Deadline: 14 October 2024
Are you a creative practitioner, business, collective, or similar, looking to change the way you work to become more inclusive, democratic, or green? Are you passionate about making the creative economy fairer? Do you have an idea for change in your own work that you need help to explore? If yes, then this call is for you!
The Lab is a pilot scheme, designed to offer a group of creatives money, time and space to learn about different approaches to creative work and business, and explore how they can make the creative sector a fairer place to work. It has been designed as part of Fair Creative Economies (FaCE), a research project exploring how the creative industries could be better organised for people and planet.
They’ve designed the scheme because they know that many creatives want to change the way they work. They want to move away from models motivated by profit and towards structures and processes that put people and planet first. The problem is, it’s hard to know where to start.
That’s why they’ve been with working creatives across Bristol and Bath to find out what creative freelancers, businesses, collectives and groups need to become more inclusive, more democratic, and ready for a low-carbon future, what’s standing in their way, and what kind of scheme might help them move forward with their ambitions for change.
The Lab is a three-month scheme of collective learning about how to develop a fair creative economy.
Benefits
- £4k provided by UWE Bristol to take part in the scheme and to resource your time and the exploration of your question
- 3 workshops with all participants, experts, the FaCE team and others
- Opportunities to network, meet experts and connect with others pursuing similar goals
- A friendly, open, and adaptive approach
- Additional funding to support any accessibility and childcare needs you may have to assist participation in the programme
What they expect from you?
- Attendance at all three workshops and full participation in the programme
- A willingness to participate in discussions with other people on the scheme
- An open, supportive, and inclusive approach to working together
- To speak to our researchers about your journey at different points along the way
- Transparency and communication with our Creative Producer about how you are getting along and what you need.
Eligibility Criteria
- They’re inviting applications from people working in the creative sector and based in the West of England. That’s anywhere covered by Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset, and South Gloucestershire councils, or the West of England Combined Authority (WECA).
- You’ll be a sole trader, freelancer, part of a collective, co-operative or partnership, an employee, or an employer in an SME or microbusiness, working in the creative sector.
- They tale a very open view of what classes as ‘creative.’ As a guide, this could include work in the cultural sector, music, performing and visual arts, crafts, design, film, TV productions, video, radio and photography, publishing, creative technologies including software design, and museums, galleries and libraries.
- You must also be able to commit to attending all of the workshops.
For more information, visit My World.
