02/09/2026
WE’RE HIRING!
🎞📽 WE ARE HIRING A Creative Practitioner specialising in Film! 🎞📽
HAFA is a three-year creative heritage project (2025–2027), funded by the National Lottery and Paul Hamlyn Foundation. It explores the South Asian community’s role in Pendle’s industrial history. In the 1950s, South Asian families were invited by the Queen and government to work in the textile industry, including at Brierfield Mill, a Grade II listed former cotton mill. Their stories and contributions are largely absent from mainstream archives.
HAFA places participants’ voices at the centre of the project, enabling them to explore, research, and creatively express their heritage narratives through 12 progressive creative phases. The project focuses on empowering participants to reclaim their history and contribute to a multi-layered archive of community heritage.
What we are looking for:
A Creative Practitioner specialising in film, for example stop motion animation, film collages, projections etc. We are looking for a forward thinking, radical Creative Practitioner to work alongside our local community during a twelve-week phase of our three-year long creative heritage project ‘Healing Arts for All’ (HAFA).
Timeline:
October 29th 2026 – January 2027
- 3-month contract, 1 workshop a week.
- Workshop fixed day – Thursdays 10am – 1pm
- Location : Northlight Estates, Northlight Parade
Brierfield/Nelson, BB9 5EG.
- Start date – Thursday 29th October 2026.
DEADLINE: 5pm, Monday 21st September 2026.
How to apply:
- Submit a ONE page (maximum) Expression of Interest highlighting why you are interested in this creative residency and ideas for how your creative practises could support this phase of the project.
- Your CV.
- A portfolio of previous work with relevant links, and your social media handles.
- Submit Expression of Interest and portfolio to [email protected]
We look forward to hearing from you!
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