Happy Opportunity Tuesday!
6 June 2023
Hi team - here are your artist opps for this week. I promise to get back to my usual rambly/ranty intros soon haha - just got a community arts festival in Sheffield to get sorted first :) hope you’re all doing okay. Enjoy! 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 music, sound and multidisciplinary artists:
Oxford Contemporary Music want to contribute £3,000 to support the R&D and creation of a new sound installation or artwork.They will also support producing, writing funding bids and linking up with other presentation partners.
DEADLINE: 12 JUN
For theatre-makers aged 18-30:
OV Theatre Makers is a free 6 month training programme with The Old Vic, supported by director Joseph Hancock and leading professional theatre makers from across the UK. Get free tickets to productions, support with travel and access costs, and explore contemporary theatre-making practices to begin developing your own work.
DEADLINE: 19 JUN
For musicians and performers with experience of migration:
Apply for a trainee opportunity to learn to lead creative workshops for young audiences, with Cloud Cuckoo Land on their project Hoop-la. £600 fee plus skills development and other support.
DEADLINE: 16 JUN
For youth facilitators:
English Touring Opera are recruiting freelance facilitators for a new programme called ETO Lyrics, for young people aged 14-18 to explore fusing opera with rap, hip-hop or a different contemporary genre and work towards writing and recording their own song. Paid £2000 per programme.
Find out more and sign up here
DEADLINE: 7 JUL
For aspiring musical theatre writers:
Overture is an exciting new musical theatre development scheme: writing teams will be supported by major producing houses and will have the opportunity to share up to 15mins of their new show at the final showcase, supported by a West End cast, musicians and a musical director. Get seed funding, mentoring, workshops and potential future development and programming opportunities!
DEADLINE: 18 JUN
For artists, activists and investigative journalists:
Apply for the Bertha Challenge to spend a year working on a pressing social justice challenge - disinformation and the climate crisis - and deliver a body of work about it. Get a salary, a project budget, a collaboration fund, mentor support and access to other exciting opportunities.
DEADLINE: 4 JUL
For female writers and artists aged 40+:
Apply for a 2 to 12 week residency at the grade II listed Church Cottage in Clifford Chambers, which is a village within two miles of Stratford-upon-Avon. All running costs are covered, and occasionally personal bursaries are available too!
DEADLINE: ROLLING
For recently graduated visual artists:
Enter the Artists’ Collecting Society Studio Prize to get £6,000 to help secure a studio space in a UK city of your choice!
DEADLINE: 30 JUN
For cultural workers and artists interested in social justice:
Apply for the Cubitt Civic Fellowship to explore ways that creative practice and collaboration with communities can productively navigate political struggle and chronic systemic inequities, and test the possibilities of the arts. 24 month fixed-term contract, paid £32,000pa pro rata (2 days per week)
DEADLINE: 15 JUN
For early career artists making outdoor work:
Take it Outside is a new artist development scheme aimed at supporting extraordinary artists with less than 10 years of professional practice that are aiming to develop work for outdoors and public space. Get a £4500 bursary, free rehearsal space, development support, mentoring and more!
DEADLINE: 28 JUN
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 and Solo say 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!