A total of £30,000 was awarded to 12 projects in the 2024 Arts Grants round, assessed and recommended by the Resident Assessment Panel.
Select the title of the project to learn more about it.
- Refuge Media Productions CIC: "Trojans UK 24 Chelsea2
-
Tuesday 1 October 2024 to Saturday 1 February 2025, 10am to 2.30pm
Chelsea Theatre
7, World's End Place,
SW10 0DR
Ages 16+ Free.
The Trojans UK 24 project will consist of two months of weekly drama workshops for refugees, taking place at Chelsea Theatre. Participants from across the borough will work towards creating a new adaptation of 'Trojan Women'. The participants’ stories will be worked into the play which will also build upon the continued development of a performance that took place at the Hush Unheard Voices Festival at Chelsea Theatre in June 2024.
Find out more about the Trojans project
Find out more about Chelsea Theatre - Royal Court Theatre: ‘Royal Court Babes-In-Arms & Isolated Elderly Performance Series - 2025 Pilot Programme’
-
Wednesday 1 January 2025 to Wednesday 30 July 2025, 10am to 6.30pm
Royal Court Theatre
Sloane Square
SW1W 8AS
Royal Court Theatre will pilot a new access and engagement offer for local new parents/carers and isolated elderly residents. The project will consist of 8 special performances of cutting-edge Royal Court shows providing free/subsidised tickets and including bespoke partnerships with Age UK and Neo Natal group Baby & Bump. Performances will take place from January-June 2025.
Parents/carers Babes-in Arms matinees will be co-hosted by midwife-led neo-natal group Bump & Baby, accompanied by a family meet-up and creative stay-and-play, converting the café into a temporary soft play.
Isolated and disadvantaged elderly residents accessible (captioned) matinees and social events will be co-hosted by Age UK Kensington & Chelsea, prioritising free tickets, assistance and transport for service users (primarily from northern wards) – followed by opportunities to socialise with each, cast members and creatives.
Find out more about The Royal Court Theatre - Frank Prosper: ‘Frankie Lucas Outreach Programme’
-
Responding to a 2019 Mind report which stated that 1 in 7 10 to 19-year-olds experience mental health disorder, the Frankie Lucas Outreach Programme aims to use boxing and drama techniques to explore and develop tools to support better mental health and wellbeing outcomes for participants.
Sessions will take place across several locations in the borough including boxing clubs and The Tabernacle. The workshops will be centred around key scenes from the award winning 2023 play, "Going for Gold". Participants aged 12 to 21 from each group will deliver the programme in October 2024 as part of Black History Month. The performance will continue on to a four-week run in November at Park Theatre.
Find out more about Frank Prosper’s other work - Create Art Links: "Art:links~Kensington & Chelsea2
-
Friday 6 September to Friday 18 October 2024, 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Chamberlain House Dementia Resource Centre
W10 6DZ
Art:links~K&C is Create’s flagship older people project. Following the project’s post-COVID re-launch in 2023, Create is returning to Chamberlain House Dementia Resource Centre (CHDRC) to deliver a co-created creative project.
The project aims to bring together isolated, vulnerable older people and those living with dementia, across six weekly music workshops.
Find out more about Create Arts - Earl’s Court Community Trust: ‘Summer Theatre Production’
-
Tuesday 24 to Saturday 28 June 2025, Performance times: 7pm evenings and 2pm matinee
Bousfield School
The Beatrix Potter Globe
Bolton Gardens
SW5 0DJ
Suitable for ages 5-17 years approx.
This project will consist of several live theatre productions involving local primary and secondary school children and their families. Through a series of workshops taking place at Bousfield Primary School this project aims to guide participants through the process of creating and producing a theatre production, including intensive coaching and directing, vocal and dance training for the young participants to prepare them for several performances at venues local to Earl’s Court.
In the Autumn the trust aims to partner with organisation, Refettorio Felix at St Cuthbert's Centre, to produce a dinner theatre production.
Find out more about Earl's Court Community Trust (ECCT) - Victoria and Albert Museum: ‘Africa Rising North Kensington Creative Takeover’’
-
Sunday 3 November. 11am to 5.30pm.
V&A South Kensington
SW7 2RL.
Tickets, £5. Booking is essential. Click the link below.
The V&A will present a day of creative workshops and tours in October for up to 60 residents from North Kensington with a focus on fashion, craft, and the applied arts. The project will include several elements: a presentation on the NAOMI in Fashion exhibition and/or global Africa in the collections with an audience Q&A. A Tour across the museum's galleries to view exhibitions, Africa in Europe and/or the Historical and Hidden Caribbean.
The V&A will collaborate with a range of local creative heritage organisations including North Kensington Centre for Skills, focusing on adults entering the creative industries. Grenfell Memorial Quilters Group, and Pepper pot Elders Club who are championing healthy older minds through a shared passion for fashion.
Find out more about the V&A Africa Rising North Kensington Creative Takeover event - Metronomes Steel Orchestra: ‘Metronomes Legacy Programme’
-
The Metronomes Legacy Programme will involve a series of artist talks from members of the pan and carnival community including pan tuners, pan makers, costume designers and more. The project will involve a curated, intergenerational space chaired by younger members of the band. The artist talks will take place in the Metronomes Pan Yard and be open to the public.
Metronomes Steel Orchestra is in the process of collating and formalising its archive. Scanning socials are social events that include music and performance as well as an opportunity for participants to bring their carnival-related photographs to be professionally scanned and added to the Metronomes archive. This process aims to be a more inclusive, interactive and social approach to archiving. Whilst scanning, participants will be encouraged to share their stories, which will also be recorded in the space.
Find out more about Metronomes Steel Orchestra - Poetic Equity: ‘Kamitan Arts’
-
A series of poetry workshops will take place at different locations across the borough exposing various cultural groups to poetry through exploring and developing writing. Local under-represented groups including indigenous Coptic Egyptian, Ethiopian-Eritrean Orthodox, Filipino and Ukrainian communities will be encouraged and supported to apply for Kensington and Chelsea Art Week's (KCAW) Poetry Open-Call as part of the `Poetry Corner'.
Kamitan Arts will also commission three local professional poets from marginalised backgrounds to respond to the artwork of their choice within KCAW and have it displayed.
Find out more about Kamitan Arts - Wellbeing Windows: ‘Wellbeing Windows’
-
Monday 21 October 2024 to Saturday 18 October 2025.
The Wellbeing Windows project aims to provide a set of 25 photographic artworks for the Lavender Walk Adolescent Mental Health Unit in Nightingale Place, SW10 9NG. Facilitators will engage with patients, staff and visiting families to create a series of bespoke artwork catalogues and voting sheets which will then be used during the artwork selection process. The selected images will then be superimposed onto the interior photos taken in and around the centre.
Find out more about Wellbeing Windows - Genesis Carnival Enterprise: ‘Carnival Connections: Connecting Communities through Creativity’
-
Between November 2024 and March 2025
The Tabernacle
Powis Square
W11 2AY
This project aims to bring residents together through workshops where they will learn about the history of the Notting Hill Carnival and help to shape its future. Activities will include oral history reflections, discussions with creative pioneers, webinars and workshops on various Carnival arts techniques. - Horniman’s Adventure Playground: ‘Horniman’s Adventure Playground - Arts partnership programme with Central Saint Martin’s School of Art & Design’
-
Friday 1 November 2024 to Sunday 31 August 2025. 11am to 4pm
Horniman's Adventure Playground 32 Southern Row, W10 5AN and adjacent, Emslie Horniman Pleasance park London W10 5ANSuitable for ages 5 to 16 years, Free.
In partnership with Horniman’s adventure playground and Central St. Martins School of Art and Design, "Colours of the Ground" is a workshop for children and their families from hard-to-reach groups and disadvantaged back grounds living locally in Kensington and Chelsea.
The project is a 6-week series of urban art drawing, material making workshops using the local plants, minerals and stones found in Horniman’s Adventure playground and the adjacent Emslie Horniman's Pleasance Park culminating in the group production of a guided map resource of where to find the plants and minerals.
The project will also produce an exhibition of drawings of the flora and fauna made from natural pigments produced within the workshops. The aims, are to both connect local people with the green spaces that surround them in Kensington and Chelsea, reconnect with how art pigments and drawing materials were sourced regionally with identifiable associated colours.
Find out more about Horniman’s Community Adventure Playground - Tabatha Batra Vaughan and Young K&C: ‘An Introduction to Documentary Film’
-
Tuesday 28 January 2025 to Tuesday 4 March 2025, Tuesdays from 5.30pm to 7.30pm
Lancaster Youth Hub
28A Lancaster Road
W11 1QS (TBC)
Suitable for ages 16-25, Free
This project aims to provide 12 to 15 local young people aged 16 to 21 with an introduction to documentary film making, as well as practical and creative filmmaking skills.
Participants will be provided with tools to express themselves and to engage with social issues in a creative way. The young people will also learn employable production, camera, interviewing and editing skills. Over 6 sessions the young people will devise and shoot a short documentary film in groups. Once the films are made, the project will culminate in a community screening followed by a panel discussion led by the young participants and guest speakers.
Find out more about Young K&C