Samānatā Comission

SOUTH ASIAN QUEER PERFORMANCE SEED COMMISSIONS

Jaivant Patel Company and Kala Sangam, Bradford are jointly offering seed commissions for South Asian LGBTQIA+ identifying artists/creatives to support the development of innovative new performance-based work. Samānatā translates as equality.

This is currently the UK’s only seed commission for South Asian Queer performance.

 Seed commission applications for this performance-based work will place South Asian Queerness at the forefront of its subject matter, to address current under-representation on the UK cultural landscape.

“Samānatā is an opportunity to contribute towards increasing South Asian LGBTQIA+ narratives in performance-based contexts across the UK cultural landscape. As an associate company of Kala Sangam who have been commsioners and advocators of of the South Asian Queer professional touring work of Jaivant Patel Company, it makes perfect sense for both organsiations to join forces in this initiative to aDdress under-representation of marginalised artists/creatives.” - Jaivant Patel

What we’re looking for:

  • New work: new ideas, or projects still at the early work-in-progress stage and performance-based in nature created by South Asian LGBTQIA+ identifying artists/creatives.

  • Work exploring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual + (LGBTQIA+) and/or gender themes.

  • Work that reflects current social, political, or cultural concerns.

  • Bold, unconventional, and innovative work, that takes performance artforms in new directions. Applications involving cross-artforms welcome.

  • Devised, self-made and/or solo work.