includes students at universities, art schools, technical schools, and other educational institutions as well as creatives from all over the world, aged 19–27, who have developed as-yet-unproduced concepts in the fields of art, design or technology. The winner receives a stipend in the amount of 7,500 Euro and will be invited to spend a term as Researcher and Artist in Residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Judging will be done by a panel of experts. The Ars Electronica Futurelab makes its resources and its staff’s expertise available to support the realization of the project during the term of residency. The awarded concept or the completed work will be presented in the Prix Ars Electronica’s “CyberArts 2007” catalog and as part of the Ars Electronica Exhibition at the 2007 Ars Electronica Festival. Strongly committed to an interdisciplinary approach, and as part of an international network of collaborating institutional associates, the Ars Electronica Futurelab carries out its R&D projects together with artists and scientists from all over the world. The awarding of this grant is made possible by voestalpine.

Contact: nextidea@prixars.aec.at