live art travel bursaries

Over Spring & Summer 2022, BUZZCUT have travel bursaries available for Live Artists & experimental performance makers in Scotland to go & visit brilliant Festivals & programmes and programmes from across the UK.

As we emerge back into in person gathering & live performances we want to give Scottish artists the opportunity to reconnect and be inspired by the brilliant exciting work happening across the country.

Bursaries of up to £350 are available which can cover:

• Train travel within the UK or petrol costs

• Accommodation 

• Per diems (£25 a day to spend on food)

• Tickets

We anticipate the above budget is enough to cover a 1-3 day trip within the UK. 

Access costs relating to travel can be covered additionally (such as a PA or if you require a specific type of accommodation that is more expensive than the available budget).

We have looked around for interesting programmes coming up, however if there is a festival or programme not on the list you can suggest it to be included. The suggested programmes must have more than one performance on, be based within the UK, and be categorised as Live Art or experimental performance.

Potential programmes (we will add more to this list as we hear about them):

**FULL / 2nd April / TIDING Festival - Folkestone

**FULL / 29 April - 1 May / Daughter Cups of The North - Isle of Mull

27 - 30 April / Live Collision International Festival - Dublin

29 April - 1 May / GIFT Festival - Gateshead

13 - 29th May / Mayfest - Bristol

27 - 28 May / Disrupt - Cambridge

9 - 18 June / Hidden Door - Edinburgh

23 JUNE – 10 JULY / LIFT - London

27 June – 17 July / Healing Gardens of Bab - Birmingham

If you don’t know where you’d like to go, that’s OK and we can advise based on your interests & practise.

To apply please fill out the short form below.

Criteria

• Artists must be currently based in Scotland

• Artists must work in, or have a clear ambition to work in, Live Art & experimental performance

• You must not currently be within higher education

• We will make decisions based on the artists’ practice’s resonance with BUZZCUT’s activity and why this opportunity feels important for you at this point.

• Generally we will only send one artist to each festival or programme

• We will prioritise artists who do not have regular access to public funds or who are not currently undertaking a Creative Scotland funded project (we recommend factoring in ‘go & see’ research & development money into your funding applications).

Expectations:

• You will be expected to attend at least 2 performances / events

• You must fill out a short evaluation survey on your return describing your experience of the event & show

• Ideally you would also take a couple of pictures of your trip for us to share via social media

Deadline: 

23:59 Thursday 14th April

If you have any questions please get in touch at buzzcutkarl@gmail.com