Global Majority artist call out: Sanctuary & Sustenance (Southwark Culture Together)

Global Majority Artist Walk Researcher/Leader: Call for Expressions of Interest

Deadline extended to midnight: July 12 2025

What we are looking for:

We are looking for artists (historian/researcher/performance/visual etc. – ideally based in Southwark) or group to co-create a walk for the mini-festival. The work involves researching and resurfacing forgotten histories of Global Majority people in Southwark, from transitory passing-through to long-established communities, from enforced displacement to chosen settlement.

In collaboration the InspiralLondon team, you will draw on this research to co-create imaginative and engaging walk activities around Southwark, with the local community in mind. You will be supported by a dedicated walk curator/artist mentor. There is also the option to devise and lead your walk at night! This is an ideal opportunity for Global Majority artists to develop new skills and share their knowledge together with InspiralLondon’s wider networks. Additionally, to make a piece of community specific work, in which they have creative control in terms of how, and what they chose to celebrate amongst the rich and diverse culture of Southwark.

The walk project fee is £800, to cover approximately 3 days work for research and development (non-consecutive if necessary) including the fee for leading the walk. There will be an additional fee for repeating the walk (dependent on funding).

The project begins in mid-July and aims to end October 2025 – mini festival walks scheduled for end September-October.

What we can provide:

  • The Artist/Research fee.
  • Access and support from experienced walk guides.
  • Walk Guide Mentoring; including Place and People on the ground research.
  • Other research, editing and writing skills.
  • If needed performance skills.

Period of Work – flexible from mid July to end Oct (depending on your availability)

Equivalent to 3 days work – we would hope you could participate or be present for a minimum of 2 of the Sanctuary and Sustenance walks.  If you can we will support you to develop/launch your walk by night. Our longer term aim is to support more diverse participation in Inspirallondon cultural and artistic walks programme. We wish to encourage all Londoners to enjoy the trail and to be able to explore London by foot in imaginative, inspiring and illuminating ways.

Please explore our website and partner websites for links and inspiration.

To apply (send interest to contact@inspirallondon.com by the midnight of 12 July 2025)

We ask you to write up to max 200 words outlining  your interest in project and relevant skills.

Plus please send a one page cv or equivalent summary of relevant work experience.

You are welcome to ask us questions about the project and inspirallondon by emailing contact@inspirallondon.com before July 1st.

Sanctuary and Sustenance is supported by Southwark Council Southwark Together grant, with additional support of tfl WCGL 2025/26, and InspiralLondon Associate Artists:

 

Sanctuary and Sustenance will offer a series of unique walk events celebrating the contribution of the Global Majority to Southwark’s diverse communities. Walks that explore known and hidden histories of black presence with a connection to Southwark, who have left their indelible marks within the canon of our shared histories.

  • In early stage planning one walk would be with SDCAS around central Peckham area (including Peckham Rye); one walk nearer the River Thames with Southwark Riverside partners ; one with Museum of Slavery and Freedom or other Peckham based cultural organisation/museum/archive. We will look to work with key new partners: to work with one of either SLG outreach or with Theatre Peckham.
  • The trajectory of walks will depend on the selected artists’ research, creative practice and enthusiasms.
  • Other exploratory walks will take place across the Borough, to explore and discover new places, people and stories that can be woven into the text of new walks.

 

InspiralLondon creates Sanctuary and Sustenance as a series of interlinked walks, co-curated with local communities, as part of Southwark’s Culture Together Grant. Visit  https://www.inspirallondon.com/events/ to see all our current events.