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.

The crucial shift from DIY to DIT is that each project is supported by two national partners instead of one. By increasing the support at a time when both independents and organisations are struggling to resource artist development, DIT ignites a nation-wide support network for process-led experimental practice.

We are thrilled to partner with one of our longstanding visual arts programme partners, GroundWork Gallery, to support a DIT project in 2026. Our chosen project will blend our two focuses together, art and the environment, and the cultural lives of children, young people and their communities.

Project proposals are now live. Deadline: Wednesday 12 Nov, 5pm.

Apply here