• The Artistic Team will soon be recruiting two more roles within the department. Keep a look out for our job adverts for Assistant Producer and Artistic Administrator.

• Save the date: our next freelance mixer is on Tue 10 Oct. If you are a freelance creative of any kind from Designer to Writer to Stage Manager and beyond, we'd love to invite you to our Freelancers Mixer Event at 6pm on Tue 10 Oct in EV2 at the Everyman Theatre, Hope Street.  

Look out for your official invitation next week!

Balancing Act Survey
As a Charter Partner of PiPA, we’re encouraging everyone to take part in their Balancing Act survey which is being run in partnership with Birkbeck University of London.

It’s not just for carers and parents, and it’s really important that they get as wide a picture as possible, so please encourage anyone who works in the performing arts to complete it. Click here for more information and to fill in the survey

Exhibition Opportunity

Taking place every two years, the Open Exhibition is the biggest celebration of Greater Manchester’s creative talent. Between Sat 3 Feb and Sun 28 Apr 2024, the HOME Gallery walls will be filled with work created by you, selected by a panel consisting of art experts and community representatives. Open to all, those who already identify as artists and those who don’t, the Manchester Open brings together artwork including paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, ceramics, digital and mixed media, video, audio and more. Manchester Open 2024 - HOME (homemcr.org)

Creative Access – Professional Development Professional

Banijay UK has partnered with Creative Access to offer a bespoke, year-long professional development programme aimed at TV freelancers from historically underrepresented communities who have previously worked at Banijay labels. The scheme, which is aimed at mid-level freelance staff progressing through the creative industries, will offer training, networking, support and workshops. Banijay UK and Creative Access launch development programme for under-represented freelancers - Creative Access

Bloomsbury Mentorship Programme

Submissions will be read by Bloomsbury staff, and the longlist and shortlist will be decided by a panel of judges. We are beyond excited to announce author Derek Owusu (That Reminds Me, Losing the Plot) and agent Angelique Tran Van Sang (Felicity Bryan Agency; clients include Amy Key, Polly Barton, K Patrick, Mona Arshi)  as our inaugural panellists. See more info here: Bloomsbury Mentorship Programme 2023

Culture Liverpool – Picton Play Open Call

Metal are offering 2 artist residency opportunities for artists working in any art form, who live and/or work in the Liverpool City Region or have a strong connection to the city. Successful artists will work with our team in a location-specific residency in either Wavertree Botanic Park and Garden working with Friends of Botanic Park, or on the 86 bus route in partnership with Arriva. Find more info: Opportunities - Culture Liverpool

Cove Park and Dundee Rep Theatre

Offering a musical theatre writing residency, do you have an idea you want to develop? Do you have a script that needs enhancing? Then this for you.

Cove Park & Dundee Rep Theatre - Musical theatre writing residency - Creative Entrepreneurs Club

• Boys from the Blackstuff, The Royal Court, Liverpool, Until 28 Oct
Life is tough but the lads can play the game. Find the jobs, avoid the ‘sniffers' and see if you can have a laugh along the way.

• Metamorphosis, Liverpool Playhouse, 17 - 21 Oct

In their first commission since 2019, Frantic Assembly and Lemn Sissay OBE collaborate on this thrilling new adaptation of Metamorphosis. Combining the fluidity and lyricism of Lemn Sissay’s adaptation and Frantic’s uncompromising physicality, this promises to be an unmissable retelling of Franz Kafka’s shocking tale of cruelty and kindness.

• By the Waters of Liverpool, Floral Pavilion, 24 – 29 Oct

Adapted from Helen Forrester’s million-selling book, a period drama set in the 1930s.

• Toxic, HOME, Manchester, 18 Oct – 28 Oct

This is the story of how we met, fell in love, and f*cked it up. But it’s not just our story. It’s his, and his and theirs. Maybe it’s yours… Maybe.