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Norfolk & Norwich Festival
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On a year-round mission to improve access to the arts for all. 🎪

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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.
October 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
CREATIVE SCHOOLS | Spaces & Places⁠

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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October 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
CREATIVE SCHOOLS | From the Dunes 🚨CALL OUT🚨⁠

FREE Creative-Writing Workshops⁠

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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October 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
STORIES | Idrîsî Ensemble

“total game-changer. This is no escapist nostalgia but a living, exploratory art of real power.”⁠⁠

Founder, Thomas Fournil joined us to talk all things Idrîsî Ensemble. ⁠

Read the full interview in the STORIES section of our website.⁠

nnfestival.org.uk/stories/get-...
September 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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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September 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🚨 OPPORTUNITY | WE ARE HIRING⁠

✹ 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

nnfestival.org.uk/about-us/vac...
September 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
CREATIVE BURSARIES | YOUNG CREATIVES⁠

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!⁠

nnfestival.org.uk/about-us/vac...

📍Based in East Anglia⁠
📅Deadline: 31 October
💡Q&A 7, 14 October⁠
September 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
CREATIVE BURSARIES | ARTISTS⁠

Looking to progress your socially engaged practice with children, young people? We are offering 8 bursaries of £2500!⁠

📍Based in East Anglia⁠
📅Deadline: 31 October
💡Q&A 30 September, 7 October⁠

nnfestival.org.uk/about-us/vac...

Supported by Chadwicks Wealth
September 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
STORIES | Sasha Scott⁠

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...

nnfestival.org.uk/stories/get-...
August 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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.⁠
July 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
CREATIVE PLACES | The Edge of The Land⁠

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. ⁠
July 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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
June 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM