call for online artist residency with magnetic north

Written By Kevin Harrison

Magnetic North Theatre Company have teamed up with Macrobert Arts Centre to create an online Rough Mix Collaborative Artist Residency and are calling for artists and performers to apply.

Scene Stirling hoasted a conversation on the 25th November with Nicholas Bone, Artistic Director of Magnetic North. He’ll be talking about the benefits and opportunities of artist collaboration, in particular interdisciplinary creative work.

Nicholas describe how to apply to this exciting project starting in early 2021, outlining how collaboration will look different during the coronavirus pandemic.

About this Event

If you’re interested in applying for the 2021 Rough Mix online paid residency with Macrobert Arts Centre we hosted a short conversation with Nicholas Bone, Artistic Director of Magnetic North Theatre Company:

We talked all things collaboration, including the benefits of space for artists to come together, interdisciplinary collaboration and how opportunities like Rough Mix have evolved. We also discussed the opportunities and challenges of collaboration post Covid-19 and then got into the practicalities of applying to be a part of the project.

A YouTube video is now available on this post for those who missed the event.

About Rough Mix

Online residency: 18th January-5th February 2021

Call-out for experienced Lead Artists

Rough Mix is a paid creative development residency for practising professional artists from any discipline. Developed and run by Magnetic North, a theatre company that specialises in creating new work and encouraging multi-art form approaches. This will be the twelfth edition of the residency and is being presented in partnership with Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling.

Rough Mix usually takes place in a studio space in a venue somewhere in Scotland. In the light of the Covid-19 pandemic Rough Mix 2021 will take place in an online space, with the aim being to retain the key principles of collaboration and experimentation.

Applications are now open for the 5 lead artist places at Rough Mix. As a lead artist at Rough Mix you will have time to develop an idea of your own as well as to observe and collaborate with the other lead artists. The aim is to bring together artists from different disciplines to share learning and skills, to enable new collaborations and to give artists time and space to experiment with ideas for new work.

Each lead artist will be paid a fee of £1,800 for the three week residency.

For more information and to apply: https://magneticnorth.org.uk/artist-development/roughmix

The closing date for applications is 10am (GMT) on Thursday 3rd December; all applicants will hear back from us by Friday 11th December.

There will be a later call-out for early career artists and performers.



Kevin Harrison
Kevin Harrison is the Director of Artlink Central, a charity and social enterprise designing creative experiences in conjunction with artists, public bodies and led by disadvantaged or marginalised people particularly in health, social care or criminal justice contexts. . Kevin joined the organisation five years ago and was previously Arts and Wellbeing Manager with Sense Scotland since 2006, supporting a Scotland-wide participation in the arts for disabled people with communication needs. Kevin managed the development of a range of arts projects including Threads and Found in Translation, projects exploring cultural diversity and disability, and Leaving New Craigs, a life history project in Inverness for people leaving the last long stay hospital in Scotland. He managed a national arts and wellbeing team and supported the establishment of a strong creative programme in the TouchBase, a new inclusive base for people and communities supported by Sense Scotland in the south side of Glasgow. Kevin who has a degree in theatre and film from Roehampton University and who undertook postgraduate studies in Arts Management and Policy at Birkbeck University of London is also a trustee for Scottish Prison Arts Network, chair of Dementia Friendly Forth Valley as part of a Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) programme. Previous posts include freelance editor and administration roles with key national disability arts organisation, Shape Arts and public sector roles in Arts Development and as Business Manager, Creative Academy, Slough Borough Council, supporting a multi-million pound EQUAL creative industries inclusion programme . He also has experience of managing Music 4 Slough, a Youth Music Action Zone.
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