More Lottery Money for Youth Arts Projects
Date: 15 May 1998
The Arts Council of England yesterday announced that it has made a further 87 awards, worth over £10 million, under its Lottery-funded Arts for Everyone scheme. The majority of the projects will involve children and young people as participants and as audiences. There are also a number of awards targeted at young disabled people in particular. The awards are spread throughout England, with the North West region receiving thirteen separate grants.
Theatre projects aimed at children and young people include: £49,330 to Mirage Children's Theatre Company for Tell me a story - that I can understand which will produce recordings of 40 audio plays for young children who don't speak English as their first language; and £42,995 to the Out of Joint company for New Recruits, a theatre production involving plays on the syllabus for A-level students of Theatre Studies, which will involve students from over 60 schools who will learn about every aspect of theatre production.
Projects specifically targeting young disabled people include: £94,260 to Anjali Dance Company for Moving On Up, a dance project for young people with learning disabilities; and £250,000 to Graeae Theatre Company for The Missing Piece, a training, education and employment initiative for 24 young disabled people wishing to train and work as actors.
Graham Devlin, deputy secretary general of the Arts Council, commented: 'If we are to safeguard the future of the arts, both for creators and audiences, we must ensure that our youth have access to the best art our country can provide. Arts for Everyone will enable these projects to reach people who may not ever have had the chance to take part in an arts project before, and we are sure that the legacy of Arts for Everyone will continue well into the next century.'
In non-youth specific grants, the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith was also awarded £250,000 for Lyric Links, a three-year programme aimed at enhancing and extending the scope of the theatre's work through links to new work and new audiences.
The Arts Council distributes funds from the National Lottery to arts projects in England and, since March 1995, has awarded over £1 billion to 7,500 projects. Under the separate Arts for Everyone Express small grants express scheme, £20 million has been allocated to over 5,000 projects.
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