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The 2025 Open Call is now closed.

We will let applicants know the outcome by the end of the w/c 16 December 2024.

The final Artist Cohort will be announced in May 2025. Please join our mailing list to stay up to date with news and future opportunities.

OPEN CALL 2025

Question 1. - Are you an artist based in England?
Question 2. - Is your act ready for public performance?
Question 3. - Are you able to stage your performance abroad?
Question 4. - Have you received any uk government or lottery funding?
Question 5. - Can you demonstrate that your performance is accessible too all?

How to apply


Applications must be submitted via the online application form. As part of this you will be asked to upload your budget. We can only accept budgets submitted using our budget template.

 

Links to the full guidelines, application form and budget template are below. If you require this information in an alternative format, please email kate@giftfestival.co.uk 

A note on Curation 
 
Here & Now is committed to presenting contemporary performance that boldly speaks to the contemporary moment and disrupts the status quo of what performance made in England looks like.

 

Here & Now aims to present a diverse programme of work by artists who are representative of a wide range of lived experiences. 
 
Here & Now has a reputation amongst international programmers for creating an exciting, eclectic and diverse programme of works that forefront artists and practices often underrepresented in their own international contexts.

Find out More


Here & Now will be holding online drop-in Q&A sessions for artists who are interested in applying:

  • Wednesday 11 September at 10am - closed session for Global Majority Artists 

  • Wednesday 11 September at 5pm

 

If you would like to attend either of these sessions, please register here.

 

If you have any questions ahead about the application process,

please get in touch with kate@giftfestival.co.uk

 

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Image: The Talent, Action Hero & Deborah Pearson Horizon 23, © Ana Viotti

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