Knowle West Media Centre is inviting proposals from emerging creative digital artists towards a Fellowship funded by the BBC Performing Arts Fund (PAF).
The Fellowship with KWMC is a unique opportunity for a creative digital artist in the early stages of their career to work closely with our staff and cohorts to develop their skills (creative and business) and knowledge of the creative sector, and to establish themselves in a professional career. The Fellowship is a bespoke programme and will be designed with the successful applicant to suit their specific developmental needs.
The Fellowship provides a bursary of £10,000, the budget for which will be agreed between KWMC and the successful applicant and will cover costs including fees, training, travel, mentors etc. Artists should be available to undertake the Fellowship from March to August 2015; you are not expected to be full-time on the Fellowship but you must be able to dedicate sufficient time to it to make it meaningful experience.
The successful applicant will work with KWMC to create an application to PAF, which will support KWMC’s aim of developing high quality, exciting and digitally creative young people’s programme. They will input directly into developing the shape, content and impact of the Fellowship and identify why it would make a difference to them at this time. Alongside this the successful applicant will be given budget control to develop a creative project to take place within a school holiday.
The Fellowship is a rare opportunity to develop your existing skills as a creative digital artist through the time it provides for action research, mentorship, production advice, training, widening of existing networks and raising of your profile. The BBC Performing Arts Fund aims to be ‘the bridge between emerging artist and recognised talent’.
Criteria
Please check below the criteria of the PAF Fellowship before you continue:
A Fellow must be resident in the UK for a minimum of 3 years and be able to demonstrate this.
A Fellow must be aged 18 or over on 1st May 2014.
A Fellow must have the right to work in the UK.
A Fellow must have good written and spoken English.
A Fellow must not have already undertaken any paid work in any capacity for the Organisation.
We are looking for an applicant who:
Has a good reputation within the circle they are known in, but needs to widen this network in order to gain larger opportunities that will impact their career significantly.
Can identify the performance and leadership aspects they wish to develop and have a clear idea of where they wish their career to go in the longer term.
Has already begun developing skills making work and creating opportunities for themselves.
Is available on 12 August for interview then 14 August to co-develop the application.
To apply:
Please email how you propose to develop your work through this Fellowship with Knowle West Media Centre to Penny Evans: penny@kwmc.org.uk. The proposal should be no more than two sides of A4 and should refer to the guidelines and aims above. Please also include your current C.V.
Please note this post is subject to funding.
Deadline for applications is 9am Monday 11 August.
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