Calling all young artists and creative 16-24-year-olds in Peterborough…
Are you passionate about performance? Do you love challenging yourself and developing your skills? Will you take the lead in creating new arts and culture projects for Peterborough’s young people?
Apply to be a New Creative with Jumped Up Theatre today!
Who are the New Creatives?
Our New Creatives are a team of 16-to-24 year-olds who meet with the wider Jumped Up team on a regular basis to act as a Sounding Board. They review the work that goes on at Jumped Up Theatre and provide feedback on our projects.
This year’s team will also work with us to plan a creative project with an environmental focus that will appeal to Peterborough’s young people.
Apply To Be A New Creative
Are you interested in working with professional artists to develop your skills and create projects that appeal to other young people in Peterborough?
Apply to be a New Creative!
We are looking for 16-24-year-olds who are:
Driven
Responsible
Committed
Interested in performance/live events
Interested in exploring an environmental theme
Residents in Peterborough.
You can be from any background and don’t need to be an artist or performer. We would love to hear from you if you have felt under-represented or excluded from the arts before.
Save the Dates:
Our team of New Creatives will attend meetings that focus on personal development. We would ask that, if you apply, please do your best to be available to meet from 5:00pm-7:00pm on the following Wednesday evenings*:
2nd, 9th, 16th & 23rd October
6th, 13th, 20th & 27th November
*If you know you cannot attend a meeting or two, you are still welcome to apply; please just let Emily know during your post-application chat.
What’s in it for participants?
Meet and work with local and visiting professional artists.
Develop your voice and share your opinions in open conversation with the Jumped Up team.
Take part in workshops that develop your skills and perspective of live performance.
Make a difference to young people in your city by creating projects that appeal to them.
Grow your networks and make new friends by meeting like-minded people with similar interests.
Take part in voluntary activities and skill development.
Generate material for your CV, College or University application, or DofE evidence.
Be paid a bursary of up to £192 based on attendance to spend on arts activities, equipment and trips.
To apply, fill in our online form below, or get in touch directly with Emily, our Participation Producer via email or via phone call.
Please note Emily generally works Tuesdays - Thursdays.
Emily will invite you for an informal chat about your application within 2 weeks of applying.
Please note: The deadline for applications is Monday 30 September.
Participating Artists in the 2024 Programme:
Our New Creatives will work with professional artists to develop new creative and artistic skills in Poetry & Writing, Dance & Movement, Songwriting and Theatremaking. Here are some details about participating artists.
Jenna Unwin
(Dance & Movement)
Jenna is a neurodivergent performance artist from rural Cambridgeshire, based in Peterborough. She has trained and worked as a company dancer for almost 10 years, with companies such as DV8, Jasmin Vardimon & Anatomical.
As a dyspraxic dancer, Jenna now advocates for movement as pleasure and embodied storytelling. In 2022, Jenna created The Noted Liar, her first solo exploration as part of an MNAN residency at Metal. She performed alongside Touretteshero in an Unlimited micro-commission piece named HERE:NOW. Both pieces included verbatim interviews with the public about how our environment impacts who we are, focussing on loneliness and rurality. Through her DYCP (Developing a Methodology, 2024), she has spent the last 6 months discovering her own voice/practice as an artist.
Jenna interviews real people to collect true stories, and then creates shows that capture the real human experience.
Jason Mitchell
(Theatremaking)
Jason has been performing and making theatre for some time. He started as a full-time professional actor, working for some fantastic theatre companies. That journey led him to the world of Half Mask, Full Mask and Theatre Clown.
Jason began training in Clown and found it a joy to learn something where laughing is at the centre. This inspired him to think about how clown training helps to look at the idea of change, social change.
Jason is an artistic director of Small Nose…Small Change C.I.C. - who have been devising shows and workshops using the ideas of curiosity, play, and creativity to ask questions and explore the answers to find the things we share and care about.
Yvonne Hercules
(Songwriting)
Yvonne Hercules is a singer-songwriter/artist & performer based in Cambridge UK. Her music has received nods from publications including Clash Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, Afropunk, and others and she has received support from PRS Foundation, Arts Council England towards her work.
Inspired by Folk, Blues, Rock & Soul, her songs are a culmination of these genres underpinned by honest, thought-provoking lyrics. She also draws on inspiration from visual mediums outside of music including nature, art & film, with visual concepts often coinciding alongside her songs.
Lauren Kendrick
(Poetry & Writing)
Lauren Kendrick is Peterborough’s Poet Laureate, Chair of the Peterborough Food Partnership and Strategy. She’s also the founder of Flourish.
Lauren is passionate about art, community engagement, access to food and growing.
What have the New Creatives done before?
There are a wide range of projects that a New Creatives team can take charge of. Here are a few examples of what previous teams have worked with Jumped Up to develop.
Style Stories (2024)
Our current team of New Creatives are busy running the Style Stories project. A celebration of the clothes that we grow to love and have fun with, as well as an informative and sustainability-focused initiative that is designed to encourage participants to save and repair clothes they own rather than always buy new ones.
Surfing Sofas (2023)
The New Creatives team worked with writer, Surfing Sofas, and local organisations Peterborough Citizens and the Light Project to produce a creative response to youth homelessness in Peterborough.
Right Here, Right Now (2022)
Right Here, Right Now is an online zine curated by the New Creatives of that year, with local design co-op, Paper Rhino. This time capsule of writing, drawings, videos and audio reveals what was important to Peterborough’s young people in that year.
Fierce Talent (2021)
Fierce Talent was Jumped Up Theatre's second creative campaign for Peterborough, co-created with the New Creatives. This campaign was a response the importance of creativity during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for young people. The New Creatives worked with local artist, Charley Genever, and film company, Reckless Abandon Media, to create a film that you can watch here.
A History In Photos: Select an image below to learn more about a project…
