Hello everyone!
We’d like to wish all our members celebrating Ramadan a healthy and peaceful month.
We have some exciting news and updates.
We are thrilled to announce that our next IN PERSON MIXER EVENT will be on
SATURDAY APRIL 23rd from 6:30-11pm at Theatro Technis (Camden)
Please join us for a night of conversation, comedy, music and dancing. Our panelists include Omar Elerian and there will be comedy by Isabelle Farah and Anoushka Rava. Hitting the decks will be Aran Cherkez.
Please RSVP HERE
Last week, SG members Kerry Kyriacos Michael and Laila Alj were in Morocco representing MENA Arts UK, taking part in a British Council funded project called Connecting Dots. Find out more about the project HERE.
From the DJEBLI CLUB, our new Moroccan friends, we wanted to share this SONG that was recorded at their venue in the mountains of northern Morocco.
This is part of a heritage project they are working on to record and preserve the Aïta music of the region.
Sharing Conversations and Opportunities
Mousetrap Theatre Project is hiring a Trusts and Foundation Manager
"We are seeking a Trusts and Foundation Manager to join our small but mighty fundraising team. This is a new full-time role, replacing a part-time more junior position, and is therefore a fantastic opportunity for a grants-fundraiser with some good experience to step up into a manager position and make it their own. We are seeking a self-starter with drive and determination to fully manage and diversify our existing grant-funding portfolio."
Deadline: 10am, Friday 15 April
CLICK HERE for full details and how to apply
The next round of interviews for CGO Institute’s Diploma in Creative Producing is on Friday 8th April.
Starting in November 2022, the DipCP is an affordable online 16-week programme of classes, seminars and tutorials for up to 12 producers, led by experienced current practitioners from the UK, the US, Australia, Singapore and Saudi Arabia.
Taught in English, modules cover the following topics: Marketing, Fundraising, Legal & Business, Arts Ecology, International collaboration, Building creative teams, and personal wellness.
Past students have gone on to produce at Curious Monkey, Wycombe Swan Theatre, Out of Bounds & The Courtyard Theatre.
To apply, email chris@chrisgrady.org or visit www.chrisgrady.org
The Hachette Book Group is searching for a female narrator with a Syrian and Arabic speaking background to properly represent the protagonist. More details below:
The protagonist is an 18 year-old Syrian female who is torn between loyalty to her country and the urgent need to help her family survive through escape.
Knowledge of Arabic and Syrian culture would help serve the book best
For more information and to apply, please reach out to Ghenet Harvey: Ghenet.Harvey@hbgusa.com
Artist Open Call: That Other Space
b-side (Dorset), Creatives Garage (Nairobi), and London College of Communications (London) are inviting proposals for That Other Place.
Proposals can be for any amount up to £10,000 (GBP).
That Other Place is a paid commission opportunity for a queer identifying artist or arts collective from the following countries to create a major new extended reality artwork:
Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Sudan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Vietnam. You do not need to be living currently in your country of origin to apply, for example, you could be a Kenyan artist living in the UK and be eligible to apply.
The commissioned artwork will engage with the idea of hybrid work - an artwork that can be experienced by audiences both in the physical and digital world and will be shared with online and face-to face audiences at b-side festival which takes place from 08 - 11 September 2022 on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, UK.
Deadline for applications: Tuesday 12th April 2022, 9am BST
CLICK HERE for more information
The application deadline is Monday 11 April at 10am
CLICK HERE for more information and to apply
Apply for the BBC Writers Room and Popcorn Writing Award
The award champions brave and imaginative writing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It is the only award of its kind, awarding a prize fund of £6,000 to the writers directly, al
lowing them the financial space and time to write something new.
Deadline: 10am on 24th June 2022
CLICK HERE to apply
A paid opportunity from CLIP Theatre who are seeking freelance drag artists to work with them to deliver their Bring Baby Drag events. These are joyful camp fun storytimes or bingoes, for mums and their little ones.
Deadline to apply is May 1st 2022
For more information on the job CLICK HERE
Short-term artist residencies for WEUROS England 2022, The Turnpike Gallery
Turnpike Gallery are commissioning 6 artists to take up residency in the gallery & deliver participatory activities linked to the Women's Euros. Paid £250 per day.
Deadline: 19th April 2022
To find out more about this job CLICK HERE
- Arcola Theatre is looking for a full-time Sales Manager to join the team
Deadline for applications: Midnight Sunday 3rd April 2022
Interviews: Thursday 7th and Friday 8th April 2022
For more info and how to apply CLICK HERE
- The Royal Court is recruiting for various jobs including FOH staff and Deputy Director of Open Court (Maternity Cover).
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: various in April, please CLICK HERE to look at the specific jobs and when they are accepting applications until.
- An ARTIST OPEN CALL from LIFT 2022 to participate in a London residency and produce a written response to Գիշեր| gisher by Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin.
The work that will form part of the piece as it is performed during LIFT 2022. Գիշեր | gisher deals with narratives of hostility, survival strategies, rest, friction, sensuality and healing, premiering in July 2020 on the same day that the conflict between Turkey/ Azerbaijan and Armenia re-opened. The call is open to anyone who has a deep resonance with the piece, although organisers are particularly encouraging artists of SWANA (South West Asian/North African) descent and QTIBPOC to apply.
Deadline to apply is Friday, April 8th
CLICK HERE for more information
BLUESTOCKING THEATRE is seeking a talented, self-shooting, London-based DOP available Saturday 23 April 2022 to collaborate on a lyrical and moving monologue about a woman who grows wings to escape her broken marriage. Ideally you would have your own camera equipment if possible, but this is not a dealbreaker. This is unpaid; however, lunch and travel would be covered. If you're interested in learning more about this fantastic project, please contact Olympia and Victoria for more information: hello@bluestockingtheatre.com and
info@olympia-christofinis.com
Directory Shoutouts!
Part of our Directory and have a show/project coming up? Let us know so we can shout about it in the next mailout! In the meantime, check out the following work featuring our wonderful Directory members:
- Congratulations to PEYVAND SADEGHIAN who appears alongside Oscar Isaac in episode one of Moon Knight, a Marvel Cinematic Universe a mini series available on Disney+.
Peyvand will also be joining the cast of the yet to be titled prequel to Bridgerton in which
Shonda Rhimes will chronicle Queen Charlotte's rise to prominence and esteemed power.
And that’s everything! For the new members, mailout is usually sent on a fortnightly basis. Please keep sharing and sending me any of your wonderful work or opportunities you want included in the next mailout to this email. Now more than ever lets keep circulating our brilliant stories; whether it's past work, articles, videos, or something you think the membership may find interesting, please do drop me an email! Please continue to sign up to our directory, and share our community with your friends in the industry!
Have a great weekend,
MENA ARTS UK
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Our position on endorsement.
Our main areas of work is to help connect the creative industries with UK MENA+ talent, so we will always share castings, job opportunities, or marketing information. We will track these projects in the hope that they are a great example of how MENA+ talent is used. But by sharing this information, it should not be seen as an endorsement of the project.
We will call out work that is appropriating a MENA+ narrative and does not have MENA+ talent at the heart of the creative process; and we will always champion, front and centre, work that is made for and by MENA+ talent.
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