#FF…Funding Friday…

Yes that’s right David – I’ve stole your hashtag, but I promise it’s for a good reason.

It’s Friday and in my part of the world that means everyone is counting their pennies to see if they can afford a pint of pale ale at their local beer house to while away their troubles. So with this in mind why would I be telling you to scrape together your savings to come on The Hinterlands workshop in Devon with duckrabbit at the the end of May…

Well for one because it’s awesome, and for two because maybe you could get someone else to pay for it…Yes that’s right you could get some funding and come on the workshop for free!

David at The Hinterlands workshop 2011 © RebeccaHarley

FREE!! Oh yes I was saying you could come on the workshop for free – who could forget that!?

Last year one of the wonderful trainees was the lovely Tessa Bunney – you may have seen her work on tidal pools in the FT (if not see it here..). It was lovely work by a photographer who I think puts a lot of time into what she does, and produces very thoughtful images in the process. Well Tessa came on The Hinterlands last year and she got the Art’s Council to pay for it. Sounds to good to be true but it’s really not! This is what Tessa had to say when Rebecca from the Hinterlands asked her about her funding..

Tessa Bunney at The Hinterlands workshop 2011 © RebeccaHarley

  “I was lucky enough to be funded to attend through Grants for the Arts as part of an application for an ongoing project. On top of the training I also received funding for equipment and materials that I needed.”

“It was the perfect combination of training and great photographic company in a fantastic location. I learnt how to transform my existing skills into what’s required for a photofilm and gained a valuable insight into interviewing and audio recording techniques – the visiting lecturers were the icing on the cake!” 

Tessa Bunney

So if you’re feeling like you want to have a holiday and you are feeling like you want to learn how to make photofilms then have a good old think about coming on The Hinterlands. We have booked over half of the fifteen places so far so don’t hang around too long. You can reserve a place with a small deposit, and if finding the rest of the money is the problem then maybe, just maybe you could get someone else to pay for it.

The workshop is five days of kickass photo film training with duckrabbit, sleeping in beautiful authentic Mongolian yurts with log burners, drinking local ale and cider hand picked from dartmoor. You’ll break bread with the trainers, eating home cooked (actually home cooked – not like it always says in those crap pubs) and get a chance to share a glass of wine with our special guests who will inspire you to use your newly acquired skills in the real world. It’s all included in the price so when you arrive in Devon as a spring bulb you will be fed, watered, trained and will leave a beautiful budding flower ready to take on the world. Well you may just want to move to Devon…but that’s not our fault..

View a set of pics here.

Take a look at the Arts Council’s funding page for more info on how they work. Alternatively there are photography and media bursaries lurking under all sorts of stones and if your employed in a media based industry why not try asking your employer to pay for you to come. Hopefully we will see some of you here (well in Devon..) soon!

This is what last years participants thought..

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Discussion (1 Comment)

  1. Alice says:

    I was lucky enough to get a place on the Hinterlands workshop last year.
    I cannot recommend it highly enough!
    It is well worth the money, but if your a poor student like I was, check out funding available through your university. I applied for something called the academic enhancement bursary and was able to persuade my University to fund my place on the course. Plus the food was so god damn good I ate enough in one week to allow me to survive the rest of the month 🙂

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