StoryFutures Academy Open Call for Creative Practitioners.

StoryFutures Academy, Royal Holloway, University of London part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Creative Industries Clusters Programme has an Open Call for a Creative Practitioner. They are seeking diverse UK-based storytellers to take part in a nationwide immersive project about our past, our future, and belonging. The aim is to create a series of interactive emotional maps and historical mobile AR trails using interviews, 3D scans of people and places, as well as film and TV archives from the BFI and BBC. 

No prior immersive experience is required! StoryFutures will provide full training and access to equipment and support throughout the production. 

They are looking for transferable skills in at least two of these areas: 

  • Factual storytelling

  • Narrative development

  • Working with audio equipment

  • Working in communities

  • Archive research

You will receive £15,000 funding to join this training and development programme, taking part in a live UK-wide project to collect and curate stories and hidden histories in one of fifteen locations*. To be eligible, you need a connection to one of these places, and/or to be able to demonstrate your ability to tell stories from communities living there.  

Applications close on 15th November 2021

For more information and to apply visit here.


*Blackpool, Bristol, Bradford, Dundee (Scotland), Dumfries (Scotland), Lambeth (London), Lewisham (London), Lincoln, Newport (Wales), Omagh (Northern Ireland),  Sheffield, Slough, Swansea (Wales),  Swindon, Wolverhampton.

Future Screens NI extends congratulations and thanks to Nuala Toman in her new career path.

Future Screens NI would like to extend our congratulations, gratitude and profound appreciation to Nuala Toman, who has left the post of Project Manager at Future Screens NI. For those that have worked alongside Nuala or been involved with any of our Research projects, Nuala was a constant source of support and deep knowledge of policy, guidelines, frameworks, financial and networking opportunities in local, regional and national areas; creative industries, Higher Academic Institutions, well-being, community education…the list could go on! 

From the perspective of the applicants for R&D calls or project funding, Nuala was a fountain of knowledge, feedback, nurturing support and insight. Future Screens NI witnessed Nuala’s positive, supportive and informative engagement with everyone she engaged with. 

Nuala provided a depth of service to Future Screens NI and its associated projects, that went far beyond that of her Project Manager title.  Nuala will be greatly missed at Future Screens NI and Ulster University; we wish Nuala continued success in her future career path. 

—From all your colleagues and friends at Future Screens NI.

Ulster Touring Opera joins the XRX Programme.

Future Screens NI R&D grant recipient Ulster Touring Opera (UTO) has recently been awarded a post in the XRX Programme. XRX is a new programme aimed at supporting companies working on innovative ideas within the XR industry. The programme, which is being delivered in partnership by Northern Ireland Screen, Future Screens NI and Digital Catapult NI, is seeking 3 start-ups or established companies who have an ambition to make new innovative immersive content, products or services. The programme will provide in-depth support and mentorship for companies that wish to secure seed investment or realise their ambitions to deploy new and emerging tech actively inside their business within the next 12-18 months. 

For more information on UTO visit here.

Future Tuesdays to host Queen’s University Belfast’s QUB MediaLab 9th Nov 12Noon.

Future Screens NI monthly event series Future Tuesdays hosts Queen’s University Belfast’s (QUB) MediaLab in a hybrid live/online event showcasing the centre’s content creation pipelines, tools and approaches on 9th of November 12 Noon.

Future Screens NI and the QUB MediaLab have come together to present a deep dive into some of the content creation pipelines, tools and approaches that are driving innovation across the creative industries and providing artists, engineers and developers alternative approaches to realise their vision! Through a brief overview of the MediaLab, we will contextualise the impact innovation will have on storytelling which will be followed by a number of case studies that look at the process of overcoming bottlenecks, evaluating tools and testing processes.  

The event will feature Belfast-based artist Kevin Killen and Donal Phillips, Business Development Manager for the Creative Industries at QUB.

In person tickets are available for this event here.  

Not quite ready to meet in person, grab your online ticket here.