We hope you are keeping well! Thank you so much to all who attended our third Arab British Centre lunchtime hangout with the wonderful Amir El-Masry and Laura Hanna on 5th March. In case you missed it, you can now catch up here!
Sharing Conversation and Opportunities
- Our final ABC lunchtime hangout is this Friday 19th March at 1pm. Join our very own Philip Arditti as he will be chatting with the brilliant Khyam Allami. Khyam is an Iraqi-British multi instrumentalist musician, composer, researcher and founder of Nawa Recordings. Primarily a performer of the Oud, his artistic research focuses on the development of contemporary and experimental repertoire based on the fundamentals of Arabic musics, with a focus on tuning and microtonality. Book your free place here!
- Don't forget to register for our #weareMENA Film Launch on Friday 26th March 7-9pm. The event will take place online, and will be an opportunity to watch each film for the first time and chat to the artists behind them. Book your free place here!
- Two job opportunities to work at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School:
Director of Acting:
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School is seeking an inspirational teacher of acting and a collegiate leader to oversee the development and delivery of its modern and aspirational world-class actor training programmes. Working closely with the Senior Management Team and other key members of staff, you’ll help shape the strategic direction of the School and will take responsibility for line managing staff within the acting department. Closing date: 29th March. More info:
https://www.oldvic.ac.uk/jobs/
Design Tutor (part-time)
- Design Tutor (part-time): Bristol Old Vic Theatre School is seeking an experienced performance design specialist to support the development and delivery of the School’s leading training in Performance Design. Working closely with the School’s Head of Design, the role holder will be responsible for teaching practical and technical performance design to MA students, with an emphasis on digital design skills. Closing date: 25th March. More info: https://www.oldvic.ac.uk/jobs/
- A Writing Chance are looking for aspiring storytellers and new writers from under-represented backgrounds, and empower publishers to make space for different perspectives. Get £1500, mentoring, publication and more. Deadline: 26th March. To apply: https://newwritingnorth.com/a-writing-chance
- The British Museum are seeking an innovative and critical thinking Curator to lead ideas and research teams in the delivery of their exciting new project “Reimagining The British Museum’, which aims to place global collaboration at the heart of the Museum. Deadline: 19th March. Details: https://bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com/templates/CIPHR/jobdetail_3365.aspx
- Artcry are offering grants of up to £2500 for brilliant and urgent creative ideas that may be in response to events that are happening now, in order to open up dialogues and encourage new perspectives. More details: https://www.artcry.co.uk/funding
- A callout from Oldham Theatre Workshop:
"Oldham Theatre Workshop is looking to collaborate with an animator to design and deliver a visual concept to bring a series of recorded discussions to life. The finished film/s will be used for training and education purposes with children, young people and staff in and around the borough of Oldham. There will be 6 short films lasting 2 minutes each and these will be hosted on our website and youtube channels. We will be happy to negotiate a specific fee for the work as part of any early conversations with interested applicants. Please send links to existing and relevant work along with a short expression of interest to otw@oldham.gov.uk." Deadline 19th March. More info: https://www.artsjobs.org.uk/search/
- The Space has released an open call for shows from April – August to join their Spring/Summer season. They hope for shows to be either live-streamed or performed live to a socially distanced audience. Deadline March 22nd. More info: https://space.org.uk/perform/
- Maison Foo are looking for three graduate/early career creatives who specialise in model or prop making and/or set designing. Each of the three roles will be responsible for co-designing and making one part of Maison Foo’s Meet Your Neighbour Installation, and also receive mentoring. Paid.
Deadline March 21st. Info: https://www.maisonfoo.com/foo-jobs
And that’s everything! For the new members, mailout is 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 its 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 week,
Jessie x
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.
Our position on world events.
Our focus is on bringing artists from the MENA+ region together, celebrating what connects us, spotlighting our achievements, and lobbying for change when it comes to representation in the British live and recorded arts industry. As such, while we fully support each individual’s right to their own political or artistic beliefs, we will not take a position on political events coming out of the MENA+ region.
