Happy Opportunity Tuesday!
27 June 2023
Hi team! I can’t quite believe we’ve made it halfway through the year already, but here we are. Hope the midsummer sun has been a welcome thing where you are, and that life is good. I have had an exceptionally busy but wonderful month - one of those special months that’s made me feel beyond lucky to do the work I do, and with the people I do it with...but I could also do with a lie-down and an ice cream. Wishing the same to all of you x
Happy Opportunity Tuesday!
Every Tuesday I share 10 #artsopps, commissions, residencies, open calls and applications closing soon.
Always PAID (or free/cheap for training) and for a range of artists: emerging to mid-career, from 16 to 80+.
Here are this week’s…
For writers:
English Touring Opera are recruiting a Writer to write the story and libretto for a new opera for SEND audiences, due to premiere in Autumn 2024. £3,000 fee.
DEADLINE: 25 JUL
For early-career cultural leaders:
Clore Leadership and Contact are hosting a conference called Emerging Futures: Care-fuelled Leadership. How can you be a caring leader, for others and yourself? Join them in person or online to explore the theme of care-fuelled leadership.
EVENT: 18 JUL
For performance artists:
Strike A Light are looking for 3 artists who'd be excited about making brilliant contemporary theatre, dance, performance in Gloucester to be employed for 2.5 years as their 'Let Artists Be Artists' intake 2023-2025. Get £30k per year (pro rata)!
DEADLINE: 18 JUL
For actors in Liverpool:
Join 20 Stories High’s Actors Lab, led by Ameera Conrad! Take part in weekly creative skills workshops facilitated by world-class professional practitioners, followed by a paid rehearsal process culminating in a performance at the Unity Theatre to invited audiences and industry professionals.
Find out more and sign up here
DEADLINE: 30 JUN
For artists who work with recycled materials:
Junction Arts are commissioning an artist to work with young people to develop a workshop or activity for Tapton Lock festival. £1500, to include materials.
DEADLINE: 10 JUL
For poets of colour:
Poets of Colour Incubator is a 12-month programme offering mentoring, masterclasses, coaching and more, plus a £6,000 Creative Action Bursary to innovate your practice and create dynamic new work in response to a global challenge you want to explore.
DEADLINE: 24 JUL
For directors:
A Play, A Pie and A Pint is pleased to be able to offer the role of Resident Director who will work alongside the Artistic Director and wider team for their Autumn season. The role would suit an early to mid-career Director who is keen to support the development of new plays and gain regular experience at a producing venue. £7500 fee.
DEADLINE: 5 JUL
For Black artists and creatives, and other Global Majority artists in Scotland:
Apply for We Are Here Scotland’s Creators’ Fund ROUND 3 to get £500 cash plus practical career advice, support and guidance through mentoring.
DEADLINE: 5 AUG
For artists and producers working with sound and music:
Oxford Contemporary Music want to support 4 artists/producers through the Boom programme, which will run for 9 months (Jul 23 - Mar 24) and aims to help people at a developmental point in their career to make a creative leap. Get £1,500 cash, support with fundraising/promotion/business planning/production, contacts and networking, mentoring or coaching, and free tickets to events.
DEADLINE: 10 JUL
For directors, producers, and other experienced creatives:
The Big One! The National Theatre is looking for a new Director and Chief Executive, and this time they’re open to any permutation of application: single lead applicant, joint application, single applicant with a team of strong Associates, or something else!
DEADLINE: 24 JUL
That’s it for this week!
Really hope it’s useful. It’s a tough time for artists (and, well, everyone) at the mo so please look after each other out there. Let me know if you’re successful with your applications - I love hearing from you! And as always if you enjoy Opportunity Tuesday please share to help us reach the folks who need it most. I started it to try to level the playing field a bit, and every little helps.
Opportunity Tuesday will always be free to access, but if you can afford to chip in a little something to support me to keep it going, that would be hugely appreciated - just click the button below to support with £1 per week. (I’m freelance too!)
Thank you for your support, and I have my fingers and toes crossed for you. Good luck!
P.S. The part you’ve all been waiting for - Mabel says hi
Please note: Inclusion in #OpportunityTuesday is not endorsement. I look far and wide for the most interesting and exciting paid opportunities I can find, and though I do my best to make sure they’re legit, I don’t always know the organisations well. If you have an issue with something on the list, please get in touch with the relevant organisation. You are very welcome to send me opportunities to include, but please note I will not be able to respond to every request, and I do not guarantee inclusion in the list - each week is curated to be varied and relevant. I don’t normally share ‘traditional’ salaried roles such as marketing, development, finance etc as they are often not relevant for artists. Thanks!