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  The Hepworth Wakefield Festive Market 2025

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  Deadline: 07/07/2025

  City: Wakefield  |  Country: United Kingdom  |  The Hepworth Wakefield

  We’re excited to announce the return of our Festive Market on 22–23 and 29–30 November 2025. Applications are now open for artists, designers, makers, food and drink producers and specialist retailers. A preview event will be held on the evening of Friday 21 November to launch our new exhibitions.

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  Winter Saltaire Makers Fair - 25th & 26th October 2025

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  Deadline: 19/07/2025

  City: Saltaire, Bradford  |  Region: West Yorkshire  |  Country: United Kingdom  |  Saltaire Inspired Team

  Call for CONTEMPORARY CRAFT designer-makers working in a wide range of HANDMADE disciplines to exhibit work at the WINTER SALTAIRE MAKERS FAIR on Saturday 25th to Sunday 26th October 2025.

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• Creative Commission

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  Deadline: 17/06/2025

  City: Oldham  |  Region: Greater Manchester  |  Country: United Kingdom  |  Karen Heatley

  Paid opportunity

  This is an open call for a North West based creative practitioner or artist to respond to Gallery Oldham's natural history collection and habitat themes within the Our Beautiful Oldham exhibition which is currently in development. We expect the commission to create something collaboratively with our Early Year families that tells the story about the diversity of Oldham’s landscapes. We invite you to bring an imaginative and sensory approach to the work.

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  MEANS magazine: Hope / Magic

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  Deadline: 05/07/2025

  Daniel Hignell-Tully

  Paid opportunity

  MEANS magazine is a new physical magazine supporting grassroots art, music and culture. We work to support artists to share their practice through the publication of the magazine, with a focus on broadly experimental, unusual practices of all disciplines. We are seeking submissions for our newest magazine, with the theme 'Hope / Magic'.

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  Still Celebrating Yorkshire

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  Deadline: 29/06/2025

  City: Clapham, North Yorkshire  |  Region: North Yorkshire  |  Country: United Kingdom  |  Badger in the Wall

  We are now accepting entries for our exhibition 'Still Celebrating Yorkshire' at the Badger in the Wall Gallery located in Clapham, North Yorkshire. With Yorkshire Day on the 1st August, and to honour the county the Gallery is based in, we are encouraging submissions that are Yorkshire themed and celebrate both the county and ways of life. It is free to submit.

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  Phantasmal Gallery's Big Photography Exhibition (online)

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  Deadline: 05/07/2025

  Region: Leicestershire  |  Country: United Kingdom  |  Daisy-Drew Smith

  Phantasmal Gallery is looking for photos under all themes for a online exhibition.

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  Embroidery/Stitch Tutors wanted for 2026 workshops

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  Deadline: 31/10/2025

  City: KENDAL  |  Region: Cumbria  |  Country: United Kingdom  |  Nancy Gray

  Paid opportunity

  Embroidery stitch tutors wanted to run workshops at the Quaker Tapestry Museum in 2026

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  Hope - Exhibition Open Call

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  Deadline: 04/07/2025

  City: Leeds  |  Region: West Yorkshire  |  Country: United Kingdom  |  Coralie Datta

  Rebecca Solnit wrote on living in dark times: ‘We are living through times of unprecedented change, but in uncertainty lies the power to influence the future. Now is not the time to despair, but to act. Hope is an embrace of the unknown.’ What does hope mean to you? What does it represent? Does it energise you? What makes you feel hopeful?

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  OPEN CALL: DRAW Open Exhibition 2025

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  Deadline: 14/08/2025

  City: Newcastle upon Tyne  |  Region: Northumberland  |  Country: United Kingdom  |  Jenny Purrett

  DRAW studio is a venue which brings people together to share their passion for drawing through making and exhibiting work. DRAW warmly invites submissions from all to participate in our second Open Exhibition which will be held over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

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  Call for Submissions - Celebrating our Strength in our Diversity Art exhibition 2025

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  Deadline: 24/09/2025

  Chinwe Russell

  Call for Submissions – An Online Global Art Exhibition We live in a time where diversity is under threat, where the incredible progress made around the world in celebrating our differences is being challenged. The very fabric that strengthens humanity—our cultures, identities, traditions, and voices—is at risk in many parts of the world. This is why initiatives like this exhibition matter more than ever. We are calling on artists across the globe to lend their creative voices in a collective stand for unity, inclusion, and understanding. Join us in celebrating the richness...

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