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Organisation Project Asian Arts Agency Red Baraat music touring and development Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery ARTIST ROOMS On Tour 2013 - 2015 Creative Arts East New Places, Extraordinary Spaces DanceEast KINDER Dance Faceless Outdoor Arts Reach Wakefield Root Music Ltd Music-Net The Demon Barbers Audience Development Through Strategic National Touring Funding awarded £55,000 £1,065,000 £310,779 £993,620 £39,428 £299,708 £119,727 Artform Region Project description Funding round Asian Arts Agency will promote the New York-based band, Red Baraat, in a national tour in September 2012. Featuring as part of London 2012 Festival, it will target wider South West audiences across England, developing new partnerships and creating a legacy for future Asian music touring. 1 London The project aims to provide 2.9 million people with access to a rich programme of highquality artwork, particularly in geographic areas of low cultural participation. The project comprises a touring exhibition network of 36 associate venues, digital resources and inspiring participatory learning activities for young people. 1 East The project aims to create new circuits for theatre and spoken word performances in nontraditional community venues, specifically libraries, pubs and halls in West Norfolk and West Suffolk. Creative Arts East will work with partners to support emerging artists and established small-scale companies to tour exciting new work to those with least engagement in the arts. 1 East The three-year project will commission and showcase dance aimed at children and their families through a strategic development programme targeting areas of low arts engagement. Dance East will collaborate with partners across six English regions in the supply and demand sides of touring to implement an audience development plan that will reach new people and places, extending and enriching the audience experience. 1 Faceless will tour its outdoor performances and tented creative activities for children, young people and their families at small scale events in 12 areas of the Wakefield District. The tour will target areas of low arts engagement and will provide training and event support for local volunteer event organisers. 1 Music Root Music and Band on the Wall will work in partnership to undertake a three-year programme of national touring that supports the performance of diverse, innovative new North West work in England. There will be a particular focus on developing partnerships with venues and promoters in areas of low arts engagement in the North of England. 1 Dance Folk-band, The Demon Barbers, will produce a national tour of its folk and hip hop music and dance production, FOLK!. Working alongside partner promoters and development organisations, it aims to take the production to areas with low engagement in dance and music. Workshops for children and young people will also feature alongside performances of the production. 1 Music Visual arts Theatre Dance Combined arts Yorkshire Yorkshire The Play House (B'ham) Limited All Aboard! Theatre Hullabaloo North East Children's Theatre Consortium Adverse Camber Adverse Camber Touring Programme 2013 Birmingham I Was A Rat! tour Repetory Theatre Ltd Contact Theatre CountryBoy's Struggle Strategic Retour £23,917 £166,027 £89,138 £191,963 £69,792 West Midlands All Aboard! is a new participatory theatre tour for children and young people by The Play House, Birmingham and the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. The theatre companies will work with promoters in Worcester, Redditch and Bromsgrove and will tour schools, nontheatre and small-scale venues. 1 North East The project comprises a strategic grouping of venues across Tees Valley, County Durham and Sunderland. Its aim is to develop a collaborative and strategic approach to the programming of theatre for young audiences to improve the quality, quantity and profile of theatre for young audiences across the region. 1 Literature East Midlands Adverse Camber Touring programme 2013 will feature two 16-date tours (one urban, one rural) of outstanding works of epic storytelling with music for adults with leading UK/international practitioners. Each tour, planned closely with promoters, will test and evaluate new approaches to reaching more people, including participation engagement programmes, and strengthening the audience base for future work. 2 Theatre West Midlands I Was A Rat! tour is a newly commissioned stage adaptation of Philip Pullman's I Was A Rat!. It will use this first production to establish a new producing partnership and middlescale venue consortium across England, designed to provide world class theatre with an international strand to the widest possible range of family audiences. 2 Theatre Theatre Theatre Contact and the National Rural Touring Forum have formed a five-year partnership, initially for a 70-date strategic re-tour of the Contact co-production, CountryBoy's North West Struggle. Provisionally they will work alongside 20 rural touring schemes across the UK and reaching 24 areas of least engagement. Northern Ballet Short Ballets for Small People £385,407 Dance Yorkshire Orchestras Live First Time Live Youth £317,932 Music East ShivaNova Equator Touring programme 20122014 £60,000 Combined arts South East Short Ballets for Small People will create three small scale family productions, touring to 15 venues across the Northern region, over three years, supported at venues by an audience engagement programme. The 45-minute performances, created specifically for families, aim to inspire and engage children and families who may not usually access the arts. First Time Live - Youth is an innovative new touring programme which will bring 20 inspiring, high-quality orchestral concerts to nearly 14,000 young people aged between 10 and 14 years living in 10 locations in England that fall in the bottom 20 per cent for arts engagement. Equator Touring programme 2012-2014 is a two-year programme developing audiences for world music, dance and theatre through the Equator series and WOW Festival programmes with venues in Ashford, Folkestone, Chatham, Sevenoaks, Whitstable in Kent, and RichMix and Southbank Centre in London. ShivaNova will collaborate with Kent Music adding a classical music strand, and associated education work linked to audience development. 2 2 2 2 Spitalfields Festival Ltd Tomorrow's Warriors Ltd A Musical Rumpus Lively Up! Festival 2012 £66,270 £99,602 Music Music London A Musical Rumpus. A tour of music workshops and concerts for 0 - 3 year olds presented in libraries and childrens' centres in Barking and Dagenham, and Newham. Based on the successful Musical Rumpus model from Tower Hamlets, these interactive and sensory events offer high-quality music and give parents material to use at home with their children. 2 London Lively Up! 2012 is the first year of an annual touring festival of music offering a range of high quality artistic and participatory programmes devised with a range of partners around the UK, specifically to reach out to, engage, develop and sustain audiences within the African-Caribbean community. The programme will tour nationally with three key cities Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol presenting the whole festival programme. 2 An offer was made to Get it Loud in Libraries for £120,000 in Round 2, but the organisation declined. Baby People Ltd Box Clever Theatre Company Bristol Music Trust China Plate Ltd DaDa - Disability & Deaf Arts Soul food tour The BOX IN LOV project Routes South West Macbeth, Blood Will Have Blood DaDaFest Touring project £32,836 £37,577 £170,000 £99,951 £195,268 Music Theatre Music Theatre East Midlands London Soul food tour will build up a new touring route for black British music artists across rural low engagement areas in the East Midlands. This will provide development opportunities for emerging artists and promoters and encourage the programming of music events featuring black artists. 3 Box Clever Theatre Company and Riverhead Theatre, Louth, supported by East Lindsey District Council, will pilot a tour of professional theatre productions and workshops to secondary schools and theatre venues in Lincolnshire with the aim of increasing access and participation. The company aims to replicate this partnership with the Lincolnshire One Venues network in future years. 3 Routes South West is a regional touring programme which will bring high-quality music to the South West by facilitating collaboration between small- and medium-scale venues, new and emerging promoters and tour producers. The programme will support up to South West eight tours over two years focusing on music genres that are underrepresented in the region. The programme will also provide sector development and a mentoring scheme for artists and young promoters. 3 Contender Charlie, China Plate and Warwick Arts Centre will partner to present an immersive re-imagining of Macbeth for children aged nine to 13. The project brings together schools, theatre-makers and carefully selected hub venue partners with the aim to establish a new model for producing and touring quality original work in locations reliant on touring provision. The project will involve 33 schools across Devon, Coventry, Burnley and Stanley. 3 West Midlands DaDa will build on its experience of programming disability arts work from its base in Liverpool, including producing the award-winning biennial international festival, Combined arts North West DaDaFest, by developing partnerships with five arts organisations including one in Northern Ireland to programme and market disability arts over a three-year period. The project partners will develop skills in programming and building audiences for this work. 3 DEP Arts Ltd New Realities £217,857 Combined arts Yorkshire New Realities is three-year initiative to bring high quality contemporary performance to a network of small-medium scale Yorkshire theatres that currently have little or no provision for this work. Project partners will be supported by a programme of audience research and development to build audiences over a three-year period. Ida Barr's Mash Up is an innovative participatory project collaborating with venue partners to build a giant intergenerational scratch choir of children and elders led by Christopher Green's character Ida Barr. A lively workshop series will culminate in a public mass singing performance that fuses Old Music Hall and contemporary R&B genres. Kent County Council will commission artists to create new work in response to material housed in the Kent archives and develop a new exhibition and programme of engagement. The exhibition will tour primarily in libraries across North and East Kent, focussing on key communities of low engagement and introducing them to the archives and art through tailored, engaging activities. A new digital archive will be developed from the project. 3 3 Home Live Art Ltd Ida Barr's Mash Up £38,250 Combined arts London Kent County Council Kent Archive Touring £73,650 Visual arts South East Nottingham Playhouse Trust Ltd Creating New Worlds £84,878 Theatre East Midlands Creating New Worlds comprises two national and local tours of two plays in consecutive years - a revival and a new commission - created for young people aged 11 and above with profound and multiple learning difficulties and autism. The productions will be accessible to young people on many levels through sight, sound, smell and touch. 3 Pavilion National touring of 9 Intervals Yorkshire Pavilion will produce a tour of 9 Intervals , a moving image art piece by French artist Aurelien Froment. Touring to six local cinemas in Bradford, Newcastle, Nottingham and Hebden Bridge, each film will be presented between trailers and the main feature in conventional cinema programmes. It is hoped this model will be adopted to develop new audiences for art in the moving image. 3 North West Children's Theatre Network is a two-year project which aims to strengthen the provision and distribution of high-quality children's theatre in the North West. The network will create an environment where a wide range of high-quality children's theatre North West can thrive, utilising great companies to develop audiences for work aimed at children such as a new hip-hop production of Pinocchio and a region-wide Children's Theatre Festival. 3 Yorkshire Rural Arts North Yorkshire will set up creative collaborations between 180 young people aged 12 to 18 years and nine professional performance companies and digital artists. The collaborations will result in new pieces which will be toured in small venues in Rural Arts' ON Tour rural touring network. 4 South East The Dance Touring Partnership will expand its touring network across seven regions to deliver high quality dance productions in areas of low engagement and to develop audiences for the artform. Learning and participation programmes will be facilitated to help develop relationships between audiences, artists and venues. 4 Zion Arts Centre North West Children's Theatre Network Rural Arts North Yorkshire Create tour Dance Touring Partnership Regional touring project 2013-15 £23,000 £273,558 £137,776 £990,428 Visual arts Theatre Combined arts Dance 3 The Touring Consortium Theatre Company Three-year large scale touring programme Multistory Open for Business Chrysalis Arts Development Ltd The Albany Book Trust Exhibition Touring Network Circulate: Outdoor Arts Touring Project Stories Tour £1,098,501 Theatre London The Touring Consortium Theatre Company will be presenting five large scale productions at its member venues in Blackpool, Bradford, Cheltenham, Darlington, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Wycombe and beyond. The productions will be created by York Theatre Royal and The Royal and Derngate Theatres. A shared digital hub called Theatre Cloud and an extensive creative learning and participation programme will all help to extend the reach, participation and engagement of young audiences in this three-year project. £329,404 Visual arts West Midlands Multistory and Magnum will commission internationally-recognised Magnum photographers to document and record the manufacturing industries in 10 British cities. The exhibition will tour to nine venues across five English regions. 4 Yorkshire Chrysalis Arts Development Ltd will establish a new exhibition touring network and threeyear pilot touring programme in Yorkshire and the North West to develop regional arts infrastructure and forge new partnerships with venues and promoters. The programme will offer professional development opportunities, bring high-quality arts to rural and disadvantaged urban audiences and directly benefit arts practitioners. 4 London A consortium of six outer London venues and arts organisations (The Albany, Artsdepot, Tara Arts, Watermans, and Harrow and Millfield Arts Centres) will develop a three-year touring programme of outdoor arts projects. Six new community youth participation projects will be set up to widen and deepen participation and local engagement in the arts in each area. 5 London Booktrust will bring multi-lingual (Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Somali) literature performances to libraries, community centres and prisons across England. These will focus on deprived urban areas to reach families from black and minority ethnic groups. Performance and participation will help to break down language barriers, promote community cohesion and inspire a love of books. 5 £91,000 £498,900 £299,487 Visual arts Combined arts Literature Fuel New Theatre in Your Neighbourhood £90,293 Theatre London Invisible Flock Bring the Happy UK £99,559 Combined arts Yorkshire Isis Arts Big M tour of On the Precipice £75,349 Visual arts North East Fuel will use scheduled touring activity in spring 2013 in Colchester, Ludlow, Preston, Poole and Stockton-on-Tees as a springboard for a research initiative with audiences, venues and artists. Fuel will work with audience development specialists to research communities with low arts engagement and create new bespoke targeted work connecting these communities to their local theatres. Invisible Flock will visit Stockton, Barnsley, Exeter, Coventry and London and, spending a month in each, will collect and map people’s moments and memories of happiness. Part installation, part raucous musical performance, part digital map, it is an attempt to investigate the happiness of the UK. Isis Arts will tour On the Precipice , an exhibition of immersive film and video installations exploring the natural landscape and how it is changing. The exhibition will tour North East England in the mobile, inflatable touring space, the Big M. Isis Arts will be working with local partners to increase younger audiences aged 14 to 25 years old. 4 5 5 5 Mid Wales Opera Mid Wales Opera on tour 2013-2014 Paines Plough Building a Sustainable SmallScale Touring Network Raw Material Music & Media Raw Roads: Turning Tides Re:Bourne Ltd Matthew Bourne's Lord of the Flies The Spark Children's The Fourth Tale - a Arts Festival library tour Bristol Old Vic and Theatre Royal Trust Limited Crying Out Loud Bristol Old Vic Sedgemoor touring project Three-year touring programme £235,000 £269,660 £34,780 £894,116 £47,248 £151,978 £447,310 Music Theatre Music Dance Combined arts Theatre Theatre West Midlands Mid Wales Opera will tour productions of Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring , Handel's Acis and Galatea and Bizet's Carmen to over 14 partner venues across England which wouldn't usually programme opera. A programme of associated outreach and audience development activity will run alongside performances. 5 London Paines Plough will reinvigorate the small-scale touring network for new plays by establishing a connected and collaborative network of venues across England to which they will supply regular, high-quality productions alongside audience development initiatives. Through these partnerships, venues will develop stronger a relationship with their audiences, each other and producing touring companies. 5 London Raw Material will produce a collaborative spoken word, poetry and urban music performance project aimed at young people aged 12 to 24 and will tour it to locations along the South coast. The project will draw on oral traditions, the poetic MC, lyricism, the language of the street and live performance. Raw Material will also produce a shared online archive and resource to support the touring project. 5 London Matthew Bourne's Lord of the Flies will be a collaborative dance-theatre touring production. It will work strategically with venues to embed a sustained outreach programme which will improve relationships between venues, dance organisations and communities. It will be aimed at audiences of all ages and made by professional New Adventures dancers and young people from across England. 5 East Midlands The Spark Children's Arts Festival will work with Leicester Library Services to develop a new piece of performance in collaboration with artists, children, parents, teachers and librarians. The piece will be developed and produced as a touring performance with an associated programme of reading and storytelling opportunities for children both in school and with their families. 5 Bristol Old Vic, in partnership with Sedgemoor Learning Alliance and Real Ideas Organisation, will implement a two-year touring programme for schools in Sedgemoor, South West an area designated as having low engagement with the arts. The tour will be supported by a programme of supervised school workshops and a network of young promoter groups. London Crying Out Loud will tour contemporary circus to 10 venues across six English regions over three years. The organisation will provide audience development and marketing support and training for venue partners to build and increase knowledge of contemporary circus and programming. The project will help develop cross venue partnerships to expand touring networks for circus. 6 6 Customs House Trust Follow the Herring Ltd English Touring Theatre Generator North East Manasamitra Motionhouse The National Touring Group Mapped Out A Taste of India Tour Captive £218,832 £1,140,587 £236,100 £108,675 £87,565 Serious Events Ltd Soul Caribbean £91,163 Sixth Sense Theatre Company Early years and family audience development model £16,500 Without Walls Without Walls Street Associate Touring Arts Consortium Network £1,393,601 North East Customs House, in collaboration with Guild of Lillian's Theatre Company, will tour theatre and Visual arts to 14 East Coast venues. Based on the heritage of fishing communities, the tour will engage people in the arts through singing, performing and knitting. The work will be a catalyst for developing a future sustainable touring network across the 14 mid-scale venues. 6 London English Touring Theatre will lead a consortium of major regional theatres called The National Touring Group. They will work together to produce and tour ambitious high quality, large scale drama to audiences across England, particularly in geographic areas which have low cultural participation. The touring network will develop audiences and make touring more sustainable for the future. 6 North East Generator North East, in partnership with Liverpool Sound City, Higher Rhythm, Music South West and Community Music East, will establish an audience-focused national touring network that will build audiences for and support the development of new music. Promoters based in six towns of low music engagement will be partnered with partners in neighbouring cities to secure high-quality artists, develop music scenes, audiences and the skills to sustain them. 6 Combined arts Yorkshire Manasamitra will tour three original musical theatre productions to venues across Yorkshire which traditionally do not show this type of work. In addition, Manasamitra will build a touring circuit in the region for audiences who have had no or little exposure to the heritage, craft, sound and visual experience of Indian-based arts practice. 6 Dance West Midlands Motionhouse will tour a brand new outdoor dance work, Captive, across seven English regions. It will specifically target areas where arts engagement is low, and build on the strength and success of previous outdoor work to date, its proven demand and potential for creating, building and sustaining audiences. 6 Combined arts Theatre Music Serious will tour ‘Soul Caribbean’, a new arrangement of songs from the Caribbean, written and performed by talented Black British artists. Originally commissioned by Serious for BT River of Music, ‘Soul Caribbean’ will tour across five English regions, Music London feature local choirs and reach out to new and diverse audiences through a collaborative audience development strategy. Sixth Sense Theatre Company, in partnership with Salisbury Playhouse, will develop a distribution and legacy model for the development of early years and family theatre Theatre South West audiences in national areas of low engagement using a good practice delivery model. The development is set in a sustainable framework including continuing professional development and strategic activities. Without Walls will tour ambitious outdoor work to a new network of festivals and events across five English regions over a three-year period. It will develop relationships with Combined arts North West festivals in areas of low arts engagement to increase access to high quality new work and build audiences. 6 6 6 York Theatre Royal On Our Turf 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning To Gypsyland' by Delaine Le Bas ArtReach (Trust) Limited Night of Festivals tour Battersea Arts Centre Collaborative Touring Consortium Birmingham Textures, Tones and Contemporary Music Traces Group Iain Pate Impressions Gallery The Art Lending Library Hidden £99,600 £49,420 Theatre Yorkshire Visual arts London £145,000 Combined arts East Midlands £649,000 Theatre London £62,665 £42,997 £96,088 Combined arts Visual arts Visual arts York Theatre Royal will create a three-tiered programme of work which will develop its relationship with audiences and participants in rural areas of Yorkshire. It will pilot a new model, producing imaginative new work with major artists and local participants which can be showcased across the country. 6 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning will tour contemporary visual art by Romani artist Delaine le Bas to venues and traveller sites in London, Glasgow, Peterborough and Bolton to develop audiences from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities. The tour will increase GRT engagement and participation in the arts, as well as increase the visibility of GRT artists’ culture and cultural activity. 6 ArtReach will tour Night of Festivals, an established and culturally diverse multi-arts event, to Nottingham, Boston, Slough and Leicester. The tour will develop audiences and increase engagement with young people, as well as create new dialogue and collaboration. The Collaborative Touring Consortium is made up of seven national partners who will devise a new touring model over a three-year programme. Six partners in areas of low arts engagement in Yorkshire, the South West and South East will programme a diverse range of work with Battersea Arts Centre in a new model based on collaboration, context and dialogue. 7 7 West Midlands Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, in partnership with Arts Alive and Craftspace, will produce Textures, Tones and Traces, a contemporary music and Visual arts touring programme. It is specially conceived for, and in consultation with, rural venues in Shropshire and Herefordshire, extending the type and quality of art available to rural audiences in the West Midlands and surrounding area. 7 London The Art Lending Library is a curated exhibition of over 60 artworks by established and emerging UK and international artists. It will tour to gallery and library venues across Yorkshire and the North East, with a programme of supporting events and resources. During the exhibition members of the public will borrow artworks for temporary display in their own homes, places of work, or community spaces. 7 Yorkshire Impressions Gallery will produce Hidden, a touring exhibition of photography by Red Saunders. The exhibition will tour to 13 schools in Bradford and will be accompanied by educational workshops, including 'Put you in the Picture', an imaginative immersive education and audience development project. Impressions Gallery will evaluate and share the learning from this pilot with the wider photography and Visual arts sector. 7 JABADAO Lucy English Nutkhut Walk the Plank Way Art West The Tig Count Me In The Mela Partnership Spellbound (a.k.a. Rama and Sita ) Track Change Breakin' Convention Breakin' Outwards (Sadler's Wells Trust) £92,398 £29,990 In this two-year audience development project, JABADAO will tour The Tig, an inflatable arts space aimed at children aged 0-6 and their families. It will be taken to community venues across four English regions and aimed specifically those who are not currently engaged in arts activity. The tour will include follow-up activities including family workshops and debate. JABADAO will make new links with arts and early years promoters and will build its profile as an organisation. 7 Lucy English will tour Count Me In , a promenade spoken word production on the theme of 'numbers', in the rural areas of Gloucester, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Wiltshire. Supporting the production will be workshops where participants can devise a segment Combined arts South West which can be woven into the show, based on numbers which are important to them. This show is aimed at communities where spoken word is under-represented. The tour will be supported by three students from Bath Spa University's outreach programme. 7 Dance Yorkshire 7 £101,109 Combined arts £163,364 Walk the Plank will work with eight promoters over two years to present Spellbound across five English regions. The production is inspired by the Ramayan and told through Combined arts North West shadow play, traditional Indian dance, puppetry and music, with special effects. It will be aimed at young people and families and showcased to an outdoor audience of 3000-5000 people. 7 £248,095 Music Way Art West will produce Track Change, a three-year touring programme which aims to develop Black and Asian audiences and venue infrastructure, targeting cities in the South West, West Midlands, North West, East Midlands, and London. Track Change will create South West a commercially viable touring programme based on dynamic partnerships between communities and venues, to source, promote and host large-scale music concerts attracting significant Black, Asian and minority ethnic audiences. 7 Dance Breakin' Outwards' national tour of international and local hip hop dance theatre will reach nine venues in eight Arts Council regions, plus one venue in Scotland. Tour dates will include five venues that are in areas of low arts engagement and that have not yet had access to this work. The programme will deliver enhanced marketing and digital support to enable partner venues to achieve audience development aims. Development of new and emerging talent will be supported by the recruitment and mentorship of local Urban Cultural Ambassadors. 8 £257,337 London Nutkhut will work with Manchester Mela, Preston Mela, Blackburn Festival and Culturepedia to develop a network of organisations based in the North West who will work together to develop a programme of activity aimed at developing Asian audiences particularly in places of least engagement. London "Living Symphonies" Forestry Commission Strategic Tour and Action Research Pilot Forma IOU Theatre The Miners' Hymns Coalfield Tour IOU Visual arts Digital Development Programme £106,647 £123,740 £71,148 £176,000 Music Visual arts Combined arts Forest Forge Connections Theatre Contact Theatre Contact and the NRTF Relationship Phase Two £109,615 Theatre Philharmonia Orchestra i-Orchestra (working title) £676,670 Music The Living Symphonies Strategic Tour and Action Research Pilot will develop both national and local partnerships and sectoral capacity to deliver high quality touring arts South West activity in a cross-section of forest venues nationally. This pilot tour will visit four forest venues in the East Midlands, West Midlands, South East and East regions with a particular focus on areas of least engagement with the arts. 8 London The Miners' Hymns Coalfield tour of the artist film The Miners’ Hymns will reach 29 arts and community venues in seven Arts Council regions, Wales and Scotland , including former coalfield areas across Britain. The programme will culminate with three live performances of the concert version of the piece in Easington Miners Welfare Centre, the Sage Gateshead, and the Barbican. The project will develop new audiences and partnerships, encouraging cross-generation engagement in arts activity and create a sustainable legacy for touring work to regional communities. 8 Yorkshire IOU Visual arts Development Programme. The touring programme will support the development of new audiences for digital Visual arts activity and the development of a sustainable, touring network for IOU and digital art work. Work will be toured to five venues across the North West, Yorkshire and East Midlands. Six new partnerships will be developed including four with organisations working in areas of currently low arts engagement. 8 South East Forest Forge Theatre Company will collaborate with three arts centres across Hampshire and the University of Winchester to create three pieces of work over three years working with schools, museums and community groups. These three productions will tour to 18 venues around Hampshire over 30 dates between March 2014 and March 2016. An audience development strategist will be employed to support partners in deepening audience engagement and facilitate learning on audience development strategies. 8 Contact and the NRTF Relationship Phase Two. Contact and NRTF are to deliver a two year strategic rural touring programme leading on from the pilot phase delivered North West between October 2012 to May 2013. The programme will develop young rural promoter networks, working alongside up to 24 rural touring schemes across the UK and reaching 19 areas of least engagement. i-Orchestra is a three year programme to generate interest and participation from new audiences for classical music via a programme of pioneering digital and live resources in the South West Peninsula. Through research the programme will leave a long-term London legacy for audience development and participation, with focus on areas of least arts engagement. 8 8 East Midlands Children's Theatre Network East Midlands Children's Theatre Network New Writing North Touring Literature in County Durham £167,065 Literature North East Pop Up Project CIC Pop Up Festival Tour £191,270 Literature London Balbir Singh Dance Company Faceless - Outdoor Performance and Community Arts Synchronised Empty Square along M62 Tour £296,446 £150,000 £39,780 Combined arts Dance Combined arts East Midlands East Midlands Children's Theatre Network is a two year pilot programme to build an effective network quality touring children's theatre, primarily within small to mid scale East Midlands venues. The tour will be delivered between January 2014 and June 2015. The pilot will enable thenetwork to develop and strengthen programming, introduce new audiences to live performance, and build confidence, knowledge and skills across network member staff teams to help ensure future sustainability of this work. An arts administration traineeship will be offered on each year of the programme. Touring Literature in County Durham is a two year touring programme delivered between 2013-15 to support the development of a small scale touring network across the North East, North West and Yorkshire regions for Durham Book Festival and its literature and performance activities. To deliver Pop Up Festival Tour, an artist-led, site-specific, innovative children's literature festival touring to the Midlands and South East, bringing live literature event to areas with very low arts engagement. 8 8 9 Yorkshire Touring Synchronised to four venues in the Midlands, London and North West. The project will develop new groups, build cross-community collaboration and recruit community performers for the show. Pool-based performances will be preceded by an outreach programme including developing Aqua Kathak with leisure centres. 9 Yorkshire To deliver Empty Square, a professionally produced, community performed, outdoor production touring to, and linking, four isolated communities along the M62 corridor between Wakefield and Goole. During the tour additional community specific content for each performance and a bespoke fundraising / audience development plan for each community will be produced. 9 9 National Portrait Gallery Picture the Poet £250,018 Combined arts London The National Portrait Gallery will tour an exhibition of high quality photographs of poets to six venues in the North, Midlands, South East and London. The exhibition will form the focus for a participatory programme of work with partner venues, teachers, photographers and poets to raise literacy attainment. Workers of Art Spokes'n Words £100,354 Literature South East Working in partnership with Wheely Groovy, LV21, Apples and Snakes and Lounge on the Farm, Workers of Art will utilise the model for successful slam competition Shake the Dust to deliver a series of poetry slams across Kent under the title, ‘Spokes'n Words’. 9 Furtherfield.org Being Social Touring Exhibition £65,500 Visual arts London In partnership with CultureCode, Furtherfield will deliver a pilot tour of participatory digital art to six shopping centres in the North and London with the aim of establishing a sustainable touring network offering increased access and engagement in high quality art for people in places with limited arts provision. 9 Royal Exchange Theatre Black Roses Touring Project £25,140 Theatre Royal Exchange will restage 'Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster' for a second North West production in the Studio. It will then embark on a tour of North West community venues and theatre spaces, with accompanying participation work and resources. 9 State Of Emergency Productions Dave Sturt Per-Mission Past Lives Project £80,733 £148,148 State of Emergency Productions will deliver Per-Mission, a full length touring dance theatre and music performance and education programme exploring issues of sexual Combined arts South West health, pregnancy and consent with young people. The tour will reach 22 venues across the five Arts Council Areas plus one date in Scotland. Combined arts 9 Midlands To deliver a participatory tour in the East Midlands, engaging communities in their local heritage and in high quality Combined arts performance derived from home movie footage, with an accompanying live soundtrack. The tour will develop a new network with Midlands museums. 10 10 The Roundhouse Puffball Phase 2 - the Partnership £111,816 Combined arts London To deliver Puffball Phase 2 in partnership with two venues in the North Area and one in Wales with the aim of engaing new LGBTQ audiences, promoting quality work by young people and establishing an ambitious network of like-minded venues. The project will see the development of a new partnership and audience engagement initiative, the creation of a new production and dedicated wrap-around education and participation activity. Fevered Sleep Future Play - the next phase £88,946 Theatre London Fevered Sleep will deliver Future Play, a three-year action research project that explores a new touring model across three Arts Council Areas and Wales of performance for children that will provide more young audiences with access to great art. 10 10 Leeds Theatre Trust Limited Refugee Boy Tour £161,400 Theatre North Leeds Theatre Trust Limited will work in partnership with five venues in three Arts Council Areas and one Scottish venue to deliver a tour of Benjamin Zephaniah's Refugee Boy adapted by Lemn Sissay. The tour will incorporate a programme of participatory and community engagement work aimed at engaging refugee communities, less engaged communities and wider audience with issues around refugees and asylum. Cardboard Citizens Glasshouse £70,000 Theatre London Cardboard Citizens will deliver a tour of Glasshouse by Kate Tempest, to seven venues in two Arts Council Areas that will allow the organisation to share its expertise in combining participation, performance, and spoken word with training and workshops to support the partner venues in engaging audiences. 10 North Durham County Council will deliver Generation, a collaborative project between four museums / art galleries in the North of England who share an ambition to reach family focussed audiences. The project will create four touring participatory art exhibitions which will show at each of the venues (a total of 16 showings). 10 North Grizedale Arts will deliver a touring project with eight partner venues across two Arts Council Areas that promotes the new international movement of Useful Art as a new approach to make art and institutions accessible and effective in society and to reach wider audiences. 10 Durham County Council Generation Grizedale Arts The Benevolent Order of New Mechanics £150,000 £130,000 Visual arts Visual arts Northern Print Studio Ltd 20-21 Visual arts Centre FACT (Foundation For Art & Creative Technology) Glossary - The Story of How and Why Artists Make Prints Show stoppers Networked Narrative £30,715 £310,408 £149,737 Visual arts Visual arts Visual arts North Northern Print Studio Ltd will deliver 'Glossary', a touring exhibition that celebrates and explores contemporary printmaking and offers audience participation linking six committed community-focused partner venues in areas of low arts engagement. The project will include quality prints and established artists; use of innovative exhibition interpretation; and maximise potential to develop working partnerships during and after the project lifespan. 10 North 20-21 Visual arts Centre will lead a partnership of three northern galleries who will work together, developing two touring exhibitions and related activities reaching six venues in areas of low engagement in the North and Midlands Areas. The tour will engage with children and young people, launching with an interactive exhibition from worldrenowned illustrator Nick Sharratt and followed by an animation exhibition created jointly by artists, children and young people. 10 North FACT will deliver Networked Narrative, a touring programme of high quality, innovative visual art that uses digital technology across the North of England, touring new work to library venues and online, with a focus on developing new young audiences for the arts and building capacity with non-arts venues for future touring. 10 Organisation Project Daily Life Limited The Daily Life Project Tour Dance 4 Limited Herculean Cabaret Funding awarded Artform £41,812 Combined arts £249,642 Dance Region London Project description The Daily Life Project tour will increase access to high quality art for people and places with the least engagement, working in East London (Newham, Tower Hamlets and Hackney) by engaging people with personal experience of mental health issues in exceptional participatory arts programmes. Funding round 11 Midlands Dance 4 Limited will deliver Herculean Cabaret, a new dance production that will connect artists and the public in extraordinary ways. Lasting connections will be created between promoters and communities to support creation of mid-scale dance. The project will be focused around areas of low engagement in four Arts Council Areas and encourage arts access among new attenders and families. 11 To develop the literature based offer of the Small Venues Network member organisations across Yorkshire through specially curated packages. The programme development will be supported with audience development, writing workshops and marketing expertise which is currently not available to members due to the size of the organisations. 11 Waterside Artists CoNorthern Accent Operative £88,620 Literature North Spitalfields Festival Ltd A Musical Rumpus £176,020 Music London Spitalfields Festival Ltd will deliver a programme of music-theatre for 0-3s and their families touring in East London, the South East and South West, accompanied by training for early years workers, parents and knowledge sharing for arts practitioners. 11 English Touring Opera Touring Operas for Children and Young People London English Touring Opera will deliver a three year programme commissioning six new operas to engage children and their families in areas of least engagement. This will include three operas for young people with learning disabilities. These operas will tour into schools, libraries, studio theatres and other non-theatre settings across England and two dates in Scotland. 11 ViVA Chamber Orchestra Ltd Dark Clouds are Smouldering into Red Midlands Sinfonia Viva will deliver a participatory programme in the Midlands and North Areas to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of the start of WW1. The project will put young participants at the heart of the creative process, working with choreographer Tom Dale and composer James Redwood on a new emotive touring commission using archives, poetry, and community history as inspiration to engage new audiences. 11 London Box Clever Theatre Company and Louth Playgoers Riverhead Theatre with the support of East Lindsey District Council will develop a three-way relationship between a professional theatre company, local theatre venues and schools. Following the successful pilot tour in 2013, the project will expand its reach and contents to communities in the East Midlands and Yorkshire. 11 Freedom Studios will delier Home Sweet Home, a major new touring programme of performance work made with, by and for older people, as well as audiences and participants across the generations. It brings together cutting edge participatory theatre practice and immersive theatre performance focussing on older people with least engagement in the North and London Areas. 11 Box Clever Theatre Company Freedom Studios Box In LOV – Years 2 and 3 Home Sweet Home £180,000 £89,118 £30,000 £130,253 Music Music Theatre Theatre North Fuel Quarantine New Theatre in Your Neighbourhood Phase 2 Everyday Places, Everyday Participation Theatre For Young New Wolsey Theatre People By Young People Institute of Contemporary Arts The New Art Exchange Ltd Southbank Centre Limited Touring Exhibition Programme: The Reading Room Great Art in Diverse Communities Alchemy on Tour Plugged in to Pendle Pendle Leisure Trust and Blackburn with Darwen £248,280 £98,000 £141,960 £140,000 £172,730 £230,043 £153,638 Theatre Theatre Theatre Visual arts Visual arts Combined arts Combined arts London Fuel will build on a successful research and development period to deepen and grow their engagement in response to identified audiences and places in six key areas in the North, Midlands, South East and South West of England, embedding this in their wider touring practice. 11 North Quarantine will deliver three pieces of new and existing accessible, high-quality, contemporary performance to local people/places to 20 venues across the North and Midlands Areas. The programme will engage ten new and existing cultural partners, enabling cross-partner and volunteer learning, and local, peer promotion of the art. Support for a dedicated audience development post and delivery of a robust engagement and evaluation framework will allowing Quarantine to facilitate audiences in taking/upping their ‘risk’. 11 South East New Wolsey Theatre will work in collaboration with Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Everyman Playhouse and 12 satellite venues to engage young people in the making and touring of four new pieces of theatre for young people aged 14+. The programme aims to build audiences and the venues' capacities to programme young people's work in the future. 11 London The Instituate of Contemporary Art will collaborate with three venues in the Midlands and North Areas to devise a programme of accessible, compact, exciting, high-quality exhibitions, that can be easily packaged, installed and transported. Each Reading Room exhibition will have a bespoke educational, press, marketing and digital tool kit, which will be developed alongside each venue's current activity and regional interests. 11 Midlands The New Art Exchange Ltd will deliver a site-specific, audience-focussed strategic touring project will support the most culturally diverse, yet least arts-engaged, communities to experience the highest quality BAME art. The project will support seven partner galleries across the North and Midlands Areas to create meaningful, playful, participatory opportunities for the hardest to reach audiences to engage with great art 11 London Alchemy on Tour will develop a long-term jointly-led partnership to collaboratively deliver a tour of work instigated locally by each partner in three Arts Council Areas. This will bring excellent and diverse art to areas where touring is an important part of arts provision and develop sustainable new audiences for the arts. 12 North The project is designed to dramatically increase artistic engagement by working alongside youth and community programmers, and successful organisations and venues to put on great touring art, develop expertise in programming great art and increase audiences for the arts overall across a partnership of four venues in Pendle and Blackburn with Darwen. 12 Wild Rumpus CIC Northwest Greenfield Festivals Family Arts Project £128,900 Combined arts North The Northwest Greenfield Festivals Family Arts Project will develop a consortium of North based greenfield camping festivals to tour an increasing amount of high quality family arts. The project partners will commission new work, collaborate and share knowledge and resources, as well as building and developing family audiences. 12 12 UK Arts International Ltd Afrovibes Festival 2014 £291,533 Combined arts Midlands Afrovibes is a biennial Festival of South African visual and performing arts which will tour nationally across four Arts Council Areas in October / November 2014, celebrating 20 years of Democracy. The programme of music, dance, theatre and photography and will provide a catalyst for audience engagement thus developing audiences for international and intercultural work. Holly Darton Hunt and Darton Strategic Café Tour £231,632 Combined arts South East To take Hunt & Darton Cafe on tour to six high street venues across the South East of England and one in the North of England over two years with a focus on audience development. The project will develop a toolkit to share skills and knowledge of the logistics of working off-site in the public ream and supporting symposium. 12 National Youth Jazz Orchestra NYJO Strategic Touring 2014-15 London The National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) will arrange concerts and associated educational events at seven venues across three Arts Council Areas which NYJO cannot normally visit for economic reasons and which would benefit from the orchestra's artistic and educational activities. The programme will give NYJO the opportunity to form enduring partnerships and to expand the activity in 2015-18. 12 London Crafts Council will deliver a new touring project that will feature six contemporary makers delivering performative, interactive and ephemeral work in a two week programme of events/exhibition at each of three locations in the Midlands and North Areas. It will explode the traditional concept of gallery focused presentation of craft, delivering work in community locations, shopping centres and the street. 12 Midlands Black Country Voyages is a three-year programme led by Ikon's Youth Programme and Slow Boat project. It will engage with communities across the Black Country region collaborating with a range of local venues and partners to establish a new sustainable touring network. 12 Crafts Council Making Craft Perform Black Country Ikon Gallery Limited Voyages The Devon Guild of Craftsmen Home Ground £18,498 £97,250 £210,000 £136,138 Music Visual arts Visual arts Visual arts The project will deliver two touring exhibitions across four Arts Council Areas, linked by a participatory audience development project, that explore a sense of place and identity. South West Contemporary craft practitioners who use locally distinct materials to produce work which reflects and sustains their locality will inspire participants at selected football clubs whose nicknames embody local craft skills and histories. 12 Oriental Arts (Bradford) Gujarat and Britain Film and Video Umbrella A Light Shines in the Darkness £118,532 £29,400 Visual arts Visual arts ARC, Stockton Arts Centre REACH £862,430 Theatre Caravan Gallery Pride of Place Project £209,515 Visual arts Dance South West Ltd Shift and Share £158,609 Dance Fittings Multimedia Arts Missing! Julia Bird TwoTouring Poetry Shows Inside Out of Mind Lakeside Arts Centre national touring project £109,950 £91,550 £186,893 Theatre Literature Theatre North Collaborative work between communities, creative professionals and curators will create an exhibition exploring the relationship between Gujarat in India and Britain. Commissioned photography, film and audio complemented with material from gallery, museum, library and personal collections will tour to six venues in the Midlands, North and London Areas alongside innovative outreach, audience development and evaluation programmes. 12 London ‘A Light Shines in the Darkness (ALSID)’ will connect cathedrals and disused churches, tour a high-quality art provision expanding audiences and creating awareness of the venues as local resources in low-engagement areas in the Midlands, North and South East of England. ALSID will undertake venue development and audience profiling paving the way for similar future projects. 12 REACH is a project designed to increase the amount and quality of contemporary performance work touring into the North East, both during and beyond the project. Through the presentation of more than one-hundred-and-fifty performances at nine North venues in the region, the REACH project will attract new audiences and reach communities who would not usually be able to access this type of work at their local venue. The participatory Pride of Place project will tour selected work from the ‘Is Britain Great?’ archive. The project will run over three years and will deliver six twelve-week South West programmes of audience development touring activity and engage a broad range of areas and communities. Shift and Share is a nineteen month programme of small-scale dance touring in the south South West west. Working with a range of partners, the programme will include three tours across a network of twenty four venues. 13 13 13 North The funding of this project will cover the development, tour and creation of digital content for this production. Part of the project includes twelve months of outreach work with groups of young people, with a particular focus of reaching disabled and socially excluded groups to develop a piece of ‘deaf-friendly musical theatre’. The work will tour to a range of traditional and non-traditional venues in the areas where the outreach residencies took place during the second year of the project. 13 London Julia Bird will develop and tour two new theatrically produced poetry shows for Daljit Nagra and Clare Pollard, in 2014 and 2015 respectively. The tour will visit twenty two venues across England, providing new, highly diverse audiences with the opportunity to engage with high quality poetry. 13 Midlands Funding of this project will remount and tour Meeting Ground; Lakeside’s existing coproduction of Inside Out of Mind to six national venues. The project will be managed by Managed Innovation Network (MIN) with Lakeside Arts Centre acting as lead manager. The production will be filmed and the digital content will provide extended reach through screenings and onward distribution. 13 Red ladder Theatre Company Playing The Joker Stopgap Dance Company REACH - Raising the Profile of Integrated Dance The Met UP Projects Smaller Room Music Touring The Floating Cinema Grand Tour from Brentford to Bristol Faceless - Outdoor Performance and Community Arts Follow the Diversion Zion Arts Centre Big Imaginations Children's Theatre Network Ultimate Holding Company Social Housing Arts Network £21,500 £224,731 £138,000 £70,000 £45,858 £453,176 £89,370 Theatre Dance Music Visual arts Theatre Theatre Visual arts North The Playing the Joker tour will take this project to twenty six venues, comprising of sports and rugby league clubs across the north area. The tour will work towards building new partners and a network of touring venues to attract new and low engaged audiences. 13 South East Stopgap Dance will deliver Reach, a three year programme designed to build a sustainable touring network and raise the profile of integrated dance and disabled artists. The project will tour innovative, high quality work to engage with and inspire new and diverse audiences, particularly disabled people; this will be coupled with a comprehensive outreach programme to increase participation. 13 North Smaller Room Music Touring will establish a venue/promoter led consortium to build skills and knowledge in music programming and audience development. The project will run over three years and will promote four emerging artists annually who will showcase at regional festivals with support to develop local audiences. The project will create a network of skilled, resilient small venues in the north. 13 London Up Projects will create Floating Cinema: Grand Tour from Brentford to Bristol and Back, which will travel to locations along the waterways of outer London and the South West to present a programme of visual art, live performance and artists moving image. Set on a specially designed boat that can accommodate audiences of 10 to 500 at any one time, The Floating Cinema provides a highly individual opportunity for audiences to engage with and participate in arts and culture. 13 North To support the first year of Follow the Diversion, an intended three year professionally produced outdoor arts tour with community specific content, performed by young people in 6 rural communities least engaged in the arts near Goole, alongside a community training programme and best practice symposium. 14 North To develop the Big Imaginations network of children's theatre promoters; delivering an environment where a wide range of high quality touring children's theatre can thrive in the North West; utilising both the existing work of great companies and three bespoke cocommissions to develop audiences. 14 North UHC will work with four social housing providers in the North and London Areas, establishing a touring network for socially engaged artists through process-led projects. The project will address three linked agendas: engaging more citizens creatively; providing viable options for artistic employment; and initiating positive social change by increasing self-direction, well being, happiness and community feeling. 14 Tara Arts Group Ltd BLACK LIVE £483,060 Theatre London zeroPlus Theatre Tours of My Grandad and i…and All Our Heroes £135,170 Theatre Midlands Raw Material Music & Media Raw Roads: Invisible £51,736 Music London Lauren Hendry Beta Testing tour and audience development £45,972 Combined arts London Oldham Coliseum Theatre The Mist in the Mirror Yorkshire Tour £76,308 Theatre North Orchestra of the Age Open All Ears: The of Enlightenment Three Town Tour Audio Visual arts North East Adverse Camber Sound Strata of Coastal Northumberland Epic Storytelling and Music Tours 2015-17 £84,123 Music London £65,964 Visual arts North £354,741 Literature Midlands To deliver Black Live, a three year programme by a consortium of eight regional theatres to effect an infrastructural change for the Black, Asian Minority Ethnic national touring theatre. Working across England, the consortium collectively seeks to develop a sustainable programme of audience development for high quality BAME touring theatre in England. To establish a touring network in the London, Midlands and South East Areas to support the genre of zeroPlus Theatre’s work through the touring of two productions, ‘My Grandad & I’ and ‘All Our Heroes’ working collaboratively with New Arts Exchange, (Nottingham) and Cranford School, (Hounslow.) To deliver Raw Roads: Invisible, a touring project in the London, Midlands and South East Areas featuring public performances and workshops based on a musical street performance about home and belonging. Raw Roads will take residence in five cities across England to work with young people to create musical responses about the themes of culture, identity and migration 15 15 15 Working with the Production Shed to deliver the Circus Geeks tour Beta Testing, an accessible juggling show with accompanying workshops, to rural and small-scale venues. The work will tour across England with the aim of building an appetite for contemporary circus and creating a gateway for future companies to follow. 16 To mount a new commission by Ian Kershaw of Susan Hill's novel The Mist in the Mirror, working with digital scenographers imitating the dog. Funding will support the extension of the tour to areas of low engagement throughout Yorkshire. 16 To design and deliver new touring activity by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to increase access and participation. Audiences from the Midlands and South East Areas from all ages and backgrounds will be invited to participate in the project, delivered in informal and familiar settings. To deliver 'Sound Strata of Coastal Northumberland', a touring project in collaboration with Berwick Visual arts (The Gymnasium Gallery), Woodhorn Charitable Trust (Woodhorn Museum) and the Holy Island of Lindisfarne Community Development Trust (The Lookout Tower). It will take place during 2015 at venues strategically positioned along the Northumberland coastline. To deliver a three-year audience development programme across England, touring outstanding works of epic storytelling and music by UK and international practitioners to a network of urban and rural venues including areas of low engagement and infrequent storytelling promoters. Successive tours will test strategies and build on audience diversification, through marketing, participation and commissioning. 16 16 17 Cardboard Citizens Cardboard Citizens (CC) Theatre Engagement Hubs 2015-17 £275,000 Theatre London To deliver the three year Theatre Engagement Hubs programme which is designed to harness Cardboard Citizen's expertise of working with and for least-engaged groups. The programme will enable 30+ venues and organisations across the North, Midlands, South East and South West to engage 7000+ audiences and participants, including those they have previously been unable to reach, by offering an artistic product encompassing stories these audiences can identify with. To tour new writing production The Red Chair to small-scale venues in areas of low engagement across England, with the aim of taking great art to as wide an audience as possible, including those not usually reached, and who do not usually have access to this kind of quality work. To deliver the Daily Life Project Tour Phase II. This second phase builds on the previous tour and will increase access to high quality art for people and communities with low engagement across East London Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and into Waltham Forest, Barking and Dagenham), bringing powerful art by people with lived experience of mental distress. 17 17 Clod Ensemble The Red Chair £39,913 Theatre London Daily Life Ltd The Daily Life Project Tour Phase II £76,334 Combined arts London Discover Children's Story Centre Discover Touring £277,346 Literature London To deliver a strategic tour in the North and South West of two immersive installations for families/schools to bring literature to life in partnership with emerging venues. The tour will harness Discover’s expertise in engaging families in high quality participatory art, enable venues to reach new audiences and build a touring network. 17 Midlands To deliver free public screening of high quality performances from Garsington Opera in areas of low engagement in the North, Midlands, South East and South West. The project will develop artistic provision in local communities through extensive education and outreach work, establishing a formal network of Local Authorities and cultural organisations, building a legacy of expertise and capacity for future work. 17 A touring exhibition with associated engagement and audience development elements, Generation ART: Young Artists on Tour will deliver artwork by children and young people selected through open submission, as well as work by established artists to the Midlands, South East and South West in 2015/16. Focussing on areas of low cultural engagement as well as those lacking quality Visual arts touring provision, Generation ART will enable children and young people to exhibit their artwork and to curate and promote the exhibitions themselves. The programme will enable colleagues from host venues to share expertise and receive training, building capacity in the sector and permitting more venues to host touring work, with the experience and expertise to engage with new audiences. By profiling high quality artwork by children and young people, Generation ART will raise the aspirations of schools, children and young people to create excellent artwork, and underline engage’s core mission: to promote access to, enjoyment and understanding of the Visual arts through gallery, museum and arts education. 17 East Lindsey District Opera for All Council Engage Generation ART: Young Artists on Tour £750,000 £179,815 Music Visual arts London 17 JABADAO Play as if your life depends upon it £111,600 Dance North To deliver two touring movement play (dance) events across England, developed in partnership with specialist agencies, designed to engage some of the hardest to reach audiences in our society - children from vulnerable families in areas of poverty and deprivation; and people with late stage dementia in care homes. 17 North To deliver a revival and tour of Beryl by Maxine Peake to mid scale and rural community venues in places of low engagement in the North and Midlands Areas. The tour will include an integrated programme of audience development aimed at engaging new and returning audiences. The project will develop a partnership of venues to tour high quality drama and investigate model of touring between rural and mid scale. 17 Leeds Theatre Trust Limited Beryl by Maxine Peake Tour Metta Theatre Ltd Jungle Book UK tour and participation programme £88,000 Combined arts London Nofit State Community Circus Ltd Open House £133,370 Theatre Midlands Southbank Centre Limited British Art Show 8 Strategic Outreach Activity £254,660 Visual arts London £308,208 Combined arts London Global Streets: new Greenwich+Docklan audiences for ds Festivals international outdoor arts Abandon Normal Devices Ltd. Nutkhut Abandon Normal Devices (AND) on Tour Re:imagining Melas £179,520 £200,000 £146,133 Theatre Combined arts Combined arts North London Metta Theatre will deliver a 7 week mid-scale UK tour of their hip-hop circus and dancetheatre adaptation of The Jungle Book for family audiences, starring seven of the country's most exciting dancers and circus artists. The project will also feature a local community chorus of up to 20 young people (16-24), plus free workshops in urban dance, skateboarding and beat-boxing. To deliver a tour in 10 diverse locations across England of Nofit State’s professional participatory performance project, OPEN HOUSE. The programme will embed opportunities for advance community engagement, public participation and audience development - increasing value and legacy for presenting partners and capacity and sustainability for Nofit State. To deliver an integrated programme of audience and network development activities to sit alongside the British Art Show 8 - a major Hayward Touring exhibition of contemporary art which occurs every five years. The activity spans four partner cities of Leeds, Edinburgh, Norwich and Southampton in a national strategy that will impact regionally. To deliver “Global Streets”, a pilot year programme of audience development through free international outdoor arts. Free public performances will be presented in eight locations in the London, Midlands, North and South East Areas, alongside an integrated programme of audience development to connect productions with the diverse demography of each location. 17 17 17 18 AND Festival on Tour aims to unlock the digital capacity of organisations in rural sites through a tour of new digital commissions to low engaged sites across the North. The programme will work with local festivals, small scale and outdoor arts organisations (venues including forests, guest houses and community homes). 18 Re:imaging Melas will present contemporary South Asian performance for audiences by a new network of six Melas based in London, the North and South East Areas. The programme will showcase new work for hard to reach, diverse audiences of over 400,000. The programme is based around collaboration and networking, building strong partnerships and providing professional development for Melas across England. 18 Time Won't Wait Funny Peculiar - A Guide to Eccentric Britain Culturapedia Cheshire Lancashire library touring network £79,991 £203,602 Combined arts Combined arts London Borough of Richmond upon Thames The Streets ShivaNova Equator Strategic Touring Programme 2015-17 Beam Lit Fest in a Day goes on tour £50,000 Literature New Writing North Literature Touring in the North £264,674 Literature London To deliver Funny Peculiar, an outdoor touring production celebrating eccentricity around Britain, produced by Time Won't Wait. The tour will be delivered in the Midlands, South East and South West, inviting local people to engage and participate in multiple ways, leaving a lasting legacy that celebrates a sense of place, increases well-being and develops new arts audiences. 18 North This project will develop and deliver a sustainable library-based community touring circuit to tour new work, to new audiences across Lancashire and Cheshire. Building on an established rural touring model, it will extend reach and increase artistic engagement, enabling librarians and community programmers to collectively promote touring work relevant to their communities. 18 £600,000 Combined arts London £65,000 Combined arts South East To deliver "The Streets", a two year programme of music touring arts activities to take place in seven outer-London boroughs, creating a cultural programme for their high streets. The consortium, working with music producers Serious, aim to raise the profile of these destinations, activate empty space, connect communities and audiences, and leave a lasting legacy. To deliver the Equator Programme 2015-17, developing new audiences with a programme of workshops and performances featuring culturally diverse music, dance and theatre in selected Kent venues. Working in partnership with venues in Gravesend, Margate, Rye, Folkestone, Whitstable, Chatham, Ashford, Sevenoaks and London, the programme will extend the M20 touring network and increase audiences through community engagement. 18 18 North Lit Fest in a Day goes on tour will tour four Wakefield District areas between 2015-17. In each location substantial audience engagement activity and skills development will take place with new community venues and partners, culminating in the co-curation of high quality mini-festival events building foundations for future programming and touring. 18 North To tour high quality performing arts adaptations of children's books and associated reader development and participatory activity for under 7s and their families to libraries and community centres across the North. 18 On the Road is a three year project that aims to provide children, young people and families with access to a rich programme of high quality children’s literature exhibitions, focusing on areas of low cultural participation. The programme will embed opportunities for community engagement, learning and participation initiatives and audience development, touring in the Midlands, North and South East Areas. 18 To be announced 18 To deliver a one year programme of Propeller's Pocket touring model to create new and sustainable touring networks between theatres, schools and community groups particularly in areas of low engagement. 18 Seven Stories Seven Stories: On the Road £235,910 Literature North The Touring Consortium Theatre Company TCTC Large scale touring programme £340,000 Theatre London Propeller Theatre Company Pocket Propeller £142,000 Theatre South East Riverside Trust Ltd Testimonial theatre tour and engagement programme Eastern Angles Theatre Company Parkway Dreams the New Town Tour Eye Music Trust Eye Music Trust Touring Programme “Symphony of the Senses” Root Music Ltd Music-Net National (Phase 2) Only in England National Museum of exhibition regional Science And Industry tour Northern Ballet Limited More Short Ballets for More Small People English Touring Opera Strengthening live opera provision nationwide Faceless - Outdoor Performance and Community Arts Follow the Dearne £265,000 £48,200 Theatre Theatre London To deliver a three year tour of six testimonial works from leading directors (five proven successes new to the UK and one new work), to eight locations across the North, London, Midlands and South West Areas. The tour will be supported by a live programme of engagement and a web platform for the empowerment of personal testimony. 18 South East To deliver a re tour of the verbatim documentary musical Parkway Dreams with a wrap around education and skills programme to connect, engage and drive audiences. Inspired by the story of Peterborough in the 60s and 70s the show will tour to venues in previously designated New Towns in the Midlands, London and South East. 18 £65,645 Music London £286,897 Music North £67,164 Visual arts London £602,751 £497,500 £43,315 Dance Music Theatre North London North To deliver “Symphony of the Senses”, an interactive multi-media performance linking all the senses into one “symphony” to venues in London, the North and South West Areas. The tour will deliver three strands 1) Public presentations of a new Colourscape production "Symphony of the Senses" at outdoor events; 2) A parallel "Symphony" for Special Needs children; and 3) Large-scale Symphonies of Bells to draw very large audiences to new areas. Root Music, in partnership with Band on the Wall, will deliver a second phase of MusicNet National, an expanded three year programme promoting high quality music tours to venues of low arts engagement across the UK and consolidating current partnerships in the North of England. To deliver a two year tour of the Science Museum Group's photography exhibition "Only in England" to four regional museums and galleries in the North, South East and South West Areas. Audience research, marketing, and public engagement expertise will be shared with local venues to assist the delivery of associated marketing and public events programmes. 18 18 18 Northern Ballet will deliver a three year tour of three new children's ballets in 31 venues across the North, Midlands, South East and South West Areas. The performances will engage children and families of all means and from all backgrounds who may not usually access the arts, supported by an audience development and access programme. 18 To deliver a three year programme that aims to improve access to live opera for audiences in areas of least engagement across England. The tour will seek to increase engagement in existing English Touring Opera venues, while also reviving previous productions to tour to venues with limited or no opera provision. 19 To deliver a programme of co-created community relevant performances touring alongside professional performances and participatory arts activities for intergenerational audiences in six outdoor venues the Dearne Valley of South Yorkshire known to be least engaged in the arts. The tour will culminate in training for community event organisers and a best practice symposium. 19 Institute of Contemporary Arts Artists' Moving Image Network Leeds Studio Theatre for Young People Nine Lives by Zodwa Nyoni UK tour National Rural Touring Forum Rural Touring Dance Initiative New Wolsey Theatre Ramps On The Moon Pavilion An Opera for Sumburgh Lighthouse £218,283 £49,847 £379,560 £2,300,173 £30,000 Visual arts Theatre Dance Theatre Combined arts London The Artists Moving Image Network will tour Artists' Film content to three partner venues in the North and Midlands Areas, expanding the audience for the medium out of its current London focus and giving touring partners solid and sustainable frameworks to programme this work. 19 North To deliver a revival and tour of Nine Lives by Zodwa Nyoni, performed by Lladel Bryant to small scale theatres and community venues with an integrated programme of outreach and audience engagement. The tour is aimed at engaging refugee/asylum seekers and diverse audiences and raising the issue of LGBTQ asylum. 19 North Working in partership with The Place, China Plate and Take Art, the National Rural Touring Forum will deliver the ‘Rural Dance Touring Initiative’. Working with 15 rural touring schemes across the North, Midlands, South East and South West Areas and targeting areas of least engagement, the programme aims to stimulate interest amongst the dance sector for this work. 19 South East To deliver the initial three year phase of a planned seven year project to grow audiences for mid / large scale integrated touring, engaging increased numbers of disabled audiences. The aim is to create a strong, collaborative touring circuit of seven mid / large scale venues across the North, Midlands, London and South East Areas, share learning / training within the sector and strengthen touring across all scales. 19 North To deliver an Opera for Sumburgh Lighthouse, a live sound transmission by Grace Schwindt that will take place over two nights at Sumburgh Lighthouse, Shetland in September 2015. From this remote location the work will be transmitted as a 'live tour' to audiences at seven receiving venues along the English coast. 19 19 Royal Court Liverpool Trust Ltd Terriers £30,000 Theatre North To tour 'Terriers', a hard-hitting play written by Liverpool writer Maurice Bessman about difficulties young people face,. The tour aims to engage young people and communities who are marginalised and exposed to gun and gang crime, and reach new audiences in Manchester, Hampshire and Croydon and new areas of Merseyside . Royal Exchange Theatre Britannia Waves the Rules £46,669 Theatre North To restage 'Britannia Waves the Rules' by Gareth Farr, as a studio production which will then embark on a tour of community venues and theatre spaces across the North, with accompanying participation work. 19 To deliver a 24 month project that skills up artists, venues and future hip hop programmers through nationally touring high quality international and local hip hop dance theatre to a range of venues across England, including areas of low engagement. The project will also deliver a strategic professional development programme and enhanced venue audience development strategy with marketing and digital support. 19 To develop a touring network to commission high quality, innovative music projects in urban and rural areas of low provision and engagement in the South West, Midlands and London Areas. Each project responds to place and engages local communities in its creation and delivery. 19 Sadler's Wells Trust Ltd Breakin' Outwards: Phase 2 sounduk Arts Soil and Concrete touring network £562,783 £118,100 Dance Music London South East Zion Arts Centre Snow Queen ZooNation UK Dance The ZooResidence Company Project Crying Out Loud Isis Arts Ltd Circus Evolution: The Bridge (CE: The Bridge) Corners Hexham book Festival CIC The Mansio Jacksons Lane Jacksons Lane/ Lost in Translation - The Hogwallops Theatre-Rites Ltd Broke N Beat English Touring Theatre Regional Touring Network £99,852 Theatre North £499,471 Dance London £318,987 £99,780 £187,144 Combined arts Combined arts Literature To produce Snow Queen, a piece of theatre that uses digital online technology to attract hard to reach families into theatre by initially engaging them in their own homes, making them feel they are part of the show. To tour the 'remixing' of 'Into the Hoods', a major large scale show which will act as the catalyst to deliver an audience development project across England, supporting and encouraging venues and their local partners to build audiences for Hip Hop Dance Theatre in new ways. 19 19 To deliver a a fifteen month extension of strategic activity in the Midlands, North, South East and South West. This bridging programme will build on and develop the current Circus Evolution project, which delivers strategic touring of contemporary circus to partner venues, plus audience development and training/upskilling. The programme will also deliver Circus Evolution Two, the ambition being for venues to lead on UK programming, with COL augmenting with international work. 20 North To deliver a programme bringing together eight international touring co-productions. Featuring the work of 25 European artists, they will tour North East England as part of an extensive European project. CORNERS connects the edges of Europe through artworks created by a shared exploration, an audience development programme and an experimental open source digital platform. 20 North Hexham Book Festival and Arts&Heritage will work together to commission and tour an innovative temporary venue, The Mansio. It will tour to a number of important historical sites near to Hadrian's Wall, from North Tyneside across Northumberland and Cumbria. Newly commissioned literature will be premiered in the Mansio. 20 London £103,998 Theatre London £49,737 Theatre London £826,786 Theatre London To deliver a 2015-16 national tour of The Hogwallops. This middle-scale contemporary circus production for all ages is produced in association with Lost in Translation Circus. The attached strategic audience development and participation programme will be produced by Jacksons Lane. To deliver a national tour of a new cross-artform theatre work. Broke N Beat is a collaboration between Theatre-Rites and 20 Stories High, aimed primarily at ‘hard to reach’ young adults (13-25). The project includes a comprehensive audience development strategy, aiming to build and retain engagement across this group with a national network of touring venues. The Regional Touring Network, a consortium of nine regional venues and one producer, will produce and tour high quality mid-scale drama to audiences across the North, Midlands and South West. The consotrium will also grow audiences through a comprehensive and effective audience development plan, delivering a legacy of sustainable touring. 20 20 20 General Public The Hop Project Blaize Touring Diverse Dance To Rural Venues in the North £68,326 £118,255 Visual arts Dance Midlands North To deliver a major contemporary art project that will tour Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Birmingham and the Black Country in 2016/17. Combining 31 touring exhibitions with an extensive supporting activity programme, the project explores the social and political implications of hop production in the West Midlands. 20 To tour diverse dance to rural venues across the North, creating opportunities for rural audiences to experience and engage with high quality culturally diverse dance performances. Includes live music and outreach workshops. To create a network of nine organisations working with Balbir Singh Dance Company (BSDC) to develop artistic, audience and programming experiences of dance. 20 Organisation Project idle women idle women (on the water) Unlimited Theatre Company Together Zest Theatre Gatecrash Paines Plough Roundabout: your town, your theatre, your space Black Voices Black Voices Spring Tour - Rural Southwest Ferens Art Gallery ARTIST ROOMS on Tour: 2016 - 19 Without Walls Without Walls Associate Touring Consortium Limited Network James Leadbitter Madlove on Tour Funding awarded £200,000 £116,610 £38,349 £784,052 £30,000 £891,136 £980,794 £44,871 Artform Combined arts Theatre Theatre Theatre Music Visual arts Combined arts Combined arts Region Project description Funding round Midlands Idle women will deliver a touring arts centre based on a boat that will navigate the canals and waterways across the North West reaching some of the least served communities of countryside, towns and cities. Hosting a series of artists-in-residence, workshops & events it provides both visiting arts venue and arts resource centre for women. 21 North Together will deliver an 18-month research project that tours three shows to five venues across the North, investigating the role independent artists can play in venue-based audience development activity. The project specifically explores how building face-to-face engagement activity between artists and communities, groups and potential audiences around touring performances can develop new audiences. 21 Midlands Zest Theatre will tour Gatecrash, an immersive production for teenage audiences, to three strategic venues in the North and one in London during Spring 2016. A one week residency will be completed in each venue that includes 14 workshops and eight shows designed to harness Gatecrash's theatrical approach to enthuse and develop long term engagement. 21 London To deliver Roundabout, a pop-up theatre that will travel to eight areas of least engagement, showcasing a bespoke and audience-led programme of community events, performances by local artists and high quality new plays. The fully accessible space will deliver the provision of live performance in underserved communities across the Midlands, North, South East and South West Areas. 21 Midlands To deliver the Black Voices Spring Tour that will i) broaden and build on Black Voice’s existing audiences in the South West and ii) target new audiences amongst senior citizens including those in Elders Villages, Care/Residential Homes and Sheltered Accommodation. 21 North To deliver ARTIST ROOMS on Tour 2016-19, giving one million people access to high quality contemporary visual art. This will be delivered by presenting bespoke, in-depth exhibitions of exceptional artworks in collaboration with 32 diverse Associate venues UKwide, including those in areas where there is least cultural provision. 21 North The Associate Touring Network is a group of nine festivals, working together to bring work commissioned by Without Walls to a larger audience. This funding will allow the network to bring in new partners, reaching events and festivals in places of low arts engagement. The aim is to reach audiences with little experience of outdoor art - or indeed any art. 22 'Madlove: A Designer Asylum' will tour to some of the most socially-excluded mental health groups in the North, Midlands, South East and London. An 'Online Asylum' will provide wider access to this art project and two regional 'Catalyst Events' will help artists and mental health organisations develop new touring ideas and opportunities. 22 London CIRCOLOMBIA Circolombia! London International Festival of Theatre Depart Limited Tangle NEW LANDSCAPES – a BAME-led project for South West England Dan Mallaghan The Adventures of Walter Lemonface Big Walt & Small Walt 20 Stories High Headz Tour, Youth Exchange & Sharing of Practice Extant Regional hubs of visually impaired engagement pilot Kali Theatre Company Chrysalis Arts Development Ltd My Big Fat Cowpat Wedding Art Unpacked £64,399 £214,818 £49,900 £38,919 £110,000 £47,671 £63,351 £106,000 Combined arts Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Theatre Visual arts London 'Circolombia!' is both a large-scale circus show and a skills development programme. It features circus artists recruited from tough neighbourhoods in Cali, Colombia and trained by Circolombia's foundation - Circo Para Todos. Circolombia! will tour to venues and communities in London, Doncaster and the Greater Manchester area. 22 London LIFT, Spitalfields Music and NCCA will commission 'Depart' - an outdoor contemporary circus project created by internationally-renowned company Circa. Depart will be presented in cemeteries in London, Brighton, Blackpool and Hull. The show will be specially adapted to each location, integrating local artists and community groups. The project will target new audiences for circus and outdoor work. 22 NEW LANDSCAPES is a music and theatre project lead by Black and Asian minority ethnic artists. It consists of two newly-commissioned works, to be performed in new and South West non-traditional venues across South West England. Supported by strong online resources, it will cultivate audience interest for work by Black and Asian minority ethnic artists - in a region previously poorly-served. 22 North The Adventures of Walter Lemonface is a family show, combining real-time animation with storytelling and live music. The tour will bring the show to families with the least access to - and engagement in - the arts, across the North and the Midlands. The aim is to develop new audiences and different ways for these families to access their local venue 22 North 'Headz' is a three-year tour of contemporary urban monologues, performed by 20 Stories High's Young Actors. The show is aimed at hard-to-reach young people, aged 13-25. 20 Stories High will also deliver a Youth Exchange project around the show, as well as sharing practice and developing networks among youth theatre groups. 22 London A pilot project to encourage more visually-impaired people to attend theatre in Manchester and Birmingham. The programme includes touring shows, participatory activities and staff training at individual venues. The project aims to create a model for access to the arts for visually impaired people, which can eventually be rolled out nationally. 22 London 'My Big Fat Cowpat Wedding' is an engaging drama that will tour to 2,000 people in rural areas in the North, Midlands, South East and South West. The project aims to reach nontheatregoers, addressing the lack of drama and diverse work in rural areas. It will also include a programme of workshops to encourage rural promoters to commission touring work from regional producers. 22 'Art Unpacked' is a series of Visual arts exhibitions touring to small venues in areas of limited arts opportunities. The tours cover North Yorkshire, Lancashire and North East Lincolnshire. The project will also deliver activities to engage audiences and provide professional development support for venues. 22 North Vertigo Sea, John Arnolfini Gallery Ltd Akomfrah national touring £233,582 Visual arts 'Vertigo Sea' is a film installation by acclaimed British filmmaker John Akomfrah. The work will tour a new network of four galleries across England and one in Scotland. The South West galleries will work together to engage hard-to-reach communities, including migrants and disadvantaged young people. Activities will draw on themes present in the installation, such as global migration, slavery and ecological concerns. Gary Clarke Gary Clarke Company's COAL £280,000 Dance North Fevered Sleep Men and Girls Dance £134,601 Dance London Arts & Health South West Outside in South West Battersea Arts Centre Collaborative Touring Network Get it Loud in Libraries Get it Loud in Libraries Global Streets: new Greenwich+Docklan audiences for international outdoor ds Festivals arts Inner City Music National Jazz Development Touring programme £73,000 £1,242,633 £90,000 £1,200,000 £199,800 Visual arts Theatre Music Combined arts Music 'COAL' is a new mid-scale dance theatre production that will tour to venues in the North, Midlands, South East and London, as well as one date in Wales. The project aims to create lasting connections between artists, promoters and communities to support the staging of high quality and accessible work. 'Men and Girls Dance' is a new contemporary dance project, co-created by Fevered Sleep and local children. It will tour to five communities in the North, Midlands and South East, who depend on touring for much of their arts activity. The project seeks to build audiences in areas of low arts engagement. A touring exhibition of work by artists who feel excluded from the mainstream art world due to ill-health or disability. The exhibition will tour to four museums in the South West South West with associated interpretation and educational activities. The project includes networking and relationship building with organisations in each locality. 22 22 22 23 London The Collaborative Touring Network (CTN) is a collective of eight independent producing teams supported by Battersea Arts Centre. The network was first awarded Strategic Touring Funding in 2013, and began as a partnership between six producing teams and Battersea Arts Centre. In this new round of funding, the network will expand to reach more areas of England. Over three years, CTN will use bi-annual festivals of high-quality theatre to catalyse cultural regeneration in eight towns and cities across England with low levels of engagement. 23 North The Get It Loud in Libraries project plans to engage the 14-25 age group and their families with public libraries by developing a new improved touring library network to showcase the best new high quality live music. The live programme will be underpinned with digital workshops and learning and participation opportunities. 23 Building on the successful “Global Streets” pilot in 2015, this is a three year touring programme of audience development through international outdoor arts. High quality productions from leading international companies will tour to 10 venues across the country, connecting the productions to the diverse demography of each location. 23 To develop a jazz touring network, focusing on areas of low engagement in the North Area. The network will provide venues and local producers/promoters with support and training, produce a jazz-based residency programme and recruit emerging jazz musicians to come and work with named artists. 23 London North IOU Theatre Libraries West People Dancing Rear View Theatre tour 11 Million Reasons to Dance The Prodigal Theatre Steam Local Line Company £201,020 £26,637 £131,450 £30,700 Combined arts Theatre Dance Dance North IOU will create Rear View, an ambitious interactive outdoor performance which uses a converted bus as a mobile auditorium making it suitable for harder to reach locations without traditional art venues. This will be presented in collaboration with a range of festivals and partners across England. Libraries West will tour Travelling Light’s production The Mysterious Vanishment of Pobby and Dingham to an established consortium of local libraries in the south west. South West The project will explore the role and future of libraries as touring venues within the context of other venues and networks and make recommendations to sustain and develop touring in the future. 23 23 Midlands Through new partnerships and collaborations People Dancing will develop '11 Million Reasons to Dance', a touring model focused on presenting dance created by Deaf and disabled artists. The programme is inspired by the current photography exhibition, 11 Million Reasons, which captures iconic moments of dance from film, re-imagined by Deaf and disabled dancers. Over the next two years, People Dancing will build a network of venues and cultural agencies that will take work by Deaf and disabled artists to new audiences in the Midlands and north of England. This project aims to leave a legacy of new work being presented in new locations, to more diverse audiences. 23 South East The Prodigal Theatre Company (also known as The Urban Playground Team) will tour Steam Local Line across the North, South East and South West. The tour is based on STEAM, which sees the team animate a skeleton steam locomotive in a piece of outdoor dance-theatre inspired by the movies. In each location, the team will work with a local arts organisation, a heritage railway and children and young people at risk of exclusion to create additional scenes. The heritage railway will also be the venue for a performance of the new show. 23 Watermans Circulate - Outdoor Arts Touring Network £598,228 Combined arts London Wild Rumpus CIC Northern Festivals Network £179,500 Combined arts North Emccan CIC Flight of Fantasy £76,450 Combined arts Midlands Watermans is leading ‘Circulate’, a consortium of Outer London venues in four areas of low arts engagement, to establish an Outer London Ring for outdoor arts touring. In partnership with the Independent Street Arts Network and Greater London Authority, the project will develop a strong programme with local audience development at its heart. Wild Rumpus’ project will increase the amount of high quality work touring to greenfield festivals across the North of England – developing international links and focusing on accessibility and engaging new audiences as part of a partnership with Attitude is Everything. This tour will take professional Caribbean carnival to new audiences in the Midlands, North and South West of England. By touring performances, costumes and master classes, more people will have opportunities to enjoy traditional Caribbean carnival in their local communities. 23 23 24 Film and Video Umbrella Open Eye Gallery Changing Places Culture Shifts £93,134 £95,850 Visual arts Visual arts London In Changing Places, Film and Video Umbrella (FVU) will tour works by South Asian filmmakers to eleven locations across England currently experiencing urban or architectural change. Partnering with heritage and arts organisations, FVU will work with the British Asian community and others interested in exploring Britain’s alternative histories. 24 North A project working with Sefton, Knowsley, Halton, the Wirral and St Helens arts teams, and the Creative People and Places project in St Helens. It will explore the era of mass sharing, where photographs are used to reflect and create our identities on social media. During 2016, eight photographers will collaborate with people from across the Liverpool City region to create photo stories that are meaningful to them. During 2017, they will work with curators to develop exhibitions online and at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, The Williamson Art Gallery and Museum in Birkenhead, The Atkinson in Southport, The Brindley in Runcorn and The Kirkby Gallery. 24 SeaChange Arts Coasters £987,500 Combined arts South East The Spark Arts for Children Among Ideal Friends £169,572 Literature Midlands The Touring Consortium Theatre Company Ziggy's Wish £870,000 HOAX Our Right to Hope £190,000 Theatre Combined arts This three-year project will take innovative, high quality international indoor and outdoor circus and street arts work to coastal towns across England. SeaChange Arts will lead a consortium of organisations, with the aim of building stronger relationships with audiences in areas of lower arts engagement and to help transform perceptions of coastal towns. This tour will take theatre performances and workshops to libraries in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland. Inspired by books and stories for children, the tour will give families and schools new opportunities to take part in art and culture at venues on their doorstep. 24 24 London The continuation of this large scale project will take four contemporary productions to communities across the UK. The project will promote sustainable relationships between partner venues, local schools and youth and community groups, and use digital technology, creative learning and participation activities to help establish a legacy of independent theatre going. 24 North A pilot tour of the award-winning, cross-media project HOAX, which comprises a dark stage musical and graphic novel. It will visit six venues in Liverpool, Barnsley, York, Grimsby, Penrith, Bolton/Manchester. Ziggy's Wish will work with arts, health, community, education, military and technology stakeholders to increase arts engagement among socially excluded audiences and participants and to decrease social and selfstigma around mental health. 24
