We hope you are well! We have an exciting month ahead, so keep your eyes peeled as you'll be hearing more from us!
Sharing Conversations and Opportunities
- The Writers Guild of America West's latest report found that Middle Eastern screenwriters and TV writers accounted for 0.3% of employed scribes in the two fields.
What do we make of this? How can we contribute to changing this? Let me know your thoughts!
Full article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/middle-eastern-writers-ask-hollywood-take-more-chances-on-us-1235005274/
- An offer of one off grants from Stratford Circus:
"As part of our ending well plans, we have an exciting opportunity to award 5 emerging artists from East London with £2000 award towards your creative practice or development of a new creative idea which connects your work to communities within East London. A contributing factor to us wanting to have this opportunity for artists was a result of some of the curious conversations we had regarding how organisations can support artists and creatives, and the importance of having access to resources, in this instance money to better support their creative practice.
To be eligible to apply for the award, you need to be an artist with up to 2 years' experience in your creative practice and be based in and/or have proven connection to communities in East London."
For more info and to apply: https://stratford-circus.com/news/artist-call-out-for-east-london-emerging-artist-research-and-development-awards/
- XTRAX are looking for a Project Manager:
"Project Manager – Maternity Cover
Salary: £24,000 – £27,000 depending on experience
Hours of work: Full time (40 hours per week including lunch breaks), although part-time may be considered
Duration of Post: Fixed-term, maternity cover contract until July 2022, with the possibility of extension
Start Date: As soon as possible
The deadline for completed applications is 12 noon, on Thursday 16th September.
Interviews will take place the following week, on Friday 24th September.
This is an exciting opportunity for a hard-working, organised and creative individual to join our team. XTRAX has a national and international reputation in the dynamic and varied field of Outdoor Arts festivals, and our day-to-day work involves working with artists, festivals and a range of partners to deliver new arts works to audiences across the country and internationally, raising the profile of this important and accessible area of the arts."
To apply contact: annika@xtrax.org.uk
- Artistic Directors of the Future are looking for a CEO to lead them into their next phase. They are looking for a brave, innovative new leader to join their team.
For further details and to apply: https://adofthefuture.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ADF-Chief-Executive-Officer-Recruitment-Pack-20-Aug-2021-New.pdf
- Passionate about diversity in the arts & cultural sector?
Ace National are recruiting an Officer, Diversity in a role that include supporting colleagues completing equality analyses of funding programmes & policy development work.
Deadline: 12/09. To apply: https://creativeaccess.org.uk/opportunity-details/?arts-council-england-officer-diversity&id=3387
- BFI Southbank have shared with us a ticket offer for their new season, which celebrates contemporary ARAB CINEMA.
"The Time is New: Selections from Contemporary Arab Cinema @ BFI, September 2021
Discover a wealth of contemporary Arab cinema.
Bringing together a selection of fiction, documentary, shorts and genre-defying films, we highlight new currents within Arab cinema that challenge the stereotypical, weave personal narratives into broader questions and celebrate the potential of imagination as a path to a politics of freedom."
To enjoy two tickets for the price of one simply add 'Time241' to the promotional code box on the right hand side when booking your tickets.
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/article/timeisnew
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 shows featuring our wonderful Directory members:
- Directory member and Guildhall student SARAH SLIMANI is performing her first public show of Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcom. Sarah will be playing Emilia Bassano herself, and will definitely be one to watch!
For tickets: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2021/event/emilia-by-morgan-lloyd-malcolm
- Catch Directory member FATIMA SERGHINI work in progress, a ten-minute extract of her new play, PYRAMID, starring our very own LAILA ALJ.
Writers’ Corner created by Winnie Arhin, Online Scratch Night,
Thursday 2nd September 8.30 pm:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-writers-corner-scratch-night-no2-tickets-167249679293?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb
- Catch ALFRED CLAY in The RSC'S production of The Comedy of Errors in Stratford-Upon-Avon, on tour across the UK and at the Barbican from November.
Tickets can be bought here: https://www.rsc.org.uk/the-comedy-of-errors/
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 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
MENA ARTS UK
If you can, please considering support us on our journey. No amount is too small, and please help us by sharing with your networks! Link to donate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/mena-arts-uk?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet
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.
MENA ARTS UK
