Time on your hands this Festive period? We've drawn together seven live funding opportunities relevant to individuals, organisations and collaborations working in the region's creative, cultural and tech sectors. From our own funding for Expanded Performance Prototypes to Arts Council England, PRS Foundation and InnovateUK opportunities, we think they're worth a look and all have closing dates in January and February 2021.
We are looking to fund prototypes responsive to the Expanded Performance theme that will develop something new. They will use technology to deliver new experiences, productions, products or processes. Prototypes will explore liveness and togetherness in theatre, live music and technology. This fund is open to individuals, businesses or collaborations based in Bristol or Bath. Illustration by Jazz Thompson.
Issue 1 explores explores the fight for data rights, the future of performance post-pandemic, the mainstreaming of digital activism and queer perspectives on VR.
We live in a world where everyone with access to technology can publish. From YouTubers to Instagram influencers, gamers watching each other play online and writers self-publishing, content is everywhere. The Covid-19 crisis has delivered rapid change and the proliferation of new kinds of content. Amplified Publishing will build on the cluster's strength in publishing innovation and enable us to ask big questions: What does 'publishing' mean in the 21st Century?
Bristol+Bath Creative R+D is a new, £6.8 million collaboration to take the Bristol and Bath cluster to the next level by forging connections, sharing knowledge and creating new opportunities.
This first-of-a-kind collaboration between the region’s four universities - UWE Bristol, Bath Spa, the University of Bath and the University of Bristol - and digital creativity centre Watershed, intends to break down the doors, connecting the worlds of university research and creative business to collectively imagine and develop the future of the creative industries.
There are many opportunities to take part in our programmes through fellowships, R+D funding, our events programme and much more.
Pathfinders are themed creative R+D projects designed to lead the Bristol + Bath cluster into the future, engage with emergent technologies and develop a diverse new talent base. There will be 5 Pathfinders from 2019 until 2023.
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Focusing on emergent technologies, Digital Placemaking advances the use of digital technology to enhance and deepen our relationship to physical places.
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Expanded Performance explores the concept of liveness and togetherness in the context of current innovations in technology across the cluster’s twin strengths of theatre and live music.
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Building on the cluster's strength in publishing innovation, Amplified Publishing explores future models of content creation, discovery and distribution.
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The Creative Ecologies Pathfinder is a new programme of research and experimentation for Bristol+Bath Creative R+D. Across 2021 and 2022, we’ll be exploring creativity as a networked, connected practice, not something that happens in isolation in studios, offices, or labs.