Artist Network at The Lowry

Our Artist Network is a free, open access programme supporting professional artists at all stages of their career to focus on their creative and professional development. Our programme has a year-round offer including regular workshops, socials, ticket offers, Scratch Nights and other one-off or short–term opportunities to develop creative practice, explore new ideas and build networks. Sign up to our newsletter to be the first to hear about what we have coming up.

Who is it for?

Independent artists, collectives and companies, creative producers and administrators at all stages of career working across performing or visual arts. This also includes anyone with an aspiration to work creatively in the creative sector.

Artist Network Newsletter

Every month we send out an Artist Network newsletter with the latest updated on current and new opportunities for artists at The Lowry. Our newsletters spotlights everything we have available from training and development opportunities to residencies, Scratch Nights and local and regional opportunities from our Friends. Join Now

CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES

Beam-2025

BEAM2025 is preceded by a series of pitching days at which new work and artists are identified.

MMD and MTN have partnered with theatres and arts organisations around the country to host 21 pitching days in twelve towns and cities across the UK between September and December 2024, and are expecting over 300 new musicals to be pitched. Each creative or team has 10 minutes to share their idea with an industry panel and up to 40 musicals will be selected for BEAM2025. Around 50 diverse industry experts, including producers and programmers of new musicals, contribute to the selection process through sitting on the pitching day panels.

Hothouse

Deadline: Mon 29 Jul 2024, 12 noon.

Hothouse is a new artist development programme from The Lowry, supporting the creation of a new theatre company in Greater Manchester. In response to requests from independent theatre makers and performance-based artists across the region for more opportunities to connect, collaborate and make work with others, we are piloting a programme that will support the formation of a new theatre company at The Lowry over a 6-month period.

Scratch Nights X Dance

Deadline for applications : Thurs 5 September, 5pm

We are pleased to announce our next call-out for dance, movement and performance, artists based in the Northwest of England to share new work as part of our upcoming Scratch Nights X Dance event on Wednesday 13 November 2024 at The Lowry. The event will be curated in collaboration with Associate Artists Thick & Tight.

Creative Producer Development Call-out

Deadline: Mon 29 Jul 2024, 12 noon.

Greater Manchester based arts organisations; The Lowry, HOME, Z-Arts, with London based Stage One are calling out for applications for the first Creative Producer Development (CPD) course that will run throughout Autumn/Winter 2024.

RESCOURCES

Routes In Guide: Venue North’s invaluable guide to getting programmed in the North.
Theatre Green Book: Making Theatre in a Time of Climate Crisis
Rates of Pay: Independent Theatre Council negotiates minimum rates of pay , on behalf of its members, with the appropriate unions for administrative staff, choreographers, designers, directors, fight directors, performers, stage managers, freelance producers and writers.

Resources and Templates: The Uncultured’s resources related to Arts Council
Tourbook – find venues and audiences you never knew existed and make new connections in places near and far.
Read and find out about the Social Model of Disability from Shape Arts
Resources for disabled artists and companies: Unlimited’s web page for artists, creatives, producers and the sector to share best practice, insights, toolkits and more

Live Now Festival 2023 Webinars

You can now watch a replay of the following five LIVE NOW Festival 2023 webinars:

LNF23: Creating accessible and disability-led digital performance work

Online Webinar and Q&A with Louise Mari and Kerry Underhill, and Charlene Salter and Nick Llewellyn, Access All Areas

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LNF23: Creating accessible and disability-led digital performance work

Online Webinar and Q&A with Louise Mari and Kerry Underhill, and Charlene Salter and Nick Llewellyn, Access All Areas

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LNF23: Zoom, WhatsApp & gather.town – creating digital stages

Online Webinar and Q&A with Louise Mari and Jason Crouch, Ben Samuels and Gaël Le Cornec, Limbik Theatre and Leo Mercer, leo&hyde

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LNF23: Dance, technology and the body – blending the digital and physical

Online Webinar and Q&A with Alexandrina Hemsley, Founder and Creative Director, Yewande 103 and Prince Laryea, Executive Producer, Avant Garde Dance

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LNF23: Touring Digital Work

Online Webinar and Q&A with Nancy May Roberts, Executive Producer, Yewande 103, Daphna Attias, Co-Artistic Director and Joint CEO, Dante or Die, and Adam York Gregory.

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