Commissions & competitions

Opportunities to put your creative skills to the test

The Make It commissions helps us share the exciting activities for creatives. Got a creative commission or competition you’d like to share - send us the details.

Brixton Art Prize

Brixton Art Prize are incredibly excited to announce the launch of a brand new and inclusive art competition. The competition is open globally to all cultural backgrounds, genders, artistic abilities...

The Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs 2022

Change makers wanted!  The Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs 2022 is now accepting submissions. Open to 18-30-year-olds seeking to drive positive impact through creative enterprise.  DBACE are offering a £60k prize fund,...

Woxmen of Colour Art Award

198 Contemporary Arts & Learning is currently hosting the 2nd edition of the bi-annual Womxn of Colour Art Award, which recognizes the inequities and additional barriers that Womxn of Colour and non-binary people...

We are co-commissioning with T.A.P.E Collective

We’re co-commissioning essays with T.A.P.E Collective on themes of Identity, Language, Belonging, Ownership and Common Threads particularly focused on film and culture. Pitch max. 200 words to hello@tapecollective.co.uk. Pitching +...

Pitch us your ideas

We are open for submissions! Our online content follows quarterly themes, this month we are exploring, dissecting and unravelling Identity. Submissions of fiction and non-fiction pitches should be 250-300 words...

Do you have an opportunity you want to share? From a collaboration, competition, brief or artist callout, whatever it maybe. Join the network and get in touch.

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We all want to make it.
Make it in our chosen career. Maybe make it big.

Sometimes perhaps just make it to pay day.
But whatever our ambition, what unites us all is the desire to thrive, be recognised – and be supported.
And that’s what Lambeth’s Creative Enterprise Zone is all about. Supporting creative people to do amazing creative things without having to leave our amazingly creative corner of south London.
Because we all want to make it – of course – but more than that, we want to Make It in Brixton.