International Mentorship - Australia 2025
UNSW School of the Arts & Media is delighted to be partnering with Pan Pan to bring its acclaimed International Mentorship program to Australia for the first time. In this edition, Pan Pan’s Artistic Director Gavin Quinn will mentor up to five Australian-based live art and contemporary performance makers to develop early-stage ideas for new performance projects.
This is a one-on-one mentorship program in which each participant will have four mentorship sessions with Gavin (three online and one in person in Sydney). Each of the selected participants will receive a bursary of AUD $2,600 to help set aside dedicated time to work on their ideas. First initiated in Dublin in 2012, the International Mentorship program has previously featured mentors such as Kirsten Delholm of Hotel Pro Forma (Denmark), Viviane De Muynck of Needcompany (Belgium), Tim Crouch (UK), Stewart Laing of Untitled Projects (UK), Anna- Sophie Mahler of CapriConnection (Germany), Johanna Freiburg of She She Pop/Gob Squad (Germany/UK), Kelly Copper of Nature Theater of Oklahoma (USA), Terry O’Connor of Forced Entertainment (UK), Susanne Kennedy (Germany), and Julian Hetzel (Netherlands/Germany).
In 2025, Pan Pan’s acclaimed mentorship program comes to Australia for the first time, continuing its legacy of international dialogue and exchange by creating a space where performance makers are at the core and learning from each other is the key focus.
The engagement of the mentor is aimed to pose challenges and interrogate the early-stage ideas for contemporary performance within a supportive structure. Engagement with Gavin Quinn will take place online and in Sydney over four sessions between October and January 2026. As well as group meetings at the start and end of the programme, each participant will have time to discuss their project ideas individually with Gavin four times for about two hours each time. Meetings will take place online and, where possible, at the Esme Timbery Creative Practices Lab at UNSW. Each participant will be given the option of access to a dedicated workspace at UNSW for up to three days over the mentorship period where available.
Learn more and apply now via our online form.
Timeline
• EOIs open — Friday 28 August 2025
• EOIs close — Sunday 29 September 2025
• Selections confirmed — Wednesday 10 October 2025
• First group session & 1:1s (online) — Week of 20 October 2025
• Second 1:1s (online) — Week of 15 December 2025
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• Third 1:1s (online) — Week of 5 January 2026
• Final week in Sydney (Fourth 1:1s in person) — 19–23 January 2026
• Symposium Day — Saturday 24 January 2026
NB – dates are subject to some change, but any changes will be done in collaboration with
the selected participants.
How To Apply
Please submit the following via the application form which can be found here:
• A completed application form (questions below).
• A CV or bio (no more than two pages).
• Links to documentation of past work (video/images). Writers may include a short
extract of text for performance (no full scripts please).
Application Questions:
1. What is the idea you would like to work on for the Mentorship? (max 300 words)
2. What development or research have you done so far on the idea? (max 150 words)
3. How do you make work? Describe your usual creative process. (max 300 words)
4. What international or Australian work have you seen recently that has impacted you?
(max 150 words)