Escape Artists offers a wide variety of opportunities for involvement in the company. While the number of paid roles within the company is limited there are often possibilities for involvement as a volunteer. Many of those who have volunteered with the company in the past have then gone on to find paid work within the organisation.

We are especially keen to work with ex-prisoners, interns and students. We have found placements for students from a number of universities, including: Goldsmiths, Cambridge University, Anglia Ruskin University and Birkbeck College. We also work with students from abroad and have helped them in the writing of their thesis or with carrying out research.

Rising to the Occasion is a provocation paper by Graham Leicester. Well worth reading if you want to find out more about the kind of challenges that Escape Artists is taking on.

The Escape Artists adhocracy, as manifested through our highly flexible Web 2.0 enabled management system, is our response to meeting the complexities of living in a time when 'The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present'.

 
What is Web 2.0?

The Company regularly runs workshops in schools, prisons and young offender institutions.

We offer a number of training opportunities to practitioners who would like to develop or enhance their skills related to working within the arts and criminal justice system. Please visit our training section for more information.

To find out more about how Escape Artists seeks to develop its role with artists please follow this link. If you have workshop skills that you think might be appropriate to our work please fill in our Online Questionnaire before calling us.

A primary objective of the Company is to provide training opportunities to ex-prisoners who would like to find out more about working in the arts. This could be in any area: managerial, technical or artistic. We provide a small number of training opportunities and support to ex-prisoners each year. What we are able to offer depends to a large extent on our current funding situation. If you are an ex-prisoner, with a desire to train in the arts, please give us a call or send an email. Even if we are unable to help you directly, we might be able to point you towards an organisation that can.

If you are an ex-prisoner with professional experience of running workshops, performing and/or giving talks and would like to consider working for us then please fill in our online questionnaire and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

We have also helped to develop Arts on the Out, managed by the Anne Peaker Centre, an online resource for offenders and ex-offenders who want to know more about the arts. It can be found by following this link

Ex-offender Employment Policy

Insurance for ex-offenders

Escape Artists has provided work placements to a number of students on arts management and technical courses. Quite a few of whom have gone on to work for the Company in various capacities. If you are looking for a work placement we might be able to help.

How You Can Get Involved

Volunteers can participate at different levels of commitment, from taking part in a one-off session to supporting a project through to completion.

We are happy to discuss specific possibilities for involvement with each individual candidate.

Please fill in our online questionnaire before giving us a call.