GREAT NEWS!
We have been awarded a NAN Futurific! bursary. This is fantastic news! It means we can put aside time to research the best way to set up our new organisation and to study other organisations who seem to be a good model for us. We can also get on with planning our intial programme and first free taster event.
Time to get busy. The plan is to be ready to promote the new Blue Monkey Network during the East Sussex Open at Towner in April and throughout the Eastbourne Festival in April and May, when lots of Eastbourne artists open their houses and communications are good and news spreads quickly.
The conditions of the bursary say:
“NAN bursaries are awarded to artists’ groups and networks for the purpose of Research and Development aimed at supporting exchange between artists’ groups and networks, in the UK or elsewhere, in order to:
Explore new projects and provide a focus for critical exchange
Encourage artists’ groups and networks to generate collaboration and extend their professional practice
Test ideas and professional relationships between artists’ groups and networks.”
Great! That’s exactly what we want to do!
