Have your say on culture’s role in shaping a sustainable future 📢

🔗 nnfestival.org.uk/culture-driv...

Artists and culture workers across Norfolk and Suffolk are invited to inform a bold new strategy: Culture Drives Impact: Environment and Place for Norfolk & Suffolk Culture Board.

CREATIVE SCHOOLS | Spaces & Places⁠
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Artist-in-school residencies provide unique creative and cultural experiences for children and young people & help to develop the skills of teachers & artists across East Anglia.⁠

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CREATIVE SCHOOLS | From the Dunes 🚨CALL OUT🚨⁠
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FREE Creative-Writing Workshops⁠
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We are looking to offer East Norfolk based secondary schools the opportunity to take part in From the Dunes: a free creative writing workshop for students from Key Stage 3 and above.

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STORIES | Idrîsî Ensemble

“total game-changer. This is no escapist nostalgia but a living, exploratory art of real power.”⁠⁠
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Founder, Thomas Fournil joined us to talk all things Idrîsî Ensemble. ⁠
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Read the full interview in the STORIES section of our website.⁠

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CREATIVE BURSARIES | 2025

Shout out to last year's wonderful bursary recipients and all of the diverse projects they produced! Could you be our next cohort?

💰️We are offering 16 bursaries of £2500!⁠💰

📅Deadline: 31 October 2025⁠

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🚨 OPPORTUNITY | WE ARE HIRING⁠
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✹ Head of Festival Connect & Create ✹⁠

A Norfolk & Norwich Festival initiative to improve the creative and cultural lives of children and young people and their communities in East Anglia

Deadline: 10am, 20/10/25

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CREATIVE BURSARIES | YOUNG CREATIVES⁠
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Aged 18-25? Looking to make a difference in your community, kickstart your creative career and drive social change? We are offering 8 bursaries of £2500!⁠
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nnfestival.org.uk/about-us/vac...
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📍Based in East Anglia⁠
📅Deadline: 31 October
💡Q&A 7, 14 October⁠

CREATIVE BURSARIES | ARTISTS⁠
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Looking to progress your socially engaged practice with children, young people? We are offering 8 bursaries of £2500!⁠
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📍Based in East Anglia⁠
📅Deadline: 31 October
💡Q&A 30 September, 7 October⁠
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nnfestival.org.uk/about-us/vac...
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Supported by Chadwicks Wealth

Hey, there will need to be in person sessions with the community/young people. But if you're interested, send us an email and we can explain in more detail!

We're Hiring Work with us at Norfolk & Norwich Festival

🚨 OPPORTUNITY | Artist Commission⁠
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Your Town, My Town, Our Town⁠
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We are looking for a socially engaged artist/s to work in Swaffham over 18 months. The artist/s can work across any artform but must work closely with the children & young people
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Fee: £18,000 ⁠
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nnfestival.org.uk/about-us/vac...

STORIES | Sasha Scott⁠
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London based Composer ​Sasha Scott talks about her experience creating new work, NIGHT OWL which was premiered for 12 Ensemble at Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2025.⁠

⁠Read the full interview and watch the premier of NIGHT OWL here...

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New Music Show - Don't Leave Me Behind - BBC Sounds A new work from Alex Paxton performed by Ensemble Modern

It was great to hear RPS Composer Sasha Scott's Night Owl on BBC Radio 3's New Music Show this week. Commissioned by the RPS and first performed at Norfolk and Norwich Festival by 12 Ensemble, hear the piece and all about Sasha's inspirations here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (listen from 03:20)

Last week we visited Sara Moreira as she delivered one of her bursary funded workshops at Magic Acorns

Through singing, instruments, colour, dance, & play, 0–3 were given the opportunity to experiment in the space, discovering their voices through the sounds & rhythm of the Afro-Portuguese songs.⁠

four people stand in front of homemade kites. three of the people are looking at a woman wearing a bright orange jacket, who is telling them about the artworks.

a woman and a girl stand on the beach, both holding homemade kites. the woman wears a yellow coat and holds a blue kite. the child wears a blue jacket and jeans.

people flying kites on the beach. it is a grey day but everyone is wearing bright colours which stand out.

CREATIVE PLACES | The Edge of The Land⁠
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Artist & lifeboat crew member, Kate Munro worked with children to explore themes of local maritime culture & the notion of rescue. The results transformed into kites, flown &
exhibited at Cromer Artspace for Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2025. ⁠

FESTIVAL 2025 | Sean Shibe - Lute Episodes YouTube video by Norfolk & Norwich Festival

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE | Sean Shibe

During our 2025 Festival, Set against the backdrop of painting, The Paston Treasure, Artist in Residence Sean Shibe performed a series of intimate concerts named, Lute Episodes at @norwichcastle.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pl6...

FESTIVAL CONNECT & CREATE |

People always ask us...’what do you do for the rest of the year?’ And it’s true that the Festival takes a long time to put together but we also run a year-round programme of engagement!

📚Creative schools
🏘️Creative Places
🎨Creative Leaders

Hello Blue sky! we're looking forward to sharing our work with you all.