Micro-commissions, and Making Work at Home

In this workshop, led by Jude Christian you will have the opportunity to  talk about the practicalities and possibilities of making work for a society in lockdown – the relationship between liveness and digital, how artists can engage with audiences and with each other, and how the work we make in these challenging times can help us lay fruitful ground for the future, as well as keeping us connected in the present.

Each workshop participant is invited to present their idea for a micro-commission to be made in lockdown, for feedback and discussion with the group. Each participant is invited to come to the workshop with an initial idea for a piece of work that follows the parameters of the Homemakers initiative Jude led on for HOME in Manchester when she was Associate Director.  An idea with a budget for £1000 for work of any form, scale, subject or duration, to be presented to an arts organisation’s audience through their website on a pay-what-you-decide basis.

You can get more information on Homemakers, including the complete set of commissions, at: https://homemcr.org/event/homemakers/

If you don’t want to present an idea but still want to attend the workshop, that’s fine. Jude will use the ideas presented as a starting point for discussion about the wider subject of creating work for an online audience, and also as a way of exploring constructive dramaturgy and feedback when discussing ideas.

If you are interested in attending, please click the sign-up button above and fill in your details.

We will ensure that access provision is in place for all participants. Please let us know if you have any access requirements using the space on the sign up form so we can get appropriate provision in place.

Closed captioning is available for all our Zoom workshops and details on how to use this will be provided on the day.

Zoom details will be sent to you the day before the session. This session will be recorded and made available afterwards.

 

Jude Christian has worked as a theatremaker, director, writer and dramaturg at the Royal Court, Royal Exchange, National Theatre, The Yard, Transform Festival (with RashDash), Royal Opera House (with Candoco), Lyric Hammersmith, the Bush and the Gate Theatre. In her recent role as Associate Director at HOME, she co-created Homemakers, a series of micro-commissions for artists to make work in their own homes, for an audience to engage with in theirs.

 

RTYDS is currently curating the Young Vic Directors Programme. You don’t need to be a member of the Genesis Network to take part in this session, but you do need to be a professional director, designer or producer and not in full time education.

You can find out more about the Young Vic Genesis Network and sign up here.

The Genesis Network is funded by the Genesis Foundation.