CALL OUT: Catapult + Adelaide Fringe 2025

We are thrilled to offer the Catapult + Adelaide Fringe mentorship opportunity building upon our highly successful Catapult mentorship program.

The Guildhouse Catapult mentorship program aims to provide creative professionals with essential funding and support to expand their artistic practice and experience a career changing opportunity. The self-directed research, professional development and creative practices of Catapult recipients show ambition, drive and dedication. South Australian mentees engage with mentors, locally, nationally and internationally to develop skills, realise goals and allow time to learn more about their – and others – creative practices.

It is acknowledged that the aims and outcomes of a mentorship differ from a grant application, and it is therefore advised that applicants familiarise themselves with the breadth of previous recipients and the FAQs before forming their application.

Learn more about the Catapult mentorship program here

Application Criteria

• A confirmed local, national or international mentor
• Single page Project Proposal: Outline what you stand to gain and the key goals of the mentorship. This can include your ambitions or intentions for the Adelaide Fringe outcome if relevant to your proposal.
• Project Timeline: The Catapult + Adelaide Fringe mentorship program is to be completed within a 6 month period. The Project Timeline should provide key milestone events, such as meetings between Mentor and Mentee, production of work, critique sessions etc.
• Budget: Outline income and expenditure for the project. This might include travel expenses, artist fees for mentee and mentor, material costs, Adelaide Fringe registration fee, venue fee if applicable as expenditures. Income would include the Catapult funding and any other funding (either personal or otherwise).
• Biography: 200 word each, for mentor and mentee
• Contact details: for the mentor – phone and email
• Single page CV: for the mentee
• Supporting images: Please include up to 5 images indicative of your own work and 1 image indicative of the mentors practice.

Eligibility

• Applicants must be financial Guildhouse members (Accredited or Community), residing in South Australia.
• The Mentee must have Public Liability $20,000,000 and Products Liability $20,000,000 insurance.
• Previous recipients of a Catapult mentorship are not eligible to apply for Catapult + Adelaide Fringe.
• Please note that this opportunity is not available to students studying at the time of application or during the project.

Online Application

• Appliations must be submitted via the online application form. The form includes tips and explanations for each field, please hover your mouse over a field for more information. Should you have further questions please visit the FAQs
• The form does not autosave your progress and should only be filled in at time of submission. We recommend having each section completed in a Word document or similar and copying each section over, so in the case of technical difficulties you do not lose any work.
• Once you have submitted the form changes cannot be made to an application.
• Please note: Applicants will receive an email confirming the submission of their application – if this notification is not received the application has not been submitted correctly.

Notification

• Applicants will be notified early September 2024 as to the success of an application.
• Mentorships must be completed by 28 March 2025.

Call out opens: Thursday 25 July 2024
Call out closes: Monday 26 August 2024
Successful applicant notified: Early September 2024
Mentorship period: 16 September 2023 – 28 March 2025
Outcome delivery: 21 February – 23 March 2025

Project Reporting

• The mentor and the mentee will provide Guildhouse with a progress report halfway through the project, and again at the end of the project with a final report. Reporting documents will include an overview of activities, key goal indicators achieved, documentation of the project and receipts/invoices.

Documentation

• We may engage a photographer or filmmaker to document the project outcomes, and your participation in this process is a condition in undertaking this opportunity. You are also required to submit visual documentation you undertake yourselves to record your mentorship experience. We collect information from the program to attract potential project partners for reporting requirements and for use on social media.

• Frequently asked questions can be found here.
• Visit the toolkit page on our website for guidance in writing your application. There you will find a toolkit specific to developing a mentorship proposal, as well as toolkits around how write a budget, an artist statement and a CV.
• Read Mentor Mentee: A creative relationship