Advice, funding, resources, and tips for staying creative during the Covid-19 pandemic
Covid-19 support
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These are uncertain times for all of us around the world, and events are changing day by day. We've put together a selection of resources, which we hope will make things a little easier to navigate. Our team are working from home, but our inboxes are open. If you need to reach out to us please contact us: via Twitter @BritishArts, Instagram or Facebook.
Advice
- British Council Arts response
- Arts Council response
- Creative Scotland response
- Money Advice Service
- HMRC hotline for freelancers worrying about paying tax
- Looking after your mental health during the Corona Virus
- Advice for independent art workers
- Resources for disabled artists and freelancers in response to COVID-19
- Response from Equity — the UK's trade union for creative practitioners
- Guidance for ITC (Independent Theatre Council) members
- Advice from Creative Europe
Create and Connect
- Build your digital skills: The Space has a number of resources for moving your activities online, whether that's podcasting, livestreaming or VR filming
- Create with the web: creative writing, video editing and more
- Daily creative challenges from 64 Million Artists
- Free resources from the National Activity Providers
- AMA (Arts Marketing Organisation) are offering free digital skills training online
- Voluntary Arts are hosting a daily get together of artists
- Advice from Medium about running a workshop online
- UK Theatre Industry corona support Facebook group
- Connect with other producers on Twitter using the hashtag #axisonline
- Free advisory service from ArtsAdmin
- Facebook page to support Creative Practitioners
- Arts Council resources on improving digital skills
- Discover free resources from the Craft Council
- A supportive hub for artists from 'Join the dots', a community of creative practitioners
Funding and Opportunities
- A round up of emergency funding from Grants Online
- Arts Council England emergency funding measures
- Help Musicians financial hardship fund
- Artists general benevolent fund
- Film and television charity
- Help for muscians
- Stagehand benevolent fund
- Actors benevolent fund
- Arts Fundraising & Philanthrophy have launched a virtual networking fund
- Paul Taylor-Mills has raised over £10,000 as funds for freelancers
- Wales Arts Review emergency bursaries
- Coventry 2021 resilience fund
- Navigation funding opportunities during Covid-19
- Society of authors emergency fund
- Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) has an open curatorial competition for architects around the world. Apply by 27 April.
- Welfare support for those in the furniture industry
- The Jameel Prize from the V&A, devoted to contemporary design inspired by Islamic tradition
- Papatango Theatre are providing small commissions for 2-4 minute monologues
Discover
- Our Theatre and Dance team have put together a list of theatre productions you can watch online
- Culture in Quarantine brings you a festival of art online from the BBC and the Arts Council
- 'Look at Paintings' provides audio meditations around different artworks
- Best European theatre to watch online
- Social distancing festival of live streams
- National Theatre are showing their past productions on YouTube every Thursday
- Institute Francais have launched a MOOC: Understanding Fashion from Business to Culture
- Beastly - who run creative apps for children, have made their resources free. Perfect if you're homeschooling.
- Free distance learning resources from the Smithsonian lab
- Sadler's Wells have put many of their performances online
- Join a Frida Kahlo exhibition online
- BauHaus online exhibition
- Designo magazine's back catalogue is now available to read for free
- 'How to draw' series on YouTube
