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E&E Newsletter: March 2025

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Casting Call: Wonderland Awaits

Leeds BID & Leeds Conservatoire are currently casting for Wonderland Awaits, an exciting summer event bringing the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party to life in Victoria Gate, Leeds!

📅 Event Dates: 26th July – 31st August
📍 Location: Outside John Lewis, Victoria Gate, Leeds

🎭 Roles Needed:
•    4 x Mad Hatter
•    4 x March Hare

About the Role

As part of the Wonderland Awaits summer animation, actors will perform a 10-15 minute immersive scene on the hour, every hour between 11am – 4pm (TBC).

Commitments & Schedule

Key Dates:
•    Application Deadline: Friday 11th April
•    Casting Confirmed: Tuesday 15th April
•    Costume measurements: W/C 21st April
•    Final costume fitting (if needed): Early June
•    Staff briefing & media day: 3rd July (unpaid, max 2 hours)
•    Press Day: 25th July (Paid)
•    Event starts: 26th July (Paid)

Rota & Shifts:
•    The 8 actors will share the full run of performances, ensuring breaks and flexibility around prior commitments. Each actor will be given their own costume
•    Exact shift patterns TBC, but expected 10am – 4/5pm, including a lunch break.

Payment: £150 per day 
2 actors will also be selected for a paid headshot session in costume for social media.

Apply Now: APPLICATION FORM
To be considered, please fill out the form by 11th April at 1pm. Or email EaE@lcm.ac.uk with any questions.

This role is perfect for those looking for flexible acting work over the summer and to add a credit to their spotlight profile. 

We look forward to welcoming you to Wonderland! 🎩🐰✨

PRS for Music, Ivors & Spotlight Fund 

We understand that some of the most valuable services and memberships within music and the performing arts can also be expensive and inaccessible. To help with this, Employability and Enterprise are pleased to offer the PRS for Music, Ivors, and Spotlight Fund, providing financial support for:

• Lifetime membership with PRS for Music (as a writer/composer)
• Early Career or Standard Membership with The Ivors Academy
• Your first graduate year of Spotlight membership

Final Application Window 

If you missed the last opportunity, the second and final round of applications is now open and will close on 23rd March.

Who Can Apply?

This fund is available to third-year students who are:

• From the Global Majority
• From a low-income background (e.g., in receipt of the Leeds Conservatoire bursary)
• Students who have reported a disability

These groups have been identified as part of our Access and Participation priorities, based on definitions from the Office for Students and industry sources. As this initiative is fully funded, we are unfortunately unable to make exceptions. Due to funding restrictions, this scheme is not available to overseas/international students.

Apply now: PRS for Music, Ivors & Spotlight Fund

Monthly CV Clinic

Struggling to write your CV? Need advice on applying for jobs? Does your resume need an update? Then why not attend one our monthly CV clinics & book a one to one slot with an adviser?

Time slots are available throughout the day and are available to book all year round. The session are open to Leeds Conservatoire students across all years and pathways, as well as recent graduates. 

To book your individual slot please fill in this online form, or email The Employability and Enterprise team at EaE@lcm.ac.uk.

Self Care for Musicians

Help Musicians are offering a series of free, guided self-care sessions to provide techniques to help with challenging times. The sessions are all hosted online and run on various dates from September - December. Please head to the Help Musicians website to find out more. 

Music Industry Yorkshire 

Based in Yorkshire? Work or want to work in any sector of the music industry? You can join Music Industry Yorkshire for free

Being a member of Music Industry Yorkshire provides access to music business info, resources and exclusive opportunities. MIY launched as Yorkshire’s music industry development network in 2010 so we’ve relaunched and added some useful free support-tools to this new website, designed to support the whole music industry in all its shapes and sizes, and focussing just on Yorkshire.

MIY members who also offer a music service / run a music business can now list this on the MIY website (for free), and anyone who needs a professional music service can come here to find one (without being a member). You can also use the MIY site to search for or post music industry jobs (including apprenticeships and volunteer opportunities), or browse music industry support events in the Yorkshire region.

Find out more: https://musicindustryyorkshire.com/

The Employability and Enterprise Team 
Room 401 
EaE@lcm.ac.uk