Applications are now open for our 2024-2025 Residents programme. We’re looking to select up to 4 Lewisham based, as well as Goldsmiths student and alumni groups to become part of our Residents Programme, which was developed to broaden the voices of the CCA.

OVERVIEW OF RESIDENTS
Residents is a new Goldsmiths CCA programme that began in Autumn 2021. Goldsmiths CCA’s 2024-2025 Residency will see up to 9 community and student groups take up residence in the John Garcia Family Foundation Gallery over the course of 9 months. Each will use the space on a regular schedule (either weekly, fortnightly, or monthly) to host their activities, as an additional resource for their core work.

Residents aims to proactively increase community links and voices within the CCA, share our resources, encourage conversation, and examine potentials for collaboration and partnership. The project grew from the conversations instigated by the Black Lives Matter protests, and reflection on how the gallery runs.

In preparation for Residents, the John Garcia Family Foundation Gallery at the CCA has been redesigned as a multifunctional learning and engagement space to support different needs. The re-formulation of the space has been led by the Design Collective APV ( Access Power Visibility), and co-designed with our first Resident groups in 2021.

BACKGROUND AND AIM
At Goldsmiths CCA learning with and from our constituent audiences is a key part of how we want to grow and develop as an organisation. We are a relatively new space (having only opened in September 2018) and are committed to reforms and new initiatives which embed anti-racist approaches and practices. Through Residents we want to create conditions for different communities who make up the local ecosystem (with a focus on those under-represented at the CCA and other cultural spaces), to benefit from and share in our resources.

Our ambition through Residents is to develop as a site for collaboration which feels open and relevant to different local communities, and where artistic, academic and experiential forms of expertise can intersect.

YOUR INVOLVEMENT
We are looking to support a range of different groups, from newly established collectives to those that have been active for longer periods of time. Maybe you’re a studio group that would like to host a series of creative workshops? You could be a collective established to support LGBTQI+ practices, or looking at a specific world issue or idea you and your peers are interested in. Maybe you want to start a film screening group, invite artists to give talks and lectures, or use the space for performance work. Perhaps you’re a research based group, and have a desire to partner with students and graduates who are working in another field. Maybe you’d like to start a club for yoga, meditation, reading or textiles work.

Our chosen applicants will be able to organise and carry out their project in the John Garcia Family Foundation Gallery, and will receive production support, alongside a budget of £1,500. The CCA requires an outline budget, but the funds can be used for visiting speakers, commissioning artists, creative materials, hosting educational resources.

The project is to support your work and need not be public, however if you wish to host anything for external audiences, we will do our best to support you. Residents is set up to support the development of your own practices. As such, this funding is not a fee.

To be eligible, you must be living or working within the borough of Lewisham, currently studying at Goldsmiths, or have graduated from Goldsmiths within the last two years.

To apply and for more information, please download our Application and Guidance Sheet.

The deadline for applications is midnight on Sunday 13th October.

If you have any questions please contact our Engagement Producer, Adrianna Whittingham, a.whittingham@gold.ac.uk

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