Deadline: 17-Jan-23
The Arts Council England is seeking applications for its Developing your Creative Practice (DYCP) programme to support the development of independent cultural and creative practitioners.
Developing your Creative Practice (DYCP) aims to encourage creativity, research, experimentation and risk taking, to enable practitioners to progress and flourish with their creative practice and career. It is expected that this innovation will be of public benefit by leading to the production and dissemination of higher quality work.
DYCP supports individuals who are cultural and creative practitioners and want to take time to focus on their creative development.
Funding Information
This programme will give individuals the opportunity to apply for £2,000 to £10,000, to take a dedicated period of time to focus on their own cultural and creative development, and take them to the next stage in their practice.
Developing your Creative Practice supports activity focused on these disciplines:
- Music
- Theatre
- Dance
- Visual Arts
- Literature
- Libraries
- Combined Arts
- Museums practice
Any development activity they support must focus on one or more of these artforms and disciplines, but they know that people work in all sorts of settings and ways.
What can you apply for?
- Activities can be up to one year in length.
- Some examples of things you can apply for are:
- Building new networks for future development/presentation of work
- Creating new work
- Experimenting with new collaborators or partners
- International travel to explore other practice or work with mentors
- Professional development activities
- Research and development time to explore practice and take risks
- Taking time to reflect on the impact of Covid-19 on your practice and practical steps to support your work to be more sustainable in future
Eligibility Criteria
- Individual artists and/or creative practitioners.
- They can support creative practitioners doing work related to their supported disciplines. some examples of what they mean by creative practitioner. If you don’t see yourself in this list, get in touch and they can let you know if your practice is something they can support. Dancers, choreographers, writers, translators, producers, publishers, editors, musicians, conductors, composers, actors, directors, designers, artists, craft makers, curators, DJs, performer/creators, arts and cultural educators, community practitioners/engagement specialists, movement directors, cultural conservators, creative enablers, creative technicians. DYCP can’t support performers whose existing or planned way of working is to perform someone else’s work without providing creative input or leadership.
- Anyone who applies to Developing your Creative Practice needs to:
- Apply as an individual, or as a small group of practitioners who usually collaborate in their work. Organisations cannot apply, and individuals cannot apply on behalf of an organisation
- Be based within (live in) England
- Have a UK bank account in the exact name they’re applying in (if you apply as a small group of practitioners, one person should submit the application and take the lead on managing the grant, and should provide their bank details)
- Be at least 18 years old
- Have one years’ creative practice experience outside a formal education context.
For more information, visit Arts Council England.