Category: Volunteering Opportunity

Deadline to apply – Midnight, Tuesday 11th February, link here

Create your own music? Apply for Amex Unsigned for a chance to unlock game-changing opportunities in 2025 like playing live at All Points East and American Express presents BST Hyde Park, getting your music featured in an Amex ad campaign, and receiving mentoring from producer and composer Danny L Harle at the iconic Metropolis Studios. Applications close February 11th.

Click the link above or here to read more and apply.

Deadline to apply – Monday 31st March, link here

The Charles Parker Awards – named in honour of one of radio’s greatest documentary pioneers – have established an unparalleled reputation for excellence in radio and audio feature production by young people, and many of our winners have gone on to carve out successful professional careers in radio and audio production.  The 2024 winning features were commissioned by the BBC through the independent radio production company Soundscape Productions, co-ordinators of the Charles Parker Prize since 2010.

The Trust is delighted to announce that in 2025 BBC Radio 4 will again be broadcasting the Charles Parker Prize winning features in their New Storytellers strand during the summer.

The competition will be open for audio features (produced between 13th February 2024 and 10th February 2025) made by any student (or recently graduated student) in Further or Higher Education in the UK, and also by those who have attended an accredited media training course.  The competition opened on Monday 25 November 2024 and the final deadline has been extended to Monday 31 March 2025.   

A shortlist of features will be announced at the end of April. Nominees will be invited to the award ceremony, which will take place as the core of the Annual Charles Parker Day at Goldsmiths College, University of London on Friday 16 May 2025.

For more details and to enter, click here or the link above.

Deadline to apply – Monday 3rd February at 5pm, link here

This competition gives new UK and Ireland-based acts of any musical genre the chance to compete for a slot on one of the main stages at this year’s Festival.

The winners of the free-to-enter competition will also be awarded a £5,000 Talent Development prize from PRS Foundation to help take their songwriting and performing to the next level. Two runners-up will also each be awarded a £2,500 PRS Foundation Talent Development prize.

Acts from any musical genre can enter the 2025 competition FOR ONE WEEK ONLY using the form below from 9am Monday 27th January until 5pm Monday 3rd February 2025. 

To enter, acts needed to supply a YouTube link to one original song, plus a link to a video of themselves performing live.

Click the link above or here for more info and to enter.

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All Hear is a free monthly newsletter featuring audio opportunities with upcoming deadlines from across the industry and around the world — grants, residencies, awards, calls for pitches and events spanning journalism, podcasting, radio, audio drama, oral history, sound art and more. It’s written by Talia Augustidis in collaboration with Transom.org.

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Start the new year off by exploring these creative opportunities. From accessing game-changing funding to securing that next big gig, there’s plenty of ways to get your 2025 off to the best possible start.

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You bring the weird and wonderful, they’ll bring the people. Scratch is a chance for creatives to test their performance based work for an audience. 

Last Thursday Scratch Nights at Mirage Bar offer a monthly dedicated space for live artists and performers to test out new and developing ideas. They are a chance for creatives to show their stuff in front of a live and supportive audience, with a social afterwards to network and receive feedback!

This series of events will be informal, for creatives to test ideas in real time, experiment, take risks and share new work with peers and the public. 

Creatives who are in the early stages of developing performance based work are invited to submit proposals for a Scratch Night, in performance mediums including but not limited to spoken word, film, sound, multi-disciplinary, durational or time-based work, digital work, pop-up performance, installation-based work and interventions. 

This is an open call for artists based anywhere in the North West to apply (Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside, Cumbria and Lancashire) 

Three proposals will be selected per event. Mirage Bar are able to support performances of up to 20 minutes and durational works will also be considered. Your proposal should be for a new idea or a work in progress piece. 

Performers will receive: 

– A fee of £100 to perform 

– Rehearsal space at Mirage Bar 

– Some technical and producing support where needed

– Production images and video taken by a professional photographer 

– Anonymous feedback from audiences through a digital form

– A number of free tickets to the event for your chosen VIPs

Guidelines: 

– This opportunity is for artists at any stage of their career.

– The work must be a new idea or piece development with basic technical requirements. 

– The work should be performative or include some live element, and either be performed within a 20 minute timeframe or be a longer durational piece.  

– The work must be suitable for Mirage Bar. 

Mirage Bar is a fully wheelchair accessible venue via a permanent ramp and has an accessible indoor toilet.

This is an opportunity with a rolling deadline, with events taking place every last Thursday of the month from 30th May 2024 – 24th April 2025. In completing this form you are registering your interest to perform at one of these events, and you will be asked which dates you would be available to perform should you be successful.