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Arts Council provides another boost for West Midlands arts
In the latest rounds of grants to be awarded in the region, a total of £279,659 has been allocated to the winning applicants. This significant new funding is part of over £5 million of National Lottery funding awarded annually throughout the West Midlands through the Grants for the Arts Awards scheme. Commenting on the newly announced awards, Sally Luton, Regional Executive Director of Arts Council England, West Midlands said: ‘We have made awards to a diverse range of artists and arts organisations with the aim of enriching the lives of those who live in the region. We are very lucky in the West Midlands to have artists and producers who are creating high quality and innovative work, and these awards represent an investment in the arts for children and young people, individual artists, the arts in regeneration and the wider arts provision.' The projects chosen as recipients of these awards reflect the diversity of activities currently being undertaken by artists and arts organisations in the region. For example, as a result of their successful application, Herefordshire Libraries will now be recruiting a Writer in Residence 'to promote creative writing in all genres and assist amateur writers.' The residency will include work within youth clubs, sporting organisations, schools and workplaces, with groups of older people, and at festivals and surgeries. Another award recipient, Snapshot Theatre, will use their award to enable further collaboration with Seattle based artists One World Theatre to stage the world’s quickest theatre festival, 14/48 at Newhampton Arts Centre, Wolverhampton, in October. Organisers hope that the festival 'will act as a showcase for a diverse collection of professional artists, giving them the opportunity to develop and disseminate their work in a unique and original format.' For more information about the Grants for the Arts Awards programme, CLICK HERE For further information, CLICK HERE
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