Sound and Music - In Motion
You will receive an artist bursary of £1,800 and can access a production grant of up to £6,000 to support with the development of a new creative idea or project. In Motion is an artist-development programme, and the focus is on your artistic and professional development, which you will achieve by planning and developing a creative project.
While on the programme, you will have opportunities to network and you will receive guidance and support from accredited coaches and Sound and Music's expert team.
For this programme, you must be curious and want to experiment with new ways in how you make work and sustain your career.
You must have a capacity to self-reflect and lead a creative process, and take initiative for your own learning and development, in order to best benefit from the 1:1 and group support Sound and Music offer on the programme.
In Motion focuses around what we call a step-change, a significant development or shift in your artistic or professional practice that will make a big difference to you as an artist in achieving your goals and building a sustainable career.
For example, you might want to:
- Develop an area of work that’s completely new to you, or create work outside a ‘pigeonhole’
- Engage new audiences and communities for your work
- Explore areas of your solo practice more deeply
- Bring together previously different areas of your practice
- Explore and understand how to work with your own access needs
- Explore what success means to you in your work
- Explore your working processes more deeply
- Develop work on a larger scale
- Take risks in a supportive setting
- Work with new collaborators or art forms
Sound and Music are making some changes to the way you apply to this programme, so if you have applied to In Motion or New Voices in the past, please read carefully.
Eligibility criteria
To be eligible to apply you must:
- Be over 18 years old at the point of applying
- Not be in full or part-time education (in any subject and including PhDs) between April 2025-November 2026
- Have been based in the UK for the last two years
- Plan to remain resident, and have permission to stay, in the UK until November 2026
- Provide two recordings of your works
- Only have one open application with us (i.e., if you have applied for the Essentials Fund you need to withdraw that application first before applying to In Motion)
If you have been on an artist development programme with Sound and Music previously that isn't In Motion, you are eligible to apply to In Motion, but you will need to make a case for why you need further support, particularly if you received support from Sound and Music recently.
Learn more about Sound and Music In Motion here.
Apply for Sound and Music In Motion here.
Deadline for applications is: Wednesday 4 December 2024, 23:59 GMT.