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Winners and losers across Bristol in latest Arts Council funding
St Paul’s Carnival, Asian Arts Agency and Paraorchestra are among the cultural organisations celebrating in Bristol after the announcement of Arts Council England’s latest three-year investment programme.
The Good Literary Agency, dedicated to increasing opportunities for representation for all writers under-represented in mainstream publishing, has also got Arts Council funding for the first time of £153,000.
Awards to Bristol organisations range from £1.3m for Bristol Museums to £61,000 for Tobacco Factory Theatres.
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Other organisations receiving annual funding from ACE from 2023 to 2026 include Bristol Old Vic (£1.26m), Watershed (£758,000), Arnolfini (£697,000) and acta community theatre (£81,000).
But it’s less good news for organisations that used to get funding and now do not including Bristol Ideas, In Between Time, Theatre Bristol and Travelling Light; as well as organisations such as Impermanence and the Wardrobe Ensemble whose applications for funding were not successful.
The ever-excellent Circomedia in St Paul’s is one Bristol organisation which has secured funding from Arts Council England – photo: Ben Tansey
Arts Council England south west area director, Phil Gibby, said: “From the Cornish market town of Bodmin, where the old library has become a vibrant new cultural hub; to Bristol’s internationally applauded Paraorchestra, which reinvents classical music every day; to the Ventnor Exchange, which has transformed the cultural ambitions of the Isle of Wight; no matter who you are, or where you live, there will now be more opportunities than ever before to take part in creativity, be inspired, and share the joy and pride that a performance or an exhibition can bring.”
Arts Council England chair, Sir Nicholas Serota, added: “As well as continuing our commitment to our many established and renowned cultural organisations, I am deeply proud of the support we will be giving to those new organisations which will help ignite creativity across the country.
“We are facing economic pressures at present, but this funding is about an investment in our future. This portfolio will support the next generation of visionary inventors, makers, performers and artists.”
Main photo: acta community theatre’s Ticky Picky Boom Boom – photo: Graham Burke
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