NEW EASTBURY MANOR CREATIVE PRACTICE GRANTS

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Culture and Heritage Service want to support creative practitioners living in Barking and Dagenham to develop new work and share it at Eastbury Manor House with communities in the Borough.

We are offering 3 grants of £5,000 to support the development of new creative work that directly responds to the building and history of Eastbury Manor House as well as imagining its futures. Eastbury is an incredible Grade 1 listed mid-sixteenth centurybrick manor house that has played an important but changing role in Barking and Dagenham’s history over time.

We hope this will enable practitioners to try out new ways of producing and sharing work. For example, you may want to create a new sound work, a short film, or a live performance at Eastbury Manor House.

The grant can be used to pay for:

• Your time to focus on your creative practice.

• Costs of materials and equipment.

• Costs of sharing the work publicly.

• Costs of collaborating with other practitioners for the first time.

We are open to applications from groups, collectives, and cultural organisations (the funding must be used to support new work from a local practitioner and not organisational costs).

By ‘creative practice’ we mean all forms of cultural activity – this list is not exhaustive but shows the breadth of practice can support sound work, poetry, sculpture, food, craft, drama, performance, dance, choreography, music, film, photography, lyrics and more…

The grants will support creative practice relating to Eastbury Manor House. We invite you to respond in your proposal to how the new work will relate to the House – for example, through the content of the work, or how the work is shared in public there.

The successful applicants will collaborate with the Senior Curator for Cultural Programmes and the Eastbury Manor House Curator to share their work at Eastbury Manor House in March-May 2024.

Selection Criteria:

• Does this proposal reflect an important new development in this practitioner’s work?

• Would this new work be possible without this funding?

• Will they be able to share the work and make an impact locally?

• There is a clear rationale for this project rooted in wider research, thinking or experience.

• This work expresses something about LBBD that we are excited to support.

• Is it a project that it will be possible to show at Eastbury?


Conditions of the funding:

• The grant must be used to support new work.

• Applicants must live in LBBD.

• The funding must be spent by March 31, 2024.

• The work must be shared publicly during the period of the grant. Sharing could include for example: workshops, live performance, public talk, seminar, conference, online event, public screening.

• The grant must cover all costs of the project including costs of public sharing – so please cost your projects carefully and realistically.

• The grant cannot be used to pay for: Capital costs e.g., building repairs, studio fees, purchases of equipment over £500 in value, commercial enterprises such as art fairs or selling work, organisational costs such as staffing, premises, utility bills.


Timeline

• Information workshop and tour at Eastbury Manor House: June 21, 17:00 – 18:30 (you do not need to book a place - just turn up)

• Application deadline: July 31 2023

• Interviews: Aug 2023

• Grant period: Sept 2023 – Feb 2024

• Public sharing between March 27 – May 31 2024

• Grant instalments: Sept 2023, Nov 2023, Feb 2024


Application Process

• Please attend the advice workshop at Eastbury Manor House on June 21, 17:00 – 18:30. This will give you an opportunity to see the space. We will offer advice on how to breakdown your budget, how to sketch out a timeline and what your project proposal should tell us.

• Submit the following info by 5pm on July 31 2023 to the One Borough Voice website Eastbury Manor New Practice Grants portal:

1) CV

2) Project proposal (no more than 1000 words)

3) Budget breakdown

4) Estimated timeline for your project.

• If you wish to collaborate with another practitioner, we will require a supporting statement from them (no more than 1000 words).

• Shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend interview in August. Due to our limited capacity. We are not able to offer all applicants an interview.

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Culture and Heritage Service want to support creative practitioners living in Barking and Dagenham to develop new work and share it at Eastbury Manor House with communities in the Borough.

We are offering 3 grants of £5,000 to support the development of new creative work that directly responds to the building and history of Eastbury Manor House as well as imagining its futures. Eastbury is an incredible Grade 1 listed mid-sixteenth centurybrick manor house that has played an important but changing role in Barking and Dagenham’s history over time.

We hope this will enable practitioners to try out new ways of producing and sharing work. For example, you may want to create a new sound work, a short film, or a live performance at Eastbury Manor House.

The grant can be used to pay for:

• Your time to focus on your creative practice.

• Costs of materials and equipment.

• Costs of sharing the work publicly.

• Costs of collaborating with other practitioners for the first time.

We are open to applications from groups, collectives, and cultural organisations (the funding must be used to support new work from a local practitioner and not organisational costs).

By ‘creative practice’ we mean all forms of cultural activity – this list is not exhaustive but shows the breadth of practice can support sound work, poetry, sculpture, food, craft, drama, performance, dance, choreography, music, film, photography, lyrics and more…

The grants will support creative practice relating to Eastbury Manor House. We invite you to respond in your proposal to how the new work will relate to the House – for example, through the content of the work, or how the work is shared in public there.

The successful applicants will collaborate with the Senior Curator for Cultural Programmes and the Eastbury Manor House Curator to share their work at Eastbury Manor House in March-May 2024.

Selection Criteria:

• Does this proposal reflect an important new development in this practitioner’s work?

• Would this new work be possible without this funding?

• Will they be able to share the work and make an impact locally?

• There is a clear rationale for this project rooted in wider research, thinking or experience.

• This work expresses something about LBBD that we are excited to support.

• Is it a project that it will be possible to show at Eastbury?


Conditions of the funding:

• The grant must be used to support new work.

• Applicants must live in LBBD.

• The funding must be spent by March 31, 2024.

• The work must be shared publicly during the period of the grant. Sharing could include for example: workshops, live performance, public talk, seminar, conference, online event, public screening.

• The grant must cover all costs of the project including costs of public sharing – so please cost your projects carefully and realistically.

• The grant cannot be used to pay for: Capital costs e.g., building repairs, studio fees, purchases of equipment over £500 in value, commercial enterprises such as art fairs or selling work, organisational costs such as staffing, premises, utility bills.


Timeline

• Information workshop and tour at Eastbury Manor House: June 21, 17:00 – 18:30 (you do not need to book a place - just turn up)

• Application deadline: July 31 2023

• Interviews: Aug 2023

• Grant period: Sept 2023 – Feb 2024

• Public sharing between March 27 – May 31 2024

• Grant instalments: Sept 2023, Nov 2023, Feb 2024


Application Process

• Please attend the advice workshop at Eastbury Manor House on June 21, 17:00 – 18:30. This will give you an opportunity to see the space. We will offer advice on how to breakdown your budget, how to sketch out a timeline and what your project proposal should tell us.

• Submit the following info by 5pm on July 31 2023 to the One Borough Voice website Eastbury Manor New Practice Grants portal:

1) CV

2) Project proposal (no more than 1000 words)

3) Budget breakdown

4) Estimated timeline for your project.

• If you wish to collaborate with another practitioner, we will require a supporting statement from them (no more than 1000 words).

• Shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend interview in August. Due to our limited capacity. We are not able to offer all applicants an interview.

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