Deadline: 5 June 2017
Creative Producers International is a new world-wide talent development programme led by Watershed, which will provide fifteen Creative Producers from across the globe with the skills they need to become the city change-makers of the future. Expanding and leveraging the networks and ethos of Playable City™, which puts people and play at the heart of cities across five continents.
Successful participants will gain the skills and abilities to have a new kind of conversation with city leaders and keep art at the heart of decision making. They will transform how their community engages with city futures and deliver ground-breaking projects at the intersection of creativity, technology and public space.
The programme will run from the beginning of October 2017 to the end of December 2019.
Programme Benefits
Entrants shall receive:
- £2000 participation bursary each year for three years
- Travel, accommodation and per diems for the Bristol and Tokyo Events
- £5000 ideas development grant
- Opportunity to bid for a share of our feasibility fund
- High quality training, mentoring and support for three years and beyond
- Support with access needs if needed
- The opportunity to become part of a sustainable global network of creative thinkers, providing potential for collaboration and the exchange of knowledge and learning
Eligibility Criteria
Expectations from the entrants:
- A collaborative, open, rigorous and experimental approach
- Participation in a three-week residential lab in Bristol from the beginning of October 2017, including a Playable City Conference in Bristol on 19 October
- Attendance at a conference in Tokyo in October 2018
- Participation in two online digital labs
- Participation in an online community to share progress, practice and learning for the duration of the programme
- Using an ideas development grant, work in collaboration with Watershed to design a project and deliver it with your city
- Contribution to the documentation and evaluation of the programme
- Participation in peer to peer mentoring and monthly catch ups with the Watershed Producer
How to Apply
Interested applicants must submit application form available in the given website.
For more information, please visit Creative Producers International.