Call for applications: For the Public Good arts programme in the UK

FTPG is an international online programme for five artists who want to work with their local community and an academic researcher from the University of Leeds to mark the LEEDS Year of Culture 2023 initiative. It is an experimental, collaborative project developed by LEEDS 2023, the British Council, and the University of Leeds’ Horizons Institute and Cultural Institute.

Requirements

• The artists will need to create unique artistic propositions on how technology can be used to help communities understand climate change issues that could potentially be implemented globally. 
• Applicants can include musicians, theatre makers, painters, authors, performance artists, sculptors, actors, digital artists and any other form of artistic practitioners interested in how technology could be used to benefit their community to generate climate change solutions. 
• The five international artists will be paired with researchers from the University of Leeds. Each artist and academic will have a shared interest in climate justice and collaborate remotely with the goal of sharing their ideas to representatives of international community groups, local to each of the artists. 
• The project will create international connections, share cultural learning and expertise, and find ways of sharing research about climate change through art and creativity. Academics and artists enter the experience on an equal footing and the agenda for their sessions is set by both the artist and academic. 
• Artists based in the following African countries can apply: Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

How to apply

• To apply, download the brief attached below (PDF) to access the online expression of interest form.
• The deadline to complete the online expression of interest form is 9 November at 10pm CAT.
• If you need support to make the application, please contact mattallen@leeds2023.co.uk.
• If you would like to make an application by video or audio recording, please respond to each question in the application form. Your audio or video should be no longer than 15 minutes.
• You will be informed by 18 November if your expression of interest has been successful.

Remuneration

• Each participant will be paid £200 ($220) per session. Sessions will last between three and four hours and there will be 11 sessions in total amounting to £2 200 per artist.
• One member of the community organisations local to the artists will be paid for their contribution at a rate of £200 per session. Sessions will last between three and four hours and community leaders will be required to attend five sessions in total amounting to £1 000 per community leader.

View the original call here.