The first in a series of workshop sessions for SWANA  young people to find out more about creative careers, and exchange knowledge with not only each other, but boss industry professionals smashing it in their fields.

Taking an experimental journey of gentle sensory under-load, progressively leading up to observing or participating in a full body wrap.

“… Money talks, Dirty cash I want you, dirty cash I need you, oho”

“We will each immerse ourselves in a nearby forest and co-generate shared experiences through a series of synchronous somatic exercises and collective reading online. These activities will be the departure point for writing ghost stories and erotica.”

Autobiographical sessions for postcolonial diaspora. Bodies as places of legacy; voice as ancestral calling; sharing stories; rituals; being vulnerable together.

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

A Way Away uses the mode of correspondence course to explore ideas around distance – spatial and temporal, physical and social, imagined and real.

A workshop aimed at fans and future fans of the late great Katherine Araniello, a queer, crip, red-headed firebrand whose work lives on to disturb and tantalize in equal measure.

An online residency queerying ‘The politics of Intimacy’ within our bodies and lives as well as in our creative practice/s

Restless Study will be a space for people to study which privileges restlessness and distraction over focus and concentration. We will generate, manipulate and circulate objects of study, including text, conversation, image, action, movement, and beyond. We will throw off the shackles of goal-oriented education to reclaim study as a vital, liberatory mode of being in dialogue with others!

Leonie and Ishwari will be working to explore alternative processes of mapping time and landscape, moving away from ideas of linearity and colonial legacies of demarcation. Focussing on process rather than production, they will do this using plant-based darkroom printing, fermentation and chorus interventions.

A workshop for artists who lost projects in 2020, sharing what we have lost, learned and gained, creating mourning rituals and (re)discovering our individual and collective resources.

An intimate online pleasure LAB for disabled queers exploring Kink as an artistic tool for self-care.

Interested in using Live Art to create lo-fi short films exploring mental health and queer culture?

Make like teenagers and build the Discord fanfiction version of Live Art from your bedroom, under the mentorship of real-life Discord experts (teenagers).

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

That’s Governance! invites participants to interrogate conditions of governance, and propose, through roleplay, a non-human candidate for Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW)’s Board of Trustees.

White Vinegar Workshop revolves around the quote from leading New York artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles “After the revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?”.

A six-week collectively-generated course on and in Fat Performance for fat people.

Apply to participate in DIY 2020; workshops developed and lead BY artists, FOR artists

Artistic practice as queer civics: a series of online encounters about making better worlds through lived experience, material support, fun, and mutation.

This DIY project uses performance informed by science fiction, magic, ritual and idiocy to explore how our relationship to the public realm has changed and will continue to change because of COVID-19.

A 3-day remote retreat for six producers, curators and arts administrators who have had to undo their present and future work due to COVID-19. This DIY is run in partnership with ArtHouse Jersey

Between climate breakdown, austerity and Brexit, the UK is facing its greatest political crisis in decades. What place is there for artists within the UK’s political institutions?

What’dya get when you cross: Tina Turner, Mary Wollstonecraft and The Virgin Mary? A Proud Mary! The triple-decker-mother of workshops!

Bringing visually impaired queers and drag performers together to share skills and fuck shit up.

Are you feeling fed up and pissed off? Are you confused and overwhelmed? Are you isolated and unfulfilled? Are you ready to welcome ART into your life? THE CULT WELCOMES YOU.

Exploring artist responses to Jewishness and antisemitism by spending Shabbat (the Jewish day of rest) together.

Creating a revolutionary vanguard that will develop and present a new economy of government; COMMUCRACY.

Reimagining Scale, Ambition and Access for Monsters in Performance, through the lens of Feminist Sci-Fi

3 day immersive workshop, exploring the body, ancestral memory and the land. To liberate creative actions towards a Decolonised Future.

Pack your cases, ready to embark on a Dark Romance of the ageing self, Exploring, releasing and adoring the inner GILF

Creating a connection practice based on karaoke and daydreaming and oversharing and shared chips

A weekend of intercultural grocery shopping, culinary adventures and sharing stories about ingredients, journeys, migration, nationality and material culture.

A two-day workshop on the art of sharing in collaborative encounters for artists in the North West.

Un-straightening, leaking and oozing towards queer entanglement, through an embodied practice of sweating.

Writing down and getting someone else to perform performances that can not or should not be written down and given to someone else to perform.

A weekend of dance and discussion for anyone interested in thinking about gender through dancing.

Daring to curse. Blessing when the world is ending.

A playfully theatrical DIY for trans, intersex, non-binary and genderqueer artists exploring notions of realness through the desires of a wooden puppet to be “a real boy”.

A residential workshop for multi-racial performance people on an island in the English Channel.

A 4 day residential workshop for artists of Colour to explore silence and revitalize their creativity.

Learn to build and program wearable sensors for use in sound based live art.

Two day experiment at performance production by shy people and performance writing by bad spellers.

Parading for the right to be unfixed, letting surfaces slip and slide, transgressing horizons, bodies, identities and worlds

Applications are now open for 24 national professional development workshops by artists, for artists