We’re looking for an experienced, creative, detailed producer to join our friendly, dynamic team in Bristol.

We’re thrilled to announce MAYKING Space – a new rehearsal and development space dedicated to artists making and exploring live performance. Our hope with this new venture is that this space will become a lively and welcoming part of Bristol’s creative community. And beyond.

A hundred years ago in the before times, we started hatching ideas for a MAYK hosted/held/curated space that would offer a collaborative support structure for a new generation of artists and creative thinkers. One that wasn’t about hierarchical notions of training, and that could exist without an outcome focus.

We’re thrilled to be moving into a new home at St Anne’s House in Brislington, the new creative and cultural hub being led by the excellent Bricks.

We are looking for an experienced Administrator to join the MAYK team. This is a new role, responsible for the day-to-day operations of the business, ensuring that MAYK has the administrative support needed to achieve our mission.

Earlier this year we put a proposal out there– what happens if you employ an artist for a year, to just be an artist?

The pandemic has highlighted the inequalities and challenges that artists face. We don’t want to go ‘back to normal’ and so we’re proposing a different way of working.

What would happen or change if you were employed for a year? If you were trusted to lead your own creative work, and have paid time to think, have conversations and create if you want? If you could get off the project treadmill for a bit and explore what being an artist means in this COVID/ post-COVID world?

A new flagship International Showcase celebrating performance created in England will be piloted during the Edinburgh Festivals in 2021. The showcase will be led by a consortium comprising Battersea Arts Centre, Dance4, Fierce, GIFT, MAYK and Transform.

Alongside many other colleagues and friends across the country, we’ve spent much of the past few months making the case for the importance of culture in people’s lives. This was recognised by the government who are now awarding £1.5bn through the Cultural Recovery Fund.

We’re changing our working patterns this summer as we continue to adjust to life during the pandemic.

In case you missed it, we recently recorded a podcast where MAYK’s Co-Directors Kate Yedigaroff and Matthew Austin discussed what it feels like for Mayfest not to be happening this year, and what the future may or may not hold. You can listen to the podcast on the soundcloud link below, and we’ve also included a text version of the conversation below.