22 Oct Guest Blog | Offstage Theatre
KSF Artists of Choice, is open to artists across the disciplines of dance, theatre, musical theatre, music and film. Over the next few weeks, we will post guest blogs from some of our 2015 grant winners about how the grant has impacted their work. Applications will be open in early 2016.
Name | Paul Jellis
Project | Re:Home , Offstage Theatre
Year Awarded KSF Grant | 2015
We were awarded the grant for our project, RE:Home, a play that explores the meaning of community, the effect of the housing crisis, and the changing face of East London on the residents of an estate 10 years on from Offstage’s piece Home.
The grant gives us the opportunity to raise the profile of the project, while individually allowing us to make contacts and promote ourselves as theatre practitioners. It’s a seal of approval that we can take forward into the future. We are now able to be more ambitious with what we want to create and how we will create it, and it has given an extra solidity and focus to the project. We want to prove ourselves worthy of winning!
We’ve just finished a really exciting development period that has illuminated a huge amount for us. There’s a long way to go, and a lot we still don’t know, but the route we want to take is becoming clearer and we’re very excited by it.
The Artists of Choice award is a more interesting and robust model than a simple award scheme as there is a huge amount of support and mentoring that comes with it. That’s what really sets it apart.
My one piece of advise to other artists would be to just keep going. It’s the only way.
Read more about RE:Home here.