Professional development projects BY artists FOR artists

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

Invitation to propose unusual and exciting artists’ workshops

Images, films and feedback from the 23 projects in DIY15: 2018

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

Professional development projects conceived and run by artists, for artists

How to make a working political theme park for babies and early years

Giving form and function to the dance party

Exploring possibilities of presence, sense and sound in VR performance

We will transform ourselves into an interconnected cyborg entity

Blurring the lines between live performance and documentation

The Body is the Place. Memories are the Map

Exploring neuro-mythology, Haitian Vodou dance, and atypical perception

Exploring television, Live Art, and the relationship between binge watching and durational/endurance performance

A residential for artists working with environments, organisms and geologies

Explore the performative potential of co-produced text in the context of a new town

Artists working together with non-artist family members

An exercise in the possibilities of not planning

Sleep is not an empty act

Creating a space for women in queer cruising culture

A hangout for ‘haters’, anti-fans and the uninitiated

Become the privileged human you’ve always wanted to be

theory and philosophy for women channeling punk, rave energies and radical sensitivity

Connect, exchange, celebrate and create a Live Art Twinning Ceremony!

“Ugh, that sounds weird: do it more!”

A self-reflective workshop on the play of narcissism in creativity

Black study, being in space and black bodies navigating space

A pleasure party experience by Black Womxn, for Black Womxn

Untangling knots so that they can extend into action

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

Apply to lead a professional development project as part of DIY 15

Professional development projects – by artists for artists – across the UK.

A list of frequently asked questions covering all aspects of the DIY application process

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

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

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

Professional development projects conceived and run by artists for 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?”

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