Chinese Arts Centre is currently looking for two animation/ video artists to work on a series of workshops with two local high schools in Manchester. The project will involve working with two classes from each school, responding to our forthcoming film project, and creating a final video work/s with the pupils to showcase in our main gallery space in June. The whole project, including gallery visits, workshops at the schools, post production time and the films screening, will run from 26th…

Edible Eastside is a innovative art/architecture-led urban garden in the heart of Digbeth in Birmingham.

We have a team of growers using raised beds to plant crops. We have an outdoor space presenting a series of arts installations under the directorship of artist Cathy Wade. We are opening a chefy-pop-up cafe in June.

We have a packed summer programme of exhibitons and events.

We are offering work experience for someone interested in urbanism, food, gardening and art in…

12-month full-time contract (with a view to permanent contract thereafter)

£25,000 pa

25 days annual leave (Gallery duty every 6thSaturday during exhibitions)

Thomas Dane Gallery is looking for a highly self-motivated Assistant Gallery Manager to join its expanding operations across both London galleries. Applicants must be attentive to detail and take a personal and thorough responsibility for the appearance and smooth running of the gallery buildings and…

Cultural Leadership, its role, processes and implications for cultural development

Applications are invited for a 3 year PhD to explore cultural leadership as a practice and its implications for social, cultural and economic development in a local and global context. Cultural leadership has emerged as a need that is sharply focused in particular in the fields of art and design. We do not sufficiently understand the practice of cultural leadership as it relates to art and design…

BALTIC is a major international centre for contemporary art housed in a landmark industrial building on the south bank of the River Tyne inGateshead.

We are currently recruiting for an ICT Technician to assist with the effective operation and support of BALTIC’s ICT infrastructure. You will provide help desk facilities to ensure the day-to-day operations of servers, desktops, printers, wifi, networks, telephones, epos and other ICT services.

The successful candidate will have…

The Performing Arts Department at Middlesex University will be hosting a ten-days residency as part of a larger research event on collaboration in performance practice, which will be culminating in a one-day symposium on May 4.

We are looking for research/ documentation assistants for a PhD project being undertaken during the event.

You will be assisting with the following activities:

- General documentation of the residency (filming, editing rehearsals, photos and social…

The BEAM Festival, now in its second year, seeks your work to showcase at the event, held 22-24 June 2012 at Brunel University. As our mission is to explore the physical in electronic music, we're interested in all things interactive: be they intense, playful, dramatic, mesmerising, innovative or surprising!

Your work should fit into the categories of installations and demonstrations; gig-ready performances; or audio-visual presentations for the BEAM media kiosk.

All proposals…

Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival (18 – 23 September)

Submissions are now open for the Encounters 18th Short Film and Animation Festival. Submit your short film or animation by Wednesday 6th June, for a chance to win a prestigious award and to showcase your talent on an international stage.

Short films and animations are eligible from all over the world, completed from 1 Jan 2011, under 30 minutes in length from every genre. There are discounts for multiple submissions…

http://www.transitionheathrow.co.uk

6th-10th June 2012

Calling all with a background in theatre, dance, poetry, movement, puppetry, music, visual arts, circus...

Grow Heathrow (a squatted community garden) are offering the opportunity to be part of a 5-day theatrical residency that explores the creative link between resistance, permaculture, occupation and transition. Immersed in the realities of a group living within a…

Deadline for submissions: 10 April 2012

ParkinProgress is a residency that will take place in Nottingham as part of World Event Young Artists, 7 - 16 September 2012. It involves 40 emerging and professional artists taking over a park or green urban area to create an art space.

Artists, directors, designers, choreographers, musicians, actors, dancers, technicians, composers, writers and programmers aged 18 - 30 are invited to apply. Applications are encouraged from individuals…

Applications are invited from those working in learning and education roles in the arts to participate in the Extend Leadership Programme 2012-13.

Extend will support up to 15 mid-career professionals. Comprising a training needs analysis, two residential programmes, mentoring and a joint project for participants, Extend aims to give participants the confidence and skills to achieve a greater degree of leadership in the future. This could be through gaining a leadership position or…

The Directors of the DRN & TRACEY are pleased to announce the Drawing Research Network Conference 2012. The conference will be taking place at Loughborough University on September the 10th and 11th 2012, hosted jointly by the School of the Arts and the Design School.

The conference theme, of Drawing Knowledge, attempts to engage with the twin questions of what constitutes drawing and what constitutes knowledge; of how knowledge authenticates drawing acts and how drawing might be…

FutureEverything 2012

16-19 May, Manchester

A limited number of Conference Bursaries are available for practicing artists, activists and change makers without institutional support. Advance rate Conference Tickets available till 1 April for everyone else. http://futureeverything.org/speakers.

FutureEverything 2012 features a packed programme of art and music events, including a major new work by Blast Theory, Amon Tobin's…

Research Seminar: creative practice, activism and place-identities: exploring the spatialities of cultural activism 

Date: 4 September 2012 (full day)

Location: Bristol, UK

Call for papers

Cultural activism is a form of political resistance that uses creative practice to challenge dominant ways of seeing and constructing the world (Routledge, 2011). The concept has been described as a type of organising ‘where art, activism, performance and politics meet, mingle and…

Seeking talented digital designers, data artists and makers, and a connector, facilitator and knowledge exchange expert, for 2 jobs and 5 fully funded PhDs on The Creative Exchange (http://thecreativeexchange.org).

Creative Exchange Jobs and Funded PhDs

The Creative Exchange and Lancaster University (FutureEverything's research partner) are seeking talented digital designers, makers, researchers and facilitators for funded…

The University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh College of Art) is part of an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Knowledge Exchange Hub titled Design in Action, led by The University of Dundee (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design) working in partnership with the Universities of St Andrews, Abertay Dundee, The Robert Gordon (Gray‚s School of Art) and The Glasgow School of Art. Design in Action's vision is to build economic capability through design-led innovation to ensure that…

In preparation for the University’s 50th anniversary in 2015, Kent has established an additional 100 doctoral scholarships to be awarded annually from 2012. Known as Kent’s 50th Anniversary Scholars, successful candidates will demonstrate academic excellence and outstanding research potential. Scholarships will be offered at the standard RCUK rate; applications are invited from UK/EU and international students.

Within the School of Arts, the 50th anniversary scholarships will be…

The scholarships range from USD 6,000 to 18,000. More information on scholarships can be found on Transart's admissions page: http://www.transart.org/?p=1638.

APPLICATION DEADLINE is April 1, 2012.

THE MFA CP IN A NUTSHELL

- A contemporary learning experience without grades or pre-formatted curriculum

- Summer intensives in Berlin, the art capital of Europe

- Fall and spring residencies in New York City

-…

* Call for Temporary Empty Shop Projects

* Call for Silent Short Films

* Call for Musicians & Sound Artists to Live Score Silent Film Night

* Call for Artists' Books & Zines

* Call for Zine Library / Book Stand Commission

All deadlines: 30 April 2012

Call for Temporary Empty Shop Projects

What: Call for proposals for temporary empty shop projects for Holmfirth Arts Festival 2012. During this year’s Holmfirth Arts Festival, pop up exhibitions,…

Surface Gallery are now seeking proposals from artists to take part in this year’s Spring Residency ‘Residue’ in the Surface Project Space. Now in its second year, the Residency programme will provide the opportunity for two artists to occupy the large space on the top floor of the 4-storey art organisation for a 15-week period, starting in April 2012, and develop a new body of work with the support of Surface Gallery. Over the course of the residency the selected artists will take part in a…