In the midst of the changes and challenges of the current time, Canterbury Festival invited artists & arts organisations to come together with people and organisations from the public, private, community and voluntary sectors to investigate how collaborating can conjure possibilities that will help us thrive…
Prosper is about unusual ideas, unlikely connections and untested partnerships that explore:
Social change | how collaboration can make a difference to the way people build, serve or transform their communities or organisations.
Place | how collaboration can shift or encourage a different understanding of, connection to or commitment to a place
Interdisciplinary Work | how collaboration between artists from different disciplines can develop new skills and thinking and produce adventurous work
Prosper has three stages…
Gatherings: (June-August 2012) Events that featured inspiring speakers, guidance and creative support that helped potential collaborators to seek out partners, conjure up ideas and formulate opportunities…
Experiments: (September 2012-January 2013) Fourteen investments of up to £5,000 have been awarded that will enable collaborations to test out the possibilities of their ideas and partnership. These will allow the partnership to research, prepare for and carry out a small but practical experiment from which they gain insight, energy and ambition…
Adventures: (February 2013 onwards) Five investments of up to £20,000 to action the aspirations emerging out of the Experiments, to extend the reach or depth of the work and to produce exciting outcomes that can be shared across and beyond East Kent. Canterbury Festival in October 2013 will mark the process, learning and sharing that has occurred.
If you or your organisation would like to be involved and feel that you can either support one of our Experiments through your skills, knowledge or resources, or could learn from being more closely connected to the work that they are doing, please sign up & share your interest. If you are interested in becoming a Learning Partner of a particular Experiment let them know by contacting them through their blog. If you would like to offer support to Prosper but are unsure which Experiment might benefit from your skills, knowledge or resources then please click here to fill out a profile form. If you would like to offer support to a specific Experiment then please contact them through their blog.
Prosper is funded by Arts Council England.
