Over 40 arts and culture projects receive funding from Genesis Foundation
Lucy Thraves
Friday, May 14, 2021
Over £400,000 has been awarded in project grants to arts and creative freelancers around the UK.
The Genesis Foundation, a philanthropic arts organisation founded by John Studzinski CBE in 2001, has announced 41 grants to arts projects, allocated from the £1m Genesis Kickstart Fund.
The majority of the first phase recipients will receive £10,000, along with mentoring to support them as creative freelancers.
15 of the recipients work in the fields of music and opera, and include Sansara, the Multi-Story Orchestra, JAM, the John Armitage Memorial Trust, and Burum, a collaborative composing project by a Welsh jazz-folk sextet.
The £1m Genesis Kickstart Fund was announced last October, in advance of its 20th anniversary this year.
John Studzinski CBE, Founder and Chairman of the Genesis Foundation, said: 'I am overwhelmed but not surprised by the ambition, creative spark and energy of the Genesis Kickstart fund proposals and projects. The original logic of Kickstart in ensuring freelancers remain engaged and active is very visible in these important, wide-ranging and innovative initiatives.
'We want to help freelancers get back on their feet, and we are delighted that the projects are so diverse in art form, region and ethnicity. After 20 years of the Genesis Foundation, our original nurturing and mentoring framework is now more relevant than ever before.'
Read Classical Music's interview with John Studzinski here.
