#creativeopportunities

1. Arts SU Creative Opp: RA Lates: The Electric Forest

The RA are inviting UAL student proposals for immersive installations, performances, set designs, costumes, activities and experiences that will feature as part of RA Lates: The Electric Forest. This is a paid opportunity and the event will take place on Saturday 17th June 2017 at the Royal Academy of Arts.

The Electric Forest will be a psychedelic night of Pagan-inspired experiences to celebrate the Summer Solstice. Experience the Electric Forest alongside an after-hours private view of the RA’s colourful and eclectic Summer Exhibition.

Deadline: 1st May 2017

Apply here

 2. UAL Creative Opp: Call Out For The British Podcast Awards

This year CSM are launching the first British Podcast Awards celebrating the very best in podcasting from high profile celebrity-led podcasts to the innovative and niche.  

The ceremony and post-show party will be held at the Platform Theatre, Central Saint Martins on Saturday 29 April.

Students / graduates will be asked to design and make something distinctive and contemporary. You will be working in collaboration with Create Soho (createsoho.com) to achieve this.

> There will be budget for materials, available on request.

> You can work in teams.

Please respond with your ideas, name and contact of the students involved.

Any questions? Get in touch! [email protected] Deadline for proposals: MIDDAY, MONDAY 10 APRIL

3.   External Creative Opportunity

FREE professional artist development programme with [SPACE] x London Creative Network (LCN)

Delivered by SPACE, with Cockpit Arts, Four Corners and Photofusion, LCN is a London-wide development programme for creative practitioners with a focus on innovative technologies or processes. The programme runs until Autumn 2018. 

LCN at SPACE is a FREE professional artist development programme that delivers bespoke mentoring and project-specific support for professional artists in London. The emphasis is on the development of new artworks that ultimately lead to the sustainability of an artist’s practice.

Artists are invited to apply with a proposal that aims to refine, resolve and produce a new project or work within the 6-month time frame. More information about LCN at SPACE and how to apply can be found here

Deadline:  24th April 2017

4. Recommended Creative Opps Resource

Refinery29’s ‘How I #Madeit’ series has interviews with successful emerging and established creatives. With tips like the following, you may find them helpful:

“As much as you can, avoid looking at other designers’ work. In order to find your own signature, it is important to be blind to what already exists. Just look around you and seek inspiration in everything else you see, and beyond visual shapes, let situations move you and encounters influence you! London offers so many beautiful opportunities!” Find out more here

5. Recommended Creative Opp Event

UAL, High Holborn, UAL, High Holborn, 24 Apr 2017, 5 - 7pm

This Careers and Employability session will focus on a strategy you can use when completing applications forms or writing proposals for funding and other creative opportunities such as residencies and exhibitions. 

This session is designed to help you to feel better prepared and more confident when applying for funding and creative opportunities, and will be useful for anyone apply for UAL's SEED Fund.

1. Arts SU Opportunity: Arts SU Mental Wellbeing Project Fund

Building on our Mental Wellbeing Project we would like you to submit your ideas for mental wellbeing projects and events at UAL. We want to continue putting student mental health to the forefront and are looking for proposals from students for events, projects and ideas to promote and support positive mental wellbeing across UAL.

Whether this is through an exhibition or showcase of artwork, a video or poster campaign or a workshop- whatever your idea is we’re here to help you bring it to life. We can offer you support in terms of funding, printing and staff support who’ll be able to help with all the logistics- so don’t worry if you’ve never planned an event before!

You can apply for between £10 and £200 to support a project or event

Read more here

2. Recommended External Opportunity: Green Man Festival seeking Artists - £1,500 Fee

Green Man is seeking visually engaging art-works that will make a marked impact on the festival site and audience by changing the perception of the space or adding a new visual experience. Artists are encouraged to present well-considered proposals for ambitious works with strong content and high production values. The festival is especially interested, but not exclusively, in working with early career artists.

Deadline: 27th March 2017

More information here

3. Recommended Industry Event: Meet Creative Industry Professionals through Arts SU Industry Advice Project 

From 6th March 2017

Arts SU are excited to bring UAL Students a full two weeks of Industry Advice events including networking opportunities, workshops, talks and panel discussions.

View and book your place at any of our events here

4. Recommended Industry Advice Resource: Funding: The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding 2016-17

The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding provides advice and information about applying for alternative sources of funding, particularly from charities and trusts. The Guide was written by two postgraduate students who between them have won over £45,000 from 55 different charity awards.

1. Don’t forget – apply for Xhibit2017! 

Submit your work to Xhibit 2017, the 20th Anniversary edition, and your work will be seen by the high profile judging panel including Grayson Perry and you will be invited to Xhibit’s professional development day, symposium and if selected you get a V&A membership. 

Xhibit is open to any current UAL students and 2017.

Submit and find out more here.

Deadline: 15th January 2017 

2. MiAL x UAL Borderless £800 Commission

Open to: All current UAL Students

The MiAL x UAL Borderless commission is a chance for a UAL student to create an exclusive commission celebrating internationalism.

This will then be showcased at Made in Art London’s ‘Borderless’ exhibition 21st – 26th March 2017 at Espacio Gallery.

The selected student will receive £800 to go towards creating the commission, and will become a MiAL artist.

Submit and find out more here.

Deadline: 30th January 2017 

3. Black Blossoms 

The Black Blossoms Exhibition is going on tour in Spring/Summer 2017 and we need great art work by Black Women in the UK.

We are looking for work which has themes of Black Feminism, Womanism and social-political issues which affect Black Women in society.

The open call to exhibit and to become a black blossoms artist is open to self-identifying black women, non-binary people.

Find out more and submit here.

Deadline: 3rd March 2017

4. Creative Opportunity Resource: ArtsThread Competitions 

Arts Thread is a vast online resource and portfolio platform. They regularly partner with fashion labels, design agencies and publications to run open competitions. 

Check them out here.

5. Unite Against Dividers 

14 January 2017 @ 11am – 8pm 

Theatre Delicatessen, 30 Marsh Wall, E14 9TP London

Do you work in the arts? Do you want to do something about Brexit? But you don’t know what? And with whom?

Then check out Unite Against Dividers, a weekend full of activities, debates and questions about what the arts should do after the EU referendum. Hear from people who have recently started to organise, been in the game for a while or even do politics for a living. 

Tickets are affordable at just £3 - get yours here.

7. Recommended Event: Advice for your Career from Yole Quintero

London College of Communication, Room TBC

Wednesday 18th January 6.30 – 8pm

Open to all UAL students

Yole Quintero, visual artist and photographer will speak to students about her work and time since graduating from London College of Communication, imparting tips and advice to you for your future career.

The discussion will be opened out to students to ask questions of Yole. The session will include information on all of the industry related opportunities available to you through Arts SU.

2017 will see us celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Xhibit. Founded by Kit Hammonds and Angela Robinson in 1997, Xhibit showcases the best emerging creatives from UAL. Xhibit is open to all current students and is selected by an expert panel of creative industry professionals.

With so much promotional material for this prestigious opportunity it can be easy to get confused! We’ve broken things down for you in this post to ensure your submission has what it takes 👌 

Those selected for Xhibit receive:

· A space in annual Xhibit exhibition

· A year’s membership to the V&A

· A supporting professional development programme

 How it works:

Step 1 - Submit your work via the online form.

We ask you to upload one main image that is used in the first few rounds of the judging process. There is the opportunity to upload further images to support your submission but these won’t be looked at until much later in the judging process so don’t rely on them, make that main image count! You can also provide a supporting statement about your work but again this won’t be looked at until much later in the judging process.

 Step 2 – Bring your work to a ‘viewing day’.

Once submissions close there will be the opportunity for you to show your work in person to two of the judging panel at a college specific ‘viewing day’. This is so the panel can see your work first hand. PLEASE NOTE this is not compulsory and all work submitted will go to the judging day for the panel to look at. It is designed for those who feel their work may not be fairly represented by only one image.

 Step 3 – The judging day.

The judging panel meet to review all of the submissions. In the first rounds they look at the main image submitted, leaving in images they want to know more about, disqualifying images they don’t. Think Tinder swiping yes or no. This process continues until the judges have decided on their final line up. They will refer to additional images and supporting information in the later stages of the judging process.

And yes, thats right, no other than Grayson Perry will be on the panel! ⬇️

 Step 4 – Notification.

Once the panel has selected the participants for Xhibit 2017 all applicants will be notified. If you are successful you will be told about the next steps. If you are unsuccessful we will provide information on additional opportunities from Arts SU.

 FAQs

I can’t make one of the college ‘viewing days’ what do I do?

Don’t worry. All submissions will go through to the judging day. These are new for this year and are a trial to see if they help the judging process.

When are the college ‘viewing days’?

Wednesday 18th January – LCF

Thursday 19th January – Wimbledon

Friday 20th January – CSM

Tuesday 24th January – LCC

Wednesday 25th January – Chelsea

Thursday 26th January – Camberwell

Why do you only judge from one image in the first rounds?

Xhibit is a visual open submission exhibition and we believe that work in this context should speak for itself. The selected participants are chosen solely on the taste of the judging panel. By judging work this way it speeds up the selection process as the panel are only viewing images in the first rounds.

My work is moving image/sound. Can I apply?

Yes! All disciplines are encouraged to apply. If your work is moving image/sound or similar then please make this clear in your form and upload a still or an image that represents the work.

Why can’t you provide feedback?

Due the amount of submissions we don’t have the resources to provide feedback.

 Top Tips for applying to Xhibit 2017:

Keep it simple. The panel won’t have seen your work before and don’t need to hear your life story, just tell them what they need to know.

Make sure your one image is a killer one! Engaging, detailed and clear.

Do the admin. Make sure you check the terms and conditions and upload your files in the right format.

Terms and conditions:

1. Applicants can only enter one piece/body of work. If they enter more than one piece/body of work both submissions will be rejected.

2. All applicants must be a current UAL student.

3. Work must have been made whilst studying at UAL.

4. Your image file must be your name e.g GavinRamsey.jpg/ GavinRamsey2.jpg etc Images uploaded without being saved as your name won’t be accepted and your submission will be rejected.

5. Work must already exist and not be a proposal for finished work.

6. If you are selected to take part in Xhibit 2017 your work must be available from 18/04/2017 to 15/05/2017.

Due to the amount of submissions we receive we are unable to offer detailed feedback on your submission.

➡️ Enough info - submit your work here. ⬅️