LADA is thrilled to bring back LADA Screens, our screening programme of seminal performance documentation, works for camera, short films/video and archival footage.

Two 6 month Study Room residencies for Black scholars and artists

We are re-launching our subsidised Desk Scheme for artists, producers, curators, researchers and writers

A list of the artist development workshops being run as part of DIY 2020.

We are seeking proposals for online performance re-enactments or instruction pieces that can be done within the environment/s you are in during lockdown.

We are seeking proposals from artists to hold stalls offering art, experiences, gifts and ideas as part of our online Summer Fete.

CALL OUT for folx that are thinking & making the future from anywhere in the world.

In the first of a series of commissions we will be offering over the coming weeks, we are interested in exploring collaborative online residencies.

An open call for two digital conversations by curators, artists, researchers, activists, thinkers and/or other professionals working in Live Art.

Professional development projects – BY artists FOR artists – across the UK.

LADA is collaborating with Performistanbul on an artistic development programme offering a female identifying performance artist a funded project development workshop and residency.

We are seeking recommendations for material to include in the Live Art Almanac Volume 6, to be published by the Live Art Development Agency in 2020.

Call for artists based in Switzerland to undertake funded research residencies at LADA.

An open call to participate in a bi-monthly Working Group and series of gatherings led by Fox Irving. Deadline for proposals is 20 December 2019.

A call for proposals for a bursary of £2,000 to an artist aged under 25 to imagine the future they’d like to see. Deadline Friday 7 February 2020.

Nando Messias is seeking twelve participants, who identify as being ‘in exile’, to join him in his new performance work.

The Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance is an opportunity for a UK artist to develop and present an early staging of a new performance-based project in Glasgow and London.

Open call to run a stall at LADA’s second annual Festive Fair

We’re looking for Manchester based human and non-human animal participants to help us create this amazing temporary city

To support an individual/or team of two to examine, interrogate and respond to the archival materials

Seeking proposals from freelance consultants, to deliver an important piece of research into the UK’s Live Art sector

The Writers Gathering is an open group hosted monthly at LADA by Something Other.

We are seeking proposals from artists, writers, educators, and other curious folk who would like to read out 5 minute extracts of books from the Study Room.

Two awards of £5,000 each for unapologetically radical and politicised artists who work in Live Art and identify as disabled people.

Selina Thompson will be our Thinker-in-Residence for 2019, researching ‘Managing the Radical’.

To support and coordinate a range of fundraising and promotional initiatives, March – July 2019

Opportunities for artists, researchers, critics, academics and other curious folk to spend time in the Study Room through self-led research residencies.

An opportunity to undertake a self determined year-long research and artistic development programme

Two Leadership Bursaries of £10,000 each for artists and/or arts workers of colour

Open call for proposals for 2 digital conversations on Live Art and borders

This is a unique opportunity for a dynamic individual to join LADA

A unique postgraduate course dedicated to the research and practice Live Art

Invitation to respond to the physical, cultural and social context of LADA’s new base in Bethnal Green

Call for proposals for a new commissioned performance based work responding to The Library of Performing Rights

A call out for proposals for a publication reflecting on the landscape of diversity within Live Art

Call for applications for new PhD scholarship in partnership with LADA and the University of Roehampton

Call for participants for the second round of DIY’s in North America

Celebrating the intimate work that the Adrian pioneered and excelled at.

Call for proposals for new works responding to a specific series of seminal performance events from the 1980’s

Call for proposals to run Festive Fair stalls

This is an unprecedented opportunity for a dynamic individual to join LADA

LADA is inviting two proposals for existing videos or films to be part of our LADA Screens programme

Victoria Sin and Zinzi Minott awarded the 2018/19 Diverse Actions Leadership Bursaries

An intensive residency to exploring dysfunction, neurodivergence, and experimental performance

LADA’s DIY programme seeds new projects in North America, led by Dickie Beau and Selina Thompson

We are seeking recommendations for material to include in the Live Art Almanac Volume 5