Creative Practitioners
As an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) Creative Practitioners are at the heart of our work with communities.
Who are Creative Practitioners (CP’s)?
These are experts such as artists, musicians, actors, writers, performers, creators, educators, museum curators, technicians, film makers, producers. In addition, CP’s also have wider skills to enable them to support and involve others such as workshop design and delivery, marketing and promotion, mentoring and training. CP’s might be a freelance individual or work as part of an organisation.
How do we work with them?
We commission local artists to work alongside local people to co-produce creative outcomes. CP’s use their creative practice to enliven and give greater impact, vibrancy and scope to what we can offer in our museums, libraries and cultural hubs across Leicestershire.
Blogs from Creative Practitioners
Click here to read our creative sector blogs, which aim to support Creative Practitioners in their work. These blog posts were originally written for and hosted by Creative Leicestershire on their website, as part of their activities in supporting the work of artists in the creative and cultural sector.
Join our mailing list! – If you are a creative practitioner who in their profession uses creative skills and behaviours e.g., artists, musicians, actors, writers, performers, creators, educators, museum curators, technicians, producers to facilitate engagement with communities and want to be the first to hear about our opportunities, sign up for our mailing list here.
Opportunities and Commissions
CALL OUT FOR: Leicestershire Libraries Early Years Festival – October 2025
We are looking for Creative Practitioners with a speciality of working with the Early Years audience and their families, to run events in 8 libraries in October.
Location: Libraries across Leicestershire
Budget: Leicestershire Library Service is committed to paying creative practitioners at industry rates in line with the Artist’s Union England. Further information can be found at www.artistsunionengland.org.uk/rates-of-pay/. In line with this, our total budget per library is up to £250, however there is a level of flexibility for activity that is bespoke, needs additional planning or that requires more than one practitioner.
Application Deadline: Tuesday, 26th August at 10am
Click here to view the Full Brief Click here to download the APPLICATION Please direct any informal enquired to: Victoria Barton, Librarian, Victoria.barton@leics.gov.uk / 0116 305 4574
Applications to be submitted to: libraries@leics.gov.uk
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CALL OUT FOR: CREATIVE INSIGHT GATHERER
We are seeking a Creative Practitioner to plan, develop and lead creative activity that gathers local people’s views on our Museum and Library. We want the creative insight gathering to reach people who might not engage with traditional written or electronic surveys and to enable local people to open up and share their thoughts and feelings.
Location: Market Harborough Library and Harborough Museum, Symington Building, Adam and Eve Steet, Market Harborough, LE16 7LT
Project Delivery Timeframes: Various set dates between September 2025 and January 2026
Budget: £3,500 total
Application Deadline: 13th August 2025, 5pm
Click here to view the Full Brief Click here to download the APPLICATION Please direct and question and completed application form, plus supplementary documentation to: Bethany Nugent at Bethany.Nugent@leics.gov.uk