£6000 funding for outdoor arts projects

Win £6000 to develop your outdoor music project.

Looking for a cash injection and industry support to help realise your outdoor arts idea?

Gone in 20 Minutes(Gi20) is giving six artists or companies a development grant of £6,000 to realise their small to medium-scale idea.

The winners will also participate in mentoring sessions with Gi20’s partners, and present their work in front of national audiences and arts programmers at a series of festivals and showcase events spanning three weekends over the summer of 2015.

The National Theatre’s Watch This Space Festival, Stockton International Riverside Festival (SIRF) and at Waterman’s Arts Centre’s outdoor programme in Hounslow Town Centre and Southwark Council’s Blackfriars Stories, who will share the staging of the final showcase (28 and 29 August).

There are three prizes that will be awarded at the end of the programme:

The Audience Prize (£1,000), decided by public vote at the three showcase events. The Jury Prize (£1,000), decided by a jury made up of two UK-based and one international outdoor arts specialists, who will also give detailed feedback to the participating companies. The Development Prize, awarded by the 101 Outdoor Arts Creation Centre, a week’s residency plus mentoring at the centre.

Applications are welcome from all art forms, including circus, dance, theatre, music, and visual arts, or a combination of the above.

Gi20 is a national, outdoor performance programme that offers development funding, mentoring support, and showcasing opportunities for emerging artists to develop small  to medium-scale outdoor arts projects.

“We are a new company and relatively unknown. As a choreographer I am at the beginning of my career so [the challenge is] getting people to trust and support the work. That’s why Gi20 is so amazing … we’ve been able to create a piece knowing that someone already thinks it’s a good idea.” – 2013 Gi20 artist

 Apply via IdeasTap by 25 February at www.ideastap.com/briefs