Deadline for proposals: 12 noon Monday 8th April 2013.

DIY is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to conceive and run unusual training and professional development projects for other artists.

We want to hear from you if have an idea for an exciting, innovative and idiosyncratic Live Art professional development project that offers something new and is geared to the eclectic and often unusual needs of artists whose practices are grounded in challenging and unconventional approaches, forms and concepts.

We are planning to support twenty DIY projects that will take place between July and November 2013. Each project will receive £1,000 support.

DIY projects may take any form, and can be loosely or rigorously focused on an idea or theme of your choosing. However, we also welcome proposals that specifically respond to one of the following themes. Eleven of the twenty DIY projects will be selected according to these opportunities:

1. Live Art and Feminism

2. Live Art and Yorkshire Sculpture Park

3. Live Art and Sound and Music (2 projects will be supported)

4. Live Art and National Theatre Wales (WalesLab)

5. Oblique Strategies (Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas)

6. Live Art and In Between Time: Water Proof

7. Live Art, performance as protest and the online element

8. Live Art and young people (2 projects will be supported)

9. Live Art and Cornwall

Please see the full Call for Proposals for more information on these specific opportunities.

DIY 10 is a Live Art Development Agency initiative developed in collaboration with the following partners: Abandon Normal Devices (North West), Artsadmin (national), Buzzcut with Imaginate (Scotland), Cambridge Junction (East), Chapter Arts Centre (Wales), Chelsea Theatre (London), Colchester Arts Centre (East), Compass Live Art (Yorkshire), Duckie (London), Fierce Festival (West Midlands), Forest Fringe (Scotland), In Between Time (South West), Live at LICA (North West), National Theatre Wales (Wales), Norwich Arts Centre (East), Platform (national), The Showroom, University of Chichester (South East), Sound and Music (national), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Yorkshire), The Works: Dance and Theatre Cornwall and University College Falmouth (South West). With additional support from Create (Ireland).

Projects will be specifically based in and/or stimulating and benefiting artists from the regions noted above. Projects may also be developed in collaboration with the DIY partner organisations in those regions.

More information, including application process here

SAMPLED Festival: Unfinished and Unleashed is a weekend festival of performance ideas in progress for audiences and artists, with the intentions of entertainment, inspiration and providing a platform for risk taking performing arts to meet audiences at vital stages in their development. The programme consists of 3 elements, reflecting on themselves and both interrogating and celebrating fresh ideas and the processes of making performance.

Cambridge Junction is looking for new ideas from emerging and mid-career artists to feature in the festival, presented in an innovative, artistic response to the format of a pitch, to be presented to audiences and promoters. We’re looking for ideas which have had no formal development time, that have never been presented with an audience, that haven’t been supported in any way by another institution: we’re looking for your next idea from your notebook, the one that might not work. We want the pitches to spark the imagination of all who engage with them, whoever they might be.

SAMPLED Festival will feature up to 20 artistic ‘pitches’ of ideas competing for possible development support from Cambridge Junction selected from open call. We are offering a £2000 seed commission, two weeks residency in our J3 studio for initial R&D, plus support from the venue to get the idea off the ground. Projects proposed must have the potential to be realised with Cambridge Junction.

Pitches could take place anywhere inside and outside building, with possibilities including our lift (for a 30 second ‘elevator pitch’), a foyer table (“let’s meet for a coffee”), a small room or offsite in the local area. Pitches should be designed for individuals or small groups, presented several times to an audience who book slots.

Selected artists will receive a fee of £25 + travel expenses, with the opportunity of receiving the commission.

TO APPLY: please write up to one A4 page including: an outline of the idea as it stands for the performance, how you might present your ‘pitch’ including in what kind of space, a brief biography and any weblinks to past work, and send to Daniel Pitt, Producer: Arts on daniel.pitt@junction.co.uk  by 5pm on Sunday 10th March 2013.

Ideas will be selected by Cambridge Junction and the winner of the commission will be selected by the SAMPLED Festival panel.

SAMPLED Festival: Unfinished and Unleashed takes place on Saturday 4th May and Sunday 5th May.