Opportunities Round Up
Central to our work at Good Chance is creating opportunities for displaced creatives to become an integral part of the UK theatre ecosystem, as well as amplifying opportunities that are open to all, and making connections for people in the industry.
Here is our live e-round up of opportunities for artists from around the world and across the whole creative spectrum!
CLOSING SOON
Open Call, Seed Commissions - Shubbak Festival
LINK Google Form
Deadline: ASAP
Location: North East England
SHUSH is a new theatre show in development about being told to pipe down — and choosing not to. It’s funny, fierce, and full of love, and the team are looking for women, girls and non binary folks from North East England to perform in a community cast alongside their cast of professional performers at Northern Stage. The next sessions are online next Monday 19th Jan and Monday 23rd Feb 6-7.30pm. It will be relaxed, time to chat and get to know each other and the team.
There will then be two in person evening sessions the week of 16th March in the theatre at Northern Stage that will be more movement focused. Whatever your fitness level, however much dance experience you've had (or not had) we will find ways to accommodate you and any access needs you may have. There's just a few workshops / rehearsals, it's not a big commitment. The most important date you will need to be free is Saturday 21st March when we will perform a work in progress at Northern Stage. Fill in the Google Form to express your interest.
Open Call, Seed Commissions - Shubbak Festival
LINK www.shubbak.co.uk/artist-call-shubbak-festival-seed-commissions-including-fundraising-support-the-present-we-practice-is-a-portal-the-future-we-dream-irresistible/
Deadline: Tuesday 3 February
Location: International
Shubbak invites Arab & SWANA artists and creatives based in the UK, Europe or the region to apply for their Seed Commissions, a programme designed to support space for imagination before production.
This is a call for ideas in formation, ideas that are unfinished, unruly, untamed. If ‘the present we practice is a portal; the future we dream, irresistible’ speaks to your practice, they want to hear from you. Each selected artist will receive:
£500 to support one month of idea development
Creative coaching with Shubbak’s Artistic Director & CEO. A space to sense-make and further shape your idea
Supporting you with writing and submitting an application to a funder with the possibility of presenting the work at Shubbak Festival 2027
Space in their office one day/week for a period of 6 weeks
Open Call for Artists from Refugee Backgrounds - Border Crossings
Deadline: Tuesday 10 February
Location: UK
Border Crossings are inviting artists from refugee backgrounds to exhibit their work at Hoxton Hall, a historic theatre and creative hub in East London. Selected artworks will be shown as part of ARRIVING, BECOMING, BELONGING, an outreach project running alongside the new multimedia performance SUPPLIANTS OF SYRIA (3–8 March 2026).
Please send the following to lucy@bordercrossings.org via email:
A photo of your artwork
Dimensions
A short text about you and the work
Associate Resident Artist (Playwright) - Ransack Theatre Company
LINK www.ransacktheatre.com/jobs
Deadline: Monday 16 February at 9am
Location: Manchester
Ransack Theatre are looking for an early-career playwright who’s excited by bold storytelling, collaboration, and getting properly stuck into the process of making theatre. This residency offers time, space, support and conversation to develop a play with them alongside you. Includes: a £1,500 bursary; 5 tailored creative / dramaturgy sessions; time in the rehearsal room for Ransack’s next production; ongoing artistic support; a final script + reading in Dec 2026, with potential future development.
Trustee Position Opening - Projekt Europa
LINK www.projekteuropa.org/news
Deadline: Monday 16 February
Location: UK
Could trusteeship be creative, collective and rooted in lived experience? PROJEKT EUROPA are looking for 3–4 people to join their Board and help shape the future of their migrant-led performing arts charity transforming narratives around migration.
No previous board experience needed — just curiosity, care, and a belief in the power of art to challenge injustice. They’re keen to hear from people with lived experience of migration and from those working across activism, fundraising, law, policy or communications. This is also an invitation to imagine trusteeship beyond traditional frameworks — creative, collaborative, and rooted in lived experience.
Emerging Writers Programme - The London Library
LINK www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-emerging-writers
Deadline: 5pm on Monday 23 February
Location: London
The London Library Emerging Writers Programme is a unique opportunity which offers writers, in all genres and disciplines, one year’s free membership of The London Library and includes writing development masterclasses, networking opportunities, peer support, access to and guidance in using all the Library’s resources and publication in the cohort anthology. The London Library Emerging Writers Programme is open to anyone over 18 years of age (there is no upper age limit), who is committed to pursuing a career in writing, wants to develop their practice and has not previously had long-form work published or professionally produced. Applicants should be working, or planning to work, on a specific project, with the aim of publication or production, and have a clear idea of how they might use the Library’s resources to achieve that aim. They should be based in the UK, willing to fully participate in all elements of the Programme and immerse themselves in the writing community it offers.
Open Call for Theatre Shows - Camden Fringe
LINK camdenfringe.com/take-part/
Deadline: Thursday 30 April
Location: London
The Camden Fringe is a performing arts festival, established in 2006, which takes place in Camden during August. Anyone and everyone is welcome to apply. Previous fringe events have encompassed new writing, opera, musicals, stand-up, sketch comedy, dance, cabaret, poetry, opera, mentalism, improvisation and opera. Shows take place throughout the day and generally last one hour. Applications are open NOW.
ROLLING DEADLINE / ONGOING
Free theatre classes for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers - Legal Aliens Theatre
LINK www.legalalienstheatre.com/free-theatre-classes-for-migrants
NO deadline, rolling applications
Location: London
LegalAliens Theatre run unique, FREE theatre classes every Monday at 6.45pm in Tottenham Hale. The sessions are dedicated to migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and anyone with English as a second language, however they are always happy to welcome members of the local community who cannot access traditional acting classes. The sessions, all led by migrant artists from their team are an incredible opportunity to build friendships, express creatively and learn new skills.
Training, Work Experience and Mentoring - Breadwinners
LINK www.breadwinners.org.uk/jobs-and-volunteering (scroll to Risers and Breadwinners Programmes)
NO deadline, rolling applications
Location: Brighton / London
Breadwinners are an incredible organisation helping young asylum seekers (age 16-25) and refugees to get into work in the UK, with a big emphasis on mentorship and community.
FREE Short Courses for Artists on Applying Successfully - Artenda
LINK artenda.net/en/online-courses
Artenda have a series of short courses to help people write strong artist statements, produce impactful portfolios and make successful applications for art residencies and project grants. They're free (from what we can see!) and worth checking out if you're looking to pitch yourself for opportunities.
Poetry, Visual Art and Writing, Open Call for Submissions - Gaza’s Creative Allies
NO deadline, rolling applications
Gaza Verse is a publication that brings together works from creators around the world, to spread the work of those who stand in solidarity with Palestine and its people, as well as Palestinian creators from within Palestine and those displaced across the world. The next release will focus on the theme of art beyond borders and they're looking for pieces (poetry, visual art, articles or anything in between) to include.
If you have something you'd like to share, please send your submission, along with your name, social media handles and a brief description of your piece, to submissions.gca@gmail.com. Proceeds from the journal will go to poets within Gaza.
