Bounce professional development programme is looking for contemporary circus and outdoor arts professionals who wish to expand their creative, relational and business capacities, and reflect on their professional environment in the light of the topic of fair practices and working conditions.
By Creatives Unite CommunityDeadline: April 3, 2025
Organizer: Circostrada
Who is it for?: Circus and outdoor arts professionals
Apply here.
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BOUNCE is a mentoring programme designed to offer a supportive space for professionals with 4 to 10 (maximum) years of experience. It offers opportunities for networking, extends professional connections, and fosters awareness around fair practices and equitable working conditions, while providing tools to advance the mentee’s project and to make them better equipped to implement change in their professional practice.
Objectives
- To encourage mutual transmission between more emergent and more experienced contemporary circus and outdoor arts professionals;
- To help tomorrow's contemporary circus and outdoor arts professionals grow and gain experience;
- To enrich and diversify the understanding of the issues and realities of the contemporary circus and outdoor arts sectors;
- To connect the next contemporary circus and outdoor arts professionals with one another in order to develop a sustainable community of solidarity;
- To foster awareness on the topic of fair practices and equitable working conditions.
Eligibility Criteria
- Professionals from the contemporary circus and outdoor arts sectors residing preferably in Creative Europe eligible countries;
- The candidate must have between 4 to 10 years of professional experience in the contemporary circus and outdoor arts fields;
- The candidate must be working in the field of contemporary circus or outdoor arts and have a specific project as the focus for this programme.
What kind of proposals can you submit?
Bounce is dedicated to contemporary circus and outdoor arts professionals who wish to expand their creative, relational and business capacities, and reflect on their professional environment in the light of the topic of fair practices and working conditions.
Example of contemporary circus and outdoor arts projects that can be submitted (non-exhaustive list):
- Production of a festival programming;
- Editorial projects (print and digital);
- Development of a cultural centre programming;
- Production of academic events (laboratories, symposiums, hackathons, etc.);
- Development and production of residencies.
If this programme is for you please read more about the application details, eligibility criteria and programme timeline on Bounce's official website.
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Main image credit: Circostrada
