Aberdeen City Council Cultural Awards 2012/13 – Project Funding 1st Application Window – Meeting of Education, Culture & Sport Committee on 7 June 2012 Amount Applicant Project Name Award Requested Establish new cultural organisation to co-ordinate, AB+ Steering Group champion and advocate the arts in Aberdeen £10,000 £0 Abdn & N-E Scotland Music Festival Assoc. Annual Competitive Music Festival £2,500 £0 Aberdeen Action on Disability Ltd Musicability £3,535 £0 Aberdeen Art Gallery House of Annie Lennox Exhibition £14,530 £10,000 Aberdeen Art Gallery Lunchtime Concert Series £8,000 £8,000 Aberdeen Artists Society Cultural growth & expansion of Aberdeen Artists Society £15,000 £0 Aberdeen Arts Centre Programme of participatory arts £42,000 £42,000 Aberdeen Chamber Music Club Concert Series 2012/13 £900 £675 Aberdeen Choral Society General planning & performance of 2 concerts £2,000 £1,000 Aberdeen City Libraries Creative Writing Festival £5,345 £1,995 Aberdeen Folk Club 50th birthday of Abdn Folk Club £1,000 £750 Aberdeen Hindu Association Core activities & year round religious festivals £5,955 £0 Aberdeen International Youth Festival The Port £15,000 £3,760 Aberdeen Sinfonietta Music Hall Concert Series 2012-12 £6,000 £3,000 Aberdeen Youth Choir Ongoing work of Aberdeen Youth Choir £3,400 £2,000 Arts Development 100 Words £4,495 £4495 Arts Development Faces of Political Heritage £2,500 £2,500 Arts Education Arts Across Learning Festival £16,500 £13,000 Aurora International Folk Dance & Music Festival £1,500 £0 Festival of Handel culminating in the production of BeCause oratorio £3,300 £0 Bethany Christian Trust in partnership with Peacock Visual Arts Home £2,582 £2,582 City Moves Dance Space Dance Live £34,000 £10,350 City Moves Dance Space Step Forward £4,450 £3,600 City Moves Dance Space Dance-A-Mazin £0 Creative Cultures Scotland Ongoing work £15,000 £0 Cultural Enterprise Office Delivery of Cultural Enterprise Office services £4,721 £0 Fersands & Fountain Community Project Youth Festival & Gala Day £992 £0 Film Fund Initiative Film Programme £2,000 £0 Fleeman Productions David Toulmin Plays £765 £765 Gordon Highlanders Museum & Arts Development Battalion Bling £2,900 £0 Gordon Highlanders Museum & Piping Arts Ltd Pipe Academy £1,000 £1,000 1 Grampian Festivals Annual Highland Dancing Championship £900 £500 Granite City Highland Dancing Association Granite City Highland Dancing Festival £1,700 £1,000 Interesting Music Promotions Music Promotion £5,000 £0 Jazz Scotland Aberdeen Jazz Festival £20,000 £11,250 Kim Walker & Limousine Bull Artists' Collective Project Doocot Exchange £760 £0 Learig Orchestra Open Orchestra £999 £0 Lemon Tree Writers Cultural Event & Production of Chapbooks £806.70 £480 Limousine Bull Artists Collective Promote contemporary art in Aberdeen £10,530 £0 Morven Singers Contributing to the musical life of the City of Aberdeen £100 £0 N-E Scotland Music School Ltd Development grant to allow continuation of existing work £7,500 £2,500 Present professional touring theatre in Aberdeen City, NEAT Aberdeenshire, Angus & Mora £3,000 £1,500 Nigerians in the Diaspora Organisation Europe Bringing Nigeria to UK North £4,000 £0 3 Projects: Global Reach Inc; Shale Stories; Animation Peacock Visual Arts Festival £11,980 £11,980 Pushing Out the Boat Issue 12 £1,200 £1,000 SC&T Core activities £20,000 £10,000 SCDF Scottish Country Dance Festival 2013 £999 £0 SCO Series of Concerts £2,100 £0 2 programmes of ballet and associated educational Scottish Ballet activities £5,000 £0 Scottish Ballet Dance Parallel £16,907 £16,907 Scottish Community Drama Association Annual Programme £3,000 £1,000 Scottish Ensemble Aberdeen Concert Series, Year 5 £10,000 £10,000 Scottish Opera Performance & education activity in Aberdeen £5,000 £4,000 Sound Sound Festival 2012 £18,000 £10,000 Station House Media Unit shmu SOUND £16,000 £10,000 Torry Arts Forum Torry Arts Community Programme £9,100 £6,825 University of Aberdeen Flagship Programmes £17,500 £7,000 Woodside Writers Writers Group Book Publication £2,000 £0 £425,952 £217,414 2 2nd Application Window – Meeting of Education, Culture & Sport Committee on 20 September 2012 Amount Applicant Project Name Award Requested Aberdeen Arts Centre National Theatre Connections 2013 £5,325.60 £3,220 Aberdeen Performing Arts APA Senior Youth Theatre - Mental Health Project £9,656 £9,656 Aberdeen Performing Arts Professional Development Theatre Arts Programme £3,000 £3,000 Aberdeen Youth Choir Torry Aberdeen Youth Choir Project £4,670 £1,000 Bethany Christian Trust Open Cinema, Aberdeen £7,980 £0 Cornhill Community Centre Drama Group £2,000 £0 Creative Cultures Scotland 2012/13 seminars & cultural networking / planning £5,000 £0 sessions Give Kids A Chance Performance £5,910.08 £0 Hi Arts GANE £5,000 £5,000 Jazz At The Blue Lamp Presentation of Jazz concerts £4,500 £0 Kincorth Community Centre Music Group Workshops and Event £4,620 £0 North East Writers Steering Group New Word Festival 2012 and Development Work £10,000 £0 North East Writers Steering Group Literary Salon £1,697 £1,000 Quid’s In Theatre Company Untitled £4,400 £0 Scottish Ballet Hansel and Gretel and Me £5,000 £5,000 Scottish Chamber Orchestra Bear Hunt £3,370.09 £3,370.09 Scottish Cultures & Traditions Access and Outreach Development £3,145 £0 Scottish Cultures & Traditions Organisational Dev and Sustainability Strategy stage 1 £5,000 £3,295 Shazam Theatre Group Women’s Theatre Group £2,900 £1,000 £93,173.77 £35,541.09 Summary • £519,125.47 - Total funding requested • £252,955.09 - Level of funding awarded • 77 Project Funding Applications Received • 45 Project Funding Applications Approved 3.