Images, films and feedback from the 28 projects in DIY14: 2017

A retreat for artists of colour to explore how their work journeys in dialogue with futurity

Celebrating the intimate work that the Adrian pioneered and excelled at

Focusing on LADA’s local engagement and partnerships

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

Inviting proposals from artists for a new project that will respond to the physical, cultural and social context of LADA’s new base in Mansford Street, East London.

Joon Lynn Goh and Season Butler awarded LADA’s 2017/18 Diverse Actions Leadership Bursaries

Call for submissions from artists living in an emerging UK, a UK on the verge of an EXIT

Hester Chillingworth is LADA’s new Thinker in Residence, focusing on Young People, Gender & Live Art.

Professional development projects conceived and run by artists for artists

A 4-day retreat exploring eco-centric approaches to performance making

It’s about sex. Sex as education. Sex re-education.

Entangling personal stories of leaving behind and moving ahead

Destroy and rebuild the world of performance and make it weirder and awkwarder and wonderfuler, just like you

A workshop for artists working with sound and performance using the black diaspora as their centre of navigation

A human flea circus 3 day residency with the StenchWench

Let’s explore together the potential for connection and humanity by creating new rituals to deal with death

Break your reality

a creative enema of filthy writing, subversive image making and public interventions ‘via the back door’

an invitation to allow folks to pull up a chair, get very close and have these hard uncomfortable truths be shared

A dance workshop series, curated club night, open laboratory, and curated self-care night to dance our dreams into reality

Tailored training in sadomasochistic methodologies, pain practices, and durational working

A reckless retreat exploring the possibilities of audaciousness culminating in a strictly one-off performance

A pilgrimage into the heart of darkness

Scrawling ideas of home across the landscape

Five days making your own skin-on-frame coracle somewhere outside in Northumbria and thinking about things quite a bit

You definitely need a dram…

Reimagining the neurodiverse performance space

A curious, performative invitation towards embodied practices of the Islamic faith

A traditional seaside weekender for ageing artists with a punk/anarchic ethos

Queer people exploring our queer bodies by chatting, kicking footballs, gentle boxing stuff, rapping, running, dancing…

An acoustic investigation of the Suffolk coast for composers and sonic artists

A symposium, on land and in water, for adapting to life on an inundated planet

Developing insights on law through performance and theatre practice

A two day research and sharing retreat investigating definitions of ‘diversity’

Fuck your extraction economy

Identity is a complex thing. Difference is beautiful.

“Why should anybody listen to you if you are not a good neighbour?”

LADA’s two Leadership Bursaries for artists and/or arts workers from culturally diverse backgrounds

Apply to lead a DIY project in 2017

Professional development projects by artists for artists across the UK