TODAY: Art + policy event in Sheffield: meet the artists who brought their practice into three varied policy contexts, 4-7pm Bloc Projects. eventbrite.com/e/manifest-art…

MANIFEST, a great project by Policy Lab UK, embeds artists with the policy making process. Very powerful work by the first cohort - Semiconductor, dryden goodwin and Christopher - now showing Bloc Projects Sheffield.

🎨🌍 Calling all UK Artists! Apply now for your chance to be part of an international delegation to Borneo, Malaysia, in March 2024. Delegates will shape creative responses to climate adaptation. 📆 Deadline: Sunday 21 January Apply here: ow.ly/vi2r50QkZ58

Our Accelerate Sessions are conversations about contemporary animation practice. In our first 2024 session (tomorrow 23/1), Birgitta Hosea will be talking about live animation, with artists Rose Bond, Johannes DeYoung, and Miwa Matreyek. animateprojects.org/acceleratesess…

As we review our mission & programme, we are keen to hear what you think about our work. Please spare 15 minutes to answer a few questions - runs until 8 February. Six randomly selected respondents will receive a £50 UK.bookshop voucher. surveymonkey.com/r/G5WXBVW

This is fast approaching... and we still have spots left! Interested in producing animation? Sign up now.

Artists' talk: Jessica Ashman Jessica Ashman/Spirit Sigh + Jake Elwes - two of the artists in our current pop-up exhibition Derby QUAD talk about their work that explores, respectively, Black and Queer lives, with Suzanne Golden BACKLIT 22 Feb | 18:00 UK | Zoom bit.ly/4byCAea

We are thrilled to share that #ElizabethHobbs’ The Debutante has been nominated for the Best Short Film Award and Audience Award categories British Animation Awards britishanimationawards.com/baa-2024-nomin… #BFIbacked #NationalLottery

Get hands-on experience with a small animation studio that produces mighty projects in this internship. ✨ ✍️ Animate Projects is looking for someone keen to learn about the behind-the-scenes of arts projects, from production to delivery. 🗓 14/04 🔗 opportunities.creativeaccess.org.uk/job/arts-inter…

The wonderful vivienne reiss who was deservedly awarded a The Churchill Fellowship has just posted this on what she learnt from the experience - useful for anyone interested in art in a therapeutic context. Plse RT admin.churchillfellowship.org/news-views/blo…

Jessica Ashman Jessica Ashman/Spirit Sigh and Jake Elwes discuss work at the intersection of the personal, political, and community with Suzanne Golden BACKLIT TMR 22/2 18:00 UK Zoom In collaboration with Derby QUAD Info/register: bit.ly/4bHVYFF #acefunded

Congratulations to The Debutante for winning Best Short Film! #BAA24

And we're off! Our #FiveFilmsForFreedom 10 year anniversary programme with #BFIFlare is live now. We're showcasing global LGBTQIA+ stories across the world in solidarity with people whose freedom is limited. Watch now for free wherever you are 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈❤️ bit.ly/48E81Ba

FORMAT25 OPEN CALL IS LIVE The festival theme is CONFLICTED for the FORMAT25 and we welcome diverse and imaginative proposals from international photographers, curators, artists and collectives to respond to the theme. SUBMIT: formatfestival.com/news/2024/04/f… Image: Antone Dolezal

Our second PLANTING artist Lewis Heriz is collaborating with Hannah Fields Community Garden. These images have been made on a clockwork 1950s Bolex film camera, developed using plants. Read more on PLANTING here: animateprojects.org/portfolio/plan… #letscreate #plantinganimation

Just three weeks to go. Hope you can come. Get tickets here: thegardencinema.co.uk/film/london-an… Maryam Mohajer #LondonAnimationClub

The Animate OPEN: Call for submissions We are looking for single screen, experimental animation, made by artist animators based anywhere in the world. Apply and find more info here: filmfreeway.com/AnimateProject… Deadline: Wednesday 16 October

Fantastic to visit Hannah Fields Community Garden in Littleover. The charity is doing excellent work to tackle social isolation, promote wellness, teach children about growing food, and deliver veg boxes. Plus I saw animations by amazing local talent Animate Projects ! 🌱🎞