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The creative and arts sectors in the Bradford district have been devising a host of imaginative ways to help to reduce social isolation and improve the mental health and wellbeing of residents during the coronavirus outbreak.
To support this, we have launched grants to help the arts in the district to survive and thrive in the face of the national coronavirus lockdown measures and beyond.
Those already being supported by the grants include Lloyd Thompson, Katie Mahon and Mussarat Rahman.
Lloyd
 Lloyd is producing videos for children, young people and adults from Bradford who are in isolation. The videos will include exercise, stretching and dance that can all take place in confined spaces e.g. home, office, staff room. The videos will include storytelling and home tutorials to encourage people to get involved including those who don’t usually engage in the arts.
Katie
Katie will be using her Bloomin’ Buds Theatre Company contacts to deliver arts and craft parcels to the doorsteps of children and adults who are most in need, focusing on those without access to the internet, as well as activity packs for isolated elderly people.
Mussarat
 Mussarat will be creating a garment made using inspiration from responses received from various outlets online and media, gained through chats, forums, messages, newsletters and other platforms. These messages will be turned into art pieces reflecting themes such as, the “dawning of a new world” and “hope for the future”. This making and crafting will be live-streamed, so people can engage with the project and have input into the final creations.
RESPONSE
RESPONSE is the name of the grant programme which will support the creative sector with innovative ideas and activities to help residents to connect with each other without leaving their homes and build on their sense of community, through various accessible platforms such as YouTube, podcasts, and live-streaming.
Supporting individual artists, freelancers, community groups and larger arts organisations across the district, projects must take place between now and August 2020 and grants of between £500 and £1,000 can be applied for up to 20 April 2020.
We have already received 29 applications and more are coming in every day and 11 grants have been awarded so far.
To apply for a RESPONSE grant please visit www.bradford.gov.uk/arts-and-culture/funding/community-arts-and-culture-grants-response/
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