Are you passionate about theatre and curious about arts education?
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Trainee Participation Assistant with an interest in theatre and an enthusiasm for creative learning to join our award-winning Education Department.
Assisting with the day-to-day running of the department, you will support our team in the delivery of a mixture of formal and informal theatre training for young people aged 5-18 years.
This is a paid training opportunity which will allow you to gain hands on experience, learn key transferable skills and work with our dedicated team.
Want to have a say in how your local theatre is run?
We are looking for the Next Generation of Leaders to join Theatre Peckham’s Young Ambassadors.
Young Ambassadors is an exciting opportunity for 10 theatre lovers interested in Arts Leadership to influence, challenge and inspire change within Theatre Peckham. Over the course of 2 years, you’ll be an active member in the TP community while receiving mentorship and building your skills through workshops and regular meetings.
As a TP Young Ambassador, you’ll be able to:
Are you a final-year music student of colour eager to kickstart your career in the music industry? Or are you a music industry professional wanting to give key support to enthusiastic up and coming music students wanting to progress and learn how to make great headway in their chosen career path?
Look no further! BLiM is thrilled to introduce our empowering mentorship programme launching in January 2025.
Timeline: Mentee/ call out begins now, with a pre-programme event taking place before the programme kicks off in January
Mentorship: We’ll be pairing mentees with you industry professionals for weekly/bi-weekly sessions, including face-to-face meetings and work experience opportunities.
Benefits: Access to career-enhancing activities, vocational opportunities, and more!
Future Growth: We’re committed to evolving the program to benefit even more students in the future.
FRESH is our annual festival of youth dance in Yorkshire. Youth dance groups from across Yorkshire come together for the day to take part in dance workshops before performing live on a professional stage. FRESH 2025 will take place on Saturday, 19 April 2025 in Bradford including a performance at Bradford Alhambra.
FRESH is the regional platform for One Dance UK’s U.Dance National Festival. One dance group will be selected at FRESH to perform at The U.Dance National Festival 2025 at Sadler’s Wells.
A focused, tailored intervention designed to accelerate the development and professional progression of early-career visual artists of Bradford
Selected artists will work with Yorkshire Contemporary and Bradford Producing Hub to develop their practice, through peer group and one-to-one development sessions, access to mentoring and skills workshops, and support to create a body of work for exhibition in Bradford city centre in September 2025.
Each artist will receive:
We encourage applications from artists who identify as D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent, come from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds and/or are of the Global Majority.
Tangle’s Artistic Director Anna Coombs started WOVEN in 2023 as a safe space for African, Caribbean and Global Majority creatives living in Swindon and the surrounding areas to meet and connect as an artist-led community.
The WOVEN network offers opportunities for peer-led meetings, soft skills training and practical theatre workshops, social events, and sharing projects and working practices. Our hope is to build a community where members with diverse skillsets can connect, form working relationships and support each other.
WOVEN meetings take place in Swindon and Southampton.
WOVEN is free to join. To find out more, please email Associate Producer Stefan Kwame Boakye at the address below.
Do you want to be in our next Young Company? Applications are now open!
Young Company is for young people who are looking for a welcoming space to be creative and connect with others, as well as those with a curiosity about theatre who want to develop skills within the North West’s largest and only full-time text based producing theatre.
We’re looking for Makers, Writers and Performers to work with us weekly September 2024 – July 2025. As a Young Company member you will have access to Royal Exchange Theatre’s sector-leading creatives and learn the fundamentals of theatre-making. Performers will have performance opportunities and Writers & Makers will have the opportunity to have their work platformed and performed, and receive feedback.
Performers 1 (ages 14-17) & Performers 2 (ages 18-25*) – for people who like performing, acting, working in groups and trying out new styles of theatre.
Makers (ages 16-25*) – for those interested in the behind-the-scenes areas of making theatre – directing, lighting & sound, design, stage management & producing.
Writers (ages 16-25*) – for anyone who likes storytelling and is interested in writing for stage. You might be a poet or a songwriter but want to learn more about playwriting.
*For those over 21 will prioritise applications from people who are underrepresented in theatre including but not limited to disabled young people, D/deaf young people, neurodivergent young people, Global Majority young people, working class young people.
Beyond Face Youth Company is a fantastic opportunity for young people of the Global Majority aged 12-16 to work with professional theatre makers in a professional studio space to learn theatre and performance skills, perform, create their own theatre, writing and movement.
Over the years the youth company has performed their own productions such as Where’s Abi? By Titilola Dawudu and most recently their production Grow Up. We work closely with other youth theatre companies such as Doorstep Arts and Company Three on a variety of exchange projects.
The first UK Project to promote equity for Black Dancers in Ballroom and Latin American Dance.
Black in the Ballroom aims to inspire young people of Black origin to take up Ballroom dancing as a hobby, as a competitive activity and/or as a career, by providing them an entry into the scene, an understanding of the basic and technical fundamentals of each dance style and an opportunity to perform and compete.
Please DM on Instagram @blackintheballroom to join their free dance classes in South East London.
City Lit’s Malorie Blackman Scholarships for Unheard Voices provide three annual awards to fund one year’s study within the Creative Writing department at City Lit.
The awards seek to support and encourage the creative and professional development of ‘unheard voices’.
The final award winners are selected by acclaimed writer, City Lit fellow and Patron of the School of Culture and Communication, Malorie Blackman OBE.
The award, worth up to £1,000 for each successful applicant, is to be spent on creative writing courses at City Lit within the year from August 31st 2025 to August 31st 2026, and can be used against a single course or group of courses appropriate to the award recipient’s creative and learning aims. Award recipients will have the opportunity to speak to a member of the Writing team who will advise and help organise a study plan to best support the development of their writing.
