7 November 2014
Unlimited, the initiative which supports disabled artists to create and present exceptional work across the artforms, announces the opening of the second round of submissions for commission funds. Disabled artists and companies who are creating new disability-led work are invited to apply.
Unlimited is funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Creative Scotland and delivered by Shape and Artsadmin. This round of Unlimited commissions will also be supported for the first time by Arts Council Wales which contributes £120,000.
Commissions from Unlimited’s first round of applications were highlights of this September’s Unlimited Festival at Southbank Centre. They included Katherine Araniello’s The Dinner Party Revisited, Julie McNamara’s Let Me Stay, Ian Johnston and Gary Gardiner’s Dancer, Jo Bannon’s Exposure, Fittings MultiMedia’s Edmund the Learned Pig, Birds of Paradise Theatre’s Wendy Hoose, Juan delGado’s The Flickering Darkness (Revisited) and Owen Lowery’s Otherwise Unchanged. Many of these artists continue to tour in 2014 and 2015.
Artists and companies are also invited to attend surgeries on the application process in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, London, Caernarfon and Cardiff.
The deadline for applications is 2 February 2015 with funding decisions announced at the end of March 2015. For more details directly please contact Unlimited via www.weareunlimited.org.uk/contact
Jo Verrent, Senior Producer of Unlimited, said:
“Art is at the heart of Unlimited; it's the work that disabled artists and companies create that has the power and potential to transform perceptions. It’s a real privilege to be able to extend that opportunity now not just to artists based in England and Scotland but Wales too. I can't wait to see what they all have to offer!”
Diane Hebb, Director of Engagement and Participation from Arts Council Wales said:
“We are very pleased to support the second round of Unlimited commissions. This exciting development will offer a number of commissions for Wales-based artists to develop and produce ambitious and high quality work, with mentoring support.
We aspire to a society that embraces equality and celebrates diversity and the Unlimited commissions play a vital part in realising this goal.”
Unlimited artists on tour in 2014 and 2015
Listings information
Ian Johnston and Gary Gardiner
Dancer8 November 2014
Battersea Arts Centre
020 7223 2223
www.bac.org.uk13 November
People Dancing Festival - Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
0116 253 3453
www.communitydance.org.uk21 November
Dadafest, Liverpool
0151 707 1733
www.dadafest.co.ukThe vacuum cleaner’s Madlove Asylum
13 November 2014
Nottingham Contemporary
0115 948 9750
www.nottinghamcontemporary.org14 November 2014
NAGAS
Newcastle
0191 2616027
www.chillistudios.co.ukOwen Lowery
Otherwise Unchanged20 November 2014
John Rylands Library, Manchester
0161 306 0555
www.manchester.ac.uk/library/rylands4 December 2014
The Bluecoat, Liverpool
0151 702 5324
www.thebluecoat.org.uk10 February 2015
Octagon Theatre, Yeovil
01935 422884
www.octagon-theatre.co.uk6 May 2015
Worktown Literature Festival, Bolton
07954 996826
www.livefromworktown.com3 June 2015
The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre, Lumb Bank, Hebden Bridge
01422 843714
www.arvon.org8 October 2015
Morley Literature Festival, Leeds
0844 848 2706
www.morleyliteraturefestival.co.ukExtant
Flight Paths26 November 2014
The Albany, Deptford
0208692 4446
www.thealbany.org.ukLea Cummings
Exhibition
17 January 2015
Project Ability Gallery, Glasgow
0141 552 2822
www.project-ability.co.ukFittings Multimedia
Edmund the Learned Pig11 March 2015
Norwich Playhouse
01603 612580
www.norwichplayhouse.co.uk19 March 2015
Liverpool Everyman
0151 709 4776
www.everymanplayhouse.com16 April 2015
West Yorkshire Playhouse
0113 213 7700
www.wyp.org.ukJo Bannon
Exposure23 April 2015
Buzzcut – The Arches, Glasgow
0151 707 1733
www.thearches.co.uk