The British Council is inviting multidisciplinary hubs and/or collectives working across technology, science, or arts and culture to co-create works and/or deliver projects that speak to New Narratives through exploring thematic areas in different disciplines.
Targeting a youth (18 – 35-year-old) audience, the co-creation grant aims to support Africa and UK cultural partnerships to develop digital, face-to-face, and hybrid artistic projects that examine New Narratives.
Themes
Themes for projects can range from:
Climate,
Higher education,
Arts,
Digital innovation,
Heritage/culture,
Media, and more.
The grant will support the production of new works, building connections, and collaboration across different countries. While this grant is not designed for research, an element of research can be included in the project.
Objectives of grant
Storytelling – Using a variety of mediums and platforms, supporting the creation, sharing, and promotion of more nuanced stories that disrupt stereotypical narratives about countries of Africa and the UK.
Creative output – To support young people to produce new works that offer more contemporary, diverse, and plural narratives.
Young engagement – To support and engage with more young people to shape current narratives and to facilitate stronger connections between the young people across the countries of Africa and the UK.
Funding Information
The Council is offering THREE co-creation grants of up to GBP20,000 to three different hubs/collectives.
Outcomes
Disciplines: technology, science, or art
Thematic range includes climate, education, digital innovation, heritage/culture, media, and more.
Projects must have relevance across both Africa and UK and contribute to new narratives.
The projects must be multidisciplinary and innovative, across different artforms, that appeal to a young audience.
The project can take the form of collaborations and exchanges, exhibitions, installations, dialogue, and more, and should encourage the exploration of their different cultures and languages.
Projects should have the potential for scale to be further developed and shared with a broader audience, particularly through digital means, and have an impact on the group’s communities.
Projects must engage young people between 18 to 35-years through activities that are delivered face to face and online or that take on a hybrid approach, with a reach of at least:
200 for face-to-face engagement
500 for online engagement (excluding impressions),
250 face-to-face and 250 online for hybrid engagement, in countries across Africa and the UK.
Project to be delivered between September 2022 and September 2023.
Providing a report/summary sharing insight.
Who they are looking for?
Multidisciplinary hubs and/or collectives applying need to work directly with young people aged between 18 and 35yrs old and the core team can include creatives/practitioners/experts from different countries of Africa and the UK.
The administrative lead of the application needs to be from one of the primary countries listed, with the rest of the members of the group being from any of the listed secondary countries.
The group’s capability and skills must be spread across Africa and UK
There should be a clear articulation of the roles and responsibilities of each member of the group
The successful groups need to have Intellectual Property and other applicable rights agreed on and in place upon the signing of the contract.
