Pinolo - Empowering Artists

BORN BY THE RIVER
**Cast Announcement**
🎭We couldn't be more thrilled to announce that the extraordinarily talented Maria Paul is joining the cast of ‘Born by the River’, an original musical written by Brian Dawe & Jane Elizabeth Dawe being performed as part of the Lock & Quay Pirate Festival, Bootle on Saturday 24th May 2025.
Maria will be performing the pivotal role of Ta'Bu - a teller of tales who narrates the story in which she herself is entwined...

Maria has extensive experience in the Northwest as both an actor and director. Additionally, she teaches drama at higher education level. Maria began her artistic training at Hope Street Ltd in Liverpool, where she earned a BA (Hons) in Creative & Performing Arts and a PGCE in further education. She has served as Youth Arts Director at The Citadel, St. Helens and as Youth & Community Arts Manager at The Black-E, establishing a youth circus and an after-school project for children with ASD. Alongside this work, Maria independently supported women affected by domestic abuse who had no recourse to public funds, ultimately producing theatre performances with Southeast Asian women.
In 2019, she founded Nwoko Arts, where she serves as the Creative Director. With a strong passion for working with underrepresented groups in society, Maria dedicates much of her work to promoting positive activism, enabling individuals to share their stories authentically. Her projects often centre around audio recordings that serve as stimuli for performances and verbatim theatre.
Recently, she has collaborated with the Liverpool Learning Partnership as Project Lead on the Brand-New World programme and has worked as Project Manager for Curious Minds, delivering identity projects in libraries. She has also conducted workshops in colleges and universities on identity and culture, including sessions on verbatim theatre at Edge Hill University and Liverpool John Moore’s University.
Credits include:
E.E Game Store - Commercial; The First Listener - Short Film; Black and White - Short Film; The Tower - ITV Drama; Songs for Europe - Immersive Theatre; That Theatre Group; Spring into Summer; Nwoko Arts; Unspent - Theatre - Reformed CIC; and Leah in Brexitland - One Hour Theatre Company. For Nwoko, she wrote and directed Sweet Mother (Royal Court Theatre Studio, Liverpool Theatre Festival, 2020), The Triangle (Granby Winter Gardens, 2021; Princes Boulevard, 2022) and performed as an actor in Spring into Summer (tour of 30 care homes, 2022).

Tickets for this spectacular event are selling fast, get yours here - https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Liverpool/Lock-And-Quay/Pirate-Festival-2025/40376224/



Bryn Dawe

The Pinolo - Empowering Artists PINOLO outputs and lessons learnt have been presented to more than 45 professionals representing the Bulgarian National VET Agency, the Employment Agency, VET schools, universities, training providers, companies, career practitioners, etc.

The presentation was part of one of the events that have been registered on the European Year of Skills 2023 Map and took place on October, 2023 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

"Culture Moves Europe call for artists opens again

The second call for individual mobility of artists and cultural professionals is now open for submission of applications for mobility grants to 40 Creative Europe countries.

Artists and cultural professionals in the following sectors may apply:
- architecture
- cultural heritage
- design and fashion design
- literature
- music
- visual arts
- performing arts

The Culture Moves Europe calls operate on a rolling basis. This means that the call period is relatively long, with evaluation periods at the end of every month during the application period.

This second round is open from 2 October 2023 until 31 May 2024, 23.59 CET (Central European Time).

Applicants whose project have been selected will have one year starting from the date of signature of their grant agreement to complete their project."

Culture Moves Europe call for artists opens again The second call for individual mobility of artists and cultural professionals is now open for submission of applications for mobility grants to 40 Creative Europe countries.

13 professionals embarked on an exciting adventure to be trained and get certified as Global Career Development Facilitators (GCDFs). Along with all the knowledge and skills the group is working to acquire, an atmosphere of connectedness and sharing has been created that will surely last even after the training process is over. Among the resources they got acquainted with were the Pinolo - Empowering Artists’s ideas, results and lessons learnt.

Between October 9 and 11, 2023, Business Foundation for Education/Фондация на бизнеса за образованието has organized and conducted the first session of the recent training for career counsellors under the Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) program.

One of the topics addressed by the Pinolo - Empowering Artists training program is: Boosting my self-confidence. You can take advantage of the training content and the useful links to resources provided - among them the following very interesting article:

The Secret to Building Artistic Confidence – Might Could Studios How often do you compare your work to all the amazing work you see other artists creating and pushing out on social media, and then feel terrible and depressed about your own work? Every now and then? Every day?

"Creative Skills Week 2023 is an essential destination for creatives, producers, leaders, cultural workers, managers, educators, crafters, grafters, changemakers and dreamers, who care about what the future holds for creative skills development. Originally proposed in the Creative Pact for Skills Manifesto, CSW2023 aims to synergise existing activities, projects and communities to promote new approaches to re-skilling and up-skilling.

For the first time, the cultural and creative industries are being addressed as an industrial ecosystem. The issue of skills gaps and needs is a critical concern for stakeholders from all corners of the Cultural and Creative Sector Industries (CCSI). We are proud to launch the first-ever CREATIVE SKILLS WEEK gathering strategic thinkers, policymakers, creative hub managers, cultural workers and networks, creatives and artistic practitioners together to co-create plans addressing urgent and future skills needs."

is only a week away!💥 From 10-13 October, Vienna will be the central axis of the discussion around the challenges and needs of future skills in the Cultural & Creative Sector Industries.

🌐 This boundary-breaking programme of events and actions is the culmination of several initiatives, joining forces with the common goal of gathering various organisations, stakeholders, and European networks to address needs and skills gaps in the CCSI.

✨Don't miss the highlight of , ‘Anticipating Creative Futures’ (10-11 October), which culminates in an Open Space format, letting participants determine the agenda collaboratively and what the most relevant topics are to discuss in the context of .

We look forward to seeing you all in Vienna and online!

Visit www.creativeskillsweek.eu for more information.

Creative Skills Week 2023 will be hosted at Die Angewandte.

European Creative Hubs Network European Commission +

Strategic thinking and planning skills are among the topics addressed by the Pinolo - Empowering Artists training materials.

You can improve your knowledge and competences in this field by taking advantage of the Pinolo - Empowering Artists project's results and here is one of the additional resources, link to which is included in the PINOLO Training Guide:

Important Strategic Planning Skills for Workplace Success Strategic planning skills that employers look for in candidates for employment, examples of each type of skill, and how to show employers you have them.

An inspiring option. Maybe some of the Pinolo - Empowering Artists community members are among the 52 student artists, and/or cultural workers from 14 countries who will be eligible and approved to deepen their artistic and activism practices by exploring innovative ways of community engagement using the language of the arts and culture for political change.

"Calling all Changemakers

Artists, student artists, and/or cultural workers aged 18-30 are invited to respond to the open call until 15 October 2023. In order to be eligible, Changemakers must reside in one of the participating countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, or Sweden. Pop the Vote! provides Changemakers with a fully-funded training in Belgium (including travel, accommodation and meals) and 1,197 EUR to support their artistic engagement in the project.

The deadline for Changmakers to apply is 15 October, 2023, 23.59 CEST."

Pop the Vote! Culture on the Ballot | Culture Action Europe “Pop the Vote! Culture on Ballot" encourages active engagement of European citizens around the 2024 European Parliamentary Elections through culture.

"The NDPC invite cultural policymakers, cultural institutions and organizations, experts of cultural as well as innovation and sustainability developments, creative and innovation hubs, professionals of the cultural and creative sector to attend the launch event of the "Arts & Design Based Collaboration and Cross-Innovation: Practices for Systemic Impact through Enabled, Orchestrated, and Championed Policies" Policy Brief.

📍More info here: https://ow.ly/LQeE50PJajh"

The NDPC invite cultural policymakers, cultural institutions and organizations, experts of cultural as well as innovation and sustainability developments, creative and innovation hubs, professionals of the cultural and creative sector to attend the launch event of the "Arts & Design Based Collaboration and Cross-Innovation: Practices for Systemic Impact through Enabled, Orchestrated, and Championed Policies" Policy Brief.

📍More info here: https://ow.ly/LQeE50PJajh

🌐The social enterprises' evolution, the impact of networking, the long road to recognition, and the role of the Center for Social Innovation - CSI in the transformation of the Cyprus market.

🗞An article inspired by a talk between Sotiris Themistokleous and Michael Tyrimos at the Future Talks, prepared by Phivos Hadjinicolaou for the FastForward media.

▶️You can read it here: https://ffwd.com.cy/business/social-enterprise-growth-cyprus

An invitation that may be attractive to the PINOLO community highlighting an interesting direction for creatives field impact on crucial for the whole society topics:

"🔵 Join Cyanotypes partners in person or hybrid for its two-day workshop: Driving the Green Transition 🌿🌍
📍 14 – 15 September 2023 in Brussels, Belgium
How can artists and creatives help to build much-needed capacities for implementing change on systems level?
Hosted by NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, this workshop aims to co-create a learning format that provides the skills in need for cross-disciplinary collaborations engaging a wide range of different stakeholders in the .
🗣️💡Participate in the discussion on how to help build much-needed capacities for implementing change on systems level."

🔵 Join Cyanotypes partners in person or hybrid for its two-day workshop: Driving the Green Transition 🌿🌍
📍 14 – 15 September 2023 in Brussels, Belgium
How can artists and creatives help to build much-needed capacities for implementing change on systems level?
Hosted by NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, this workshop aims to co-create a learning format that provides the skills in need for cross-disciplinary collaborations engaging a wide range of different stakeholders in the .
🗣️💡Participate in the discussion on how to help build much-needed capacities for implementing change on systems level.
📅 Programme:
Day one will be hybrid (streamed online), allowing both in-person and remote participation, starting at 11:00 CEST.
Day Two will take place from 10:00 – 16:00 CEST and will be limited to in-person participants. Please note that places for in-person participation are limited, therefore registration is required.
Find out more at https://cyanotypes.website/2023/07/18/event-driving-the-green-transition-14-15-september-2023/
Visit https://cyanotypes.website/ to view upcoming events, subscribe to the project's mailing list, and join its community! 🌐📩
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