About MAKE
MAKE is taking place at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Co Monaghan
Saturday 7 – Saturday 14 December 2024
MAKE is an artist development programme and residency initiative of Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Project Arts Centre and Performing Arts Forum. It is open to artists for the purpose of generating new performance work outside of the traditional writer-led model at all career levels.
Since the first MAKE in 2009, over 175 Irish and international artists have been MAKE residents, receiving mentoring support from renowned international theatre makers. Past programmes have borne highly acclaimed performance work and collaborations going on to tour here in Ireland and internationally. See who has participated in MAKE here.
MAKE 2024
The 16th MAKE residency will run from Saturday 7 – Saturday 14 December 2024. This year, we are taking the MAKE programme back to its home at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre Annaghmakerrig Co Monaghan for a week of mentorship, collaboration and peer support.
Successful applicants will receive:
- Support and guidance from an international mentor
- Group sessions with a network of peers
- Support from the MAKE partners
- Access to space in The Tyrone Guthrie Centre
- Accommodation for 7 nights
- Workspace
- Artist fee of €600
- All meals will be provided
- Transfers bus from Dublin to Annaghmakerrig
The MAKE coordinating team will collaborate with the selected artists to create a programme that fits their needs, and delivers the optimum conditions for developing their work and connecting with their peers and mentors.
Eligibility
MAKE takes the form of an annual residential laboratory where ideas for new performance work are developed with the mentorship of renowned theatre artists and for some, in collaboration with other participants. MAKE puts emphasis on the generation of new performance work outside of the traditional writer-led model. It is open to artists exploring a variety of dramaturgical models in their work including devised work, documentary theatre work, text-driven work using found or fragmentary texts, music theatre, new writing experimenting with form, digital and interactive presentation formats.
MAKE offers mentorship to develop theatre and performance projects, working individually or in collaboration with other artists. Groups of up to two artists are welcome to apply.
Applications are welcome from Ireland-based and international artists.
Application
This edition of MAKE is tailored for artists who are:
Developing a new performance work or
Seeking new approaches to connecting with their artistic practice
Complete this online application form.
This is a summary of what you will need to prepare to complete the form:
- Outline your work to date and include, where available, online links to videos and reviews of this work. (200-250 words)
- Outline how you meet the criteria of MAKE as an artist making new performance work outside of the traditional writer-led model? (100-150 words)
- Tell us about what you propose to work on during the week at MAKE? This can be a proposal for developing a new performance work or seeking new approaches to connecting with your artistic practice (200 – 250 words)
- What do you think you would get out of MAKE? (200-250 words)Finally, there are referees and a CV upload.
Full attendance from Saturday 7 – Saturday 14 December 2024 is required.
The deadline for receipt of applications is 5pm on Monday 14 October.
The MAKE partners are dedicated to ensuring that the programme is accessible to all artists, regardless of their circumstances. If additional support would enable your participation, please let us know in your application. We will work with you individually to explore how we can help address any barriers, within the limits of our budget.
Selection
The selection panel uses the following criteria:
- Artistic output to date
- Artistic ethos and ambition of the applicant’s proposal
- Benefit that participating in this edition MAKE would offer artist
- The group dynamic
Apply
If you have any questions or queries, email Paul paul@performingartsforum.ie.
Closing Date For Applications 5pm on Monday 14 October.
Up to three mentors will be taking part in MAKE. The confirmed mentor(s) are as follows:
MAKE Mentors
Francisco Frazão
Francisco is artistic director of Teatro do Bairro Alto, a recent city theatre in Lisbon devoted to experimental, emerging and international work. TBA has so far presented pieces by Gob Squad, Tim Crouch, Tania El Khoury, Alessandro Sciarroni, nora chipaumire, Lucy McCormick, Rimini Protokoll, Brokentalkers, or Sh!t Theatre, while also co-producing a host of local artists. From 2004 to 2017 Francisco was theatre programmer at arts centre Culturgest. He has worked as dramaturg (namely for theatre company Artistas Unidos) and translated works by Beckett, Pinter, Howard Barker, Tim Crouch, Annie Baker, Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells, Dennis Kelly, Zinnie Harris, and Lola Arias. He has also written and taught classes and seminars on theatre, film and literature. He was one of the mentors for MAKE 2017.
Sonya Lindfors
Sonya is a Cameroonian – Finnish award-winning choreographer and artistic director that also works with facilitating, community organising and education. In 2013 she received a MA in choreography from the University of the Arts Helsinki.
She is the founding member and Artistic Director of UrbanApa, an inter-disciplinary and counter hegemonic arts community that offers a platform for new discourses and feminist art practices. UrbanApa facilitates workshops, festivals, labs, mentoring and publications among other things.
Lindfors makes her own and collaborative works such as performances, curated programs and performative actions. Her performance works have been shown and supported by Beursschouwburg, Kampnagel, Spring Utrecht, CODA – festival, Black Box Theater Oslo, Zodiak – Centre for New Dance among others. She is a member of Miracle Workers Collective that represented Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale.
Lindfors’s recent works One Drop& common moves (2023), We Should All Be Dreaming, camouflage (2021), Soft Variations Online (2020) centralise questions around Blackness and Black body politics, representation and power structures, speculative futurieties and decolonial dreaming practices. On a larger scale Lindfors’s time is divided between her own artistic work , educational work and working as the artistic director of UrbanApa. In all her positions she pursues creating and facilitating anti-racist and feminist platforms, where a festival, a performance, a publication or a workshop can operate as the site of empowerment, decolonial speculative practices and radical collective dreaming.
Lindfors has been awarded with several prizes, the latest of which being the State Prize for Public Information in 2022 and the international Live art Anti Prize 2018. During the season 2017 – 2018 Lindfors was the house choreographer for Zodiak – center for new dance.More info:
www.sonyalindfors.com
www.urbanapa.fi
Photo Credit: Tuukka Ervasti
Ragnheiður Skúladóttir
Ragnheiður was born and raised in ReykjavÃk.  She finished her BA in theatre and multimedia at the University of Iowa in 1991 and her MFA at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 1996. Following her studies she moved to New York City where she  lived and worked as a performer, performance maker, coach and instructor. In 2000, following a 13 year stint in the U.S, she moved back to ReykjavÃk  after being offered the position of  Dean of Department of Performing Arts at then newly founded Iceland University of the Arts. Ragnheiður worked at the Academy until 2011, initiating new programs in contemporary performance practices and contemporary dance. In 2008 she co-founded the LÓKAL International Theatre Festival, an annual event that presents new local and international work in the field of theatre and performance. She was artistic director of the Akureyri City Theatre from 2012 to 2015 and manager of Iceland Dance Company 2016-2019. Ragnheiður is the artistic director and CEO of Festspillene i Nord-Norge since 2019.
Ragnheiður has years of experience as teacher and mentor (at IAA, University of Syracuse, Academy for Scenekunst in Fredrikstad, MAKE Ireland, NB8 Nordic Circle Mentoring Program, Future Leaders in the Performing Arts). She has also worked with various artists/groups as a producer and as a critical friend (Kviss búmm bang, Dance for Me, Shalala, Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir)