A new opportunity awards 20 performing arts professionals with an interactive online mentoring programme and the opportunity to secure £20k funding for their projects.
Julie’s Bicycle are inviting applications from professionals organising or working with performing arts activities, who have creative flair along with the will and capacity to advance their sustainable practice and develop innovative environmental thinking in relation to touring. Applicants will already have some experience of international collaboration and touring and be at the small to medium scale of operation.
The performing arts transcend borders, giving us a shared language to explore, inspire and enrich people’s lives world-wide. Travel and touring are essential to the arts, but given our state of climate emergency, they come at a cost.
As the urgency of the climate crisis increases, so does the need for our sector to fully understand its touring footprint, and to sustain a means of sharing art which supports our transition to a global low carbon future.
Julie’s Bicycle, Arts Council England, the Danish Arts Foundation, and the Development Platform (Denmark) have partnered to provide this unique programme, with the purpose of supporting performing arts professionals in England and Denmark to develop sustainable and innovative new approaches to international touring, collaboration and co-production which tackle these challenges head on.
Twenty successful applicants (ten based in England, ten based in Denmark) will benefit from a two-month interactive online programme exploring key touring challenges, with provocations, frameworks, and practical approaches to reducing their carbon and environmental impacts.
