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Four new live projects will premiere across the UK.
Peaceophobia is a new immersive theatrical experience that will be performed in a car park in Bradford in September and then at the Contact in Manchester. Written by Zia Ahmed and co-created with Common Wealth, the production is an unapologetic response to rising Islamophobia around the world.
Fly The Flag continues with dance artist Oona Doherty s new work created with young people in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales in response to Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the right to freedom of opinion and expression. Fuel will produce the work with Belfast International Arts Festival and The MAC, Eden Court Highlands and Dancebase, Sadler s Wells, and Wales Millennium Centre.
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Arts charity allocates £400,000 in grants to support creative freelancers
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An arts charity has allocated £400,000 in grants for projects run by creative freelancers in the UK.
The Genesis Foundation has given funding to 41 projects as part of its Kickstart Fund in an effort to help workers through the pandemic.
A number of arts organisations have previously highlighted the lack of financial support available to some freelancers in the creative sector.
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Organisations which have had projects supported by the fund include London’s Whitechapel Gallery, English National Ballet, the Bristol Old Vic theatre and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.