Arts opportunities

Arts opportunities

* The first major prize for British Caribbean playwrights in 30 years is open for applications until 2 December.

* Autograph is offering £1,030 for an “emerging creative’s” event proposal exploring how emergent technologies intersect with social justice, representation and identity. Deadline: 16 November.

* Emerging Korean artists and artists of Korean heritage who have graduated from UK art schools or live in the UK can apply to take part in a group exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre in London. Deadline: 15 November.

* Next year’s I’m Migrant Film Festival invites submissions from filmmakers of South-West Asian and North African heritage, both living in the region and across the global diaspora.

* Only people with lived experience of forced displacement are eligible to enter the Food As Home category of the World Food Photography Awards 2027.

*  Applications are invited for the 2027 national Young Playwrights Award, for 13–18-year-olds, with submissions closing on 1 April.

* Entries for Open City Documentary Festival 2027 are now open.

* LegalAliens Theatre is designed for migrants, refugees, people seeking asylum and anyone with English as a second language. All sessions are led by migrant artists from the theatre’s professional team: “an incredible opportunity to learn new skills, express creatively, practice English and build friendships.” Email Nada to register at [email protected].

* The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series is inviting poems (40 lines or less) and short prose (100 words or less) exploring: African and African diasporic migration and (im)mobility; how African and Asian refugees are being left to drown in the English Channel; and Edward Nkoloso, Afronauts and the 1960s Zambian Space Programme..

* Applications for Projekt Empower’s Practice Lab workshops for international theatre makers are invited.

* Wanted: poems and short prose on the tragedy of refugee deaths in the Channel.

* The Royal Court Theatre’s Writers’ Card aims to help playwrights through mentoring, networking, funding opportunities, events, subsidised meals and free script printing.

* The Climate Migration Collaborative seeks contributors to its Climate Migration Storytelling initiative.

* Comedian Munya Chawawa has launched Black Boys Theatre Club “to give young men access to a world of theatre”.

* Good Chance, formed in the Calais Jungle refugee camp, has launched Stage Door 10  - a national programme placing 10 creatives from refugee backgrounds in paid roles across 10 UK theatres and arts organisations.

* As Yet Unscene, year-round initiative to find and develop scripts in early stages of development. It includes workshops, rehearsed readings and fully-rehearsed performances of longer extracts. Details here

* The Cockpit Theatre offers classes, workshops, readings, advice sessions, support & performance opportunities.

* Papatango hopes its new Playwrights’ Studio will be a home for playwrights of all levels of experience. Its advantages include digital workshops, one-to-one,  and thousands of pounds in open-access funding.

* If you are a refugee, immigrant or asylum-seeking writer interested in exploring your own poetry and prose, Exiled Writers Ink offers classes.

Thanks to volunteer Daniel Nelson (editor of Eventslondon.org) for compiling this list.