Associate Artist Scheme
We’re on the lookout for our 2026 Associate Artist.
This opportunity invites an emerging performance artist to help shape part of the 2026 programme by creating a new outdoor performance inspired by our theme, ELEMENTAL, to be presented across the main festival weekend in Bournemouth Gardens, alongside participatory workshops in neighbourhood locations.
The scheme is designed to support emerging and underrepresented artists and artforms, offering space, mentoring, funding and the chance to share work with large public audiences.
Apply via the link below before 12 noon, 27th March 2026.