DIT 2026: Applications for Do It Together are now open!

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Are you a live artist or practitioner eager to explore how and why you make? If you could design a research, training, or creative development opportunity that benefits your own practice and the practice of others, what would you do?

We are delighted to be working with LADA (Live Arts Development Agency) and hÅb to offer one of ten national opportunities for an artist to design and lead a peer-to-peer development project that benefits your own practice and others at Lowry between March and September 2026.

Who: UK based artists with 5+ years of experience

Fee: £2,250 total per project

When: Between March - September 2026

What can we do together?

In collaboration with 19 national partners, LADA invites proposals for 10 peer-to-peer professional development projects designed by artists for artists to take place across the UK between March and September 2026.

Do It Together (DIT) is a peer-to-peer professional development programme that enables artists to explore ideas, aesthetics and sociopolitical realities together. Knowing that the development of a live art practice is as much about methodologies and experiences as training in skills and techniques, DIT invites artists to delve into collective enquiries and share their process.

DIT reimagines LADA’s flagship programme, DIY, which ran unique professional development projects BY artists FOR artists from 2002 to 2020. For 2026, LADA reactivates the programme as Do It Together (DIT) in line with our renewed focus on co-learning.

Still DIY, but Together, the crucial shift is that each project will be supported by two national partners instead of one. By increasing the support at a time when both independents and organisations are struggling to resource artist development, DIT ignites a nation-wide support network for process-led experimental practice.

DIY has always been about collective movements — but now, more than ever, we need to do it together.

All DIT partners in alphabetical order:

Art Gene

Artsadmin

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts

//BUZZCUT//

Colchester Arts Centre

Duckie

Fierce Festival

Future Ritual

GroundWork Gallery

hÅb

Home Live Art

Lancaster Arts

Lowry

Marlborough Productions

Metal

Norfolk & Norwich Festival

performance, possession + automation

Scottish Sculpture Workshop

Take Me Somewhere