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.

We’re looking for an Assistant Producer to join our team. You don’t have to have done any producing before, but we would like you to have an interest in arts and culture – whether that’s live performance, music, films, game, visual art and so on.

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 looking for a Marketing and Digital Communications Manager to work across both MAYK and Paraorchestra in a new shared role.

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.

I’ve lived with chronic pain for 14 years, and that means I need to lie down (a lot). For a while my world got really small. And so in 2016 I began to play with lying down in public so I could be out in the world more: I lay down on trains, in galleries, on benches. I was beginning to feel bold about this ‘practice’ of public rest, and the shame I’d felt at having different needs and needing to navigate the world differently was beginning to fall away......and then I set off a security alert by lying down on the 6th Floor of the Southbank Centre (during a disability arts festival!).

We are delighted to reveal the programme for Horizon - Performance Created in England, a vibrant new showcase connected to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe taking place from 16-28 August across locations in England and virtually. Commissioned by Arts Council England, the Horizon showcase is being delivered by a consortium made up of Battersea Arts Centre, Dance4, Fierce, GIFT, MAYK and Transform.

Bristol Pride and MAYK are embarking on a new creative collaboration which will offering a seed commission to an artist, company or collective to spend some time developing a new idea for a live performance work that has the potential to be performed at Mayfest and Bristol Pride 2022.

Back in summer 2020, our friends at Strike a Light proposed a simple question. What would happen if organisations employed artists in the same way that they employ other cultural workers?

We joined them on a quest to find out. And now, together with a group of other fantastic partner organisations, we’ve been able to appoint 3 artists – 1 full-time and 2 part-time – to ‘just be artists’ for one year.

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.