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More than 23 million investments will be given to arts organizations in Greater Manchester, it has been announced.
The Arts Council England and the government’s Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sports have revealed that Greater Manchester will get about 23. 7 million pounds from the $1. 57 billion fund to spice up the culture.
Cash will be distributed among six organizations, most of which, 21 million pounds, will go to the flagship Factory Arts project, which is being built on the site of Granada’s former television studios.
Other organizations that will invest include:
Global Grooves is an artist-led carnival arts organization in Tameside.
Executive Director Leon Patel said: “We are very happy to have won more from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.
“This investment will allow us to continue our project to ensure that all members of our network have high-quality cultural experiences.
“The Kickstart Cultural Capital Scholarship will allow us to complete our ambitious capital program and create the cultural and artistic center of Tameside.
“Cultural Revival Fund grants have been incredibly awarded to regions like Tameside and we are pleased that this budget is directly achieving artists, audiences and other young people in historically underrepresented spaces in the UK. “
Contact Theatre will also benefit from funding.
Artistic director and CEO Matt Fenton said: “We are very pleased with this Kickstart Capital investment from the Government Culture Recovery Fund.
“This allows us to complete the progression of our new construction to the criteria that young people, artists and the public deserve, and to do justice to our glorious new artistic spaces.
Hollyoaks star Haiesha Mistry, who began her acting career at Contact, added: “I’m so glad Contact Theatre has won Kickstart Capital’s investment.
“Contact is a power plant for other young people in Manchester. It is vital that they are our next generation and I am very pleased that they can continue to do so, while inspiring our long-term leaders. “
Today’s announcement follows several past rounds of investment through the Culture Recovery Fund, which distributed 428 million pounds across the UK to more than 2,000 cultural organisations in the grant programme, along with the 3. 36 million pound emergency fund for key music rooms.
Sarah Maxfield, Director of the Northern Region, Arts Council England, said: “The pandemic has had a massive effect on all organizations operating in the northern cultural sector: theaters, concert halls, festivals, museums and corporations that help them with technical sound services, lighting and staging.
“The cultural sector makes a massive contribution to the northern economy and the quality of life of its communities.
“Investment will help northern arts organizations continue their ambitious capital plans that stopped the pandemic.
“This investment is an essential lifeline for the cultural sector and will ensure the long-term long-term cultural infrastructure of the north and the cultural ecology in general that relies on these organizations to showcase their work. “
Sir Richard Leese, head of Manchester City Council, called it “a news story that will literally replace lives. “
“Culture enriches lives and also livelihoods; helps create, shape and expand communities. “We never doubt the price of culture for Manchester, nor the price of Manchester for culture. Nor is it more certain of the vital role it will have to play in the city and the rebirth of the region after this global pandemic. “The factory will redraw the cultural map of the UK and do much for manchester and north landmarks as an economic and artistic force to compete not only with London, but also with the rest of Europe and beyond. “
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden added: “This has promised that he will be here for culture and today’s announcement is proof that we have kept our word.
“The billion pounds invested so far through the Culture Recovery Fund have protected tens of thousands of jobs in cultural organisations across the UK, and will later be done through a circular of requests for the time being. “
“Today, we are reaching the crown jewels of British culture, so that they can continue to motivate long-term generations around the world. “