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Frazzled in Bradford We had our first ever Frazzled Freelancers Board Game Night last week B radford Arts Centre  along with Bradford Producing Hub. It turns out exploring freelance working conditions with some dice and.....

We had our first ever 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙯𝙯𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙨 Board Game Night last week Bradford Arts Centre along with @bdproducinghub.co.uk. It turns out exploring freelance working conditions with some dice & a bag of frazzles is exactly what we all needed on a wet January night!
Photos: @tomwoollard.bsky.social

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Pause: A Self-Care Support for Producers is a resource for producers navigating burnout. Incl. 8 commissioned writings with personal insights from producers, practical reflections + useful signposting.

producergathering.com/resource/pause-for-producers/

@the-uncultured @producergathering

Find out more www.the-uncultured.com/blog/frazzle...

Made with thanks to @cassettewitch.bsky.social, Rob Sweeney, @sarahferraridesign.bsky.social, Connor Bowmott, @paulavarjack.bsky.social and Regan Mott. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Two versions of the same white person with mid-length brown hair, sitting playing a board game that is on fire. Both people look engaged but in jeopardy, Game pieces are flying out of the fire. The logo, and title of the board game, read: Frazzled Freelancers

We’ve only gone and made a bloody board game!

After years of researching and experiencing freelancer precarity and burnout, we’ve stepped out from behind our spreadsheets to design ‘Frazzled Freelancers’ - the fast paced roll-and-move board game for burnt out freelancers!

Game Night coming soon 🔥

A Black, female actor performs on stage. Red strips of fabric hang behind her as part of the set, and she holds a large round bowl. Her eyes are closed.

Are you a Black, Asian or ethnically diverse theatre maker in the North of England looking to make ambitious new work?

We’ve just launched the £2 million Theatre Breakthrough Fund - find out more 👇
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Image credit: Shadows In Different Shades by Oladipo Agboluaje
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Touring, parenthood and the art of making it work - Arts Professional Parents in the arts sector work in a system that fails to support them adequately. Here, producer and new mother Nora Laraki shares her experience of taking a baby on tour.

Parents in the arts sector work in a system that fails to support them adequately. Here, producer and new mother Nora Laraki shares her experience of taking a baby on tour.

Pause: A Self-Care Support for Producers is a resource for producers navigating burnout. Incl. 8 commissioned writings with personal insights from producers, practical reflections + useful signposting.

producergathering.com/resource/pause-for-producers/

@the-uncultured @producergathering

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ACE NEWS: if you're planning to go in for the new R&D NLPG, they will be adding a new dropdown next week so you can say you'd like your application to be considered for this strand, instead of the general NLPG.

It's already technically open, but there is no way to denote it's for that strand now...

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I wrote a small thing for this. Burnout is hard and tricky to find the edges of. Instead of looking directly at it I wrote about those bits around the sides.

ICYMI ✨

DYCP change: New Research and Development funding in National Lottery Project Grants All the information you need about the changes to Developing Your Creative Practice and National Lottery Project Grants

You can apply to this funding now, or if you would prefer, you can wait for the next round of Developing Your Creative Practice next April.

Take a look at the information on our website to learn more about this temporary change, and why we’ve made it 👇

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Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) Find out more about Developing your Creative Practice

NEW FROM ACE:
"We’re pausing the next round of DYCP, until April 2026 + using this year’s remaining DYCP budget to immediately launch a ringfenced £7.5 m Research&Development (R&D) fund within National Lottery Project Grants (NLPG)."
www.artscouncil.org.uk/dycp#t-in-pa...

Pause: A self-care support for producers - Producer Gathering PAUSE: A Self-Care Support for Producers. Co-produced by The Uncultured and Producer Gathering, with support from Artsadmin and Marlborough Productions, this resource offers a supportive lens on exper...

NEW RESOURCE!
Pause: A Self-Care Support for Producers is a new free resource for producers navigating burnout. Incl. 8 commissioned writings with personal insights from producers, practical reflections + useful signposting.
Co-produced by @the-uncultured.bsky.social @producergathering.bsky.social

Funding update 📢

Our National Lottery Project Grants strands for Major Projects, Place Partnerships, and Touring will be fully reopened on Monday, 20 October.

Access Support is available now. Find more information in our Q&A 👇
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Are you a live artist or practitioner eager to explore how and why you make?

Applications for Do It Together are now open!

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⏰Deadline to apply: Wednesday 12 November, 5pm

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This is what is says on the tin, but also: paying artists, creatives, producers & crew fairly & on time would deflate the false profit margins of *every* creative industry. Paying workers fairly wd "kill" industry *as an endless profit machine*. Not defending AI, saying this problem is baked in.

ACE funding: If you're applying for Arts Council England under £30k Project Grants and use our templates, make sure you download the newest version rather than using an old one as we've updated it to reflect the new form www.the-uncultured.com/resources-ar...

THE UNCULTURED 3 July 2025

We've updated our templates ever so slightly to reflect the changes so download the newest ones here: www.the-uncultured.com

✨That's all for our first day of play with it✨

When you press submit, it just submits!! There's no chance to pull off a PDF or to check through your answers - it's just gone! TERRIFYING.

I kept getting an error box that just said "null". I don't know what that was related to, but it felt slightly comforting because a random "null" was such a fixture of Grantium I'm hoping it's just one for the nostalgia fans.

In the budget personal access costs doesn't show up automatically anymore, so make sure you fill that in like any other budget line - they suggest you should add it as "a line" so maybe keep it to just one (?!)

You have to enter an end date as well as a start date to every entry on the timeline now - so put the same start and end date if it's just one day.

You now need to know the local authority that work is taking place in, rather than it auto-populating.

You can no longer tick that work is happening in one or more place and there's work happening nowhere specifically - you used to be able to tick both if you were doing an event and some non-location-specific research, but now you can't

Some of the character counts are lower - eg 300 instead of 800 for "Information used on who will experience your project" and 100 instead of 500 for "Who are you working with"

You need your example to be a weblink - doesn't seem to be optional, you have to enter a weblink.