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Latest Grants for the arts awards - February 2010

  • Date: 9 March 2010
  • Region: London
An Afternoon Shopping by Steve Beresford

An Afternoon Shopping by Steve Beresford. Credit: Courtesy of Usurp Art Collective

The Usurp Art Collective is opening a new art gallery and studios in Harrow, with the first exhibition running from 12 February until 31 March 2010.

The space, a former butcher's shop and Fovea Gallery on Vaughan Road (West Harrow), closed in 2007 but has reopened as the Usurp Art Gallery for a two year programme funded by Arts Council England - Usurp were awarded £47,720 through our Grants for the arts scheme towards this project ad this will be the only gallery of its kind in the borough. To fid out more visit our virtual press office

In February we have awarded £633,770 to artists and arts organisations across London through our Grants for the arts programme.

The Red Room has been awarded £84,514 for multi-platform theatre productions in a specially built space in Southwark. The structure will be built from sustainable materials donated by the public, and will host an exhibition exploring sustainability and climate change.

Book Slam, an award winning literary event that takes place at the Tabernacle every month, has been awarded £22,000 to establish a new night in East London. These events will focus on new, emerging and experimental literary talent, as well as develop new audiences for live literature in London.

The Nash Concert Society has been awarded £9,375 for a weekend of events in memory of the victims of Theresienstadt - one of Nazi Germany's brutal propaganda lies. The programme will feature talks from survivors, exhibitions as well as work by composers whose lives were cut short by the Holocaust.

For a full list of Grants for the arts awards in February 2009, please download the PDF document on the top right, or download previous months.

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