Ignite: Understanding Arts Council Funding

30th September 2024 - 30th September 2024
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This workshop is part of Ignite, DaDa's artist development programme to help you re-engage with your inner creative.

Whether you're an emerging artist looking for advice, established and wanting to try something new, or just interested in expanding your horizons and kickstarting creativity in your life, then come along to a free workshop and ignite that creative spark.

 

About this session

Arts Council England champions, develops and invests in artistic and cultural experiences to enrich people’s lives. It supports a range of activities across the arts, museums and libraries - from theatre to digital art - reading to dance, music to literature, and crafts to collections.

Applying for funding from the Arts Council can be hugely beneficial for getting your creative project off the ground, but the application process can feel daunting.

Join our expert facilitator Lotty Holder to gain a clearer understanding of the processes behind applying and how to put forward your project in a way funders can understand.

 

What will be covered

The workshop will be a mixture of listening and group discussion. Together we will put a practice 'project' together to answer some draft questions which will hopefully show that it's not as daunting as it seems.

Through the session we will explore:

  • What Arts Council Funding is and the types of funding you can apply for
  • The Lets Create Strategy
  • Financial principals
  • Ways to tackle the form with some exercises and example questions
  • Provision you can access to make applying more accessible for you
  • Other options for funding work
  • Q&A

 

About Lotty Holder

Lotty is an independent producer and playwright who creates work that is inclusive, exciting and asks audiences to question the world around them. During her career she has won the André Ptaszynski Prize for Producing and the Offie for Best Audio drama for her original Play Red Breast, and she is the cofounder and Head of Theatre at Cloudburst Productions.

Theatre Includes:

As Producer: Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon (Garrick Theatre), Devil Play (VAULT), Glacier (Oxford Old Fire Station), Paper Cut (Park Theatre), No Man's Island (The Big House), NSDF: The Big Reset (UK Tour), Medusa Reloaded (The Void Nottingham),

As Associate Producer: A Mirror (Trafalgar Theatre) Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial (Ambassadors Theatre),

As Writer Red Breast (Chronic Insanity Theatre and The Traverse), Dispatched (Chol Theatre)

Film Includes:

As Producer: Petrol Head (Cloudburst Productions)

 

Access information :

This event is online. BSL interpretation will be provided during the talk if required and via zoom there will be the option to turn on live captions. Please let us know of any access requirements when booking.

Booking via eventbrite is essential as places are extremely limited.

If you have any difficulty booking via eventbrite, please do contact our team via info@dadafest.co.uk and we can help you to book.


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