DIY: 2019 – Call for Participants
- Year
- 2019
- Deadline
Applications are now closed
DIY16 is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to take part in unusual training and professional development projects conceived and run by artists, for artists.
“Nothing I’ve ever done or will ever do again will compare to these two days. It’s over for me now. This opened me up to what a workshop could be”
“If DIY were a school for artists, I would look forward to going every day.”
24 DIY projects for both emergent and experienced practitioners will take place across the UK between July and November. Together, these opportunities represent a huge variety of subjects and approaches, including (but not limited to) ghosting, performance training for introverts, coding, sweating, afrofuturism, Pinocchio and trans identities, ritual remembering for womxn of colour, androgyny, performance writing, and awe-making
The DIY lead artists self determine and run their own projects, which includes defining the participants’ application and selection process. If you have any questions about a DIY project, please follow the contact link at the bottom of each DIY project page.
The initial deadline for applications was Thursday 20 June 2019 however we have a select few DIY’s with extended deadlines below
You may apply to as many as you wish, all DIY projects are free to participate in and some expenses may be covered where possible.
More about DIY16 and our range of national partners
Applications are now closed
Banner image credit:
Artist Rebekah Ubuntu (pictured) courtesy of Early Years and Family, Tate London (2019).
Part of DIY: 2019
Professional development projects – BY artists FOR artists – across the UK.
DIY: 2019 – Adam Patterson: Green Screen Charivari
Parading for the right to be unfixed, letting surfaces slip and slide, transgressing horizons, bodies, identities and worlds
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Adriana Disman: The confusing space between
A residential workshop for multi-racial performance people on an island in the English Channel.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Ania Bas & Amy Pennington: Performance for shy people. Playwriting for dyslexics.
Two day experiment at performance production by shy people and performance writing by bad spellers.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Bean & Nicola Woodham: (de)coding performance
Learn to build and program wearable sensors for use in sound based live art.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Beverly Thomas: The Silence
A 4 day residential workshop for artists of Colour to explore silence and revitalize their creativity.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Cade and MacAskill: The Making of Pinocchio
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”.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Call for Proposals
Invitation to propose unusual and exciting artists’ workshops
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Charlie Ashwell & Es Morgan: ANDROGYNY!
A weekend of dance and discussion for anyone interested in thinking about gender through dancing.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Claire MacDonald: Curse Bless me Now
Daring to curse. Blessing when the world is ending.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Daniel Oliver: Scripting Unscriptable Performance
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.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Edythe Woolley: SWEAT: the sky leaks I leak
Un-straightening, leaking and oozing towards queer entanglement, through an embodied practice of sweating.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Fox Irving & Eva Peskin: Step One! Sharing
A two-day workshop on the art of sharing in collaborative encounters for artists in the North West.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Jack Tan & Annie Jael Kwan: Potluck Stories
A weekend of intercultural grocery shopping, culinary adventures and sharing stories about ingredients, journeys, migration, nationality and material culture.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Jenny Gaskell: Have you tried screaming your heart out and pretending to be Cher?
Creating a connection practice based on karaoke and daydreaming and oversharing and shared chips
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson: To The Ritual Knowledge Of Remembering
3 day immersive workshop, exploring the body, ancestral memory and the land. To liberate creative actions towards a Decolonised Future.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Liat Rosenthal & Alex Eisenberg: Shiduchs, Shabbes and Shmucks
Exploring artist responses to Jewishness and antisemitism by spending Shabbat (the Jewish day of rest) together.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Oozing Gloop: COMMUCRACY NOW
Creating a revolutionary vanguard that will develop and present a new economy of government; COMMUCRACY.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Phoebe Patey-Ferguson & FK Alexander & Andre Neely: THE CULT
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.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Quiplash: Unsightly Drag
Bringing visually impaired queers and drag performers together to share skills and fuck shit up.
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Stacy Makishi: Proud Mary!
What’dya get when you cross: Tina Turner, Mary Wollstonecraft and The Virgin Mary? A Proud Mary! The triple-decker-mother of workshops!
Read moreDIY: 2019 – The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein: ’Attack of the 50 Foot Woman’
Reimagining Scale, Ambition and Access for Monsters in Performance, through the lens of Feminist Sci-Fi
Read moreDIY: 2019 – Tim Jeeves & Lena Simic: The Party Calls You
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?
Read moreDIY: 2019 – VORTESSA (Lady Helena Vortex and Miss Giovanna Maria Casetta): GILF Island
Pack your cases, ready to embark on a Dark Romance of the ageing self, Exploring, releasing and adoring the inner GILF
Read moreAlso
DIY 2020: TINK + EFI – Wrap Live: exploring sensory underload for neurodivergent artists
Taking an experimental journey of gentle sensory under-load, progressively leading up to observing or participating in a full body wrap.
Read moreDIY: 2016 – Stephen Hodge ‘T(r)ipping points: the architect-walker and the destabilised city’
exploring notions of ‘tripping’ and ‘tipping points’ through the lens of the ‘architect-walker’
Read moreDIY: 2016 – immigrants and animals ‘unprofessional class’
for the dancer who doesn’t give a fuck about being professional
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