DIY: 2019 – Call for Participants

Parading for the right to be unfixed, letting surfaces slip and slide, transgressing horizons, bodies, identities and worlds

A residential workshop for multi-racial performance people on an island in the English Channel.

Two day experiment at performance production by shy people and performance writing by bad spellers.

Learn to build and program wearable sensors for use in sound based live art.

A 4 day residential workshop for artists of Colour to explore silence and revitalize their creativity.

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”.

Invitation to propose unusual and exciting artists’ workshops

A weekend of dance and discussion for anyone interested in thinking about gender through dancing.

Daring to curse. Blessing when the world is ending.

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.

Un-straightening, leaking and oozing towards queer entanglement, through an embodied practice of sweating.

A two-day workshop on the art of sharing in collaborative encounters for artists in the North West.

A weekend of intercultural grocery shopping, culinary adventures and sharing stories about ingredients, journeys, migration, nationality and material culture.

Creating a connection practice based on karaoke and daydreaming and oversharing and shared chips

3 day immersive workshop, exploring the body, ancestral memory and the land. To liberate creative actions towards a Decolonised Future.

Exploring artist responses to Jewishness and antisemitism by spending Shabbat (the Jewish day of rest) together.

Creating a revolutionary vanguard that will develop and present a new economy of government; COMMUCRACY.

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.

Bringing visually impaired queers and drag performers together to share skills and fuck shit up.

What’dya get when you cross: Tina Turner, Mary Wollstonecraft and The Virgin Mary? A Proud Mary! The triple-decker-mother of workshops!

Reimagining Scale, Ambition and Access for Monsters in Performance, through the lens of Feminist Sci-Fi

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?

Pack your cases, ready to embark on a Dark Romance of the ageing self, Exploring, releasing and adoring the inner GILF