Engage invites expressions of interest in our upcoming professional development programmes. By registering your interest, you will be the first to know when applications are open for these activities, and have a chance to ask questions which can support your application.
Use this form to register your interest. More information about upcoming programmes is below:
Exchange 2024-2025
Engage’s annual podcasts, Journal and Gathering are opportunities for professionals to share their own practice, learning and insights through dialogue, creative and critical writing, and workshop facilitation. We are looking for expressions of interest from visual arts engagement colleagues at all stages of their career who would benefit from training, mentoring and support to access these opportunities and create their own material for publication or public sharing.
- Applications will open in late summer 2024, and the programme will take place January – June 2025.
- Online training and peer learning includes developing writing skills and content, podcast creation, and facilitation techniques.
- There are 15 places available, open to colleagues working in the visual arts across the UK and internationally.
- Exchange is designed to support colleagues who experience barriers to career progression, or whose voices are underrepresented in visual arts engagement practice and criticism, for example: individuals who are ethnically or racially minoritised in the UK, Deaf and disabled individuals, individuals who identify as male or non-binary, and individuals from working class/lower socio-economic backgrounds.
- Exchange is free to participate in. Some financial support/ renumeration is available for freelance/ unsupported participants who go on to contribute to the podcasts, Journal or Gathering in 2025.
Other programmes are now live or open for applications, please visit their respective pages for more info: