Festival Makers Awards - Closing date 30 November 2010
A unique audience and professional development scheme for talented emerging and mid-career designer-makers to work with young people and families in North Hampshire and with performers from diverse cultures to create inspiring artworks for local festivals to celebrate the Olympics.

The Festival Makers Awards scheme will provide 6 selected makers/artists each with a £4,500 bursary, an artist's residency in a North Hampshire school, £800 towards the costs of collaboration with an artist from another discipline, considerable in-kind support, and the opportunity to create an artwork inspired by one or more world cultures.

The scheme aims to encourage makers to explore new approaches to their practice and to create innovative, large-scale public artworks. The final artworks could include installation, performance, sound and other innovative and experimental work as well as traditional craft media, and could be temporary or ephemeral in nature.

The Making is partnered in this project by Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and The Basingstoke Multicultural Forum. The programme is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

For further details, see Festival Makers - Artists's Brief (pdf)

Applicants are encouraged to attend the Making it Big Symposium, 16 November 2010 (pdf).