Now in its third year, Level Up with NOWIE is a 6-month mentorship programme designed to connect women in the early to mid-stages of their events careers with experienced professionals in their chosen specialism.
The programme focuses on sharing skills, guidance, and growth opportunities, helping mentees expand their network, build confidence, and achieve career goals. Women with at least three years of experience in the events industry can apply as mentees, whether they are employed, self-employed, or running their own business.
Mentors, acting as trusted experts, guide mentees to increase their impact, confidence, and success within the events industry.
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.
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the VOICEBOX FUTURE VOICES Award, a new initiative designed to empower young creatives making an impact in arts, culture and their communities.
Through VOICEBOX, we amplify young voices, explore big ideas and support projects that drive meaningful change—and with the FUTURE VOICES Award, we’re investing directly in the next generation of changemakers.
This Award Offers:
Along with the cash award, the winner will receive:
If you have been working professionally within the theatre industry for at least two years and are looking to take your career in a new direction or to the next level, we want to hear from you
Established in 2016 by director Michael Grandage, the MGCfutures Bursary Programme aims to support the many varied careers within theatre. Over the past seven years it has helped more than 140 recipients across the industry.
What makes the annual bursary programme unique is the sheer range and scope of the recipients, and the fact that it is open to applicants of any age throughout the UK. Those applying are predominantly in the 18 to 30 age group, but older applicants seeking a step-change in their career have also been supported.
The Bursaries help people who often fall outside traditional funding channels, providing vital bridging support for theatre makers at a pivotal point in their professional development.
Need some support finding your footing as a freelance creative?
This free, online workshop will explore tried-and-tested approaches to managing your creative career and how to find a comfortable work-life balance.
Where? Online
When? Tuesday 10 December, 6pm to 8pm
Sophia Harari is Storyteller, Poet, Curator, and Musician. They work across the disciplines of theatre, publishing, the visual arts and music. Through these mediums, stories of yearning, metamorphosis, desire and clarity are uncovered.
In partnership with the Royal Exchange Theatre
The 2025 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting is split across four categories. They are:
In recognition of the Prize’s home in Manchester, and to enable us to work closely with the winning playwright, the winner must be based in the North West of England and have not had a full-length play professionally produced for 12 performances or more in a venue.
In addition to winning £10,000, they will also access an additional £10,000 fund dedicated to their professional development at the Royal Exchange Theatre during a bespoke one-year residency.
More information about submission guidelines can be found here.
Submissions close at 6pm GMT Thursday 9 January 2025!
Submissions are now open for The Bill Cashmore Award: One Act Play Prize!
The Bill Cashmore Award is presented by the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and is a Young Lyric new playwriting award for young writers aged 18-30. Young Lyric is funded to support and provide opportunities for children and young people aged up to 30 years through programmes, workshops and activities.
The Bill Cashmore Award prize offers a paid opportunity for two new one-act plays to be professionally produced at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. The prize is for writers aged 18 – 30 to submit new scripts for selection by an industry-leading panel of the Lyric’s Artistic Associates. The two winning plays will run as a double bill and will be performed by the Lyric’s SPRINGBOARD trainee actors in Autumn 2025.
PARAMETERS OF THE AWARD
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 23 December 2024 at 12pm
See FAQs for more details on our criteria.
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.
