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Happy #OpportunityTuesday: ON LOCKDOWN! (On Weds this week, sorry!)
Usually on Tuesdays I share 10 paid opps for artists. We're hit hard, but our amazing sector is still offering opportunity & hope.
So here are 10 isolation opps & ways to help or be helped.
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For neurodivergent writers/storymakers:
Apply for the @DYSPLA_Festival Residency Programme to get script surgeries, industry sharing, mentoring, dramaturgy, development/production advice, travel/subs, desk space, networking support & more!
http://bit.ly/residency-2020
DEADLINE: 3 MAY
Apply for the @DYSPLA_Festival Residency Programme to get script surgeries, industry sharing, mentoring, dramaturgy, development/production advice, travel/subs, desk space, networking support & more!
http://bit.ly/residency-2020
DEADLINE: 3 MAY
For artists and anyone else working in the arts:
The fab folk in @WCArtistGroup have pulled together all the emergency funds you can use if you need help! Both funder-led & artist-led, there's something here for you
(If you have spare cash, please donate!) https://twitter.com/WCArtistGroup/status/1245299561905750016?s=19
The fab folk in @WCArtistGroup have pulled together all the emergency funds you can use if you need help! Both funder-led & artist-led, there's something here for you
(If you have spare cash, please donate!) https://twitter.com/WCArtistGroup/status/1245299561905750016?s=19
For early career artists from Coventry & Warwickshire:
Shoot Festival are launching Shut Down But Scratching, an online scratch night of performance, visual & digital art. There are 10 micro-commissions of ÂŁ200 to take part @BelgradeTheatre
http://www.belgrade.co.uk/news-and-blogs/blogs/shut-down-but-scratching-shoot-festival-calls-for/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Shut%20Down&utm_content=Blog%20post%20about%20Shoot%20Festival%27s%20Shut%20Down%20but%20Scratching%20event
DEADLINE: 6 APR
Shoot Festival are launching Shut Down But Scratching, an online scratch night of performance, visual & digital art. There are 10 micro-commissions of ÂŁ200 to take part @BelgradeTheatre
http://www.belgrade.co.uk/news-and-blogs/blogs/shut-down-but-scratching-shoot-festival-calls-for/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Shut%20Down&utm_content=Blog%20post%20about%20Shoot%20Festival%27s%20Shut%20Down%20but%20Scratching%20event
DEADLINE: 6 APR
For everyone:
@DeafTrust have made the Level 1 BSL course digital, and completely FREE!!!!!
https://www.doncasterdeafsign.org.uk/index.php
@DeafTrust have made the Level 1 BSL course digital, and completely FREE!!!!!
https://www.doncasterdeafsign.org.uk/index.php
For artists of all disciplines:
@thespacearts on behalf of @BBCarts & @ace_national are looking for creatively ambitious ideas that feel that they could have been made at no other time, to commission as part of Culture in Quarantine. ÂŁ3-8k.
https://www.thespace.org/resource/culture-quarantine
DEADLINE: 8 APR
@thespacearts on behalf of @BBCarts & @ace_national are looking for creatively ambitious ideas that feel that they could have been made at no other time, to commission as part of Culture in Quarantine. ÂŁ3-8k.
https://www.thespace.org/resource/culture-quarantine
DEADLINE: 8 APR
For artists based in Scotland:
@ImaginateUK are commissioning artists to explore ideas that will reach children & young people while schools are closed & many are working from home. Could be online, by post, or something else! ÂŁ1-2k
https://www.imaginate.org.uk/artists/opportunities/ideas-fund-2020-artist-call-out
DEADLINE: ROLLING
@ImaginateUK are commissioning artists to explore ideas that will reach children & young people while schools are closed & many are working from home. Could be online, by post, or something else! ÂŁ1-2k
https://www.imaginate.org.uk/artists/opportunities/ideas-fund-2020-artist-call-out
DEADLINE: ROLLING
For administrators & finance folk:
not/nowhere is an artist workers' cooperative that programmes workshops, screenings, exhibitions & other events, & they're looking for a treasurer! ÂŁ25ph, 7-9hrs per week, remote working during pandemic
https://not-nowhere.org/on/event/job-treasurer
DEADLINE: 7 APR
not/nowhere is an artist workers' cooperative that programmes workshops, screenings, exhibitions & other events, & they're looking for a treasurer! ÂŁ25ph, 7-9hrs per week, remote working during pandemic
https://not-nowhere.org/on/event/job-treasurer
DEADLINE: 7 APR
For disabled artists:
Apply for a Katherine Araniello Bursary to get ÂŁ5k to allocate how you wish - for space & time, training, research or attachments. The award is for unapologetically radical early career live artists @thisisliveart
https://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/opportunities/the-katherine-araniello-bursary-award/#how-not-to-do-disability
DEADLINE: 30 APR
Apply for a Katherine Araniello Bursary to get ÂŁ5k to allocate how you wish - for space & time, training, research or attachments. The award is for unapologetically radical early career live artists @thisisliveart
https://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/opportunities/the-katherine-araniello-bursary-award/#how-not-to-do-disability
DEADLINE: 30 APR
For youth theatre facilitators & teachers:
The amazing @company_three have created 'The Coronavirus Time Capsule', a project recording teenage experience week-by-week during the pandemic. They've shared a FREE blueprint so any group can make their own! http://www.companythree.co.uk/#coronavirus-time-capsule
The amazing @company_three have created 'The Coronavirus Time Capsule', a project recording teenage experience week-by-week during the pandemic. They've shared a FREE blueprint so any group can make their own! http://www.companythree.co.uk/#coronavirus-time-capsule
To artists of all disciplines:
@QueensHall launched a Digital strand & are looking to commission 6 artists to start a conversation with film, slideshow, drawing, audio, written, spoken, or something else! ÂŁ250, should be max one day's work
https://www.curatorspace.com/opportunities/detail/queens-hall-digital--micro-commissions/4341
DEADLINE: 10 APR
@QueensHall launched a Digital strand & are looking to commission 6 artists to start a conversation with film, slideshow, drawing, audio, written, spoken, or something else! ÂŁ250, should be max one day's work
https://www.curatorspace.com/opportunities/detail/queens-hall-digital--micro-commissions/4341
DEADLINE: 10 APR
Last but not least, @ace_national have announced emergency funding for:
- NPOs
- Non-NPO orgs
- Individuals
There are 2 rounds, both in April so v quick. Register your applicant profile on Grantium first - this can take 5 days to be approved so do it now!!
https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/covid19
- NPOs
- Non-NPO orgs
- Individuals
There are 2 rounds, both in April so v quick. Register your applicant profile on Grantium first - this can take 5 days to be approved so do it now!!
https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/covid19
As always, hope it's useful. Sending luck & love, we're all in this together so look after each other & stay safe.
If you enjoy #OpportunityTuesday please do share to help reach folk who need it most. I started it to try to level the playing field a bit, every little helps
If you enjoy #OpportunityTuesday please do share to help reach folk who need it most. I started it to try to level the playing field a bit, every little helps
