Professional Development

Support strategies and services for established and emergent artists, organisations, and those working in Higher Education.

Current Professional Development Initiatives

DIY 5: 2008 - call for proposals for professional development projects BY artists FOR artists.

East End Collaborations 2008 - a day of information and advice about Live Art, and an evening of new work by new artists.

Talks for Higher Education at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Creative Capital: the Agency works with Artsadmin and New Work Network as the Live Art Advisory Network for London.

Information - Advice and Research for artists and organisations.

Past Professional Development Initiatives

DIY 4:2007 professional development projects BY artists FOR artists across the UK.

Joining the Dots - professional development initiatives for emerging artists across the UK.

One to One Individual Artists Bursaries in Live Art.

Performance laboratories, masterclasses and workshops with leading UK and international practitioners including Guillermo Gomez-Pena, John Jordan and Janine Antoni.

DIY professional development projects BY artists FOR artists, in collaboration with Artsadmin and New Work Network.

East End Collaborations support structures for London based graduates and emerging artists, in collaboration with Queen Mary, University of London.

Attached Artists Scheme a mentoring project for artists from culturally diverse backgrounds, in collaboration with Artsadmin and New Work Network.

Small Talk an occasional artist led discussion group.

Creative Links  encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship within the Cultural Sector in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. An initiative of CIDA