Looking for some time and space to work on your latest musical project? Ready to take the next step in your musical career?
If this sounds like you then Summer Studios could be for you:
- I’m an artist: musician, rapper, producer, or singer (from any genre)
- I regularly perform my own music
- I write my own original music and have released at least one single
- I’ll benefit from the support of The Glasshouse’s Artist Development team and speaker sessions about the music industry
- I’m based in the UK
- I will be over 18 by 29 July 2024
Need to know
Check out the answers to some frequently asked questions.
Get in touch: If you want to chat to one of our team please contact Adele or Matthew on artistdevelopment@theglasshouseicm.org or call
0191 442 4569/0191 443 4649 (Monday to Thursday 9am – 5pm)
Applications now open. Deadline: 5pm, Thursday 11 April
Apply here
About Summer Studios
Summer Studios offers you some dedicated space, time and support so you can focus on creating new work, develop your music, give a kickstart to a creative project or prepare for a performance or tour.
If selected you’ll be at Summer Studios between Monday 29 July – Saturday 10 August for six days. There will be an industry speaker programme where you’ll get to ask experts from across the music industry lots of questions. You’ll also have time to chat to the other artists on the programme. And, share what you’ve worked on during the week at our end of week sharing in our Sage 2 venue.
Support includes
- Your own rehearsal space for six days
- Speaker sessions with industry experts
- A photo shoot for new promo material for you to use after the residency
- Film a live session of one track
- Time to network with the other artists from across the UK who are taking part Please note, that Summer Studios does not offer recording studios, but you are welcome to bring your own equipment and record on-site.
If you still have questions before you apply read our Frequently Asked Questions
Equal Opportunities
We want to make sure this opportunity is available to everyone, no matter what your background or the challenges you’ve faced.
For example, we would love to hear from you if you:
- Are d/Deaf, have a disability, learning difficulty or significant long-term health condition which affects your daily life
- Describe yourself as neurodivergent (this might include dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, ADHD, autistic spectrum, Tourette’s syndrome and others)
- Consider yourself to be from a working class background
- Received free school meals in secondary school
- Grew up in a family receiving Universal Credit or state benefits
- Have ever lived in council or social housing, been on the housing register
- Have ever lived in sheltered accommodation or experienced homelessness
- Experienced being in care at any point
- Were a young parent or young carer
- Have been a refugee or asylum seeker
- Are from the African, South, East and South-East Asian, Middle East, Latinx or North African diaspora, or have experienced racism
These are some common examples of challenging circumstances but there may be others.
How to Apply
Please click the ‘apply here’ button below. We’ll collect information about you and your project to help us with the selection process.
To complete an application you’ll need:
- Your artist/band bio
- Links to your music
- Some details about the project you’d like to work on during the residency and why it’s important to you
Please note, you can’t save the form. We recommend saving the information you need in a Word document and then pasting into the form. Download a copy of the form as a Word document.
Make sure you submit your application via the form. You can’t apply using the word document.
Apply here
Access costs
Additional money is available for access requirements that might improve your experience. These might include transport costs for d/Deaf and disabled artists, a personal assistant or care worker, BSL interpretation, information in large print or another language, for example.
If you have any specific access requirements for the application process please let us know. Drop Matthew and Adele an email at artistdevelopment@theglasshouseicm.org or call them on 0191 443 4569/0191 443 4649 (Monday to Thursday, 9am-5pm).
What happens next?
Once you’ve completed the form please click the ‘Submit’ button. You’ll see a message on the screen thanking you for your application. If you’d like to save your response you must click the ‘save my response’ button to look back over your answers.
If you’re not selected, we’d still like to offer you some feedback on your application. You might want to apply again in the future.
Financial help
You can apply for a bursary once you have been selected for the programme. This is to help with costs such as meals, transport and project materials. These are some examples but there may be others. Access costs will be covered separately, please see above. We will send more information on acquiring a bursary once you have been selected.
For those who are from outside of Newcastle/Gateshead we’ll pay for your accommodation and can cover full travel fares by train and some travel costs by car.