Applications are now closed
DIY16 is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to take part in unusual training and professional development projects conceived and run by artists, for artists.
“Nothing I’ve ever done or will ever do again will compare to these two days. It’s over for me now. This opened me up to what a workshop could be”
“If DIY were a school for artists, I would look forward to going every day.”
24 DIY projects for both emergent and experienced practitioners will take place across the UK between July and November. Together, these opportunities represent a huge variety of subjects and approaches, including (but not limited to) ghosting, performance training for introverts, coding, sweating, afrofuturism, Pinocchio and trans identities, ritual remembering for womxn of colour, androgyny, performance writing, and awe-making
The DIY lead artists self determine and run their own projects, which includes defining the participants’ application and selection process. If you have any questions about a DIY project, please follow the contact link at the bottom of each DIY project page.
The initial deadline for applications was Thursday 20 June 2019 however we have a select few DIY’s with extended deadlines below
You may apply to as many as you wish, all DIY projects are free to participate in and some expenses may be covered where possible.
More about DIY16 and our range of national partners
Applications are now closed
Banner image credit:
Artist Rebekah Ubuntu (pictured) courtesy of Early Years and Family, Tate London (2019).
Professional development projects – BY artists FOR artists – across the UK.
Parading for the right to be unfixed, letting surfaces slip and slide, transgressing horizons, bodies, identities and worlds
Read moreA residential workshop for multi-racial performance people on an island in the English Channel.
Read moreTwo day experiment at performance production by shy people and performance writing by bad spellers.
Read moreLearn to build and program wearable sensors for use in sound based live art.
Read moreA 4 day residential workshop for artists of Colour to explore silence and revitalize their creativity.
Read moreA 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”.
Read moreInvitation to propose unusual and exciting artists’ workshops
Read moreA weekend of dance and discussion for anyone interested in thinking about gender through dancing.
Read moreDaring to curse. Blessing when the world is ending.
Read moreWriting down and getting someone else to perform performances that can not or should not be written down and given to someone else to perform.
Read moreUn-straightening, leaking and oozing towards queer entanglement, through an embodied practice of sweating.
Read moreA two-day workshop on the art of sharing in collaborative encounters for artists in the North West.
Read moreA weekend of intercultural grocery shopping, culinary adventures and sharing stories about ingredients, journeys, migration, nationality and material culture.
Read moreCreating a connection practice based on karaoke and daydreaming and oversharing and shared chips
Read more3 day immersive workshop, exploring the body, ancestral memory and the land. To liberate creative actions towards a Decolonised Future.
Read moreExploring artist responses to Jewishness and antisemitism by spending Shabbat (the Jewish day of rest) together.
Read moreCreating a revolutionary vanguard that will develop and present a new economy of government; COMMUCRACY.
Read moreAre 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.
Read moreBringing visually impaired queers and drag performers together to share skills and fuck shit up.
Read moreWhat’dya get when you cross: Tina Turner, Mary Wollstonecraft and The Virgin Mary? A Proud Mary! The triple-decker-mother of workshops!
Read moreReimagining Scale, Ambition and Access for Monsters in Performance, through the lens of Feminist Sci-Fi
Read moreBetween 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?
Read morePack your cases, ready to embark on a Dark Romance of the ageing self, Exploring, releasing and adoring the inner GILF
Read more3 day immersive workshop, exploring the body, ancestral memory and the land. To liberate creative actions towards a Decolonised Future.
Read moreA six-week collectively-generated course on and in Fat Performance for fat people.
Read moreA 4-day retreat exploring eco-centric approaches to performance making
Read moreWallowing in the pathetic
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