The Projections programme at Tyneside Cinema offers artist and curators, at all stages in their careers, opportunities for developing and presenting new work in the cinema. Half of our monthly events are selected from a biannual open call for programming proposals, which invite people experiment with the cinema as a context for sharing new artists' moving image programmes and create live performance work for the cinema space.

Live Events - We're looking for proposals to create new performance or live events that respond to the context of the cinema in its broadest sense. Proposals might experiment with the potential of the cinema space for hosting live work by using the apparatus of screen and/or sound system, intervening in the conventional operation of a cinema screening, responding to or disrupting the dynamic of a cinema-going audience - and events may not contain any screen-based element at all. Most of all we're interested in how artists respond to the particular cultural, social and physical space of the cinema auditorium, or the wider building and its operations. 

Curatorial Proposals - We invite applications from curators interested in curating and presenting an original programme as part of the Projections series. We are seeking proposals that investigate particular contemporary currents or concerns which might be articulated by artists' moving image practice. Given the context of the series, the ability to respond meaningfully to the site of the cinema - the specific experience of viewing artists' moving image in the cinema space - is important. 

Please view our application guidelines before expressing your interest.