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📢 ANNOUNCEMENT! FINAL SESSION of our Early Career Mentorship Programme 2024/5 🌍Topic: Feast and Fellowship: Black Dance, Performance & Tech 📅Date: 14/03/2025 ⏲️Time: 18:00–20:30 GMT 📍Location: Swiss Cottage, London Register 📷digitalblkdance.org/get-involved/

📢 ANNOUNCEMENT! Session 4 of our Early Career Mentorship Programme 2024/5 🌎Topic: Making the Transition from the UK to and Academic Career in the USA 📅Date: 4th Feb 2025 ⏲️Time: 17:30–19:00 GMT Register 🔗digitalblkdance.org/get-involved/🔗

📢 Excited to announce Session 3 of our Early Career Mentorship Programme! 🎯 Topic: Your First Book Proposal & the Publication Process 📚 Led by Dr. Melissa Blanco Borelli 🗓 14 Jan 2025 | ⏰ 17:30–19:00 GMT | 💻 Free online event 🔗 Register ➡️digitalblkdance.org/get-involved/

We are excited to announce our Digital Horizons: Black Dance Artist's Residency, for UK-based Black dance artists interested in engaging digital and immersive technologies in their practice. 📆 31st January - 2nd February 2025 📍Birmingham Find out more at digitalblkdance.org/get-involved

After a brilliant first session, we will be returning for a second session in our ECR programme led by Professor Kate Elswit. This session will explore 'Developing a Competitive Research Profile in the UK'. Go to digitalblkdance.org/get-involved/ to get the sign-up link.

Join us for the first session of our Early Career Mentorship Programme led by Professor Patricia Noxolo. Professor Noxolo will be discussing 'Navigating Teaching, Mentorship, and Supervision in UK Higher Education as Black Faculty'. Use digitalblkdance.org/get-involved/ to sign up!

Callout to Black Early Career Academics in Dance, Performance and Technology. DBDE are launching a FREE Early Career Mentorship Programme providing specialist guidance on navigating academic systems and institutions. See more details and sign up via digitalblkdance.org/get-involved/

UPDATE! We have extended the deadline for applications for Seed Commission #1. New deadline Wednesday 19th June 2024 (17:00). Check out digitalblkdance.org/get-involved/ and apply.

📢 Two new commission-call outs from @DBDEproject 📅 Application deadline: 24th June 2024 Digital Seed Commission #2 @SerendipityInfo Unwired Studio & @clemencedebaig Immersive Seed Commission #3 Unwired Studio & @clemencedebaig More info: digitalblkdance.org/get-involved/

🔥Double Artist Commission Callout 🔥 Digital Seed Commission #2 with @SerendipityInfo Unwired Studio & @clemencedebaig Immersive Seed Commission #3 with Unwired Studio & @clemencedebaig More info ➡️ digitalblkdance.org/get-involved Applications due 24th June 2024

📢 An exciting opportunity from the Digital Black Dance Ecologies Network for a new digital dance commission. More details: digitalblkdance.org/get-involved/ Deadline: Wednesday 12th June, 5PM

Calling UK-based Black Dance Artists! Pitch your idea for an installation piece exploring Blackness and the environment for a seed commission opportunity in collaboration with @antoinemarcmove, MilkIt Studio and the @RGS_IBG digitalblkdance.org/get-involved Applications due 12th June

En route to London. Excited to be collaborating with the AHRC-funded @DBDEproject and the superstar @TiaMoniqueUzor on some workshops about doctoral research pathways for Black researchers in Dance Studies 🩷

📅 22nd May, 17:00-18:30 at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama A PhD workshop for Black artists and postgraduate students interested in the intersections between Black Dance, digital technologies, environmental justice and racial equity

London Application: Saturday 18th May 2024 London Workshop: Wednesday 22nd May 2024 LeedsApplication: Wednesday 30th May 2024 Leeds Workshop: Thursday 6th June 2024 Travel Bursaries available. Complete the application and enquiries to dbde@cssd.ac.uk. digitalblkdance.org/get-involved/

📢 New date added! The @DBDEproject will also be running the workshop ‘Exploring Black PhD Pathways in Dance’ on 6th June at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds. More details here: digitalblkdance.org/get-involved/