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Announcing a new Musical Theatre Writing Residency: Call for Applications

We are thrilled to announce a new residency for musical theatre writers to take place 4-17 March 2024 at Cove Park. The Musical Theatre Writing Residency is a two-week international exchange programme for emerging and established book writers, composers, and lyricists from the UK, India, and the United States. 

The residency has been devised by Andrew Panton, Artistic Director of Dundee Rep and will include facilitated sessions with Dramaturg Jeanie O’Hare, Music Supervisor Nigel Lilley, Donna Lynn Hilton, Artistic Director of Goodspeed Musicals and David Greig, Artistic Director of Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. The programme also includes networking opportunities and workshop sessions, in-person and digital, with industry professionals – such as director John Doyle, Broadway producers Mara Isaacs and Rashad V. Chambers, and more.

Applications to take part in this residency are being accepted from UK-based teams of up to three collaborators who have a musical theatre idea in need of development and would benefit from the residency experience to take it to the next stage in its creation. The participating artists from India and the United States will be selected separately through nominations from our international partners.

Visit  www.musicaltheatrewritingresidency.uk for more information and how to apply.

Deadline: 20 October 2023 at 5pm.

The Musical Theatre Writing Residency is presented by Cove Park and Dundee Rep Theatre in partnership with Capital Theatres, Citizens Theatre, Macrobert Arts Centre, National Centre for the Performing Arts – Mumbai, National Theatre of Scotland, Octopus Theatricals – New York City,  Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, and Traverse Theatre. Associate partners include A Play, A Pie and a Pint, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Playwrights’ Studio Scotland
and Tron Theatre.

This pilot residency is majority-funded as part of the British Council & Creative Scotland Partnership: Connect & Collaborate.

 

 

Saturday Studios: Moving Together – an Intergenerational Dance Workshop

Join us at our next Saturday Studio for a relaxed, interactive and imaginative family dance workshop. It will be a fun and creative session where children of all ages and their grown-ups will explore and make dance together.

Saturday Studios: Moving Together
An Intergenerational Dance Workshop

23rd July, 10.30am – 12.00pm
Cove Park

This workshop is a collaboration with The Work Room and TanzFaktur Cologne and will be led by dance artists Alex McCabe (Scotland) and Stefanie Schwimmbeck (Germany) who will be in residence at Cove Park as part of CROWD – international dance exchange programme.

Please wear comfortable clothing
that allows you to move freely.

To register, please visit our Eventbrite page.

 

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The Play Park Residency Programme

Funded by the Foyle Foundation and Garrick Charitable Trust, The Play Park is a pilot residency programme (28 March – 4 April 2022) for mid-career theatre makers which takes shape around ideas and acts of ‘thresholding’: finding, inhabiting and expanding the edge between forms of practice, physical environments, species, social spaces, and gestures of communication. It will be led by practitioners who work on and across boundaries of theatre, dance, literature, visual arts and film, and whose own investigations have produced new forms of storytelling, interspecies collaboration and ethical reorientation. There will also be individual dialogues and facilitated movement, object manipulation and environmental research workshops on and around the Cove Park site. Over the course of a week, we will consider dramaturgy as a relational practice with wide and deep cultural application and explore together ways of understanding and navigating with awareness and care the entanglements, complexities and interdependencies of the creative process. More on this here.

Originally devised by Ruth Little and Catrin Kemp, The Play Park is now directed by dramaturgical lead, Lu Kemp and Cove Park’s Programme & Communications Producer, Alex Marrs. They are joined by eight facilitators leading workshops on puppetry, movement, storytelling, interdisciplinary practice, and more. The eight theatre makers participating are Rachel Briscoe, Vittoria Caffola, Amy Conway, John Darvell, Laura Edwards, Dylan Gray, Andrea Ling, and Saffy Setohy.

FACILITATORS

Lu Kemp (Dramaturgical Lead) is an award-winning theatre director and dramaturg with a distinctive reputation for her work in new writing, physical theatre and dance. She is Artistic Director of Perth Theatre, Scotland. Lu is an Associate Artist with the internationally renowned company Inspector Sands, for whom created and directed The Lounge (subsequently adapted and toured by the Riksteatern – National Theatre of Sweden), Mass Observation (Almeida), and If That’s All There Is (which won the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Award). For Perth Theatre her work includes: Moliere’s Don Juan, Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Kes by Robert Alan Evans, Six Inches of Top Soil and the Fact it Rains by Kieran Hurley, Shakespeare’s Richard III and Knives in Hens by David Harrower. As a freelance director her work she has worked for The Citizens, The Royal Lyceum Theatre, The National Theatre of Scotland, Artangel, The Tricycle, Almeida and The Royal Shakespeare Company. Lu has worked as a dramaturg for both theatre and dance companies including Dance Xchange Birmingham, Rambert, Sadler’s Wells and The Place in the UK, and de Stilte Dance in the Netherlands. Lu began her career as the Scottish Arts Council Trainee Theatre Director at TAG, Citizens Theatre. She later trained on the LEM at Lecoq, Paris, and with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company, New York.

Alex Bird (Puppetry) is a co-founding member of Tortoise in a Nutshell where he has helped to create and tour numerous projects and multi-award-winning pieces across Scotland, the UK and wider world. His work is driven by a desire to make theatre that inspires, incites conversation and explores our collective imagination. Alex’s primary background is as a performer/puppeteer and co-creator where his credits include The Lost Things, Feral (Winner Scotsman Fringe First, Winner Kotorski Festival Grand Jury Prize, Nominee Total Theatre Awards, Nominee Drama Desk Awards), The Last Miner (Nominee Arches Brick Award), Grit (Nominee Arches Brick Award, Nominee Total Theatre Awards) and Fisk (Winner Outstanding Performance Kotorski Festival). Alongside this he has extensive experience as an independent theatre and puppetry workshop leader, puppet maker and producer. He provided voice performance for the short film Cleaning in Progress by Grant Holden and has worked for numerous arts organisations across Scotland, such as Imaginate and Musselburgh’s Catherine Wheels. Alex has lived in Leith, Edinburgh, for 17 years and has recently become a dad. He is completely clueless about this part of his life and wings it on a daily basis.

Originally from Canada, EmmaClaire Brightlyn (Movement – Fight) is a freelance actor, fight director and teacher based in Glasgow, and is the Artistic Director of the International Order of the Sword and the Pen. Fight directing credits include: Ulster American, Crocodile Fever (Traverse Theatre); Dragon (Vox Motus/National Theatre of Scotland/Tianjin Children’s Art Theatre); Oresteia: This Restless House (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland); Twelfth Night, Cockpit (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, Queen Lear (Bard in the Botanics); The Maids, Miss Julie (Citizens Theatre); The Lonesome West, The Motherf**ker With The Hat (Tron Theatre); The Seafarer, Macbeth, Knives in Hens, Richard III (Perth Theatre); Titus Andronicus, August: Osage County, Deathtrap, Gagarin Way, All My Sons (Dundee Rep); Hamlet (Wilderness of Tigers); Slope (Untitled Projects); The Last Bordello (Fire Exit); Eat Me (Snap-Elastic). EmmaClaire also appeared as a featured gladiator and co-fight captain in Ben Hur Live! (New Arts Concerts, Germany) in 2011. She was Fight Arranger on Scottish feature films Beats (Sixteen Films) and Anna and the Apocalypse (Blazing Griffin), on the short film Don Vs Lightning (Biscuit Filmworks) starring Peter Mullan, and TV programme Demon Headmaster.

Xiaolu Guo (Writing) is an award winning Chinese British novelist, essayist and filmmaker. Her novels include A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (Orange Prize Shortlist 2007), Village of Stone, and I Am China (a 2014 NPR’s Best Book). Her memoir Nine Continents won the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017 and shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Award, Costa Award and it was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her recent novel A Lover’s Discourse is shortlisted for the Goldsmith Prize 2020 and longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2021. She also directed a dozen films, including How Is Your Fish Today (Sundance Official Selection 2007) and won the Grand Jury Prize at the International Women Film Festival, France. UFO In Her Eyes was premiered at Toronto (TIFF 2010) and produced by the renowned German-Turkish filmmaker Faith Akin. Her feature She, A Chinese received the Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno Film Festival 2009. Her documentaries include We Went to Wonderland (premiered at the MoMA /New York 2008), Once Upon A Time Proletarian (Venice Film Festival 2009), Five Men and A Caravaggio (BFI London Film Festival 2018).

Mamoru Iriguchi (Interdisciplinary Practice; he/him) is an Edinburgh-based performance artist and theatre designer with a background in zoology. His performance work explores 2D and 3D, liveness and pre-recorded-ness, and gender and sexuality. Surrealist humour and DIY use of digital technology are often found in Mamoru’s projects. His performance pieces include ‘Sex Education Xplorers (S.E.X.)’ (Made in Scotland Showcase, Infallible Award, Creative Edinburgh Awards shortlister), ‘Eaten’ (CATS nominee), ‘4D Cinema’ (Autopsy Award), ‘PAINKILLERS’ (The Yard NOW commission), ‘One Man Show’ (The Place Prize commission), ‘Projector/Conjector’ (Aerowaves Twenty14), and ‘Into the Skirt’ (Mousonturm commission). He is currently working on ‘What You See When Your Eyes Are Closed / What You Don’t See When Your Eyes Are Open’, which is about visual perception and liveness. He also makes participatory and one-to-one projects including, ‘The Tallest’ (Tate Early Years & Families commission) and ‘I’m so Confessional’ (Wellcome Collection, Sexology Exhibition commission). During the pandemic, Mamoru made digital performance pieces including ‘World Jam’ (National Theatre of Scotland), and ‘At the Ends of the Day’ (Tramway ‘Performance Now’ commission: Take Me Somewhere / In Between Time). His theatre design work includes ‘Mincemeat’ (Cardboard Citizens, Best Design, London Evening Standard Theatre Awards) and ‘The Pink Bits’ (Mapping 4D, Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Award). www.iriguchi.co.uk

Tim Licata (Movement – Feldenkrais) studied Theatre and English Literature at Vassar College in the USA and trained in acting at the Piven Theatre Workshop, Chicago and with Philippe Gaulier and Monika Pagneux in Paris. Tim qualified as a teacher of the Feldenkrais Method of Awareness Through Movement with Movement Educators, Sante Fe, NM in 2003. Tim has recently completed his Level 1 qualification in British Sign Language. Tim is a part-time lecturer teaching Movement in Performance on the BA Performance course in BSL/ENGLISH at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Tim is a co-artistic director of Plutôt la Vie theatre company which he founded in 2003 with Ian Cameron. Plutôt la Vie creates and tours imaginative, visually driven theatre throughout Scotland and the UK. With Plutôt la Vie Tim has created and performed in By the Seat of Your Pants, A Clean Sweep, Flik Flak: The Story of an Angel & a Demon, Clandestine Clowning and directed First You’re Born, The Builders and Couldn’t Care Less. In 2014, Tim translated and performed the UK premiere of La Tragedie Comique by Yves Hunstad and Eve Bonfanti. As a freelancer, Tim has worked with, among others: The Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Catherine Wheels, Cumbernauld Theatre, Communicado, and Dundee Rep. Tim has trained as a mentor thorugh the FST Mentor Training Programme in 2009.

Rita McDade (Interpretation & Translation – BSL) serves several roles within her employment at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland – Translator Lecturer and Co-ordinator, and in recent years develop a new Dramaturg role. Rita co-teaches on the ground-breaking Register & Text module as part of the BA Performance in BSL (British Sign Language) Undergraduate Degree Programme. In addition to that, Rita also created and is involved with co-ordinating & teaching the BSL Foundation Options module. Rita because the first BSL Training Officer with the Scottish Association of Sign Language Interpreters (SALSI) and the UK. During her time with SALSI, she also became the co-founder of the Interpreting in BSL & English Skills undergraduate degree programme at Heriot Watt University within the department of Languages and Intercultural Studies which led to the creation of a full time MA BSL Interpreting programme at the same institute. Over many years, Rita accumulated multiple roles ranging from being an experienced BSL language/intra-linguistic expert, teacher, cultural mediator, translator and mentor. Whatever spare time she has is spent with her friends and family.

Chris Thorpe (Storytelling) is a writer and performer from Manchester. His work is produced in the UK and internationally. He has ongoing collaborative relationships with many artists including Rachel Chavkin (Confirmation, Status, A Family Business) Rachel Bagshaw (The Shape of the Pain), Lucy Ellincson (Torycore) Portuguese experimental company mala voadora, Yusra Warsama, Hannah Jane Walker and as a dramaturg with Javaad Alipoor (The Believers Are But Brothers, Rich Kids, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World). As a playwright he has written for many buildings including the Royal Exchange (There Has Possibly Been An Incident, The Mysteries) the Royal Court (The Milk Of Human Kindness, Victory Condition) and the Unicorn (Hannah, Beowulf). Upcoming work includes Always Maybe The Last Time for the Royal Court, looking at the psychology of the climate crisis, A Family Business for China Plate and Staatstheater Mainz, looking at nuclear weapons policy, local activism and international diplomacy, and development of a new TV series with the BBC. He was a founder member of Unlimited Theatre and is an associate of live art company Third Angel.

​Jack Webb (Movement – Dance) is an award-winning independent choreographer/director, movement director, dancer and teacher based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has been working internationally for the past 16 years. He creates evocative and compelling dance performance that is strongly rooted in the dancing and moving body. His practice is concerned with a variety of enquiries that explore ways in which to transform and deconstruct the body, states of consciousness and being, distortion of the body and creation of dynamic softness and flow. His work is often influenced by and attempts to connect to the goings on in nature and in society, is of an existential nature and attempts to zoom in on the inner and outer landscapes of the performer and audience. Jack’s current enquiries are focused on finding choreographic languages that hone in on the human experience, purity of movement and image, life and movement in the in-between spaces and themes of belonging, loneliness and place that explore the longing for connection and meaning that exists within all of us. www.jackwebbdance.com

Image from Left: Lu Kemp, Top Row: Tim Licata, Rita McDade, Chris Thorpe, Xialou Guo, Bottom Row: Alex Bird, Mamoru Iriguchi, Jack Webb, EmmaClaire Brightlyn 

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Digital Archive: A Compendium of Climate Literacies

A Compendium of Climate Literacies

This is the digital archive of the experimental intensive/symposium ‘Turbulence / Emergence / Enchantment: A Compendium of Climate Literacies’ that took place at Cove Park between 4-7 November 2021. It brought together artists, writers, performers, academics, and activists from a wide range of backgrounds to discuss climate literacy.

In the Western tradition, language has been viewed as our most powerful tool for ordering and mastering the world around us. And yet more and more we are having to acknowledge our struggle in communicating the current environmental crisis and its unequally distributed effects.

How do language and action relate to each other in climate science, narrative and activism? How can we rethink our responses to classical and premodern legacies of environmental thinking to create new understandings for the present? How can we open ourselves to new kinds of environmental literacies that give space to the agency of the other-than-human and more-than-human worlds? How do we ensure that languages have an impact on global discourse, in a context where the privilege of climate speech is still dominated by the elite discourses of the Global North?

TURBULENCE, EMERGENCE and ENCHANTMENT, with their unsettling mix of positive and negative connotations, acted as guiding metaphors for the week.


The SoundCloud link below features: 

Introduction to Turbulence, Emergence, Enchantment by Maureen Penjueli, Coordinator of Pacific Network on Globalisation.

 


TURBULENCE

The first chapter includes discussions around the theme of ‘Turbulent are climate, geo-politics, and living beings.’ The Turbulence YouTube playlist features:

Video 1: Climate Clarity/Confusion/Change by Derya Akkaynak (Oceanographer)

Video 2: Disaster, grief, apocalypse and empire in ancient ecological thinking by Jason König (Professor of Greek, Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies, University of St Andrews)

Video 3: After Ice by Kieran Baxter (Heritage Landscape Visualiser, University of Dundee)

Video 4: ‘Restore to us the necessary blizzards’ by Christina Alt (Lecturer in English, University of St. Andrews)

 

The Turbulence SoundCloud playlist features:

Track 1: Purple Haze by Deborah Dixon (Professor of Geography, University of Glasgow)

Track 2: Turbulence by Andreas Malm (Associate Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University)

Track 3: Turbulence by Oana Aristide (Novelist)


EMERGENCE

The second chapter includes discussions around the theme of ‘Emergent is metamorphosis.’ The Emergence YouTube playlist features:

Video 1: The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes by Radha D’Souza (Professor of International Law, Development and Conflict Studies, Westminster Law School)

Video 2: Worm: art and ecology by Angela YT Chan (Independent Researcher, Curator and Artist)

Video 3: Listening with Another Ear by Annalee Davis (Artist, Cultural Instigator, Writer)

Video 4: Oceans in Transformation by Territorial Agency (Artists)

Video 5: The Swamp – a theory, a school, a design by Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas (Artists)

The Emergence SoundCloud playlist features:

Track 1: At the far end of the cave of gold by Col Gordon  (Farmer & Podcaster) and Iain MacKinnon (Assistant Professor, Centre for Agroecology, Coventry University)

Track 2: World Making by Ashish Ghadiali (Film-maker and Activist)

Track 3: An Inland Promenade by Fernando García-Dory (Artist)

Track 4: Emergence by Karen Guthrie (Artist, Film-maker and Gardener)


ENCHANTMENT

The final chapter includes discussions around the theme of ‘Enchantment is possibility of participating in the creation of just and environmentally thriving futures.’ The Enchantment YouTube playlist features:

Video 1: Small Acts of Hope and Lament by Janice Parker (Choreographer, Dance-maker)

Video 2: Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier (Professor of Literature and the Environment, University of Edinburgh)

Video 3: The Ecological Literacies of St. Hildegard of Bingen by Michael Marder (Ikerbasque Professor of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country)

Video 4: Marginalia by Katharine Earnshaw (Lecturer in Classics, University of Exeter) & Laura Hopes (Artist, Researcher)

Video 5: Language, silence & storytelling: to survive in the marine environment by Zoé Le Voyer & Justine Daquin (curators and co-founders of collective Calypso36°21)

     

The Enchantment SoundCloud playlist features:

Track 1: Epistemology of Caring by colectivo amasijo (Artists, Researchers, Food-makers)


Symposium participants also included: Tamara Colchester & Hermione Spriggs (Artists), Aka Niviâna (Poet, Activist), and Nada Tayeb (Architect, Food-maker).

This event signals a pivotal stage in the development of Cove Park. In its 21st year the organisation is moving beyond the boundaries of the traditional ‘time, space, freedom’ residency to include an enquiry-based model for facilitating cross-disciplinary work and collective intelligence around pressing global concerns. We are expanding the artforms and disciplines that are welcome to the residency, and enlarging its horizons towards other sectors, such as those of academic and scientific research, including the creative industries as a whole. On the occasion of COP26, Cove Park launched its first – and soon to become permanent – enquiry focussed on the environmental crisis and the radical change that our collective intelligence can affect in terms of climate action.

“Turbulence/ Emergence/ Enchantment: A Compendium of Climate Literacies” was organised in partnership with the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies and Professor Jason König at the University of St Andrews, London-based curator Lucia PietroiustiTBA21-Academy and Markus Reymann, and the School of Classics and the College of Arts and Humanities (Environmental Humanities Research Strand) of University College Dublin and Dr. Giacomo Savani. The symposium was made possible by funding from Arts & Business Scotland: Culture & Business Fund. Thanks to the Green Art Lab Alliance for their support and friendship.

 

Call for Applications – The Play Park

The Play Park is a pilot residency programme which takes shape around ideas and acts of ‘thresholding’: finding, inhabiting and expanding the edge between forms of practice, physical environments, species, social spaces, and gestures of communication. It will be led by practitioners who work on and across boundaries of theatre, dance, literature, visual arts and film, and whose own investigations have produced new forms of storytelling, interspecies collaboration and ethical reorientation. There will also be individual dialogues and facilitated movement, object manipulation and environmental research workshops on and around the Cove Park site.

The Play Park will be held over the week of Monday 28th March – Monday 4th April 2022 at Cove Park on Scotland’s west coast. Each of the 8 participants will be paid a fee for their contribution to the week, thanks to funding from Foyle Foundation and Garrick Charitable Trust.

We invite applications from mid-career theatre-makers from across the UK who wish to explore the dramaturgy of thresholds. The Play Park will be an opportunity to think, move and be together as researchers and collaborators, curious about deepening or extending practice.

Please read the full guidelines for more information, and to apply: The Play Park_guidelines V6

The deadline is Monday 8th November 2021.

Image: Ruth Little at work with Mavin Khoo and Akram Khan, Jean-Louis Fernandez 2019. 

Winter Subsidised Residencies 2022

Cove Park is delighted to offer opportunities for artists, researchers and makers from across disciplines to take up a subsidised residency in early 2022. Residencies are offered to individuals and groups working in the arts and the creative industries, in the humanities and sciences.

We are pleased to advertise these opportunities now, in the hope that those interested have enough time to apply for funding to support their residency. Please see this introductory list on our website for guidance as to where you might apply for financial support. Those who are employed might also consider a residency as part of their CPD, and approach their employer for funding.

Dates and Duration
In January & February 2022, residencies are for 6 or 13 nights, beginning on a Monday, ending on a Sunday. Applicants should identify their preferred duration residency dates from the following list:

    • Mon 10th – Sun 16th Jan
    • Mon 17th – Sun 23rd Jan
    • Mon 31st – Sun 6th Feb
    • Mon 7th – Sun 13th Feb
    • Mon 14th – Sun 20th Feb
    • Mon 21st – Sun 27th Feb
    • Mon 28th Feb – Sun 6th Mar

COVID-19
We reopened following the COVID-19 crisis and have been operating successfully since May 2021, in accordance with the latest Scottish government restrictions. Enhanced hygiene, regular testing and mask-wearing measures are in place to mitigate the risks of bringing COVID-19 to the site. You can read more about these measures here.

Please read the full guidelines – which include details of how to apply – here: SUBSIDISED WINTER 21-22 final.
The deadline is 22 November 2021.

Image by Tracey Bloxham / Inside Story Photography

 

Virtual Studio & Site Tour with Creative Entrepreneurs’ Club

On 25th May at 12pm, Cove Park will give a virtual studio tour and interview with Creative Entrepreneurs’ Club Director Medeia Cohan. The tour will take in Cove Park’s site, its buildings and facilities and will be followed by a conversation and Q&A between CEC’s membership and Cove Park’s CEO Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey and Partnerships Manager Catrin Kemp. Learn more and sign up here:

https://creativeentrepreneursclub.co.uk/event/cove-park-artists-residency-centre-visit/

About the Creative Entrepreneurs Club:
CEC is a home for like-spirited creative people looking to access powerful support, network with peers and develop new skills. Our members determine what we offer and we respond to the challenges that they tell us they’re facing by developing relevant content and training to support them.

We welcome creative entrepreneurs at all stages of their businesses, from those just starting out to those looking to exit.

Membership is free for a limited time at creativeentrepreneursclub.co.uk

Winter & Spring 2021 Independently-Funded Residencies

In January, February & March 2021 Cove Park will run a series of subsidised Independently-Funded residencies. These winter and spring residencies offer artists of all disciplines the chance to step away from their domestic sphere and spend time dedicated to their work and practice on Cove Park’s outstanding 50-acre site overlooking Loch Long on Scotland’s west coast.

The call out is aimed at artists of all disciplines, living and working in the UK. Due to the current circumstances relating to COVID-19, these residencies will begin on certain Mondays throughout January – March 2021.

Please read the Guidelines in full before applying.

The deadline for applications has been extended to 7th Dec 2020.

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Alumni Page Launched

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Alumni page on Cove Park’s website. This information and resource page highlights the ways in which we can continue to support and work with artists following their initial residencies.

Cove Park has hosted over 2,000 artists since its launch in 2000, taking part in Craft & Design, Film & Moving Image, Literature & Translation, Performing Arts and Visual Arts residencies. The success of this programme is due to our relationship with so many wonderful artists and we aim to keep in touch with as many of our former residents as possible. The principle of creating new opportunities for our alumni is very important to us and we will continue to update this page with news and projects of relevance to all our artists.

Image, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Henry Moore Fellowship Residency, 2008 (photography, Ruth Clark)

The Work Room/Cove Park Residencies 2020: Call for Applications

The Work Room and Cove Park are collaborating again in 2020 to offer two Work Room members a residency at Cove Park, for themselves with one or multiple collaborator/s from other disciplines. The residency is intended to bring a new dimension to a creative practice or practices. In 2019, we awarded two residencies, each comprising of two ‘artist weeks’ each.

The residencies will take place at Cove Park between May and October 2020.

These residencies are funded and each artist participating in this programme will receive a fee of £425 per week and free en-suite accommodation.

Find out more and how to apply here: The Work Room / Cove Park residencies 2020 – Application Guidelines

You can also find further information on The Work Room website.

Completed applications should be returned by email to sara@theworkroom.org.uk by 10th February 2020.

Applicants will be notified of the decisions by mid-March 2020.