Curious? Pay it forward
Newcastle upon Tyne
Aim
Support a new LGBTQ Arts festival to enable disadvantaged groups to attend, create new art commissions and showcase local artists.
What is curious? festival?
A new arts festival for the North East - featuring live art performance, dance, film and workshops exploring and celebrating aspects of LGBTQ Culture needs your help!
Why?
Following a period of research the pin point producing team identified a gap in provision and opportunity for the LGBTQ community, both as audiences and artists in the North East. Through conversations and gaining support with fantastic partners curious? festival 2016 was born! In creating curious? we aim to promote visibility and recognition of LGBTQ issues, culture, artists and their work. We feel it is important to ensure we celebrate and promote quality work which raises awareness, encourages dialogue, promotes understanding, answers questions, poses new ones and invites everyone to be comfortably curious. Please get involved.
Curious? will launch on 9th of July in Gateshead &Newcastle. Working across two venues with over 25 artists, to deliver workshops, artist talks, performances, exhibitions and film works.
You can support us by
- Paying Forward Tickets for disadvantaged groups to attend the festival, removing the ticket cost as a barrier to participation and helping us to encourage people to attend with a group comfortably.
- Joining us in commissioning Director/ Choreographer Gavin Coward to create "A Blighted Life" his new Dance Theatre work for curious?
- supporting the public art installation "over" together we can guarantee a rainbow will be present for curious?
- Supporting regional artists to present in our festival hub
CHECK OUT THE REWARDS!
For the full festival programme please see https://www.dancecity.co.uk/curious-an-lgbtq-arts-festival/
Why Crowdfunder?
We thought it was a fun and flexible way to support curious?
A quick thanks to our existing partners who have been instrumental in the creation of curious?
Arts Council England, Dance City, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Breeze Creatives, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Crowne Plaza Hotels and Staiths Cafe Bar.
This project successfully funded on 9th July 2016