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Hi Camille - we've been working with Virtual Umbrella on the content for this programme. It's certainly worth contacting them - www.virtualumbrella.marketing

Hope that's helpful.

VR is able to offer different types of experiences, from mindfulness and poetry to gaming or history, you can find something for everyone. Our #DigitalSpaces project places VR in libraries and is opening doors to new audiences and possibilities.

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The @theturing.bsky.social has announced an Open AI Fellowship.

Researchers & technologists can spend 12 months as a Fellow with the Turing, embedded within the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and anchored with the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence.

Why come to BEYOND Conference in November? BEYOND brings together a unique gathering of innovators, business leaders, creatives, researchers, policy makers, journalists and funders, all focused on Research and Development across the Creative Industries. - Connect with future collaborators, researchers and funders - Experience pioneering R&D projects - Engage with the global conversation on innovation, creativity, and opportunity - Explore the relationship between creative research and business innovation. Join us in MediaCity Salford, on 24-26 November - Super Early Bird tickets available now! Why Come to BEYOND?

Why come to BEYOND Conference?

- Connect with collaborators, researchers, funders
- Experience pioneering R&D projects
- Engage with the global conversation on innovation, creativity, opportunity.
- Explore the relationship between creative research and business innovation.

MediaCity, 24-26 Nov!

Basic Income for Artists continues to have a positive impact | Social Justice Ireland In a newly commissioned report on the Basic Income for the Arts (BIA), more than 50 recipients were interviewed by a sociologist to talk about the changes…

Ireland extends basic income for artists pilot by six months as it continues to have a positive impact.

Edinburgh City Festivals | Experience the Festival Spectacle in 2025 Everything you need to know about the Edinburgh Festivals. What's on and when, how to get here and what to experience while you're in the leading festival city in the world.

Today sees the opening of a bunch of Festivals in Edinburgh, including @edfringe.bsky.social.

Check them out ⬇️ ⬇️

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How can practitioners and policymakers measure the cultural vitality of their communities? A new project from the Centre for Cultural Value aims to deepen that understanding, as Rob Eagle and Anna Kime explain. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...

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🔊 Content creators 🔊

@nftsfilmtv.bsky.social has teamed up with YouTube to launch Creator Incubator - a new 12-month diploma course to support the next generation of creators and digital producers.

The course is free to all selected participants.

Find out more ➡️ buff.ly/gFPiQW3

Could a micro or nano influencer be just what you need to attract new audiences to your projects? Find out how to find the right fit over on our YT channel.

👀 Full vid: bit.ly/44OTl26
⚡ 5 min highlights: bit.ly/3GFA3nV

#InfluencerMarketing

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📢 Commissioning opportunity

Culture House Sunderland seeks to commission an artist or artistic collective to deliver Timepiece, an audiovisual installation that will be exhibited digitally on screens in the venue's new atrium space.

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Toni Iommi stands in front of a white board featuring tributes and drawings of Black Sabbath

As tributes are paid to the Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, we look back at the Home of Metal project that celebrated 50 years of the iconic band.

In 2019, we supported @homeofmetaluk.bsky.social‬ Black Sabbath – 50 Years, at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

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Immersive Experience Network Summit 25 Bringing together creators of live, immersive, and interactive experiences - to connect, collaborate, and innovate.

This October, Immersive Experience Network will gather live and immersive creators for 2 days of innovation, inspiration, and insights.

Meet with new collaborators, discuss the latest trends shaping live and immersive experiences.

📅 20th & 21st October 2025

📍 Beams, East London

Financial Resources - Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme - RTYDS Navigating Your Finances Freelancing in our industry can be precarious and unpredictable, with a baseline economic model known for its inequality, inaccessibility and squeezed resources. For an…

Are you a working class freelancer in the arts? @RTYDS has created some financial resources to help artists from low socio-economic backgrounds navigate self-employment & benefits.
Check out their advice leaflet & @turn2us_org Benefits Calculator: www.rtyds.co.uk/financial-resources

Our #DigitalSpaces project continues it's tour of libraries and we'e delighted to have reached #Sunderland.

Try an exciting collection of VR experiences in your local library. Drop in this July -

It's FREE, no booking required: buff.ly/vBiCOv3

Zealous - Submissions Management Done Right Banish chaos, supercharge submissions. Accept entries, judge and vote on our intuitive, seamless platform.

🏆 Submit your digital work to the Artist of the Future Prize.

There's a prize worth up to £10,000 – consisting of £5,000 cash and a £5,000 media package designed to elevate your profile.

Shortlisted entrants will be exhibited within a major exhibition space at Saatchi Gallery.

XO LABS — Jobs - Crossover Labs XO LABS Website

Immersive Arts Producers - Crossover Labs is looking for someone to work with them on the Immersive Arts UK programme.

Help them produce projects with artists who are experimenting with new technologies.

Apply before 23 July ➡️.

Responsible AI Practical Toolkit Resources to help creative and cultural organisations create Responsible AI policies and practices.

🤔 Unsure about using AI?

@artscouncilengland.bsky.social has created a toolkit made up of seven guides to help you take a thoughtful and collaborative approach to building AI policies and practices that match your organisation’s purpose.

Amazon launches £30,000 creative grants for underserved UK communities Through its new Regional Creatives Fund, Amazon will help charities create pathways into creative careers.

Amazon is supporting charities which develop creative careers with the launch of its Regional Creatives Fund.

🌠 It offers grants of up to £30,000 to charities that help underserved communities pursue their creative ambitions.

Catherine explores what makes an immersive experience genuinely meaningful and memorable from the audience’s perspective.

👀 Read Catherine's advice regarding 3 basic steps to a great VR, AR or projection experience for broad audiences.

🥽🕹📹 What do audiences want from immersive experiences? We asked Catherine Allen, CEO of Limina Immersive - a company that has run hundreds of VR events. They have witnessed the potential of immersive media for broad audiences and found increased demand for this sort of experience.

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Black Country creatives - Find out about CreaTech | The Space Here's an opportunity for creatives across the Black Country to find out a little more about what is on offer from CreaTech Frontiers.   CreaTech Calling creatives across the Black Country - Find out…

🚩 Calling creatives across the Black Country.

CreaTech Frontiers is offering support and grants of £5k and £10k to help bring your creative and innovative ideas to life

Find out more in an info session:

🗓️ Wednesday 16th July
🕛 13:00 – 14:00
📍 Online via Zoom

Register ➡️

Award European Art Explora - Académie des beaux-arts 180,000 € to renew the dialogue between the arts and audiences Open to all European cultural organizations, from all artistic sectors, Award supports innovative practices in audience access,…

Art Explora is an international foundation that inspires new encounters between arts and audiences – locally, nationally and internationally. They are looking for innovative projects that enhance audience engagement.

Up to €50,000 available to support innovative practices.

Anti-racist Museums Programme - Museums Association Join our cohort of museums working towards becoming anti-racist organisations

Last chance to apply | Join our next Anti-racist Museums Programme cohort 📝

We're looking for six museums that want to make progress towards becoming anti-racist organisations, creating meaningful change in the UK museum sector through organisational and professional development.

Apply by 9 July 👇

We supported #thearthouse #wakefield on Paradise Carpet: An Audio-Visual Meditation.

Designed and animated by Zara Hussain, the work is voiced in languages including English, Arabic, Kurdish, and Urdu.

You can watch the meditation here:

📽️ 📺 There's a new Film and Television festival headed our way.....

Taking place in #Birmingham, 16-20 July.

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#FilmFestival

Arts Pay 2025: Largest survey of cultural sector earnings and conditions launches - Arts Professional Arts Professional has launched its latest Pulse survey to examine policy and practice in the cultural sector. Previous Pulse surveys on the subject of arts pay were conducted in 2022 and 2018. We want...

Arts Professional has launched its latest Pulse survey to examine policy and practice in the cultural sector.

Work for us INQUEST is currently recruiting for a caseworker.

Passionate about social justice, collaborative creation and memorialising?

Apply for a paid 3-month residency at @inquest-org.bsky.social.

Explore themes of state violence, death, grief and abolition through community engagement and creative practice.

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Total project fee £6,000

XR Network+: Exhibition and XR Two R&D projects looking at how XR is shaping the present and future of installations and exhibitions

Join us from 2pm on 14 July to explore how XR technologies are changing how exhibitions are presented to audiences. With speakers from @teessideuni.bsky.social & @lcflondon.bsky.social plus artist Lucy Wheler and producer/director Ellie Land. More info & tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/1399309766...

Vocalize: training the voices of the future | The Space Create your own voice reel with Vocalize and Hayley - one of the world’s leading AI voice over agencies.

The team took Vocalize to @hayfestival.bsky.social‬ where they had over 1000 people go through it with amazing feedback. Stephen Fry popped along to speak to his AI clone too!

Congratulations to all involved.

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