Happy Opportunity Tuesday!
...On Wednesday this week, sorry! 22 February 2023
Hi team!
Before we crack on with the opps, here are some other interesting, useful and important things from the last week in culture:
The results are in from the UK pilot of the 4 Day Working Week, and they are pretty undeniable: 92% of companies are keeping it, burnout is reportedly down by 71%, sick days down by 65% and revenue up. Time to start exploring it for your org?
Recommend a read of this devastating and damning report on ArtsProfessional about bullying bosses, broken boards and a crisis of accountability in our sector - we need to do better and acknowledgement is a good start.
Unlimited Theatre have sadly announced their final chapter, but they’re going out with a bang!
Check out Body Hour, an artist-led and disability-inclusive improvised movement practice. Sessions are online and in-person in West London: linktr.ee/bodyhourworkshops.
And here are your opps for this week! Hope you had a delicious pancake day x
Happy Opportunity Tuesday!
(…on Wednesday this week, sorry!)
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 artists & companies:
Apply for Lighthouse Poole’s Sanctuary scheme to get free studio space for artist development, money to support travel and accommodation, technical support, and opportunities such as sharings and supported workshops to help with development.
DEADLINE: 24 FEB
For composers:
Sound and Music are supporting British composers to have work performed at the annual ISCM World Music Days Festival in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, from 24th November to 3rd December.
DEADLINE: 27 FEB
For interdisciplinary & experimental artists:
Forecast encourage artistic practitioners and cultural producers working in all creative fields anywhere in the world to apply with projects that could benefit from the expertise of one of mentors. Successful applicants receive a grant and production budget in addition to the mentorship!
DEADLINE: 26 FEB
For producers:
Absolute dream job going at Paraorchestra - apply to be their Senior Producer, focusing on delivery of large-scale projects across the UK, from TV broadcasts and music venues to performances in shopping malls and on beachfronts. Paid £38,000pa.
DEADLINE: 20 MAR
For artists & small companies based in Bradford:
Sustain is a FREE 5-month programme which will support you to move forward and address the specific challenges that you or your company are facing, and help Bradford Producing Hub to understand more about the challenges so they can develop more support around mid-career artists in the future.
DEADLINE: 2 MAR
For artists based in Adur and Worthing:
Apply for up to £1000 for your creative project in any artform – visual arts, performance, music, film, photography, dance, digital, literature, craft and more!
DEADLINE: 13 MAR
For first generation migrant actors:
Ricardo Ventura Productions are casting performers for an upcoming R&D, exploring themes of migration through physical theatre in Bristol for a new play. Paid £125 per day.
DEADLINE: 24 FEB
For writers:
The Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2023 will be awarded for the best playwriting response to the theme: Flourishing. The winner will receive £3,000, and the runners up will receive £1,000 travel expenses to attend the 2023 symposium, which will be held from 10th-13th August 2023 in Fjällnäs, Sweden.
DEADLINE: 1 MAR
For disabled poets:
Disability Direct will be 30 years old in 2023, and to help them celebrate they’re looking for poets and spoken word artists who identify as disabled or having a long-term impairment to respond to the theme of disability in Derby and their 30-year history. Paid £100 per poem, or varying fees for workshops and performances.
DEADLINE: 26 FEB
For socially engaged artists:
Queen’s Hall Arts are working with 14 schools in rural West Northumberland to find out about their local mining and quarrying heritage, the impact it had on the wider world and the hidden histories of the working-class people it employed. Four selected artists will work with up to four schools on commissions which will include delivering workshops in the schools, skill sharing sessions with teachers, and creation of a final work of art. £2,500 commission per artist, plus travel expenses.
DEADLINE: 12 MAR
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!