Genesis Kickstart Fund Projects
The £1 million Genesis Kickstart Fund was designed to enable outstanding freelance artists to stay on their career paths and explore new possibilities in a world radically altered by Covid-19. The projects that were awarded grants have supported over 1000 creative freelancers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Here is an overview of all the projects supported by the Fund, click the artist/organisation name to find out more about them.
Theatre/Spoken Word
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One Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia
Almeida Theatre / Josh Azouz
Desire Under The Elms
Almeida Theatre / Ebenezer Bamgboye
Mulan
Almeida Theatre / Anthony Lau
Stupefaction R&D
august 012
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Double A-Side
Beyond Face
Associate Artists Programme
Box of Tricks Theatre Company
Gulliver Exploded
Box Tale Soup
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Sudden Connections
Bristol Old Vic
365 Days Remembered
Caitriona Shoobridge
The Walk (Pathway for Puppeteers)
Good Chance Theatre
Dido’s Bar
Dash Arts
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I Am The Ghost Of Qandeel Baloch
Guleraana Mir
Shoobz
High Rise Theatre
Meta vs Life
Hijinx Theatre
Building Back Better: a space to dream
Jennifer Tang
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Mish Mash Festival
LAMDA / Emily Carewe
Hawk
Lewis Doherty
Snow White
Mat Fraser
Museum of Austerity
Sacha Wares
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Landing Bolts 1.0
Sita Thomas
Stockroom Development Fellowship
Stockroom Productions
Bridge the Gap
Stage One
Rise and Fall and Rise Again
Stephanie Street
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Future Company Managers
Sunita Hinduja
Amplify
Tangle
Amma
Tara Theatre
Spoken Space & Tara Band Night
Tara Theatre
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Creative Exchange
The Mono Box
Match/Play
tiata fahodzi
Bradford 12
Tribe Arts
Destroy After Reading
Tuyet Van Huynh
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Black Power Desk
Urielle Klein-Mekongo
Best Seat in Your House
Young Vic Theatre
For Such a Time as This R&D
Young Identity
Music & Opera
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Follow the Lieder
Alisdair Kitchen
Bold Tendencies 22
Bold Tendencies
Snape Residencies, Emerging Artists
Britten Pears Arts
Burum R&D Welsh Jazz/Folk
Burum
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Five Beacons of Light R&D
Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Debut Recording
Corvus Consort
Creative Juices RNCM & Double Bill project
Creative Juices CIC
Already Gone
Echo Vocal Ensemble
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Horizon Project
DEBUT
ChoirMaker
Ex Cathedra
2022 Commissions
Explore Ensemble
A Short Walk
Fieri Consort
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JAM Music Education Resource
John Armitage Memorial Trust (JAM)
Meet Our Ancestors
John Pfumojena
Kate Simko & LEO album
London Electronic Orchestra
Manic Street Creature
Maimuna Memon
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Ives The Unanswered Question
Oliver Zeffman
Opera for Young Hearts
OperaEd
Insurrection
Peter Brathwaite
The Orisha Musical R&D
Robert Green
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Graham Fitkin Loosening
Sacconi Quartet
Resistance Recording Project
SANSARA
Wild Sounds
Sophie Winter
Heartcuts
Stef O’Driscoll
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Our Silences Are Your Silences
Tangram
Blue Sky Counterpoint
The Cumnock Tryst
The Gesualdo Six in 360
The Gesualdo Six
Our Future In Your Hands
The Multi-Story Orchestra
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Dance
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JUNGLE BOOK REIMAGINED
Akram Khan Company
Casanova
Dickson Mbi Company
Costumes for The Forsythe Evening
English National Ballet
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Emerging Dancer
English National Ballet
Dance and Binaural Sound
James Cousins Company
Acts of Queer Activism
Jonathan Watkins
A Death Has Occurred
Kennedy Muntanga Dance Theatre (KMDT)
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Visual Art
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Where I’m Coming From
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Acme Awards
Acme Artist Studios
Station
Hussina Raja
Something New From Repetition
Kleiner Shames
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New Jerusalem: Inglan’ Is Mine !?
Nadeem Din-Gabisi
The Resident Platform
Strange Cargo
The Front Room
Valleys Kids
Nocturnal Creatures
Whitechapel Gallery
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Digital Art
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Photography
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The Sustainable Darkroom
London Alternative Photography Collective
The Troubles Generation
Seen Fifteen
The TRACE Mentorship
TRACE
Film/TV
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