18-20 JULY 2025

The 4 Nations Bursary Project is offering bursaries for new outdoor work to emerging artists and companies interested in outdoor arts. Bursaries will be awarded to applicants from Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland. The project will allow early career artists to be mentored through the creation of new outdoor arts pieces, which will be toured to festivals in all four nations during summer 2025:

 

Surge Festival (Glasgow, in partnership with Articulation), 

Bradford 2025 (Bradford, in partnership with Bradford Producing Hub), 

Spraoi Festival (Waterford, Ireland in partnership with ISACS) 

Green Man (Wales, in partnership with Green Man Trust). 

 

The chosen artists/companies will be given a budget of £5000/€5500 for the creation of the piece and £150/€170 per day per person for performance days, professional mentoring from the festivals and each of the Partnership networks, plus a three-day residency in Bradford in March 2025 Travel, accommodation and per diems (or equivalent) are provided for both the residency and the performance tour.

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Requirements:

• Present an idea for a new small-scale outdoor arts piece, static or walkabout.

• The piece needs to be for a solo or a duo of touring artists (all artists must be confirmed by applicant before applying)

• The piece needs to be of a scale that is easily transportable.

• The piece needs to be suitable for performance or exhibition in both urban and green field spaces.

• The artists need to be available for the residency in Bradford between 23rd - 26th March 2025

• Artists must also be available for a certain number of week-day mentoring dates between March and July 2025 (exact dates to be agreed)

• To be available for dates of all four festivals:

  • 18th  - 20th July 2025 (Surge Festival, Scotland)

  • 25th - 27th July 2025 (Bradford 2025, England)

  • 1st – 3rd August 2025 (Spraoi Festival, Ireland)

  • 14th - 17th August 2025 (Green Man Festival, Wales)

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We will offer:

• A structured residency in Bradford plus professional mentoring from Surge, Bradford Producing Hub, Bradford 2025, Spraoi and Green Man in creation, producing, marketing and guerrilla filmmaking;

• Bursary of £5000/€5500

• Travel, accommodation, per diems, and £150/€170 per day fee per artist at all festivals

• Support access to appropriate rehearsal and creation space 

 

4 Nations Bursary Project values diversity and promotes equality and inclusion. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and ability. 

 

Please note that the scale and reach of this project is dependent on certain funding outcomes.

 

To apply:

 

Please email your proposal (max. 500 words) and one short bio for each performer/collaborator (max. 100 words each), in one document.

 

If based in Scotland please contact Alan Richardson at Surge at alan@surge.scot 

 

If based in Wales please contact Zoe Munn at Green Man at zoe@greenman.net

 

If based in England please contact Bradford 2025 at grants@bradford2025.co.uk

 

If based in Ireland please contact Spraoi Festival at nest@spraoi.com         

 

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The application deadline is midnight on Monday 3rd February.  

Decisions will be made on Monday 10th February.