Selina Thompson Ltd

31/03/2026

We are looking for another new team member! Could you be our new Project Coordinator?

The Project Coordinator supports our Executive Producer and Artistic team to ensure our programme of activity is delivered to the highest artistic standards, centring access for the team and for the audiences and communities we make our work with and for.

The Project Coordinator responsibilities are:

To work closely with the Executive Producer to help ensure the smooth and effective running of the STL programme of work - including supporting administratively and in production contexts.

To collaborate to develop and implement suitable systems and processes that will help the programme flourish, including support with invoices and payments, contracts, filing, fundraising, monitoring and evaluations and marketing activities.

To be an active member of the team, supporting in-person the delivery of public facing events to help ensure they are successful and impactful for the communities we seek to reach.

Does this sound like you? Or someone you know?

Check out the key info below, and if the stars align between us... get that application in!

📆 Start date: ASAP

📝 Contract: Permanent, after a 3 month mutual trial period

🤑 Salary: £21,000-22,500 pa for 24 hours / 3 days per week

📍 Location: Based at our studio in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter

⏰ Closing date: 10am, Monday 18th May 2026

➡️ You’ll find all the information you need to apply here: https://selinathompsonltd.co.uk/project-coordinator

🔁 Please share this post with anyone you think may be a great fit for the role

📸 ‘Pat It and Prick It and Mark It with ‘B’’ by Pari Naderi

17/03/2026

Babs, we've got one hell of a birthday this year: Selina Thompson Ltd will turn 10 years old - and to celebrate, we've decided to throw a big ole' party!

There will be tickets available to book nearer the time once we've confirmed all the details, but for now, please stick what's set to be the hottest Brummie party of 2026 in your diaries for Friday 11th September 2026.

To make this party really pop, we are launching 10 x £1000 commissions for 10 x artists to help us celebrate! So if you're an artist - or you know one (or even two, or three, etc etc) - check out the artist commissions opportunities below...

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1. Artist Brief: Birthday Party Entertainment
(Open to artists nationally in the UK)

We are hosting a party, and what does every great party need...? Some iconic performances! That's where you come in.

Task: To make a ‘party piece’ that responds to one of the following five works from the Selina Thompson archive:

- Chewing the Fat
- Dark and Lovely
- Race Cards
- Salt
- Pat It and Prick It and Mark It with ‘B’

When we say a party piece, we either mean:

- a short performance piece, no longer than 20 (?) minutes, that can be performed in a cabaret-esque set up. Can have a cabaret vibe, but doesn’t have to.

- an installation that people can leave the main party to ‘do’ or ‘experience’

- a durational performance or experience that lasts the length of the party

- Something else you come up with that impresses us so much that we make an allowance for you.

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2. Artist Brief: Birthday Party Hosting
(Open to artists in the West Midlands only)

You know what else a party needs? Food! Booze! Bouncy Castles! Party Bags! And for that? We need you.

Task: To design and deliver one element of the birthday party as a bespoke art intervention. The themes are:

🍰 Cake
🍔 Catering
🪩 Decoration
🍸 Drinks
🛍️ Party Bags

When we say bespoke art intervention we mean:

- The themes are to be interpreted as live art /performance art / visual art commissions

- They respond to the theme of a 10 year old’s birthday party

- It needs to be functional. So by all means get creative but the drinks can’t be made out of kerosene or something, people still need to have a good time (and stay alive).

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Please visit our website (https://selinathompsonltd.co.uk/work/10th-birthday-party-artist-commission-opportunities) to explore both of these briefs in full and for application details - but as a heads up, expressions of interest need to be in by Mon 1st June, 10am.

We are already excited to see what you come up with!

Team STL x

09/01/2026

Are you an adult adoptee or care experienced person? Do you like cake, coffee and crafts? Would you like the chance to meet other adoptees and get creative?

Join us on the last Wednesday of the month from 6-8pm at Assay Studios, Jewellery Quarter for Crumbs & Kin, our new coffee & cake club! This is a relaxed, drop-in group for those of us with lived experience of adoption & care settings to be in community together. The space is shaped by you: so whether you like board games, craft or conversation, or if you want to organise activities and create art - Crumbs & Kin is for you.

🍰 What? A monthly social meet-up for adoptees / care experienced adults

📆 When? Weds 28th Jan, 6-8pm (drop in) - then the last Wednesday of every month

📍 Where? Assay Studios (Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham) in main Atom space

📝 Details: a relaxed, drop-in space, complete with plenty of cake (with nut-free, gluten-free and vegan options) and tea / coffee. We’ll provide board games, craft materials, fidget toys and gentle music — just bring yourself.

🔗 Sign up: if you’d like to attend, please complete the sign up form and we’ll be in touch with further information: https://sites.google.com/selinathompson.co.uk/selinathompsonltd/current-projects/canopy/crumbs-kin

Crumbs & Kin is part of our global adoption project CANOPY, you can find out more about it here: https://sites.google.com/selinathompson.co.uk/selinathompsonltd/current-projects/canopy

ACCESS INFO:

Assay Studios is an accessible building. For more information and maps please visit the Crumbs & Kin link in our bio.

Any dietary restrictions can be listed on the sign up form, however please note gluten, nut and diary free options will be available.

We have a small transport stipend for those who would find this a barrier to attendance. Please contact us at [email protected] to book transport.

If you have visual or hearing impairments, please let us know so we can support you to attend.

Support workers are welcome to attend but out of respect for the wider group we ask that wherever possible the space is protected for those with lived experience.

If you are coming alone and would like to buddy up with a member of our team on your arrival please let us know and we can look out for you.

03/12/2025

EDITED - NEW LINK AS OUR WEBSITE IS DOWN!

COME AND WORK WITH US
We’re looking for an organised and versatile person to be our Operations Manager, someone who is financially savvy and practically minded, and aligned to the ethics of Selina Thompson Limited. Find all the details here:

Photo: Richard Davenport of The Other Richard

22/04/2025

We've been a bit quiet over here, but quiet = big plans. And now we can unveil one of them.... we're hiring!

We're looking for the right person to fill the brand new post of Finance and Administration Assistant.

Hours - 16 / week
Salary - £12,000 (0.5 FTE £24,000)
Location - our office in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter
Terms - permanent
Closing date - THURSDAY 15 MAY

All the details and the link to the online application form are on our website here:

STL is recruiting a Finance and Administration Assistant, to work 16hrs per week at our office in Birmingham.

05/12/2024

BREAKING NEWS! CANOPY IS OFF TO BEIJING ✈️

It’s all thanks to the West Midlands Combined Authority’s ‘Future Growth Grants’

CANOPY is our ongoing, co-created, artist research-led, multi-strand exploration of adoption narratives across the world.

Conceived originally in 2019, CANOPY collabroates with those who advocate and work to reduce stigma, empower adoptees and support legislative reform(s).

Our TWINE production was one of the key projects under CANOPY and it spoke to adoption in England, specifically in a Midlands context.

The second CANOPY project is an emerging visual installation. It uses the notion of a ‘national family home’ to create a ‘neighbourhood of houses’ that form a global map on how adoption moves people, money, and national values and how this can be embodied in architecture.

Tap the link in our bio to read our latest blog on CANOPY so far, find out why Beijing, and stay tuned on Instagram for more updates from our two Tonis!

20/09/2024

A beautiful bit of news for our penultimate day of Twines London run, an nomination for our Seed .

The actors in Twine are a force to be reckoned with. They have taken this work to heights we couldn't have imagined and are such incredible custodians of this story. Name a more iconic trio?! YOU CANNOT!

You can see Twine at tonight and tomorrow, before it heads to in October.
Tickets in our bio!

13/09/2024

It was a really honour to have some of the women from come and see Twine last week. Learning about them and their work has been huge for the work, but more importantly, huge for us as people too.

We’ve got a post show talk at the matinee TOMORROW with Anne Neale from their coalition, as well as Crissie Amiss from the Women of Colour in the Global Women’s Strike and Miranda Armstrong, a writer, researcher and academic. See you there!!! 🥰

(I’ll be there too - Selina x)

28/08/2024

and bringing music and sound into harmony

28/08/2024

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28/08/2024

Absolutely besotted with this photo of and our glorious director Jen. We start previews on Saturday… have you got your tickets for Twine yet?