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Over the past few months, we have been back on the road with Pepper & Honey touring across England to village halls and local libraries.

Notnow Collective is a migrant-led organisation based in the Midlands committed to platforming the voices and work of migrant, parent and carer artists. We are currently radically re-imaging the spaces within which we create and present work.

As our response to this re-imagining we are offering three £700 micro commissions to inspire artists in playful exploration of digital medium and to re-think how you make work and how your audiences engage with it.

Who are we looking for?

• Performance Artists – Theatre Makers/Dancers/Spoken Word/Physical performers/Cabaret Artists/Drag Artists/Voice Artist/Musicians, and all other! 
• People who identify as migrant or people with migrant heritage
• People who have a connection to parenting or caring (could be parents/carers, OR have people in their vicinity who are carers. Also, including those who are considering parenting or in the process of becoming parents!!)
• You might have experience of other languages or growing up speaking other languages
• You might have done some digital work or this might be your first experience

We want to support NEW IDEAS* from individuals, collectives or organisations who will use this money to develop their creative digital imagining.

What are we interested in?

• Playful work
• Work that explores parenting or caring during lockdown
• Work that explores relationships with language, separation from family, international travel bans
• Digital work – this might be pre-recorded video, zoom performances, live streams, audio, text message, VR and AR, multi platform, email- but not limited to these forms.

*NEW IDEAS or development of an EXISTING IDEA  but it should not have had a finished production.

What we offer?

• cash to kick start your creative thinking or help with further funding
• artistic support & provocation
• platform for sharing your RIGHTNOW micro-commission

We particularly encourage applications from underrepresented groups.

To apply please email Expression of Interest to our Assistant Producer Nicole Roman with “RIGHTNOW” in the title line: nicole@notnowcollective.com

Expression of Interest can be written, video or voice note. Please include the following:

1. What is your idea?  (if it is an existing idea, please give details of the development so far and any useful links)

What form does it take? 

Why do you want to make it? 

(400 words max)

2. Tell us about you as an artist or company and share examples of your work (300 words max. For examples of your work please use links and supply passwords, or We Transfer/Google Drive)

3. Why does working digitally interest or excite you? (200 words max)

TIMELINE:

9th April – Deadline for submitting your Expressions of Interest

19th April – Interviews with shortlisted candidates 

26th April to  24th May – Creation time for selected projects

Week of 24th May – Public presentation of the selected projects

If you have any further questions about the application, or require an alternative format please email: nicole@notnowcollective.com

We would like to invite applications for the position of ASSISTANT PRODUCER for the forthcoming digital commissions project, exploring caring/parenting as a migrant.

Notnow Collective are a Midlands based migrant-artist led organisation that place voices less heard in the centre of their work, with particular focus on advocating for parent/carer, migrant and multilingual narratives and artists.

We are looking for an early career creative, who identifies as a migrant or with migrant heritage, and who is looking to develop their producing skills. 

These digital commissions are an Arts Council funded project offering seed funding for 3 selected creatives/organisations.

The fee is £1500 for 15 days of work in total between February-June 2021.

Person Specification- we are looking for:

• Someone passionate about developing work with migrant/non-UK born narratives
• Someone with an understanding of what it means to be multicultural and multilingual
• Curious about performance making in the digital environment
• Computer literate, have a good understanding of Word and Excel and happy managing social media and basic WordPress website updating skills
• Great team player, good communicator, ready to learn and share their own experience and excited to support creative journeys
• If you are Midlands based, that’s an added bonus, but we welcome applications from all over the UK.

We especially welcome applications from people with parenting/caring/homeschooling responsibilities – the work is remote and flexible around your life commitments.

Outline of the duties:

• Assisting and supporting the lead producer in delivering the digital commissions
• Leading on the admin duties throughout the artist call-out and selection process (supported by the lead producer)
• Assisting the shortlisting process (supported by the lead producer)
• Participating in the interview process (supported by the lead producer)
• Leading on the designated day to day admin tasks and social media management
• Assisting the Arts Council evaluation on this part of the activity
• Leading on the communication between NNC and commissioned artists (supported by the lead producer)
• Regular updates of activity budget  

To apply please attach your CV and either answer the questions below in the word-document form, or make a sound/video recording of your answers. 

Please send documents/WeTransfer or Google Docs link to: tina@notnowcollective.com with “ASSISTANT PRODUCER” in the title line.

The deadline: MIDDAY Friday 5^th February.

Interviews of shortlisted candidates via Zoom (or similar platform) between 8^th and 12^th February.

Application questions:

1. Please describe your producing/creative practice so far 

(no more than 400 words, 3 mins recorded/filmed)

1. Why are you interested in working with Notnow Collective and what do you hope to get out of this project? (no more than 400 words, 3 mins recorded/filmed)
2. How do you fit our Person Specification? (in no more than 300 words, 2 mins recorded/filmed)

As individuals and organisations find out if their ACE emergency funding applications were successful, positive and negative news is flooding social media. We’re entering the Post-Emergency Funding Era.

In solidarity with all the independent individuals and organisations who were unsuccessful in accessing financial support through the emergency fund, we propose a collective Zoom meeting to help us all acknowledge the positions we find ourselves in and for initiating thoughts around how we might move forwards, both collectively and as individuals. 

If you think you’d find value in this, please join us. Feel free to share as much as you want to share, or just watch and listen – there is no pressure.

* Please note: this Zoom is not intended to offer legal advice about funding avenues, furlough or SEISS. If people have questions around these areas, we can collectively find someone who can help. 

Zoom date: Monday 15th June 2020 at 11am

To sign up for the meeting please e-mail Tina at tina@notnowcollective.com with ‘PPP‘ in the subject line

Caring responsibilities, chaos, and pets in fully welcome in the video!

*title idea by Hannah Stone, Artistic Director of The Gramophones