Platform was founded in 1983 as a radical theatre collective. It is designed to bring together workers and communities to create new liberation systems that tackle injustice and climate breakdown.

Platform has now issued a new creative open call.

We’re looking for artists and collectives to explore creative approaches to activist and community archives.

We can’t build a new world in the shape of the old. How could creative approaches to movement histories expand our political imaginations and spark dreams of liberation?

How have social movements and communities mounted creative resistance to corporate and state power over time? How do materials from the past record what it felt like to resist?

What could a people’s history of climate justice look like; what grows there? Who could create such a place, where?

Proposed projects will take historic objects, documents, archives or actions as their starting point for a new creative work or event/s. You can start from Platform’s archive, materials held at another institution, or materials from community and grassroots archives or personal collections.

Proposed projects should focus on struggles for environmental and climate justice in any form, anywhere in the world, and can be as broad or specific as desired. We welcome applications from groups and collectives exploring their own histories, and particularly welcome projects that spark intergenerational and intercultural conversations.

Participants can work within any creative discipline. These small grants are intended to support the first stirrings of exploration and experiment: we welcome proposals for creative gatherings and workshops; responses to archival materials (such as poetry, performance or visual arts); and creative works as archives (such as oral histories or printmaking). We particularly welcome applications from people exploring these ideas for the first time.

Grants of up to £3,000 for individual artists or collectives.

Deadline: 9am 16 April 2025.