Opportunities

Surge Cabaret is looking for cabaret acts that can interact with the audience in Zoom in some way

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Sony World Photography Awards – open to all photographers operating in the photographic industry across the world.

Deadline: 14.01.21

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’

Seeking an experienced professional to lead on the development of digital and online aspects of Fotonow community project work

Commissioning fun and engaging creative learning content for their website.

Artists are invited to submit an Expression of Interest for a public art commission in Ebbsfleet Garden City. 

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.

Get free mentoring to turn your immersive tech idea into a successful business with Creative England’s Ideate Plymouth project

Opera North’s new ‘Lockdown Edition’ of its successful Resonance programme is open for applications now

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.

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 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.

Real Ideas is seeking proposals from forward thinking artists and makers to create experiences for the Plymouth Art Weekender

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?

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 are offering 3 months FREE membership to any freelancers in the dance sector

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.

Presenting a webinar series of talks and presentations titled ‘The Reset’, in collaboration with Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN).

Milton Keynes Arts Centre is commissioning fun and engaging creative learning content for their website. 

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.

Kind Places & Spaces wants to explore the positive impact that art and design interventions can have in communities.

Journeys Festival International are seeking artists to create new commissions, each with a fee of £1,500 (to include production costs).

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.’

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 – 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.

Freelance voice artists are being given an exciting opportunity to narrate three trails in the upcoming Plymouth Trails app.

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.

The Armed Forces Covenant call for Creative Projects for Armed Forces Communities in Isolation

Big Screen Southend is looking for artists, filmmakers or individuals creating moving image works for its future programme.

Satellite Films – launched Skip/Intro, a new film commissioning programme for artist-filmmakers aged 18-25 in England.

The Ideate Plymouth mentoring programme offers support to businesses or sole traders looking to use immersive technology to grow their business.

Inviting artists to propose work for ‘One Beautiful Moment’ to launch the festival on the weekend of Saturday 12 September 2020.

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 –  a new virtual action learning programme for artists and creative freelancers and entrepreneurs developed in partnership with the hub. 

“Festival echoes” is a series of one-month artist commissions around the theme of “Creating art in a different landscape”.

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 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

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

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 – launch Common Ground, a programme of four £10,000 commissions for artists.

Deadline 30.07.2020

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 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 – is aiming to fund ideas for prototypes in the field of Data.

Deadline: 07.09.2020

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

RIO – Real Ideas Fellowship Opportunity for Young People in the South West.

Deadline: 24.08.2020

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

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 is inviting applications for the 2021 Fellowship and their next Emerging Leaders and Leadership Pulse Courses.

Deadline: 26.10.2020

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 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 – 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 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

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

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

Call for UK and Canadian creatives and producers to become future leaders in immersive storytelling backed by funding support.