New Art // Young Artists Fund

The New Art // Young Artists Fund will enable Warwick Arts Centre to expand the work that it already does in the following three areas:

• Art for local children and young people
  Extend our arts education programme, which in 2007/08 made more than 30,500 contacts with local school children and young people, to thousands more individuals through a range of innovative artist led projects such as Boys Dancing and Start with Art.

“I believe these projects work tremendously well with children, but the children who benefit most are definitely those that do not necessarily excel in other areas.” Coventry teacher

• Commissioning new work from regional artists
  Enable young emerging artists and production companies within our region to create new works – theatre, music, dance and film – that can be premiered at Warwick Arts Centre before touring to other venues across the nation.

• Scholarships for talented student musicians
  Increase our provision of music scholarships for the many talented and dedicated students who make up the University’s orchestras, bands and choirs. We currently have 13 philanthropically funded music scholarships worth £450 each per annum – but we would like to offer more.

“The opportunities I enjoyed as a result of my keyboard scholarship transformed my career outlook from fledgling lawyer to concert pianist” Warren Mailley-Smith