All Opportunities

Open Call for LADA Screens: voice, care and healing

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

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Study Room Residencies for Black Scholars and Artists (now closed)

Two 6 month Study Room residencies for Black scholars and artists

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Desk Scheme – Call for Proposals

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

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DIY 2020/21

DIY

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

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Once More With Feeling: call for proposals

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.

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LADA’s Online Summer Fete: call for proposals – Cancelled

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

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With For About 2020

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

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Call for proposals: Two online, home-based collaborative residencies

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

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performingbordersLIVE20 Open Call for Digital Conversations

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

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DIY: 2020 – Call for Proposals

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

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Open Call: performistanbul

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

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The Live Art Almanac Volume 6: Call for Submissions

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.

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Research residencies for Swiss and Swiss-based artists

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

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Women Working Class (WWC)

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.

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Open Call: Future Proofing bursary

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.

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Call Out: Join Nando Messias’ table for ‘The Pink Supper’

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

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Call for Proposals: The Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance 2019-2020

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.

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Open Call: LADA Festive Fair 2019

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

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Take part in Animals of Manchester (Including Humanz) at MIF19

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

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Open Call – Southeast Asia Performance Collection Research Commission

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

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Call for Proposals: for consultant to undertake a major Live Art Sector Review

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

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Ongoing

The Writers Gathering

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

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Call for proposals: Readings from the Pulpit

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.

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The Katherine Araniello Bursary Awards

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

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Thinker-In-Residence: Selina Thompson

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

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Individual Giving – Call for Freelance Consultant – Open Call Closed

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

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Study Room Residencies

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

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Call for Proposals: The Arthole Artist’s Award 2019/20 – Open Call Closed

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

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Call for Proposals: Diverse Actions Leadership Bursaries 2019/20

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

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performingborders | LIVE 2019 –  Open call for proposals

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

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Job Opportunity: Studio Manager (Operations and Events)

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

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MA Live Art in partnership with Queen Mary University of London

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

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The Garrett Centre Commission, Call for Proposals 2019

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

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The Library of Performing Rights, Call for Proposals 2019

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

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Diverse Actions Publication: Call for Proposals

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

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New PhD scholarship on Other Histories of Live Art: Resistant Subjects and Unwritten Acts

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

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DIY North America: Call for Participants

DIY

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

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Edge of an Era: Archive –  Open Call for proposals

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

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LADA Festive Fair: Art, gifts, tasty things

Call for proposals to run Festive Fair stalls

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LADA Job Opportunity: Executive Director

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

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LADA Screens: Open Call 2018

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

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Diverse Actions Leadership Bursaries recipients 2018/19

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

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DIY Progression: a new project from Daniel Oliver

DIY

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

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DIY in North America: Progress Festival, Toronto

DIY

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

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The Live Art Almanac Volume 5: Call for Submissions

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

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