Arts Council England (ACE) has announced £1.95m in Ambition for Excellence funding for three projects outside London.
They are Capsule in Birmingham, Northern Ballet in Leeds and Site Gallery in Sheffield.
Capsule will receive £450,000 to produce Home of Metal, a three-year international programme telling the story of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath and how four working-class lads from Birmingham changed the future of music.
Site Gallery has been awarded a grant of £750,000 for City of Ideas, a programme that connects communities, artists, young people, technologists and academics and helps them develop new approaches to art and culture in public spaces.
And Northern Ballet in Leeds will receive £750,000 to support the creation of the Leeds Dance Partnership, which aims to bring together a number of organisations to raise the profile of the city’s dance offer.
Ambition for Excellence will award a total of £35.2m by the end of October 2017, of which just over £19m in 35 awards has been granted since it opened in May 2015. Grants are awarded on a rolling basis.
The grants given under Ambition for Excellence, a rolling fund, are designed to contribute to the development of strong cultural places, grow and develop talent and leadership in the regions and across artforms, give an international dimension to excellent work, and create the highest quality new work, including for outdoor and festival contexts.
ACE’s aim is to commit 80-90% of the fund to projects outside London, to support the target of a minimum of 75% of Lottery funding committed outside the capital by 2018.
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They are Capsule in Birmingham, Northern Ballet in Leeds and Site Gallery in Sheffield.
Capsule will receive £450,000 to produce Home of Metal, a three-year international programme telling the story of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath and how four working-class lads from Birmingham changed the future of music.
Site Gallery has been awarded a grant of £750,000 for City of Ideas, a programme that connects communities, artists, young people, technologists and academics and helps them develop new approaches to art and culture in public spaces.
And Northern Ballet in Leeds will receive £750,000 to support the creation of the Leeds Dance Partnership, which aims to bring together a number of organisations to raise the profile of the city’s dance offer.
Ambition for Excellence will award a total of £35.2m by the end of October 2017, of which just over £19m in 35 awards has been granted since it opened in May 2015. Grants are awarded on a rolling basis.
The grants given under Ambition for Excellence, a rolling fund, are designed to contribute to the development of strong cultural places, grow and develop talent and leadership in the regions and across artforms, give an international dimension to excellent work, and create the highest quality new work, including for outdoor and festival contexts.
ACE’s aim is to commit 80-90% of the fund to projects outside London, to support the target of a minimum of 75% of Lottery funding committed outside the capital by 2018.
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Ambition for Excellence
