Bursaries for Artists

Applications have not closed for the 2025 Bursaries

All applicants will be contacted with the outcome of their application by the end of November 2024.

2024 Recipients

Norfolk & Norwich Festival provided eight Bursaries for Artists to support their work to engage children and young people across East Anglia.

The bursaries of £2,500 each were awarded to deliver projects to various communities and to help develop the artists’ socially engaged and/or community practice.

Run across nine months, you can find a short summary of each project below.

Recipient: Florencia Nannetti
Location: Cambridge

Florencia has partnered with Cambridge-based community organisations to offer migrants, aged 16 years+ in Cambridgeshire the opportunity to participate in a series of movement workshops. The facilitated sessions offered individuals the chance to connect with others and develop or articulate their stories in a creative and safe environment.

Recipient: Hannelore Smith
Location: North Norfolk

Hannelore partnered with Sheringham Museum to offer over a dozen workshops with young people aged 14-19 years. The sessions provided an outlet for young people to explore their connection with place in tandem with their local heritage, and were able to examine different historical pieces involving mental health, disability, classism, gender division, rural poverty, and enslavement. The workshops culminated in the young people’s takeover of the museum – a public event celebrating their engagement.

Recipient: Jack Wilkin
Location: Peterborough

Jack partnered with The Kite Trust to offer local LGBTQIA+ young people workshops testing different performance games and activities designed to catalyse their connection with place as well as one another. The sessions were designed as a pilot to test creative interventions, and through consultation with participating young people, Jack developed an engagement framework focused on young people aged 14 years+.

Recipient: Johann Don-Daniel
Location: Norfolk and Suffolk
Johann worked with two secondary schools to provide three workshops exploring decolonisation via the lens of shape, sculpture, drawing, collage, and text, ultimately reordering tangible materials and objects to represent a utopian society in the form of public art.

Recipient: Kara Jarrold and Rachel Sedgwick
Location: Suffolk

Kara and Rachel used the bursary to work with an Ipswich primary school and their Year 5, nursery, and reception pupils to co-create playscapes, structures, and sensory provocations suitable for under-fives, culminating in a series of play sessions with the students and their families.

Recipient: Kate Flurrie
Location: Ipswich

Kate partnered with local community groups in Ipswich to work with young people dealing with mental health stressors the opportunity to co-create a piece exploring what Ipswich means to them via film and digital mediums.

Recipient: Rosa Torr
Location: King’s Lynn

Rosa worked closely with young people in King’s Lynn to create an outreach toolkit, including a workshop plan and podcast, for touring theatre companies striving to engage young people in the East of England.

Recipient: Rose Feather and Zannie Fraser
Location: Norwich

Rose and Zannie piloted a collaboration between themselves and New Routes Integration – a refugee organisation based in Norwich – to offer young refugees, asylum seekers and their families a series of sessions in which they created short stories, puppets, mini shows, visual art, and ultimately a publication.