1927 BURSARY OPPORTUNITY
We are offering 5 small Bursaries of £1,800 to 5 Kent-based Artists making contemporary performance!
Hello
We’re 1927.
We use animation, live music and theatre to tell stories…often funny, dark, political and odd, sometimes spectacular, sometimes simple. We have been creating and touring original shows since 2008 when our first show, Between the devil and the deep blue sea, took us all over the world, wowing and sometimes baffling audiences!
For the first few years we made work with minimal if any funding and limited time. We are indebted to the people who helped us out early on.
We know from practice that carving even a few days out to work in a studio to explore new performance can be tricky.
How do you pay yourself?
How do you make space?
How do you pay for the space?
How do you pay your collaborators?
How to you find someone to be an outside eye, or shape a producing plan?
We don’t suggest we have the answers! But we know that crafting original performance, is a jigsaw puzzle of piecing together time, space, resource, support….and most importantly, good ideas!
So, as a homage to our early days and the people who helped us out, we are offering 5 small Bursaries to help you develop a piece of original, sublime, heart wrenching, political, or simply engaging performance or live experience.
We are particularly interested in supporting work that involves local communities and/or explorations of borders and land.
As part of our commitment to supporting regional peer creatives this call out is specifically for Kent based Artists making contemporary performance.
Alongside the cash bursary, 1927 will offer up to 4 Mentoring sessions.
How to apply
If you would like to apply, please send us up to one A4 page of writing or a maximum 3-minute video or audio recording to tell us:
About your creative practice and/or the idea are developing or looking to develop.
Why a 1927 Bursary would be useful for you and what the money would be used for.
Who you think your practice, idea or project might be for…what kind of audience might like this?! Or hate this?! The best work is rarely for everyone!
Where in Kent you are based.
Top tips!
The bursary will be given to artists who have made work previously. It does not have to have been successful work! But proof of having created something previously is essential.
We are looking to support work that is original. Or political. Or experimental!
We are looking for performance makers who are developing a distinctive voice.
Your work may be more film than theatre! A live album! A classic piece of storytelling! A hybrid fusion! A collaboration or a solo piece of work.
We’re looking to support people who are playing with form or have a brilliant story to tell.
You do not have to be a ‘full time artist’. Or have any training. You could make this Bursary work in amongst your job, care duties, and other commitments.
Please keep applications short and sweet! Feel free to share samples of your work if appropriate, but please keep these to a maximum of 2 short links or examples.
Deadline
All applications must be received by Midday on Friday 6 January 2023.
Virtual Interviews will be held on Friday 27 January 2023.
The Bursary supported Activity should ideally take place between February –July 2023.
Applications should be submitted by email to 1927bursaries@gmail.com.
Equal Opportunities
We would be grateful if you could please take 3 minutes to complete this ‘Understanding Who We’re Reaching Form’.
Completion is voluntary and not doing so will in no way prejudice your application.
If you do choose to complete the form, please note this is done so anonymously and confidentially and is not in any way linked to the bursary application you submit.
If you would like to access this pack in an alternative format, please email katie@19-27.co.uk
Oh and if you’d like to know more about previous Bursary Recipients do take a look at the 2020 Recipients and 2021 Recipients.
Image credit Ilko Freese