Creative Collaborations
Creative Collaborations is a programme that encourages
connections between UK and international artists working with young people and community
participants. Supported by Visiting Arts in partnership with the DCMS, up to £10,000 will be
awarded to projects that involve a UK residency which nurtures creativity and intercultural
understanding through a range of artistic genres.
Four projects were awarded in 2006 and saw new collaborations between UK organisations and
artists from Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Hungary and Trinidad.
In 2007, the awards celebrate the creativity of African artists and prioritise applications
from UK organisations working with diaspora artists and those from one or more overseas country.
Projects may also be connected to the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade and / or
Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008.
Awarded Project 2006
Contacting the World Street Event
(Brazil, Trinidad, UK)
Contacting the World presented a street parade showcasing the
performance skills of young people from Manchester, Trinidad and Brazil. UK artists Kinetika
collaborated with Arts in Action (Trinidad) and Meninos do Morumbi (Brazil) involving around 200
participants in the creation of a new outdoor performance showcase in Manchester City Centre.
www.contact-theatre.org,
www.meninosdomorumbi.org.br,
www.kinetika.co.uk
Kinetika, Arts in Action, Meninos do Morumbi and Baraccudas from Barrow ran a series of
workshops with a group of young people from Manchester, Liverpool, London and Belgium. Participants
were introduced to different elements of Brazilian dance and music, Trinidadian carnival
traditions, as well as other styles of performance.
The awards are open to UK arts organisations producing intercultural arts collaborations with
UK and international artists and that provide opportunities for participation by young people and
local communities.
Visiting Arts is committed to providing equality of opportunity for participants in its
programmes and particularly welcomes proposals that celebrate the diversity and creativity of the
UK’s disapora populations.
