QueerCore: Applications Open!

📣 Homotopia are pleased to announce the return of QueerCore, our creative development programme for early-career artists and producers in Liverpool! 🎨

QueerCore is Homotopia’s talent development programme for early-career artists. The programme runs for 6 months and offers tailored support for LGBTQIA artists in the Liverpool City Region to grow, build connections and develop new ideas.

The 6-month programme of support, focused around a specific project includes:

  • A £2000 grant to spend on developing a new project, idea or strand of work.
  • A mentor appropriate to your needs as an artist/artist collective.
  • Access to specialist workshops on fundraising, marketing/PR and financial management for artists.
  • Mixers with other local queer artists, creatives and producers.
  • A learning and development residential in…Blackpool!
  • A chance to present some form of work/work-in-process at Homotopia Festival.
  • Join an alumni network of 20+ local queer creatives changing the world.

Applications are OPEN, to apply:

Homotopia are pleased to announce the return of QueerCore our creative development programme for early-career artists and producers in Liverpool! Our 2025 programme will run from the beginning of June until the end of the year, offering tailored support for LGBTQIA+ creatives in the region to grow, build connections and develop new ideas.
QueerCore is also about creating a community, meeting members of QueerCore old and new, and the vast variety of artists, producers, and venues we work with in Liverpool and beyond.  QueerCore alumni have received Arts Council England funding, directed a play on the Everyman main stage, worked with the BBC, won commercial commissions, and even starred in a major Netflix show. While on the programme, many received additional press coverage and an increase in their social media followers.
To be eligible you must meet all of the following criteria:
· Define as LGBTQIA+
· Are based in Liverpool City Region (Liverpool, Halton, Knowsley, St Helen, Wirral)
· Would say they are at an early stage in their career.
This opportunity is NOT just for under 25s, all early-career artists are welcome whatever their background.
How to apply:
Fill in our application form and equal opportunities by the deadline  - audio or video submissions are also accepted, we ask that they are under 8 minutes in length. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted W/C Monday 26th May about a short zoom interview. If you wish to apply by video or audio, please send a Dropbox folder link or similar to [email protected].
To download the forms, click the links below:
Application deadline: Midnight on May 25th
We want to thank our funders for making this work possible, Converse, Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council