Paid Scholarship Opportunities with Halifax Choral Society
Thanks to generous sponsorship from VCEP Ltd, Halifax Choral Society is able to offer new choral scholarships in our 25/26 season.
Choral scholarships may suit young singers who are looking to develop their skills and techniques. There will be solo opportunities, for which you will receive coaching from the Artistic Director and Conductor, Anthony Gray. There may be opportunities to develop other skills such as conducting or coaching individual singers or small groups. There is no age limit for the scholarships but we imagine they will suit sixth form, undergraduate or postgraduate students.
Rehearsals take place between 7.30pm and 9.30pm on Monday evenings at The Carlton Centre, Harrison Road, Halifax. HX1 2AD. This is conveniently located in the Town Centre, a five-minute walk from Halifax Station.
We ask for attendance at the four main concerts each year, at the final two rehearsals directly preceding each concert, plus 50% of the remaining rehearsals. Scholars are given first consideration for all solos in concerts and, if appropriate, are remunerated on top of the regular termly fee.
Anthony Gray adds: “I ask that the scholars are a strong presence in their part, especially during the note-learning phase.
I have often asked the scholars to take sectionals alongside me, depending on their willingness/ability.
All the scholars are asked to contribute to their section’s ’Vocal MOTs’, our new version of re-auditions, in which myself and the relevant scholar provide feedback and help on aural skills, vocal technique etc. Vocal MOTs begin at 7pm on the relevant part’s weeks, and I always schedule these dependant on the scholars’ availability.”
If you are interested in joining us as a scholar and would like to ask any questions ahead of applying, please e-mail Anthony Gray, Artistic Director and Conductor.
There is no closing date. We will aim to audition and appoint any suitable candidates as soon as applications come in.
Dive into a world of imagination and play in our SEN (Special Educational Needs) Creative Play Workshop
This workshop is specially designed to celebrate diversity and cater to varying abilities and needs. We will immerse ourselves in the magic of creative play with hands-on activities. You will discover the power of expressive arts in enhancing communication and self-expression taught by SEN-trained facilitators.
Wednesday 29 October
The objective of the Thea Barnes Legacy Fund (TBLF) is to provide assistance through bursary funding and/or mentoring
The fund aims to support individuals in dance and the performing arts, researchers, and artists looking to accelerate their careers or make a career transition across the arts and creative industries by furthering their artistic or academic practice. The TBLF will award bursaries up to £2,300.
The bursaries help sustain dancers, performing artists, choreographers, researchers and scholars in the arts and creative industries.
£10 to see Romans at the Almeida Theatre this September
The Almeida are offering a small number of £10 tickets to Get Into Theatre subscribers for the following performances:
Tuesday 9 September 7.30pm
Wednesday 10 September 7.30pm
Thursday 11 September 7.30pm
Saturday 13 September 2pm
Tickets are subject to availability and only valid on selected dates. Max. two tickets per booking. Once you’ve picked your chosen date and gone through to the booking page, enter the promo code into the box on top right-hand side.
HE is a motherless child. A bullied schoolboy. An adventurer. A coloniser. Brother. Father. Soldier. Cult leader. He sips champagne at his book launch. Wakes at 4am for weights, cardio, ice bath. Records a podcast. Lives as a badger.
Award-winning writer Alice Birch’s (Succession; Normal People) new play is the wild and epic tale of three brothers, battling against demons from their past, present and future. The Roman brothers, Olivier Award winner Kyle Soller (Andor), Oliver Johnstone (Retrograde) and Stuart Thompson (Spring Awakening), must do what they can to survive in an ever-changing and brutal world.
We can’t wait to get back into panto-mode at Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds this Christmas and we are looking for young people, aged 10-18, to join our Young Chorus as part of our annual pantomime – Rapunzel!
Performances from Friday November 21 2025 – Sunday 18 January 2026
Rehearsal period from 3 November – Friday 21 November
If you have a passion for performing and are aged between 10 and 18 years, then register for auditions and you could be part of the show! Not only will Rapunzel be a great chance to work alongside a professional cast and crew, but it will be a lot of fun and a great chance to make new friends and learn new skills.
You will work with Director Owen Calvert-Lyons and an incredible creative team and a cast of professional actors.
You must be available to attend rehearsals and performances throughout this whole period if offered a place in the Company.
Auditions will take place on:
As part of the audition we will ask you to sing, act and dance (you will learn a dance with our choreographer during the audition process).
Audition places are limited and will be offered on a first come, first served basis.
Feeney Fellowships are open! Apply for up to £5,000 to support your development!
The objective of our Fellowships strand is to enable you to make progress in your work or practice, supporting you to increase your skills, knowledge, networks and expertise, all with the aim of advancing your career journey. The outcome that interests us most is seeing the clear development in you as an individual.
The Fellowships are intended to support a step change or a pivot along someone’s already established career trajectory, rather than providing support for someone to establish a career in their chosen sector.
What we can fund
Proposals must include a budget, which demonstrates realistic costs for work, goods or services such as:
Made in Bristol is a free training programme for 18-25 year old theatre makers based in Bristol and the surrounding areas.
For MIB 260, we are looking for all theatre makers: actors, performers, designers, facilitators, stage managers, technicians, lighting designers, choreographers, musicians and composers!
The cohort will become resident at Bristol Old Vic, for two days a week, from January to August and full time in September & October 2026.
To celebrate the 260th anniversary of our Theatre, MIB 260 will deliver a free Theatre in Education tour to Bristol Secondary Schools. These pieces will be performed by members of MIB 260, and directed by Artistic Director, Nancy Medina and Lisa Gregan, Literary and Directors’ Associate.
MIB 260 will be supported and mentored in a range of disciplines including performance, design (set, costume, sound, lighting), technical skills, stage management and facilitation.
How can I find out more?
We will be hosting an online information session about Made in Bristol 260:
To sign up to the MIB 260 info session or if you have any further questions, please email the address below.
How can I apply?
Applications will open on Monday 1 September and close on Monday 6 October at 5pm.
All applicants will be invited to a recruitment workshop at Bristol Old Vic on Saturday 25 October 10am-5pm. You will need to attend the workshop to be considered for MIB 260.
We’re here to support bold creative visions from disabled artists based in England, Scotland, and Wales.
Awards over £25,000 are a chance to get that almost-there piece in front of audiences. Perfect for artists who’ve had some funding but haven’t been able to get the work out there yet.
We want to help take it further, connect it with audiences, and make sure it’s seen in the places it deserves to be.
We’re looking to invest in work that will have a life beyond the initial commission. We expect all the work we fund to reach multiple audiences, as part of our wider mission to challenge and change the world.
The panel will consider:
Large awards available:
You’ll be expected to have a minimum of 10% match funding* from other sources (which can be cash or in kind) for our larger awards (over £25k)
*This match funding cannot be from your regional arts council.
At this expression of interest stage, you don’t need to supply a detailed budget or tell us about match funding. You just need to give an idea of the overall cost of your project.
We’re here to support bold creative visions from disabled artists based in England, Scotland, and Wales
Open Awards under £25,000 are ideal for testing, exploring, and playing with early ideas.
They’re designed to give you time, space, and support to take creative risks. We know powerful work doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with a spark.
These criteria will be used by our selection panel to assess your application. We’re looking to invest in work that will have a life beyond the initial commission. We expect all the work we fund to reach multiple audiences, as part of our wider mission to challenge and change the world.
The panel will consider:
Small awards available:
At this expression of interest stage, you don’t need to supply a detailed budget. You just need to give an idea of the overall cost of your project.
Match funding is not required for our small awards.
Use the promo code below to access discounted tickets for selected performances of Lifers by Evan Placey, showing at Southwark Playhouse
Inside the walls of HMP Drummond, Baxter, Norton and Lenny pass the time with poker, banter, and the kind of gallows humour only lifers can muster.
When Lenny’s body starts to give out, young prison officer Mark keeps an eye on him. What begins as a duty of care becomes an unexpected friendship, exposing the cracks in a system built to punish, not to support.
Darkly funny and unflinchingly honest, Lifers challenges what we think we know about crime, punishment, and redemption. Do some crimes make a second chance impossible? And when the world moves on without you, what does justice really mean?
