Happy Opportunity Tuesday!

30 April 2024

Hi team

Some cracking opportunities for you this week - enjoy and good luck!

Big love 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 artists looking to develop their creative practice:

Clifton Park Museum have opened their Test Space residency programme! Get £7,000 to test an idea, create new work for an exhibition, and deliver a programme of engagement.

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 27 MAY

For artists and collectives from the North:

Apply for the Factory International Artist Takeovers at Aviva Studios to experiment in a vast space, exploring an idea at scale for four days. You’ll get support from a specialist team of producers, engagement and technical staff, and a budget of £10,000 to support your development time, R&D and production costs. You can apply as an individual with a creative team or as a collective of artists, and there’s no pressure to create a public outcome.

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 13 MAY

For writers:

The Hot House is a development lab led by Climate Spring, which aims to stimulate new, engaging and commercially viable climate stories for film and TV. Get £1,000 plus three months of development support.

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 30 JUN

For aspiring or early career audio producers, aged 18-25:

Transmission Roundhouse have an exciting opportunity for a young creative who wants to gain the skills and experience to carve their career in the audio industry to join their team as Trainee Podcast Producer. It’s a full-time, one-year role at £27,352.

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 12 MAY

For producers:

Helen Rice and RivelinCo are looking for a Producer to support development of EDITH (working title), a theatre, music and spoken word show telling the story of Edith Brookes - a female hot air balloon parachutist - and her final fatal flight over Hillsborough Park in 1902. The Producer will support R&D, 2x work-in-progress sharings, and an intergenerational storytelling project with local people. £4,000 fee.

Find out more and apply here

EVENT: 10 MAY

For playwrights:

Apply for Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award for new writing, to get £8,000 for an exclusive option for Soho Theatre to produce the prize-winning play, a full London run of the play staged at Soho Theatre, and workshops and rehearsed readings of the play in India and the USA.

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 17 JUN

For early career directors and producers:

November Club are recruiting freelance Assistant roles for their project Cambois Hidden Depths, working with community organisations, business partners and local schools to celebrate heritage across the community in Cambois, North Blyth and East Sleekburn. Assistant Producer paid 10 days at £165 per day, Assistant Director paid a fee of £4,500. Both roles will also receive mentoring and other development support. 

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 13 MAY

For artists with big ideas in science, art, nature, society or climate:

Apply for the National Trust Time + Space Award to get a bespoke package worth £5,000 plus the time, space and opportunity to explore your big idea, supported by a panel of experts.

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 30 APR

For young creatives aged 18-25:

Apply to be a Roundhouse Resident Artist to get a FREE year of support including workshops, masterclasses, mentoring and paid performance opportunities!

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 7 MAY

For theatre companies, directors, and writers:

Apply to work on Epic Stages with the National Youth Theatre this summer, working with a cast of 22-25 year olds at Rose Bruford in Sidcup, to produce a 30-minute work in progress show performed to an invited audience. £5075 fee.

Find out more and apply here

DEADLINE: 3 MAY

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 it 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!