Applications open – free artist residencies!

As part of the ground-breaking Nature Calling programme, free three-day artist residencies are taking place this November in Salford and Newbury. The residencies are being delivered by acclaimed producers, Activate Performing Arts, the National Executive Creative Producers for Nature Calling.

The sessions are designed to share detailed understanding of the opportunities and considerations of working in Protected Landscapes; to share practice focussed on diversifying engagement in protected landscape and connect new audiences to nature through the arts; and, to find out about the people who steward the landscape and can broker relationships.   

Nature Calling is the first national arts commissioning project for England’s 34 National Landscapes, it is specifically designed to listen to communities and ensure our landscapes are a place for everyone. You can find out more about the locations, regional and national producers, artists and writers we’ve already commissioned using the tabs above.

Download the application pack.

Many thanks to the Corn Exchange Newbury and Walk the Plank for supporting and hosting these residencies. 

Thanks to funding from Arts Council England and Defra (department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), these labs are free to attend, with food and accommodation provided (travel expenses not included).