We hope you are well! We have two more of our free workshops coming up soon! On November 2nd join Peyvand Sadeghian for an 'Intro to Stop Motion Animation', and Lara Sawalha hosts the next Creative Huddle on the topic of Connecting on October 28th. You can book your tickets for these workshops (and more) HERE.
Sharing Conversations and Opportunities
- The Royal Court are looking for a Digital Marketing Manager who will work to develop and progress the Royal Court’s digital marketing areas.
Deadline 3rd Nov. To apply:
https://royalcourttheatre.com/about/jobs/
- Apply for UK-Egypt creative partnership grants from Farnham Maltings and Orient Productions, as part of a new funding opportunity for creatives from the UK and Egypt.
Deadline 31 October. For more info and to apply:
https://t.co/OOtU1LfNqD
https://twitter.com/farnhammaltings/status/1438886000667791361?s=20
- The Primary Shakespeare Company is seeking recent Director, Practitioner/Theatre graduates for their 2021/22 programmes. Those graduating in 2019/20 or 21 will be eligible for this scheme, which will operate between Feb-July 2022. Selected candidates will act as assistant directors on TPSC festival, specifically contributing to their Macbeth 2022 programme.
Deadline: 5th November. SEND CV’s to neil@primaryshakespearecompany.org
More info: www.primaryshakespearecompany.org/
- ‘Queer Iraqi/Syrian/Assyrian performer and theatre-maker Yasmeen Audisho Ghrawi lived and cautiously thrived under a dictatorship for almost two decades, now provocatively and flirtatiously questions how truly democratic the UK is. Do we, the people, have any power and do we even want it?’
‘from the daughter of a dictator’ is showing at the Arcola Theatre on
Sunday October 31 at 3:00 pm & 8.30 pm .
For more details on the show and for booking:
https://www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/from-the-daughter-of-a-dictator/
- Amy Hubbard Casting are seeking people of Iranian heritage who can speak Farsi for a feature film:
LEILA
Female, Iranian, 25-30yrs
MUST SPEAK FARSI AND ENGLISH. A World Champion Iranian Judoka. Powerfully built, athletic, intense. Wife to Nadir and mother of 5 yr old Amir. We are particularly interested in hearing from people who are extremely athletic or experienced with competitive sports, specifically JUDO.
MARYAM
Female, Iranian, 40s MUST SPEAK FARSI AND ENGLISH. Former Iranian Judoka champion who now serves as coach to Leila. Tough but diplomatic.
NADER
Male, Iranian, mid-late 20s MUST SPEAK FARSI AND ENGLISH. Husband to Leila and father to 5 yr old Amir. Passionate, and reliable.
The film will shoot March/April 2022 in Georgia (Eastern Europe)
Please email judofilmcasting@gmail.com if you fit the brief.
- Central School are looking for a School Production Manager.
For more info and to apply: https://www.cssd.ac.uk/Jobs-at-Central/school-production-manager
- An opportunity for grants from UK- UAE Cultural Professionals Connect:
‘UK-UAE Cultural Professionals Connect is a grant programme funded by the FCDO and delivered in partnership with the British Council in UAE to foster international mobility, networking and creative exchanges through arts and culture. Eight grants will be awarded, and each grant is up to £5,000 to support face to face or online / digital networking and collaboration between the UK and the UAE to develop art and cultural activities together or facilitate skills and knowledge exchange.’
For more info and to apply: https://www.britishcouncil.ae/en/events/cultural-professionals-open-cal
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:
- Triple Directory shoutout! Catch JESSIE BEDROSSIAN and PEYVAND SADEGHIAN in ‘Terrifying Women’- a series of short plays featuring the work of ABI ZAKARIAN.
Playing 28th-30th October at The Golden Goose Theatre, and also streamed online.
For tickets and more info: https://www.goldengoosetheatre.co.uk/terrifying-women
- Congratulations to NINA MILLNS who has won the ETPEP Award for Playwriting at the Finborough, for her play ‘Service’. We can’t wait to see what comes next!
- Catch AYAD ANDREWS in 'The Fight of the Century - Ali v Frazier', a six-part podcast series he wrote for BBC Sounds & BBC 5 Live, which has just won 4 awards at the New York Festivals Radio awards.
Check it out here: https://radio.newyorkfestivals.com/Winners/list/b0203a69-d665-4bad-8247-3df57533420c
- RIME MAHDI has directed and edited a music video for the Algerian artist FLENN, shot in Paris. The video has been out for a week and is currently on 1.4 million views! You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/fusaAQl3N1s
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 week,
Jessie x
MENA ARTS UK
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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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