Worthing Arts Council announce funding
Worthing Arts Council has announced it will be giving away £17,000 to build on the best year Worthing's arts audiences have ever enjoyed.
It's been a bumper year, with four new festivals in the town attracting visitors from across the UK. The End of The Pier International Film Festival moved to town, and was joined by the On Location Film Festival. The Worthing Artists Open Houses became a stand-alone event and September’s Made In Worthing brought edgy new art, theatre and music to town.
Worthing's artists, festivals and community groups can now benefit from extra funding as part of the regeneration of the town’s Splash Point. The funding will be used to encourage new work, support established festivals and get local people, as well as visitors, involved in a really exciting year of art exhibitions, events, workshops and festivals. The funds have been divided into three categories, which will be open to local groups, businesses and individuals.
Over £5000 titled the Worthing Arts Calendar will be used to support new activity at Worthing’s arts festivals which include the Sunny Worthing Arts Festival. Nearly £9000 in a Worthing Public Arts Fund will be dedicated to ‘art in public places’, which includes a programme of events around the regeneration of Splash Point.
And a £3000 Competition Fund will be used to run various competitions encouraging individuals to take part in events.
Worthing Arts Council represents over 70 groups, clubs and societies. Everything from cutting-edge contemporary art to traditional crafts, and performance art to traditional theatre crafts, are represented.
‘We are looking for quality, visibility and sustainability,’ says Worthing Arts Council’s Grants Officer Holly Payton, ‘including family days and workshops, theatre, dance, film, sculpture, visual arts, festivals, youth arts, open days, literature events, music, street arts and more… absolutely anything goes!’
The first wave of grants will be given through the ‘art in public places’ fund, and the entry deadline is 26th October, with more funding to be given in November and again in January 2010. Competitions will be announced throughout the year. The funding has been secured from Worthing Regeneration, as part of the ‘Sea Change’ progamme which has seen landscape architects Craft Pegg chosen to redesign Splash Point.
To find out more attend the group's next meeting at Oakgrove College, The Boulevard,, Worthing from 8pm on Thursday 8th October.
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