Happy Opportunity Tuesday!
26 March 2024
Hi team
A short note from me this week as I’m away on a research trip in London, visiting brilliant organisations The Albany, Touretteshero and Battersea Arts Centre. Feeling very lucky to have support to do this with two colleagues, while we think about the development of RivelinCo, our own little arts centre in Sheffield.
It’s so rare we give ourselves opportunities to feel inspired and soak up knowledge from others - it’s especially rare to have funding to support that - so I’m feeling grateful this week. I hope you have something you can feel grateful for this week too, and if you don’t I hope it’s just around the corner for you (maybe it’s in this list?)
Big love as always x
Happy Opportunity Tuesday!
Every Tuesday (well, nearly every one!) 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 early career directors from refugee or asylum-seeking backgrounds:
Good Chance are offering a unique training and development opportunity to work at the heart of exciting new production Kyoto, a co-production with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Paid £597.28/week for 9.5 weeks.
DEADLINE: 4 APR
For movement and circus directors:
Work with Northern Stage and Director Natalie Ibu to reimagine A Christmas Carol for Christmas 2024. This could be one person with both skillsets, or two specialists that include set choreography as well as an approach to physicality and a range of circus skills – for example, contortion, stilt walking, aerial, or acrobatics. Northern Stage is committed to employing artists making their midscale debuts and hope to hear from experienced artists ready for these opportunities.
DEADLINE: 19 APR
For aspiring publishers in the North:
Applications are now open for the Children’s Books North Mentor Scheme! 12 aspiring publishers living in the North West, North East, Yorkshire and Scotland will receive 1:1 mentoring from a publishing professional.
WORKSHOP: 14 APR
For creatives interested in access:
Part of the Main are offering a series of low cost workshops in London and online, led by industry professionals, exploring intimacy guidelines, budgeting and fundraising, marketing, QLab for sound design, captioning, and audio description.
Find out more and sign up here
For visual artists:
Students and staff at High Spen Primary and Ryton Junior School, in collaboration with Historic England, are commissioning two artists to work on exciting projects, in response to research about local working-class women heroes. One commission is for a large 2D art piece (£3000 fee) and the other is for a digital artwork (£2250 fee). Both commissions involve some participation work in the classroom.
DEADLINE: 11 APR
For performers:
Artist Wency Lam is hosting a FREE movement workshop at Theatre Deli in Sheffield, exploring somatic practice and performance.
EVENT: 26 APR
For artists interested in drawing:
The Drawing Year is a full scholarship postgraduate-level course offering up to thirty students the opportunity to focus on drawing from observation for one year. There are no tuition fees for The Drawing Year – all students are awarded a full scholarship and receive a free studio space.
DEADLINE: 3 APR
For youth theatre practitioners from the global majority:
Get a placement with Strike A Light, designed to develop you as a Producer and give you support to build and stretch your practitioner skills. You’ll get a salary, regular mentoring opportunities and time dedicated to your professional development.
DEADLINE: 9 APR
For theatre-makers in the North:
Sheffield Theatres are hosting some more Rolling Residencies, which support artists with space and funding to develop a project or idea. Artists can apply for £500, £1,000 or £2,000 and either 5 or 10 days of free space in a rehearsal room at Sheffield Theatres.
DEADLINE: 17 MAY
For artists and activists aged 19-29:
The BONFIRE Intensive is a creative experiment involving a group of 15 young people, who will gather in a small village in Denmark for an intensive, collective process of training, experimentation, creation and reflection. Working with a team of artistic mentors and the local neighbourhood, participants will create their own BONFIRES: an artistic intervention for meaningful human meetings. Full scholarships available and accommodation and food will be provided.
DEADLINE: 4 APR
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!