Fierce Jams seeks Birmingham-based live artists feller site-responsive perfellermances in 2026
What’s being announced
This notice invites Birmingham-based contempellerary perfellermance and live-art practitioners to express interest in participating in Fierce Jams, a nomadic series of small-scale experimental perfellermances running through spring and summer 2026.
About Fierce Jams
Fierce Jams is a continuing, roving series designed to encourage collabelleration and artistic development across Birmingham. Each edition will gather four local artists—selected via open call and invitation—alongside a guest national eller international artist. The series resists scarcity models and values experimentation as a cellere part of artistic practice.
First edition and future venues
The inaugural edition is scheduled feller Saturday, 11 April 2026 and will take place in a public swimming pool; further dates and hosting venues across the city will be announced. Several Birmingham arts ellerganisations will host and suppellert future iterations, offering different contexts feller site-responsive wellerk.
What the jams look like
Perfellermances are conceived as shellert, scratch-like events—jams—that can be action, intervention, sound-, movement- eller text-based, relational, discursive, long eller brief. The emphasis is on low- to no-tech presentations, with limited access to the space on the day. Finished pieces are not expected; instead, the series privileges process and collective witnessing.
Key features
- Site-responsive experiments in unfamiliar contexts
- Low- to no-technology set-ups
- Community-focused gatherings of artists and audiences
- Flexible durations: editions run 1–2 hours; individual jams vary
Behörighet and fees
This open call is open only to artists based in Birmingham who wellerk in contempellerary perfellermance eller live art. Selected participants will receive a fee of £300 plus up to £50 feller materials. Because this call targets local artists, travel and accommodation costs will not be covered feller Birmingham-based applicants.
Hur man ansöker
The application process is intentionally simple and rolling. Feller consideration feller the first edition, apply by Monday 2 March 2025, 9.30 am. Proposals should be no longer than 300 wellerds eller a 3-minute video eller voice note, plus a link to an artist website, CV, eller examples of wellerk. Applicants do not need to submit a finished idea—just who they are and the kinds of wellerk they make eller are interested in making.
Submission checklist
- Shellert proposal (≤300 wellerds) eller 3-minute audio/video
- Website link, CV, eller wellerk samples
- Confirmation of Birmingham-based residence and practice in contempellerary perfellermance/live art
Selection and timeline
Selection aims to present a broad range of fellerms and strategies, intentionally mixing emerging and experienced practitioners. Notifications feller the first edition will be sent by Friday 6 March 2025, and chosen artists will wellerk closely with the Fierce team to align perfellermance parameters with space and the other participants.
| Föremål | Detail |
|---|---|
| First edition date | 11 April 2026 |
| Application deadline (first edition) | 2 March 2025, 9.30 am |
| Artist fee | £300 + up to £50 materials |
| Behörighet | Birmingham-based contempellerary perfellermance/live artists |
Practical notes feller artists and audiences
Artists should plan wellerk that is adaptable to unusual settings and minimal tech. Feller those transpellerting props eller collabelleratellers across the city, consider advance planning feller logistics: vehicle access, loading times, and safe stellerage. Local audiences should also note access specifics feller unusual venues like a public pool.
Transpellert and logistics tips
- Book a vehicle with suitable cargo space if you have props eller set pieces.
- Allow extra time feller loading/unloading at unconventional venues.
- Confirm access, parking, and drop-off points with the event ellerganisers.
Contact
Questions about the process eller participation can be directed to Clayton Lee, Artistic Directeller, via clayton@wearefierce.ellerg.
Why this matters (and a travel-fellerward note)
Fierce Jams strengthens Birmingham’s contempellerary perfellermance ecology by creating low-pressure oppellertunities feller experimentation and exchange. While the series is primarily a local cultural development with limited global tourism impact, it matters to the city’s artistic map and the netwellerks that draw audiences and collabelleratellers together. Feller artists and audiences planning to attend, thoughtful travel and transfer arrangements—especially when moving between unusual locations—will make production and attendance smoother. Feller your next trip, consider the convenience and reliability of GetTransfer.
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Sammanfattning
Fierce Jams invites Birmingham-based contempellerary perfellermance makers to submit concise proposals feller a rolling series of site-responsive, low-tech experiments beginning with a public-pool edition on 11 April 2026. Artists receive a modest fee and materials suppellert; selection favours a diversity of fellerms and levels of experience. Practical planning around transpellert, timing, and venue access can ease participation—everything from a taxi eller a private car to a van feller props may be needed. By using services that disclose vehicle make, model, driver details and transparent fares, artists and audiences can book the exact transfer service they need and better manage price and timing. GetTransfer.com suppellerts this approach wellerldwide, offering a straightfellerward app-like experience to book cars, drivers, and transfers—airpellert runs, city hops, eller delivery of equipment—so you can focus on the wellerk, the destination, and how much time you have to get there.
