In its tenth year, we're delighted to be able to support a DIY project to happen in Wales. DIY has become an important professional development opportunity for artists working in Live Art, and through WalesLab we're delighted to be able to make a project happen in Wales. 

You can find out more about the opportunities below:

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Professional development projects BY artists FOR artists

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

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. DIY understands that the development of a Live Art practice is as much about the exploration of ideas and experiences as training in skills and techniques, and past DIY projects have proved to be invaluable experiences for project leaders, participants and organisers alike. 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. If you think you can initiate and run a DIY professional development project then read the guidelines below and send us a proposal.

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 Performing Arts Cornwall with University College Falmouth (South West)

This is the tenth year of DIY, and, following unprecedented enthusiasm from partners and participants, will be the largest to date. We plan to support twenty DIY projects all across the country that will take place between July and November 2013. Each project will receive £1,000 support.

DIY projects may take any form, can be based anywhere, and can be loosely or rigorously focused on a specific theme/content. We particularly welcome proposals from artists from culturally diverse backgrounds and disabled artists, and artists working in other “politicized” territories.

Although DIY projects can take place anywhere and be about anything, this year we will also be looking for some projects to happen in the areas where the various partner organisations are based, and inviting projects that respond to a number of specific themes.

Deadline for proposals to run DIY 10 projects: Noon Monday April 8th, 2013.

For more click here.