Category: Articles

  • Wee Muckers – Youth of Belfast

    Wee Muckers – Youth of Belfast

    Zealous Stories: Photography winner, Toby binder, has been documenting the daily life of teenagers in British working-class communities for more than a decade. His winning series is a compelling exploration of young people in Northern Ireland, who often suffer the same problems, undeterred by which side of the border they reside.

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  • Streamlining what you ask for from candidates

    Streamlining what you ask for from candidates

    Asking candidates for the correct information when they submit is a fine art.

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  • Creative Resources: Where to Get Your Grant

    Creative Resources: Where to Get Your Grant

    Every discipline comes with its own set of requirements and costs. It can be hard to filter through the plethora of opportunities to find the perfect one suited to your project and its needs. We’ve put together a selection of grant initiatives and competitions that stand out as being particularly suited to specific disciplines.

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  • From Lenses to Lighting

    From Lenses to Lighting

    Zealous Stories: Design winner, Yair Neuman, is a London-based designer and entrepreneur, exploring sustainable design opportunities. Neuman’s Lens Light collection is a positive action to repurpose waste lenses from the eyewear sector into striking, sculptural lights.

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  • Defining the purpose of your programme

    Defining the purpose of your programme

    Purpose is powerful. It allows you to inspire people to take part and measure your goals effectively once your program ends. Without a clearly articulated purpose, marketing your offering and getting candidates to submit will be an uphill struggle.

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  • Shadow Passage

    Shadow Passage

    Zealous Stories: Animation winner, Ali Aschman, is a visual artist working primarily in stop motion animation. Aschman’s tactile work is rooted in storytelling, but takes a non-linear and surreal approach, finding its own organic structure through an intuitive and often improvisational process.

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  • Mastering Online Networking

    Mastering Online Networking

    Networking is a skill that is critically important, but often nerve-wracking and tricky to navigate. Now more than ever, individuals have had to exercise their networking efforts online – but this doesn’t have to impact you negatively!

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  • 6 Submissions Platforms for the Creative Industries

    6 Submissions Platforms for the Creative Industries

    Choosing the right process whilst taking entries could save you hundreds of hours of admin. To save you a little time we’ve compiled a list of the best submission platforms serving the creative eco-system at this time.

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