Tender

Creative Practitioner or Artist Call-out

CANAL & RIVER TRUST

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Tender

27 Mar 2024 at 13:19

S2W Notice - Website Invitation to Tender Notice
Summary of the contracting process

The Canal & River Trust is seeking a Creative Practitioner or Artist for the Wrexham Shared Prosperity Fund Arts Project. The procurement stage is a tender with key dates set for the closing on April 12, 2024. The opportunity involves working on place-based learning activities at Trevor Basin under the World Heritage Site concept. The contract type is freelance, with three stages of delivery planned spanning from May to December 2024.

This tender by the Canal & River Trust presents a unique opportunity for Creative Practitioners across various disciplines to engage with schools and communities in re-imagining place-based learning activities. Businesses in the services sector, particularly those specializing in education, arts, and community engagement, would be well-suited to compete for this contract. The project aims to foster sustainable relationships, creativity, and learning within the community, aligning with the Trust's overarching goal of promoting heritage and cultural activities along the UK canal network.

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Notice Title

Creative Practitioner or Artist Call-out

Notice Description

Wrexham Shared Prosperity Fund Canal & River Trust Arts ProjectCreative Practitioner / Artist Call OutCanal and River Trust are seeking a creative practitioner to bring about change in how schools, young people and the wider community engage with the World Heritage Site located on the Llangollen Canal.What we're looking forHow can creativity shape place-based learning to add value to the existing learning and skills offer at Trevor Basin.Beginning with schools, Canal and River Trust are exploring Trevor Basin as a unique space for intergenerational learning exploring place-based learning across themes of local heritage, environment, landscape, identity, social history and connectivity.We are looking for an experienced Creative Practitioner(s) to co-construct and trial place-based activity with 2-3 schools to re-imagine and inform the potential of the education offer for schools at the Trevor Basin site that could connect to the 11-mile World Heritage Site canal network. We would like to understand more about the uniqueness of the World Heritage Site and surrounding areas and how the waterways could better connect and represent the schools, learners and their communities.How can we amplify the narrative to engage new and existing communities?Applications are open to ambitious Creative Practitioners from any creative practice across all disciplines, whether you're a dancer, a storyteller or an architect, the most important thing is that you can apply your creativity underpinned by extensive practice to co-construct a place-based enquiry exploring themes around but not limited to, local heritage, environment, landscape, identity, social history and connectivity.Job DescriptionIt is essential that you are able to:Imagine and re-imagine.Draw on your experience of working with schools and your own artistic practice to develop sustainable relationships with schools, stakeholders and the wider community.Demonstrate an ability to utilise creativity and place-based learning to embed sustainable change in teaching and learning.Facilitate creative exercises to discover how working at and with the World Heritage Site could support teaching and learning in the curriculum. It is essential that the enquiry is developed with the school/s, not something developed for the school/s.Apply your experience and creativity to enquiry-led teaching and learning.Inspire learners to enhance their learning experience.Create a sense of belonging.Support schools with promoting learner autonomy; considering how learners can learn about and take ownership of the Llangollen Canal to protect it for the future.Link with ideas, approaches, experiences, communities, organisations and/or partners that could support and enhance the enquiry and facilitate deeper and wider community engagement.Apply your project management skills to research, planning, delivery and evaluation of creative enquiries, ensuring ongoing reflection throughout each stage.Be a catalyst for change.Use your ability to challenge, support and discover new ways of working to develop a sustainable practice that can inform the potential of the learning and skills offer for schools working at Trevor Basin.Harness and share the learning to celebrate the process and contribute to the dialogue at a wider-celebratory event in December alongside the other artists and communities across the World Heritage Site.Support legacy aims.Trial new ways of working that can add value to the existing learning and skills offer at Trevor Basin. This may include collaborating with staff and volunteers and/or creating resources to enable the continuation of the co-constructed learning developed at the site.Work with the project team to agree success criteria that reflects the needs of the school/s alongside the aims and objectives of all partners. Demonstrating excellent communication skills to work unsupervised to a deadline.This opportunity is inclusive and open to all. We encourage applications from people who identify from backgrounds and experiences currently underrepresented in the arts (including, but not limited to: Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, people with a disability or life limiting condition, working class, LGBTQ+). The ability to speak the Welsh language is desirable but not essential.The selected Creative Practitioner will work at selected schools and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Trevor Basin Visitor Centre, Trevor, Wrexham LL20 7TYContract Type: FreelanceThere will be 3 stages of delivery:Research / planning (May - July)Delivery (September - October)Evaluation / celebration (November - December)The successful applicant will need to be an ideas generator, able to effectively negotiate partnerships; working alongside the project team to support in identifying the children, teachers, staff, volunteers and wider communities that will be involved.Fee: PS300 per day or PS150 per half day plus reasonable travel expenses outside of a 20 mile radius of Trevor Basin across an equivalent of 21 full days between May - December.This payment is inclusive of VAT.There will be an additional resource budget available to support the delivery of activity.Applicants must be available to:Attend an interview Thursday, 18 April 2024Work toward showcasing the work as part of a celebration event which will take place between the end of November and early December date tbcAll other days between May - December to be negotiated.How to Apply:Please send an expression of interest, accompanying CV and up to 3 x jpeg images / video links to your work to Claire Farrell. Please ensure that your expression of interest reflects the job description and includes previous relevant examples.You may alternatively provide a 5 minute film or recording outlining the above criteria.An existing enhanced DBS would be desirable. However, if you do not have one we will need to arrange for a DBS as a matter of urgency upon appointment.Closing Date: 12pm 12 April 2024Please submit your expression of interest or for more information please contact:Claire Farrell - World Heritage Site Art Project Directorclaire.farrell@canalrivertrust.org.ukBackgroundThis opportunity is part of the Canal and River Trust (The Trust) Pontcysyllte World Heritage Site Art Project which is a community arts placemaking project taking place between December 2023 and December 2024. Creative practitioners will work extensively with World Heritage Site (WHS) communities with a focus on four areas in Wrexham Borough to explore place-based themes spanning connectivity, heritage, landscape, identity, playful colloquialism and social history. Founded in 2012, Canal & River Trust is the UK's largest canal charity, caring for a 2,000-mile network of stunning canals and navigable rivers. Connecting many of the UK's urban and rural areas, we provide essential spaces for wildlife and people, helping us all feel happier and healthier. The 250-year-old waterways in our care - the canals, embankments, culverts and reservoirs as well as the bridges, locks and towpaths - and their vital ecosystems are threatened by the growing impact of climate change and more extreme weather. Pontcysyllte World Heritage Site Art Project is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government's Levelling Up agenda and provides PS2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local businesses, and people and skills. For more information, click hereNOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=140313. For further information about the UK Shared Prosperity Fund please visit their website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectusFor further information about the Canal and River Trust, please visit their website: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/(WA Ref:140313)

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-kuma6s-140313
Publication Source
Sell2Wales
Latest Notice
https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=140313
Current Stage
Tender
All Stages
Tender

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
S2W Notice - Website Invitation to Tender Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

80 - Education and training services

CPV Codes

73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

80100000 - Primary education services

80200000 - Secondary education services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
27 Mar 20241 years ago
Submission Deadline
12 Apr 2024Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Not Specified
Lots Status
Not Specified
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
CANAL & RIVER TRUST
Contact Name
Claire Farrell
Contact Email
claire.farrell@canalrivertrust.org.uk
Contact Phone
+44 07435874326

Buyer Location

Locality
ABERGAVENNY
Postcode
NP7 9NY
Post Town
Newport
Country
Wales
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLL Wales
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLL5 South East Wales
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLL54 Monmouthshire and Newport
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Monmouthshire
Electoral Ward
Llanfoist Fawr and Govilon
Westminster Constituency
Monmouthshire

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