We are looking for applications to curate an afternoon of high quality, inspiring works in progress by artists interested in creating theatre and dance for children and young people. Our Ideas Exchange event is an excellent opportunity to try out ideas and receive peer feedback from industry colleagues including artists, programmers and producers.
We welcome applications from artists with all levels of experience in making work for young audiences including those who haven't explored this before. We are looking for ideas with potential (for any age from babies to late teens), for artists who take this audience seriously and to curate a programme that offers diversity in style, form, artform and who the work is for.
Ideas Exchange is an industry event which means there won’t be children in the audience, you should think about how your idea will work in this context and what you would want to learn or gain from the performance. It is an event for works in progress and is not suitable for finished pieces or workshops, ideally you will have already done some early development or a scratch/sharing with this idea.
There will be some technical facilities (tech spec for the venue can be downloaded under the application form on the left hand side of this page) and we will provide a technician plus a rehearsal slot on the day. The Festival Theatre studio will be split into two smaller performance spaces therefore technical and audience set up will be different to using the full main Studio space.
If you would like to discuss your idea further you can email Fiona Ferguson, Creative Development Director. We would like all of our events and opportunities to be accessible to everyone regardless of any physical, economic or any other barriers. We have a budget to support this so contact us if you would to talk about that.