Artist Callout - Large-Scale Participatory Game

Artist Callout - Large-Scale Participatory Game

Creative Crawley Closing date: Wed, 06 Jan 2027

Artform: Festival
Role: Creative
Contract: Contract
South East
  • Full time
  • Under £10K

Thu, 12 Nov 2026 "> published -

Job Summary

Creative Crawley is looking for an Artist or Creative Practitioner for the Festival of Play 2027 to create a large-scale participatory game to take place across the town as part of the festival programme.

Job Description

We are looking to work with an Artist or Creative Practitioner to work with us to design, develop and produce a large-scale participatory game. An important part of the process is working in collaboration with local residents to shape, inform and produce the game.

Job Requirements

Essential Qualities
Artists/Creative Practitioners or collectives/creative companies who:
Have and can demonstrate a proven track record of designing and
producing large-scale analogue participatory activities/games or
transferable skills from producing similar projects.
Are participatory, socially engaged and well versed in working
collaboratively with non-professional artists and residents to ensure their
voices are authentically considered through the process.
Have a clear, distinct artistic practice and vision and are experienced in
bringing that vision to life.

Desirable Qualities
Have experience of managing a small-scale budget.
Have experience of working with production teams.

Job Responsibilities

You may be a Theatre Director who works in Immersive Theatre experiences or
you may be a Visual Artist who produces participatory artworks or you may be
a Games Architect with experience in escape rooms. We are interested in
hearing from Artists and Creative Practitioners who have a clear, bold vision
and are very experienced in the mechanics of a large-scale participatory game.

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Job Overview

  • Job Title: Artist Callout - Large-Scale Participatory Game
  • Salary: Under £10K
  • Hours: Full time
  • Artform: Festival
  • Role: Creative
  • Contract: Contract
  • Closing date: Wed, 06 Jan 2027
  • Location:
    South East

How to Apply

Please email [email protected] with:
A short introduction to you, your practice and your approach to and experience of collaborating with communities.
A brief starting provocation and approach for a Parade in Crawley and a sense of how you would allocate the budget.
This can be in any of these formats;
Voice Note (no longer than 4 minutes) in .wav or .mp3 or .mp4 format
Video (no longer than 4 minutes)
Written Statement (no longer than 1 side of A4)
Examples of relevant projects or workshops (please include videos and photos where possible)
Links to your website, portfolio or social media (if available)
Where in the UK you are based