Reveal: Arts and Community Grants
As part of the Reveal programme CreateKX is offering grants for projects led by established and experienced arts and/or community organisations that will provide exciting opportunities for local people living around Kings’ Cross/St Pancras as participants and audiences, and add value to the artistic programme.
Reveal is a creative journey through King’s Cross. The programme’s themes of discovery, revelation and exploration will reveal the creative history and celebrate the future of King’s Cross. Reveal builds on the success of the 2007 Arrivals programme.
Reveal will offer artists, participants and audiences access to the hidden treasures of King’s Cross, discovering the past through local stories, site specific performance and installations in some of the iconic buildings in the area whilst glimpsing the future through a range of innovative partnerships, unique venues and multi art-form and digital media events.
Reveal will create an arts trail with King’s Cross and St Pancras International in the centre, a creative treasure map where X marks the spot. The trail will stretch North, South, East and West, taking in established venues, underground organisations, iconic buildings and temporary sites
We’ll weave this web of activity through three strands of work.
• Create KX projects & commissions
• Partnership Projects
• Arts and Community Projects
We can offer funding for original and adventurous ideas that will culminate in a performance, showcase or other public event as part of the Reveal programme. Please note that we will be looking to fund projects in the region of £2-3k. If your project will cost more then you must identify and access the match funds from another source.
What we are looking for:
• A strong mix of projects that range across literature, performance, visual art, film and video and music
• A rewarding creative experience for participants and audiences
• A high quality artistic outcome in the King's Cross/ St. Pancras/ Bloomsbury area during Reveal.
• We’re keen to support projects working in or relating to the areas directly around King’s Cross and St Pancras International stations. This includes the Camden council wards of King’s Cross and Somers Town St Pancras and in Islington the Caledonian and Barnsbury wards.
Criteria:
Successful projects will be able to demonstrate all of the following:
• Involvement of a professional artist or arts organisation
• A theme or idea linked to the Reveal concept
• A small amount of match funding
• A good track record of arts project delivery
• Real benefit to local people
• A track record of activity in the King’s Cross/St Pancras/Bloomsbury area or a project that links closely to the area
Application Procedure
Please send us by post or email:
• Brief outline of your artistic project (no more than one page of A4)
• Details of organisation/company applying and their status (charity, limited company, individual artists etc)
• If submitting a participatory project, details of the participants to be targeted and how they will be engaged and selected
• Brief history of engagement in arts projects
• Cvs for lead individual artists and practitioners involved
• Budget i.e. Income and expenditure including any match funding*.
• Timetable
• Evaluation process: what you hope to achieve with this project and how you will evaluate its success.
*Please note that this award will take the form of a grant and VAT can not be added. Therefore your budget must include any VAT payable.
If we require any further information or clarification we will get in touch
Postal Address:
Reveal Arts & Community Grants, CreateKX, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB
Email: sian.james@bl.uk (subject line: Reveal Arts & Community Grants Application)
Schedule
Call for applications..................November 2009
Proposals submitted by.............Monday 4th January 2010
Notification to applicants...........Monday 18th January 2010
Programme of activity................January to April 2010
Reveal programme begins..........Thursday 22nd April 2010
Showcases/performances..........22nd April to 2nd May 2010
Evaluation.................................May 2010