DISRUPT ONLINE DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL GRANTS

1. Title: DISRUPT ONLINE DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL GRANTS2. Awarding Authority: Guildhall School , GB. Web: 3. Contract type: Service contract4. Description: Grants are available to support the showcasing of new or existing creative work at the online digital arts festival ‘DISRUPT’ in July 2021.The programme offers three funding strands:Community Commissions – grants of up to £5,000 are available for experimental and collaborative performance projects between communities and creative partners. The project should be a response to the COVID-19 pandemic or its consequences.Tools and Tactics – grants of up to £1,000 are available to encourage and develop new collaborative skills by looking at what radical new ways of working have developed because of the pandemic. This could include how art is made, selected or thought about by involving and broadening who and how communities are involved in decision-making.Alternative Futures – grants of up to £1,000 are available to help open up spaces to explore what needs to change in order to harness collective learnings (or unlearnings) about community collaboration.DISRUPT is a new digital arts festival taking place in July 2021, coordinated by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. It has been set up to explore how performing arts has supported communities across the UK during the pandemic and how this time of uncertainty has encouraged new and radical ways of working.DISRUPT festival has been created in partnership with Barbican; Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance; Culture Mile; Guildhall School of Music & Drama; Lived Experience Network, Maya Productions; Museum of London; and Slung Low.The festival is particularly keen to fund the following types of work which will be showcased at DISRUPT:New and experimental performance-based projects created with, by and for communities during the pandemic.Tools and tactics to build skills on new or different ways of working in the performing arts, including practical steps on how communities, artists and organisations can collaborate.Projects that explore alternative and more democratic futures for the performing arts.5. CPV Code(s): 79953000, 79952000, 923120006. NUTS code(s): UKI, UKI3, UKI317. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: London, Inner London – West, Camden And City Of London.8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.9. Estimated value of requirement: Community Commissions – grants of up to £5,000Tools and Tactics – grants of up to £1,000Alternative Futures – grants of up to £1,00010. Application deadline 30.1.2021 (12:00).11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit: 12. Other information: For more information and to apply sse the Guildhall School website# funding opportunity# COVID-19