Primadonna Commission Call Out

Budget: £9K

Deadline: 31 October 2024

Essex Cultural Diversity Project and Primadonna invite expressions of interest from creative practitioners to devcise and deliver a project that celebrates community, diversity and the power of the written and spoken word, which will take place in the run up to and during the next Primadonna Festival in July 2025.

Primadonna is a charity and book festival celebrating writing, creativity and ideas, taking place every year at the Food Museum in Stowmarket, Suffolk. Its aim is to spotlight marginalised voices with a vibrant programme that gives prominence to women, artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, the LGBTQ+ community, working class and disabled people.

The aims of the project are to uplift marginalised voices, and celebrate diversity and intersectionality in all its forms, with a series of workshops and events launching in the community on International Women’s Day in March, culminating in creative activity at the next Primadonna Festival in July.

Read the brief in full at

https://essexcdp.com/commission/primadonna-callforeoi/

How To Apply

First read the brief in full at https://essexcdp.com/commission/primadonna-callforeoi/

This commission has a two-stage application process:

STAGE ONE is a call for ‘expressions of interest’: Five artists/potential projects will then be shortlisted.

STAGE TWO, when they will be offered £200 to work up a project proposal and attend an interview in December.

One proposal will be selected from the interview process, to start in January 2025.

To apply, please email your ‘Expression of Interest’ to [email protected] by midnight on 31 October and include the following:

• An outline of your artistic concept or creative starting points for the project/approach to the commission (we suggest no more than 400 words).
• How your practice and proposed project explore or promotes diversity (we suggest no more than 200 words).
• Some information about you and your work. This could be a short biography with visual examples of previous work / a CV / links to your website and social media.
• A completed Commissioning Monitoring Form: https://bit.ly/commission-monitoring-doc

We accept written, verbal or video expressions of interest for this commission.