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  Deadline for proposals: 12noon Monday 8th April 2013.

  To mark the tenth anniversary of DIY, 2013 will be a bumper year with 20 projects supported across the UK.

  DIY is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to conceive and run unusual training and professional development projects for other artists.

  We want to hear from you if have an idea for an exciting, innovative and idiosyncratic Live Art professional development project that offers something new and is geared to the eclectic and often unusual needs of artists whose practices are grounded in challenging and unconventional approaches, forms and concepts.

  We are planning to support twenty DIY projects that will take place between July and November 2013. Each project will receive £1,000 support.

  DIY projects may take any form, and can be loosely or rigorously focused on an idea or theme of your choosing. However, we also welcome proposals that specifically respond to one of the following themes. Eleven of the twenty DIY projects will be selected according to these opportunities:

1. Live Art and Feminism
2. Live Art and Yorkshire Sculpture Park
3. Live Art and Sound and Music (2 projects will be supported)
4. Live Art and National Theatre Wales (WalesLab)
5. Oblique Strategies (Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas)
6. Live Art and In Between Time: Water Proof
7. Live Art, performance as protest and the online element
8. Live Art and young people (2 projects will be supported)
9. Live Art and Cornwall

DIY 10 is a Live Art Development Agency initiative developed in collaboration with the following partners: Abandon Normal Devices (North West), Artsadmin (national), Buzzcut with Imaginate (Scotland), Cambridge Junction (East), Chapter Arts Centre (Wales), Chelsea Theatre (London), Colchester Arts Centre (East), Compass Live Art (Yorkshire), Duckie (London), Fierce Festival (West Midlands), Forest Fringe (Scotland), In Between Time (South West), Live at LICA (North West), National Theatre Wales (Wales), Norwich Arts Centre (East), Platform (national), The Showroom, University of Chichester (South East), Sound and Music (national), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Yorkshire), The Works: Dance and Theatre Cornwall and University College Falmouth (South West). With additional support from Create (Ireland).

   
Projects will be specifically based in and/or stimulating and benefiting artists from the regions noted above. Projects may also be developed in collaboration with the DIY partner organisations in those regions.

  Click here for more information, including application process.