Do It Together

Professional development BY artists FOR artists!

Do It Together (DIT) is a peer-to-peer professional development programme that enables artists to explore ideas, aesthetics and sociopolitical realities together.

DIT reimagines Live Art Development Agency’s (LADA) flagship programme, DIY, which ran unique professional development projects from 2002 to 2020. For 2026, LADA reactivates the programme as DIT in line with their renewed focus on co-learning. We are thrilled to partner with one of our longstanding visual arts programme partners, GroundWork Gallery, to support a DIT project in 2026.

Making Weather

Our chosen project, Making Weather, was proposed by Autin Dance Theatre, and is led by Johnny Autin, with guest artist Hannah Woodlife. Making Weather is a process-led, peer learning lab for up to 15 artists to co-develop practical, low-tech methods for making ecological performance for and with children and young people.

Across three one-day sessions in and around King’s Lynn, they will move, make, and think together: embodied warm-ups; story-gathering walks; object improvisations using found or recycled materials; co-created choreographic scores; and reflective circles to document tools, ethics and access practices.

Artists working with young people face urgent demands: climate grief, cost-of-living pressures, stretched school capacity, and a need for accessible, outdoor and unusual spaces and low-resource formats. Many of us are tackling these alone. This DIT will create time, peers and confidence to prototype methods that are imaginative, ethical and practical. It will centre collective learning, build a local network in East Anglia, and leave participating artists/practitioners with shareable scores, facilitation tools and approaches that can seed future projects in education and outdoor arts.

Johnny Autin

Hannah Woodlife