We have recently awarded a total of £2,544,392 to 10 projects in Round five of our Strategic touring programme 2012-13. Read more about the projects below:

The Albany - Circulate
Proposed amount: £498,900

A consortium of six outer London venues and arts organisations (The Albany, Artsdepot, Emergency Exit Arts, Tara Arts, Watermans, and Harrow and Millfield Arts Centres) will develop a three-year touring programme of outdoor arts projects. Six new community youth participation projects will be set up to widen and deepen participation and local engagement in the arts in each area.

Booktrust - Stories Tour
Proposed amount: £299,487

Booktrust will bring multi-lingual (Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Somali) literature performances to libraries, community centres and prisons across England. These will focus on deprived urban areas to reach families from black and minority ethnic groups. Performance and participation will help to break down language barriers, promote community cohesion and inspire a love of books.

Fuel - New Theatre in Your Neighbourhood
Proposed amount: £90,293

Fuel will use scheduled touring activity in spring 2013 in Colchester, Ludlow, Preston, Poole and Stockton-on-Tees as a springboard for a research initiative with audiences, venues and artists. Fuel will work with audience development specialists to research communities with low arts engagement and create new bespoke targeted work connecting these communities to their local theatres.

Invisible Flock - Bring the Happy
Proposed amount: £99,559

Invisible Flock will visit Stockton, Barnsley, Exeter, Coventry and London and, spending a month in each, will collect and map people's moments and memories of happiness. Part installation, part raucous musical performance, part digital map, it is an attempt to investigate the happiness of the UK.

Isis Arts - Big M tour of On The Precipice
Proposed amount: £75,349

Isis Arts will tour On the Precipice, an exhibition of immersive film and video installations exploring the natural landscape and how it is changing. The exhibition will tour North East England in the mobile, inflatable touring space, the Big M. Isis Arts will be working with local partners to increase younger audiences aged 14 to 25 years old.

Mid Wales Opera - Touring productions 2013-2014
Proposed amount: £235,000

Mid Wales Opera will tour productions of Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring, Handel's Acis and Galatea and Bizet's Carmen to over 14 partner venues across England which wouldn't usually programme opera. A programme of associated outreach and audience development activity will run alongside performances.

Paines Plough - Development of a new small-scale theatre touring network
Proposed amount: £269,660

Paines Plough will reinvigorate the small-scale touring network for new plays by establishing a connected and collaborative network of venues across England to which they will supply regular, high-quality productions alongside audience development initiatives. Through these partnerships, venues will develop stronger a relationship with their audiences, each other and producing touring companies.

Raw Material - Raw Roads: Turning Tides
Proposed amount: £34,780

Raw Material will produce a collaborative spoken word, poetry and urban music performance project aimed at young people aged 12 to 24 and will tour it to locations along the South coast. The project will draw on oral traditions, the poetic MC, lyricism, the language of the street and live performance. Raw Material will also produce a shared online archive and resource to support the touring project.

Re:Bourne - Tour of Matthew Bourne's Lord of the Flies
Proposed amount: £894,116

Matthew Bourne's Lord of the Flies will be a collaborative dance-theatre touring production. It will work strategically with venues to embed a sustained outreach programme which will improve relationships between venues, dance organisations and communities. It will be aimed at audiences of all ages and made by professional New Adventures dancers and young people from across England.

The Spark Children's Arts Festival - The Fourth Tale: a library tour
Proposed amount: £47,248

The Spark Children's Arts Festival will work with Leicester Library Services to develop a new piece of performance in collaboration with artists, children, parents, teachers and librarians.  The piece will be developed and produced as a touring performance with an associated programme of reading and storytelling opportunities.