Arts Council England (ACE) has awarded £6.3m for Creative People and Places projects and £2.3m in funding for its Ambition for Excellence programme.
Recipients of Creative People and Places funding include Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, which is the lead organisation in East Durham Creates, a partnership project to increase opportunities for residents of East Durham to get involved with creativity, arts and culture.
The project, which received £1m in this funding round, will feature new commissions developed with and for local people, attract new cultural partners to work in the area, and support the area’s venues, community groups and artists to programme their own creative events.
The third round grants were awarded to projects that had successfully bid for funding previously “to build on the achievements made possible through the current fund”.
Phil Cave, ACE’s director of audiences and engagement, said: “It’s fantastic that with this new funding these Creative People and Places projects can continue to make a difference in those communities. We’re looking forward to seeing them build on their achievements to date, and these new projects coming to life.”
Tate Liverpool received an Ambition for Excellence award of £573,611 for Explorers, a programme of inclusive cultural activities that will be delivered nationally and internationally in partnership with the Forestry Commission, the artist Ben Rivers, and artists from Project Art Works, an organisation that works with people with profound intellectual impairment and complex needs.
Explorers will track an investigation of a forest, the outdoors and wilderness in collaboration with a group of people who are highly sensitive to the sensory stimuli of the world around them, aiming to increase awareness among artists, arts professionals and the public of the extraordinary contribution that people with complex needs can make to mainstream culture.
Recipients of Creative People and Places funding include Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, which is the lead organisation in East Durham Creates, a partnership project to increase opportunities for residents of East Durham to get involved with creativity, arts and culture.
The project, which received £1m in this funding round, will feature new commissions developed with and for local people, attract new cultural partners to work in the area, and support the area’s venues, community groups and artists to programme their own creative events.
The third round grants were awarded to projects that had successfully bid for funding previously “to build on the achievements made possible through the current fund”.
Phil Cave, ACE’s director of audiences and engagement, said: “It’s fantastic that with this new funding these Creative People and Places projects can continue to make a difference in those communities. We’re looking forward to seeing them build on their achievements to date, and these new projects coming to life.”
Tate Liverpool received an Ambition for Excellence award of £573,611 for Explorers, a programme of inclusive cultural activities that will be delivered nationally and internationally in partnership with the Forestry Commission, the artist Ben Rivers, and artists from Project Art Works, an organisation that works with people with profound intellectual impairment and complex needs.
Explorers will track an investigation of a forest, the outdoors and wilderness in collaboration with a group of people who are highly sensitive to the sensory stimuli of the world around them, aiming to increase awareness among artists, arts professionals and the public of the extraordinary contribution that people with complex needs can make to mainstream culture.
