Genny Cotroneo
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How we found our Fellow
Still getting get your head around how to find a possible PAF Fellow? We asked Ric Watts, Producer with Unlimited Theatre, to talk us through their selection process for last year's Theatre Fellowship.
Meet the Winners: Lung Ha's Theatre Company
Lung Ha's is an Edinburgh based theatre company that provide opportunities for people with learning disabilities to become actively involved in the performing arts. Find out more about this busy community theatre group...
Emily DeDakis - Theatre Fellow & Dramaturg
Emily DeDakis is completing her Fellowship with Accidental Theatre, based in Belfast. Here is Emily recounting her experiences of the fellowship so far...
Meet the Winners: Young & Talented Rep Company
Take a minute to find out how the BBC PAF Community Theatre grant will make a difference to the Young & Talented Rep Company
Meet the Winners: Rock It! Collective
What do you get when you mix rock experts with rock enthusiasts? We're glad you asked...
Meet the Winners: ReSound Community Choir
ReSound Community Choir are a group of singers in the North West of England that formed to provide an opportunity to meet and sing together. Their Community Music grant was put towards staging a war-time themed performance at their local Civic Hall with audience invited from homes for the elderl...
Theatre scheme winners announced!
Congratulations to the winners of the 2013 Theatre schemes! Read this blog to find out more about our 19 Theatre Fellows and 58 Community Theatre winners.
The Community Theatre scheme - a Trustees perspective
BBC Performing Arts Fund Trustee, Jacqueline McKay, gives us her thoughts about the Community Theatre scheme and the wider context of community activity.
Calling all theatre makers
Whether you are a community theatre group looking to expand your troup's performance skills or a theatre organisation who wants to mentor new talent - our theatre grant schemes aim to boost the profile of the performing arts in communities across the UK and nurture new talent.
Meet our Music Fellows
Congratulations to the nineteen individuals who have been selected to work with music organisations across the UK as part of our Music Fellowship scheme!
The Romance of Collaboration
An artistic collaboration can produce amazing work, but for the producers, it can also be an emotional experience. Producer, Liz Pugh, talks us through different partnerships and gives us some tips on how to protect our creative hearts.
Meet the Winners: I Love Thunder
We get so much joy from hearing from our grant winners and finding out what they are up to that we thought we'd let you meet them and share the fun. It only takes a few minutes to Meet the Winners and to get an insight into how the grant will make a difference. Our first musical community grou...
The Arts Apprenticeship - hints, tips & pointers
As part of the wider London 2012 Festival, the Greater London Authority offered five full-time NVQ Level 2 paid apprenticeships to work on producing events, specifically outdoors. Ella Samoles-Little earned her place with the Barbican as Culture Squad Apprentice Producer and reflects on how you ...
Think IdeasTap, Think help for emerging talent
We get a lot of questions about where else you can find funding opportunities outside of the BBC Performing Arts Fund, so we thought we'd invite our friends at IdeasTap to introduce themselves and give you a bit of in insight into the support they can offer emerging talent. "IdeasTap is an art...
The Community Music scheme results are in!
We are absolutely thrilled to tell you that the BBC Performing Arts Fund is awarding over £250,000 to groups across the UK through its Community Music scheme! Fireflies Choir Grants of up to £10,000 have been awarded to 47 not-for-profit groups in order to develop the talent within ...
From Broadway to Hollywood
On Friday 19th October, BBC Radio 2 broadcasted a special Friday Night is Music Night with musical theatre as the central theme. A fitting backdrop for Training in Musical Theatre 2011 beneficiary, Emily Dunn, who was given the chance to perform a solo piece. So what's it like to get ready for r...
A summer of new music with BBC Introducing
The summer of 2012 (almost a distant memory already) was jam packed with ambitious activity and cultural inspiration. One of the biggest projects for the BBC in 2012 was the Radio 1 Hackney weekend and BBC Introducing were there with their stage doing what they do best - showcasing undiscovered ...
