Opportunities
Current Opportunities
Find out about current and ongoing opportunities with LADA.
Do It Together 2026 – Call for Proposals
Peer-to-peer professional development projects designed by artists for artists.
Read moreDesk Scheme Open Call
Our subsidised Desk Scheme for artists, producers, curators, researchers and writers
Read moreWe create professional development programmes for under-represented artists and practitioners, with a focus on peer-to-peer development and shared process.
Through residencies, commissions and bespoke opportunities, we support practitioners to centre collaboration and experimentation in their practice.
This includes our national peer-to-peer professional development programme DIT, which seeks to create the conditions for artists to explore ideas, aesthetics and socio-political challenges together, and build a nation-wide support network for radical practice.
From DIY15: How the Fuck..? lead by Katherine Araniello and Teresa Albor (picture by Alex Eisenberg)
DIY 2020
Artist development workshops BY artists FOR artists, run as part of our latest DIY.
DIY 2020: TINK + EFI – Wrap Live: exploring sensory underload for neurodivergent artists
Taking an experimental journey of gentle sensory under-load, progressively leading up to observing or participating in a full body wrap.
Read moreDIY 2020: Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin & Jamila Johnson-Small/SERAFINE1369 – A VAST AND INCIDENTAL KIND OF HOLDING
Conversations on expanded multi-dimensional ideas of anatomy, divination, geography and language, seeking to bring transformational movement to ideas of trauma and healing as they are shaped by oppressive systems and given form in our bodies
Read moreDIY 2020 – Ben Walters: DIY Hope Machines with Doctor Duckie
Artistic practice as queer civics: a series of online encounters about making better worlds through lived experience, material support, fun, and mutation.
Read moreDIY 2020: Fabiola Santana – Mothers, Grandmothers, and Their (post) colonial Children
Autobiographical sessions for postcolonial diaspora. Bodies as places of legacy; voice as ancestral calling; sharing stories; rituals; being vulnerable together.
Read more‘Nothing I’ve ever done or will ever do again will compare to these two days. It’s over for me now. This opened me up to what a workshop could be.’
Banner image credit: Harun Morrison & Ofelia Jarl Ortega, DIY 2020: Forest as School. Image credit: Harun Morrison
