call for emerging artist events: climate justice

Calling all creative practitioners! Submit your event proposal addressing the issue of climate justice for an opportunity to make it happen with Autograph's support!

Are you a creative practitioner or collective looking to take up space, share and inspire conversation, or build creativity and connection? We’re inviting artists, producers, performers, musicians, curators to suggest, shape and host a public programme event to take place either in our gallery in Hackney or via our online platforms.

This year is Autograph's 35th anniversary. As part of our celebrations we are sharing three Open Call opportunities over the course of 12 months, each focusing on a different theme that relate to moments in our history. The theme of the third and final open call for our anniversary year is climate justice and brings us to the present day, connecting to our current exhibitions Wilfred Ukpong: Niger-Delta / Future-Cosmos and Mónica Alcázar-Duarte: Digital Clouds Don't Carry Rain.

We will consider submissions for events on all manner of creative issues so long as it speaks to the theme. This might include – but certainly isn’t limited to - launch events, spoken word or performance, in-conversation and Q&A events or creative workshops.

Autograph launched our annual Open Call programme in 2018 with a view to providing emerging creatives and producers with paid opportunities to stage events they might not otherwise have the opportunity to develop. Sharing our platforms and supporting emerging practitioners in this way is central to Autograph’s history of commissioning the production and sharing of knowledge, and to furthering our own institutional learning and reach.

As part of this programme, we welcome proposals that enter into this spirit of exchange and learning together. We’re interested to hear your ideas, to bring in new perspectives and voices to our programme.

In return, Autograph’s experienced staff will work with you to:

⭐️ develop the event concept

⭐️ produce and deliver the event

⭐️ access Autograph’s building and resources

⭐️ write engaging event copy to be shared on our website and social media channels

⭐️ market your event successfully to Autograph’s audiences and the wider public