Maya Productions is collaborating with Darts – Doncaster’s Creative Health and Learning Charity – to offer paid participatory traineeships for emerging and early career global majority artists.
We are recruiting five paid Participatory Artist Trainees who are at an early stage in their career or wish to expand their experience of using their artform to deliver participatory activities that impact positively on people’s life, learning and health. This is an incredible opportunity to learn, practise and develop alongside highly experienced artists.
We encourage artists of any age to apply, as long as you are early on in your journey as a participatory arts practitioner. You may be a recent creative graduate, or an experienced artist who has never delivered workshops with others.
You may be a singer who wants to develop their expertise in leading a community choir, or a musician who wants to understand how to use their artform with adults with lived experience of mental ill health.
Our focus for these traineeships is artists whose artform is movement, dance, or music (singing, digital, percussion, instrumental etc.). You could be an interdisciplinary artist who works across more than one artform.
A key aspect of this project is to develop the skills and career progression of global majority participatory arts practitioners in the field of Creative Health and Learning.
This call out is targeted at individuals who self-identify as a global majority background artist and who are local to South Yorkshire.
Key Dates:
Deadline: 9am 5th January 2026
Interview dates (online): The morning of January 12th and all-day January 13th
Traineeships: Each successful Trainee will be allocated 1 x 3-month opportunity during one of the following time periods:
- 9th Feb – end of April 2026
- May – July 2026
To learn more, download the info pack – HERE
Also, complete an equal opportunity monitoring form – HERE