GIRIC - Growing Intercultural Roots in Communities - an OPEN CALL

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GIRIC - Growing Intercultural Roots in Communities - an OPEN CALL

GIRIC 'Growing Intercultural Roots in Communities'

an Open Call, Join Now, No Deadline

- for artists, creatives, dancers, makers, movers, cultural, craft, visual, musical and all other embodied practitioners and scholars -

Scroll down to join the GIRIC network for UK and international practitioners and scholars, and explore our curriculum.

* Please note that there is a small admin cost for each module of GBP£5 that is reduced to £3 for GIRIC members

What's Included in the GIRIC Network?

We are inviting practitioners and scholars who would like to join this international programme that will encompass the following opportunities:

* Peer-to-Peer Support and Co-Mentoring
* Network Building opportunities
* Structured, Peer-Led Fortnightly Zoom Sessions
* Opportunities to propose and co-develop income generating workshops, courses and intensives
* Opportunities to co-develop projects that respond to the needs of your community (geographical or of shared interest)
* Asynchronous online 24 / 7 access to shared resources, support and forum via our Basecamp platform

Apply to JOIN The GIRIC Network Today

Intercultural Roots launched GIRIC as a new ONLINE programme for UK-based and International arts practitioners of all forms in January 2023, supported by the Social Enterprise Support Fund. Join over 340 practitioners from over 50 countries [October 2025] to help transform your artistic passion into professional practice! Become a GIRIC member free of charge and receive a discount on our programme modules.

Inclusion to our Basecamp Network by Application Only:

CLICK HERE TO APPLY

GIRIC Programme Curriculum

THEMES: Practice <-> Pedagogy <-> Projects

Supported by our unique 'passion to profession' model to help arts practitioners reach and impact more people across local communities. Here is our GIRIC curriculum, featuring upcoming and past themed modules. These modules were developed based on the interests and requests of artists who have joined the GIRIC network:


Upcoming Topics (Dates TBA):

[Registration links will be available soon – join GIRIC for free to stay updated.]

- Practice: Performing Ecologies & Intercultural Exchange
Focus: Blending eco-somatic approaches, cultural rituals, and site-specific performance. Delve into intercultural dialogue, environmental activism, and collaborative art-making that honours ancestral knowledge and ecology.
- Practice: Self-Care & Resilience for Creative Practitioners
Focus: Balancing creative work with personal well-being. Address burnout, isolation, and finances from a place of somatic awareness, developing sustainable self-care strategies and community support networks.
- Pedagogy: Neurodiverse & Marginalised Learners
Focus: Advanced strategies for facilitating workshops with neurodiverse, disabled, or otherwise marginalised participants. Emphasise trauma-informed practice, universal design, and empathetic communication methods.
- Projects: Freelancing, Startups & Beyond
Focus: Support for becoming a self-employed freelancer or forming a social enterprise/charity. Learn business planning, marketing, budgeting, plus essential legal frameworks—empowering you to scale up responsibly and confidently.
- Projects: Advanced Partnerships & Policy Engagement
Focus: Building large-scale collaborations with local authorities, NGOs, or international networks. Explore how to shape policies, influence decision-makers, and craft projects that have lasting social and environmental impact.

Previous Curriculum and Topics

- Collaboration & Peer Support: Click here to read the summary report
Developed skills to build meaningful collaborations with other practitioners and organisations.
- Eco-Somatic Practice & Mental Wellness: Click here to read the summary report
Explored mind-body connection techniques to support mental and physical health.
- IR's Practitioner Partnership Programme: Click here to read the summary report
Guided participants in turning their expertise into income-generating opportunities with support from Intercultural Roots.
- Funding & Project Management Essentials
Strategies to identify and approach potential funders for projects.

- Assessment and Evaluation Approaches - Click here to read the summary report

Explored approaches to assess impact, gather evidence, and inform future practice.
- Embodied Research and Ideas Inspiration: Click here to read the summary report
Introduced methods for using embodied approaches to inform research and creative practice.
- Planning & Preparation for Workshops: Click here to read the summary report
Focused on designing and leading effective, inclusive workshops.

- Progressive & Inclusive Learning Approaches: Click here to read the summary report

Focused on creating trauma-informed, accessible, and inclusive learning environments that empower participants.

Join Intercultural Roots' International Community of Practitioners and Scholars:

- Three free-of-charge online networks via Basecamp:
GIRIC - Growing Intercultural Roots in Communities
ADN - 'Arts Disability Network' - our network for artists and practitioners with disabilities and chronic health conditions led by people with a lived experience
H-NC - 'Human-Nature Connect' - our our eco-embodied  and eco-somatic network for practitioners with a passion for arts that positively contribute to environmental impact

Help Sustain GIRIC and Intercultural Roots:

As our funding to support GIRIC has ended please make a donation to help us sustain this important work.

Please Make a Donation Here

GIRIC's original funders June 2022 - July 2023

Intercultural Roots 'To Be With' Health & WELLth Festival 2022, Photo Credit: Parissa Hosseinpour

Sena Atsugah with Agbadza Music and Dance live from Ghana at the Intercultural Roots online Health & WELLth Festival 2021 - https://healthwellth.org
GIRIC - Growing Intercultural Roots in Communities