Jobs & Opportunities

There are always ways of becoming involved with us, whether this is as a participant or a volunteer, a job or an artist call-out!

Current Opportunities

Chair for the Lancaster Arts Advisory Board

Lancaster Arts is very excited to be recruiting a new Chair for our Advisory Board. We are looking for someone who is curious and enthusiastic about working alongside us to champion an arts organisation who presents and supports high quality artwork outside urban environments and help us to navigate the intersection of higher education and the arts.

Lancaster Arts is a combined arts organisation within the national portfolio of Arts Council England. We are a distinctive contemporary arts organisation in the northwest of England with a renowned reputation for cutting edge arts practice in all art forms. 

Our home is at the heart of the beautiful Lancaster University campus, and our venues include the Great Hall, Nuffield Theatre and Peter Scott Gallery. We regularly host work off campus in the Lancaster District and beyond. We host a wide spectrum of events and participatory opportunities across contemporary theatre, dance, classical and contemporary music, visual art, live art, and contemporary circus with an emphasis on supporting artists who live in the north and strengthening networks with sister arts organisations to do this. We work locally, regionally, and internationally. Please visit our website to learn more about us.

Lancaster Arts is committed to reflecting the rich diversity of the UK throughout our work. We strongly welcome applications from disabled, D/deaf and/or neurodiverse people and those from the Global Majority.

Our outgoing Chair, Alan Dix has been an inspiration and huge support since 2021 and we hope to find someone to step in this summer. Please see more about the role and the application here.

Aerial shot of a circle of people on grass
Image from Nature Calling: Are You Lost? in Dunsop Bridge 2025 Credit Rich Berry

Join the Lancaster Arts Ideas & Connectors Group  

What is Lancaster Arts? 

Lancaster Arts is a professional arts organisation based at Lancaster University, encompassing the Nuffield Theatre, the Great Hall and the Peter Scott Gallery as well as locations in the region, natural settings, community centres, carparks, and historic buildings. Our artistic programme includes commissions, Creative Gatherings and artist residencies alongside our presentational programme. We work across artforms and our work expresses a commitment to social and environmental justice. Our website https://www.lancasterarts.org/ can tell you more about the work that we do. 

What is the Ideas&Connectors Group? 

The Ideas&Connectors Group (ICG) is a diverse sounding board that helps shape the work that Lancaster Arts delivers for Arts Council England and Lancaster University. We have a brilliant group in place already but are looking to expand this by 5 people. The ICG groups meet 3 times a year. We intend that this group offers a way of joining the Lancaster Arts community to exchange ideas and explore the things that matter to you and us as an organisation.

We offer: 

  • Invitations to special one-off events 

  • 2 free tickets in each of our two seasons for any show or concert

  • Free training opportunities (e.g. access, carbon literacy) 

  • Invitations to shape meetings by contributing agenda points 

  • Support for any access needs identified 

  • Expenses and transport will be provided 

  • Opportunity to participate online 

 

We ask for: 

  • Commitment to fully participate in 3 meetings in a year

  • Dedicated ambassadorship for the wide range of work we do 

  • Engagement and critical friendship with our programme. Take up opportunities within a specific subgroup (outlined below) 

  • Commitment to at least one of the Ideas and Connectors Group Subgroups identified below. 

 Subgroups in the Ideas&Connectors Group 

Community Researchers 

  • This is an opportunity to get directly involved in our artist commissions. We define ‘research’ as everything from informal conversations with artists and audiences, to probing local archives and making quiet observations. We are eager to draw on this group’s understanding of the places we work in and the communities in them. 

 Collections 

  • Contribute your ideas and collaborate with our gallery team to bring Lancaster University’s Art Collection to new audiences, helping shape what we display through discussion and content-creation, relating to future acquisitions, displays, digital engagement, workshops and volunteering opportunities. 

 Communications and Engagement 

  • Work with us to develop a more creative and inclusive approach to engaging with our audiences, addressing barriers that prevent audiences from engaging and helping us target specific groups identified in our Audience Development Strategy. 

Application form is here.

To find out more, please email: ICG@lancasterarts.org 

Participate!

Lancaster Arts hosts commissions all year-round that invite participants to have a direct role in the creation of the work. If this is of interest, please get in touch with us at producers@lancasterarts.org.

Student Opportunities

Lancaster Arts has frequent opportunities for short term placements and internships. One of our marketing placements has written a blog about her experiences here.

Keep and eye on this page for the latest opportunities and how you can get involved.

Volunteering

Lancaster Arts has fantastic opportunities for volunteering. Please visit our Volunteering page. If you can spare a few hours we are always seeking volunteers of all ages to support our arts activity. Get in touch with us at volunteer@lancasterarts.org