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BURSARY & GRANTS
Creative Debuts: Black Artists Grant
Monthly.
One-off £500 grant to be given to black artists every month.
A no-strings attached grant for black artists to be spent making new work, buying equipment or materials, travel, research, visiting exhibitions or conferences, or to even just cover some life expenses.
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT
Artist Call out: Wolverhampton Art Gallery: More Art Inc Programme
Deadline: 31st August 2025
Seeking 10 emerging artists (within first 5 years of their practice) to be given exhibition opportunities and to take part in third instalment of “MORE ART INC.”
Duration: Up to 10 days, Oct 2025 – March 2026 (Sessions will be between the hours of 10:30am – 4:30pm – Weekdays – Day and timings to be confirmed.
“MORE ART INC” is an artist incubator program facilitated by Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Applicants with strong connected to Wolverhampton and the Black Country area are encouraged. The programme will provide mentorship and support to develop their practice alongside 20 days of access to space and equipment and a £250 bursary.
Opportunity for participants to learn how to use Unreal Engine 5 to create unique Immersive projects with sessions covering Blender, virtual production and AI, with additional drop-in sessions to support learning. This course is free and funded by WMCA given participants live within the West Midlands. Each course lasts 12 weeks. Please note this is an intermediate skill level bootcamp for participants aged 19+. There are two start dates to choose from September – November 2025 or January – March 2026. Participants required to complete 100 hours of guided training over 12 weeks.
Field Studies 2025 International Summer School: A Choral Method. LUCA School of Art, Ghent
Field Studies is a transdisciplinary summer school exploring new approaches to creative practice and collaboration in art, performance and music, led by an international group of artists and practitioners. The programme alternates between open workshops, talks by artists and visiting lecturers, satellite events in the city, and collective practice in smaller studios where students and tutors create new work. The programme starts on Wednesday 10th September 11am and ends 3pm on Sunday 14th September 2025.
There is no interview, audition or selection process.
The fee for the Field Studies 2025 is £430 per participant.
Earthsonic Local: Create Music Telling the Story of Climate Change
Deadline: 10:00am, 1st September 2025
EarthSonic Local is a UK-wide initiative uniting 8 local venues in empowering 18-30 year olds to create new music, telling the story of climate change.
At the end of the projects participants who have completed the course will receive a certificate of completion from Music and Sonic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. Original research and course evaluation will be conducted independently by researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Hull and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Deadline: 25th September 2025
BBC Young Composer creates opportunities and resources for 12–18-year-olds across the UK who make their own music. Winners participate in a tailored development programme working with a mentor composer on a project with the BBC Concert Orchestra, culminating in a performance of broadcast opportunity.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Project Coordinator – Big Bear Music and Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival
Recruiting for a full-time, permanent staff member to support all areas of the company’s administration and marketing.
Deadline: 8th August 2025
Seeking new trustee volunteers aged 16-25 who may be music students, young creatives or someone eager to learn how charities run to join Kent Music’s board in helping widening access to high-quality music education by working closely with schools, colleges and cultural organisations.
Creative Call out: Upskill & Upgrade – Creative Scratch Day
Deadline: 8th August to Pitch your creative idea
We’re looking for 4 artists/ creatives to share or test a creative idea, workshop or activity as part of a Scratch- style event led by and for the Inclusive Network. You must register or already be a registered member of the Inclusive Network to apply. Creative Scratch Day is a practical and informal space to test or share creative ideas, workshops or activities on 3rd October, 4pm-8pm at Centrala, Birmingham.
Your idea should link to one or more of the following themes: Wellbeing, Upskill & Upgrade, Activism/ Sector Change/ EDI or Interactive Participatory. In return a £200 honorarium will be given to support planning, materials, time and travel.
Deadline: 12 noon Monday 25th August 2025
Sonica is a 11-day biennial festival in Glasgow, dedicated to world-class visual sonic arts. The award-winning festival will take place across the city from Thurs 24th Sep – Sun 4th October 2026. Only one project is accepted per applicant. This opportunity is open to artists at any career stage from all backgrounds in the Uk and Ireland working in: Sonic installations (especially for outdoor or site-specific spaces), Audio-visual performances, and Real-time visuals for performance
A fee of £750-£1000 is offered alongside travel, accommodation and per diems for artists outside Glasgow
Artist Call out: Smethwick Puppetry Festival 2026
Smethwick Puppetry Festival are looking for artists or companies with a show involving puppetry. Smethwick Puppetry Festival will run from 14th – 22nd February 2026 during half-term holiday.
This year’s 2025 festival featured wonderful puppet shows for families, performances for adults, puppetry workshops, exhibitions and more—taking place across 10 community venues in Smethwick.
Seema Mattu: Saheli Open Call – Band Members Wanted
Deadline: Monday 15th September
Incidental Artist Seema Mattu is calling out for musicians and vocalists to join Saheli, a new sonic collective which will be part of the making of an artwork that will launch at Eastside Projects in May 2026, before touring to FACT (Liverpool) and Focal Point Gallery (Southend) across 2026 and 2027. This is an evolving project that will develop with the band.
- Looking for 5 band members: musically minded South Asians in the UK with priority given to South Asian queer, trans, non-binary, indigenous, a dalit (or self-preferred term), and/ or a woman.
- Each member paid £2500 for regular band rehearsals in Birmingham from November 2025.
- Stages of forming Saheli, auditions and rehearsals will be filmed for documentary footage.
- 18+ to participate
Carousel Trustee: South East England
Deadline: Midnight 30th September 2025
Carousel is looking for new trustees to join our team. We support learning disabled people to achieve their artistic ambitions and are looking for people who share our vision for excellence, access and equality in the arts.
Music and Sound Facilitators 2025 Call outs
Deadline: 1st February 2026
Oxford Contemporary Music (OCM) and Music at Oxford (MaO) are seeking to expand and diversify their networks of music facilitators who can deliver music/sound workshops and projects in Oxford and Oxfordshire. Many of their workshops are about using music and sound as a tool to engage and deepen learning, enabling accessible participation regardless of musical ability and experience.
Artist Curator Traineeship 2025-27: Eastside Projects
Deadline: Friday 3rd October
Join the Eastside Projects team and learn how to be an artist-curator through hands-on experience. This is a fixed term contract for 18 months, paying £12.60 per hour.
