We are really pleased to announce that Corby has been successful in its application to the Arts Council’s Creative People and Places fund. FCA was one of the 9 local organisations that made the application and is looking forward to being a part of a great programme of expanded artistic activity throughout Corby over the next three years.
Arts Council England released this statement:
Groundwork North Northamptonshire has been awarded £1,000,000 over a three-year period.
Made in Corby is an exciting and ambitious programme that recognises and draws inspiration from the identity and reputation of Corby as a making place. Made in Corby will ensure that more local people than ever before will see, experience, create and take part in high quality arts activities throughout the Borough of Corby. All decisions will be made through real and genuine partnership between Corby’s communities, artists, and arts and voluntary organisations. All activities will be ambitious, aiming to bring the best local, national and international artists to make work with, for and in Corby’s communities. All activities will invest in Corby, its people and its skills – making Corby, and all its communities, stronger, more creative and more confident in the future.
The programme will include things like huge community productions in public spaces; communities commissioning and creating new projects and productions; an ideas fund to make creative ideas from local people happen quickly; a Big Night Out each month; and an Arts Bus, making it easier for people from every estate and village to get to Made in Corby events throughout the Borough. Great art is, and will be, Made in Corby.
Peter Knott, Area Director, Arts Council England, said: “We’re looking forward to working with the consortium as they develop their ideas for creating and sharing great art for everyone. We believe the project will make a real contribution to the quality of people’s lives. We were impressed by the innovative and engaging vision of this project. They plan to give communities in Corby a voice in a very imaginative way. The range of artistic opportunities they are suggesting show they have a real understanding of getting great art to people who otherwise might not think to take part.
This Sunday, Active Ingredient present An Extreme Weather Prediction Machine, inflatible sculptures reacting to C02 and decibels, a video performance of C02 on a farm in the Mata Atlantica, children in Brazil and UK sharing ideas about climate change and energy, plus tea and cake.
A collaboration with RCUK’s Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub, University of Nottingham; Carlo Buontempo, senior climate scientist at the UK MET office; Gabriella Giannachi, Exeter University; and British Brazilian artist Silvia Leal.
For Active Ingredient’s residency with Fermynwoods please click here.
We are pleased to let you know that J. R. Carpenter, one of the artists in our first Open Online exhibition, has been short-listed for an international New Media Writing Prize, for another of her web-based pieces; CityFish.
There is a Jury Prize and a People’s Choice Prize – so you can vote, link, like and share, as well as view the work online:
CityFish is set between Nova Scotia and New York. There’s a Google Map satellite view of Coney Island embedded in the piece which – for now – shows the beach, boardwalk, amusement park, and bordering neighbourhoods in pristine condition.
The Coney Island neighbourhood was among those heavily damaged by Sandy. It will take months if not years for Google satellite images to be updated to reflect the effect of climate change on this coastline.
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