Surge Cabaret
Surge Cabaret is looking for cabaret acts that can interact with the audience in Zoom in some way
Dwell Time
An open call for art, writing and poetry reflecting on mental wellbeing in the COVID-19 pandemic
Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award
Support to professional woman photographers to complete a documentary photo essay which addresses an important social, environmental, economic or cultural issue, whether local or global.
The Imperfect Orchestra
Mayflower 400 Community Soarks Programme: ‘You Are Welcome Here’ aims to develop international and cultural inclusivity within The Imperfect Orchestra and the wider music community in Plymouth.
Unity Through Sport
Moving Pictures Theatre
Moving Pictures Theatre – From Home is calling for 3min videos of stories and feelings responding to the theme of home to be part of the Brighton Digital Festival.
Sunny Art Prize 2021
Opportunity for both emerging and established artists to showcase their work and gain recognition for their talents on a global level.
submitted artwork should reflect the diversity of art and culture, whilst promoting an exchange between Eastern and Western creative cultures.
There is a total cash fund of £6,000 available for successful entrants.
Deadline: 05.07.2021
SeaChange Arts
SeaChange Arts- The Drill House Artist Residencies for artists that work in outdoor arts and circus, but also those that work in other disciplines who are keen to work collaboratively with or extend their practice into these art forms.
Coventry City of Culture
Coventry City of Culture is inviting creatives to submit their interest and links to their work or portfolio to create a diverse catalogue/database of work and a register of interested artists that can be considered for public realm projects.
Bill's Attic
Through the months of September October and November 2020 is offering free residency space in Bill’s Attic to individual artists, or a group of artists/ company who can demonstrate that they can work together while adhering to social distancing regulations, for a maximum period of 4 days.
CLOSED
The below opportunities have now closed.
LOBBYING
Creative Industries Federation are surveying the sector to lobby for more support for the self-employed
Scenes for Survival
Actors, writers and directors will be engaged and paid to create short pieces of digital theatre remotely from their personal spaces of isolation.
Disability Art Online
£8,000 was allocated to a new commissions pot which disabled artists can apply to
Commission opportunity
The Box has four music commissions of £500 each as part of our response to the ongoing health crisis called ‘A week in the life of a locked down musician’
FOTONOW
Seeking an experienced professional to lead on the development of digital and online aspects of Fotonow community project work
Milton Keynes Arts Centre
Commissioning fun and engaging creative learning content for their website.
Keepmoat Homes Public Art Commission
Artists are invited to submit an Expression of Interest for a public art commission in Ebbsfleet Garden City.
Commission opportunity
The Box is inviting local/regional artists to apply for 20 micro-commissions of £500 to produce a new piece of work that explores the impact of the ongoing health situation. Apply by 25 May.
Swan Films
Grayson Perry’s Channel 4 show will be featuring works sent to Swan Films.
Creative England
Get free mentoring to turn your immersive tech idea into a successful business with Creative England’s Ideate Plymouth project
Commission opportunity
The Real Ideas Organisation is seeking a Creative Professional to deliver online content to young people in Cornwall
Commission opportunity
Opera North’s new ‘Lockdown Edition’ of its successful Resonance programme is open for applications now
The Space
Commissioning opportunities including BBC Culture in Quaratine
Homemakers
Series of new commissions inviting theatre and live art makers to create new works at home, for an audience who are also at home
Opera North
Designed to support UK-based BAME music-makers exploring new ideas and collaborating with other artists, a new ‘Lockdown Edition’ of Opera North’s successful Resonance programme is open for applications now.
Real Ideas Organisation
RIO – Real Ideas Organisation has a commission opportunity available for a marketing professional to deliver online sessions to benefit young people aged 15-24 in Cornwall, who are interested in becoming self-employed along with providing some 1:1 professional mentoring support.
SpudWORKS
SpudWORKS are offering the opportunity for a socially engaged artist to take up an artists’ residency exploring intergenerational interactivity across distance in a time of pandemic.
Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy
The fund will be contemplate a diverse range of virtual Network events tackling key issues within the current fundraising environment
Commission opportunity
Real Ideas is seeking proposals from forward thinking artists and makers to create experiences for the Plymouth Art Weekender
Unshut
Is there a one-to-one performance at 2 meters apart? Or a project that you happen upon during your daily exercise? How can we interrupt this ‘new normal’? How can we commemorate, celebrate or challenge?
Literature Works
Best-selling working-class country writer Natasha Carthew has established a Nature Writing Prize for working class writers
Historic England
Historic England – is asking the public to help record a week in lockdown. 100 images from the public and ten artists will be added to Historic England’s Archive to preserve them and officially record this moment in history
One Dance UK
One Dance UK are offering 3 months FREE membership to any freelancers in the dance sector
BBC Galton and Simpson Bursary for Comedy Writing
The £5,500 bursary will help new comedy writers or writing partnerships develop a script for broadcast consideration, along with guidance from established industry professionals and the BBC Comedy commissioning team.
Visual Arts South West
Presenting a webinar series of talks and presentations titled ‘The Reset’, in collaboration with Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN).
Milton Keynes Arts Centre
Milton Keynes Arts Centre is commissioning fun and engaging creative learning content for their website.
Rake Community
Calling researchers, writers, data analysts, journalists, activists, academics, scientists, photographers, artists and practitioners of all disciplines to submit to RAKE’s online investigative collaboration initiative.
People United
Kind Places & Spaces wants to explore the positive impact that art and design interventions can have in communities.
Journeys Festival International
Journeys Festival International are seeking artists to create new commissions, each with a fee of £1,500 (to include production costs).
The Arts Institute
The Arts Institute – Art Commissions – Covid-19
Four art commissions inviting artists working across film, visual arts, spoken word and performance to give voice to the current situation and develop new work that responds to the theme ‘Everything has changed. Nothing has changed. Change is coming.’
Biofaction
Call for artists in Residence . The organisers welcome applications from artists, designers, biohackers, musicians, or other cultural practitioners who want to carry out artistic work with biological media.
Obsidian Coast
Obsidian Coast – is looking for UK based arts to initiate Hypericum: A Code of Practice, a curatorial and artistic development project, to generate a collectively produced and ever-evolving code of practice for feminist, anticolonial and environmentally sustainable arts organising.
Plymouth Trails
Freelance voice artists are being given an exciting opportunity to narrate three trails in the upcoming Plymouth Trails app.
Beyond Quantum Music
Beyond Quantum Music Open Call – welcomes submissions for any kind of digital art, sound installations, video works, as well as music that connects analogue and/or acoustic instruments with digital ones, the old and new sound worlds.
Armed Forces Covenant
The Armed Forces Covenant call for Creative Projects for Armed Forces Communities in Isolation
Big Screen Southend
Big Screen Southend is looking for artists, filmmakers or individuals creating moving image works for its future programme.
Satellite Films
Satellite Films – launched Skip/Intro, a new film commissioning programme for artist-filmmakers aged 18-25 in England.
Creative England
The Ideate Plymouth mentoring programme offers support to businesses or sole traders looking to use immersive technology to grow their business.
Festival of Thrift
Inviting artists to propose work for ‘One Beautiful Moment’ to launch the festival on the weekend of Saturday 12 September 2020.
The Box Plymouth
The box is keen to gather peoples’ images, stories, mementos and more, so we can record these strange times and share them in the future
RE:SET
RE:SET – a new virtual action learning programme for artists and creative freelancers and entrepreneurs developed in partnership with the hub.
Festival Stoke
“Festival echoes” is a series of one-month artist commissions around the theme of “Creating art in a different landscape”.
Light Night Worcester
Light Night Worcester – is seeking to commission a selection of artists to create a number of projection-based new works for Light Night Worcester 2021.
The Rooftop Arts Centre
The Rooftop Arts Centre invites submissions of artwork, poetry, video, and sound art to an online exhibition that explores the theme of connection, something that we are all missing during this time
Royal Society of Marine Artists
Artists are invited to submit work for exhibition alongside members of the Royal Society of Marine Artists at their Annual Exhibition 2020.
Deadline: 07.08.2020
Lonely, not alone
Commission available for 4 young people aged 18 – 25 to create hero content for our next campaign. That’s paid work for four stylists and four photographers to collaborate on an image and microfilm for Lonely Not Alone this year.
Deadline: 22.07.2020
Season For Change
Season for Change – launch Common Ground, a programme of four £10,000 commissions for artists.
Deadline 30.07.2020
Museums for Climate Action
Reimagining Museums for Climate Action – In the lead-up to COP26, we invite concept and design proposals that radically reimagine the museum as an institution to help shape meaningful climate action.
Deadline: 31.07.2020
Terrestrial
Terrestrial 2020 Remote Residencies Open Call – A paid opportunity for community artists across England to develop their local connections and explore new ways of working.
Deadline: 24.07.20
South West Creative Technology Network
South West Creative Technology Network – is aiming to fund ideas for prototypes in the field of Data.
Deadline: 07.09.2020
Plymouth University
Plymouth University – iLEAD is a new 12-month development programme for leaders in Plymouth. It will create and embed an ecosystem of talent that will challenge conventional wisdom and shape and grow social and economic prosperity.
Deadline: 18.09.2020
Real Ideas Organisation
RIO – Real Ideas Fellowship Opportunity for Young People in the South West.
Deadline: 24.08.2020
Peninsula Dance Partnership
Peninsula Dance Partnership Choreographic Bursary 2020 – The CPD choreographic Bursaries are supported by Hall For Cornwall, Plymouth Dance and Dance in Devon. You may apply at any stage in your career.
Deadline: 01.09.2020
Poplar Union
Open call for a second round of commissions to contribute to a winter edition of Outside In Arts Festival.
Deadline: 21.09.2020
Clore Leadership
Clore Leadership is inviting applications for the 2021 Fellowship and their next Emerging Leaders and Leadership Pulse Courses.
Deadline: 26.10.2020
Unlimited
Unlimited’s main aim is to commission disabled artists and companies to make exceptional work. For this next round, Unlimited has over half a million pounds available for Main Commissions, Research and Development awards and Emerging Artists awards.
Deadline: 27.10.2020
C21 Media
C21 Drama Series Script Competition – is looking for pilots for a one-hour drama series from fresh writers who have the credentials to create a primetime series.
Deadline: 30.09.20
Oxford Contemporary Music
Oxford Contemporary Music – OCM is now accepting applications for Boom 2020/21, an annual professional development scheme for music / sound artists / musicians and producers who are interested in creating and presenting inspiring contemporary music or sound based work outside of the concert hall and gallery.
Deadline: 21.09.2020
Historic England
Historic England is commissioning a new piece of outdoor art that celebrates the high street today. The new artwork will have a significant presence across High Streets HAZ schemes in at least five regions and engage the public as co-creators, participants and audience.
Deadline: 22.10.2020
Festival UK*2022
Is inviting Creative Teams (made up of organisations and individuals from across the STEAM sectors) to apply to take part in a paid R&D project to create compelling, ambitious and jaw-dropping public engagement acts on a global-scale.
Deadline: 16.10.2020

Plymouth Cultural Education Partnership
The partnership are looking to commission a SW based theatre company to devise and perform a brand-new production by/for/with children and young people (aged 8 -13) in Plymouth. The commission involves a period of research and development with 4 primary schools and 1 secondary school in the Whitleigh/Southway area.
Deadline: 07.12.2020
For more details please email ben.vleminckx@theatreroyal.com
Women Leaders South West
Women Leaders South West – is inviting applications to a leadership training programme that will support 16 women on their leadership journey.
Deadline: 16.11.20
Canadian Film Centre
Call for UK and Canadian creatives and producers to become future leaders in immersive storytelling backed by funding support.
The Box Plymouth - My Story
Four £500 micro-commissions aimed at those who identify as part of Plymouth’s LGBT+ community. Each commission will produce a digital piece of work that can be shared across online platforms. Professional and amateur artists, wordsmiths, photographers, film makers and musicians are encouraged to consider how they can best represent their story, which will also be added to the Plymouth LBGT+ archive.
Deadline: 03.01.2021
Wysing Arts Centre
Artistic residencies whose work will put broadcasting at the centre of the artistic programme to connect with remote and physically distant audiences.
Deadline: 12/2020
The Amelia Scott Building Commissions
Open call for artists and designers to make proposals for 1 or more of the 7 commissions for The Amelia Scott Building as part of the Artscore programme.
Deadline: 25.01.2021
Smart Citizens Programme
Smart Citizens is opening Fab Lab Plymouth to communities. The programme offers workshops to design and make almost anything, tech & sustainability talks, community meet-ups, and training in digital design and fabrication.
Deadline: 01.2021
The Sony World Photography Awards
The Sony World Photography Awards – open to all photographers operating in the photographic industry across the world.
Deadline: 14.01.21
Netflix Documentary Talent Fund
The opportunity will be open to everyone and will give ten filmmakers, and their teams, the chance to make a short documentary film with a budget of between £20,000 and £40,000 each. All teams will be under the guidance of Netflix and other filmmaking professionals, to ensure that filmmakers and everyone involved in the production are fairly paid, and in a bid to open doors to those most under-represented in the industry.
Deadline: 31.01.2021
Guild Hall School
Open call to DISRUPT, a brand new digital arts festival taking place in July 2021.
Deadline: 25.01.2021
Experimentica
Experimentica is looking for three artists based in the UK whose practice, prior to COVID, focused on live art or contemporary performance and who need support to explore ways of adapting their approach to making and sharing their work.
Deadline: 01.02.2021
Royal Docks
Royal Docks are looking for ambitious and bold ideas that can creatively, and practically, position the Royal Docks as a place of innovation, making, ideas, and experimentation and be inspired by, and rooted in, the people and place of the Royal Docks.
Deadline: 10.02.2021