In Brief. £180/day x 8 days total £1,440 Dates: June to August (timeline negotiable) Location: UK, majority remote, some in person Application deadline: Monday 12th May (midnight) Sibling Arts C.I.C. is a creative activism / political arts incubator platforming marginalised artists in music, theatre, film & other mediums. We build projects that centre grassroots ownership, collective authorship & authentic voice. This role is about gathering knowledge, building relationships, and drafting a shared vision for a radical archive and a digital platform - how can we document, visibilise and connect these bodies of grassroots cultural work overlooked by mainstream arts and politics? In October 2025 we're hosting the UK's first ever Arts Action Festival connecting artists to activists to arts orgs to human rights orgs, to showcase best practice and multiply cross-sector capacity. In preparation for that, and to lay foundations for platforming and archiving community arts projects, we are commissioning research into the under-resourced & under-documented field of community arts and all its offshoots & guises from applied arts to political theatre. Outputs. A research summary / working paper (max 10 pages) defining the landscape, capturing key insights, examples, contacts, patterns and recommendations A visual map of UK community arts projects across time, in a format easy to add to A proposed radical archiving roadmap, with ideas for structure, scope and collaborators. Input into a design for an arts action digital platform Optional: co-host a community roundtable at AAF to test and share findings (paid). We welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds-including artists, researchers, cultural workers, producers & community organisers. Formal qualifications & research positions may help, but equally lived experience, networks, involvement in & awareness of the field. The ideal candidate will: Have deep knowledge and/or experience of UK-based community, participatory or socially-engaged arts Be skilled at connecting dots across disparate practices & histories Have strong interpersonal & communication skills, particularly across cultural contexts Be confident synthesising information & proposing frameworks or strategies Share our values of equity, accessibility, collective authorship & decolonial practice Be committed to working in collaborative & horizontal ways Have examples of past research, organising, writing or projects in adjacent fields Identify & map a wide range of community arts projects, organisations & interventions across the UK (ongoing, dormant, historic) Develop a living directory of contacts, projects, & case studies Propose potential partners / collaborators for Arts Action Festival (AAF) & other projects Outline key themes & tensions in how this field is documented in academia, across sectors, in press & in policy Contribute to the design of a radical archiving roadmap - a long-term strategy for research, documentation, visibility & hyperconnectivity Contribute to the design of an arts action digital platform - for connecting activists, artists, human rights orgs & arts orgs to share opportunities, best practice & collaborate Check in with the Sibling Arts team & other guest artists to feed into our prep for AAF Email: [email protected]Job Summary
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[1] Your up to date CV
[2] A cover letter 250-500 words OR a 2-4 minute voice note / selfie video telling us who you are, why you’re interested, and how you’d approach the project
[3] Examples of past work this could be a portfolio with photos, videos, links OR a list of projects with 200 word descriptions