We are thrilled to have received the Genesis Kickstart Fund Grant and are immensely excited for the opportunities this will bring to the collective of Treephonia composers, performers, and educators.
This grant gives us the chance to investigate deeply what trees mean to humans, to share these experiences and relationships through music, and to confidently engage with art and its role in shaping our sustained existence for the future.
Thank you to the wonderful Genesis Foundation for supporting Treephonia and the creative dialogue between music and nature.
In the final phase of its rollout, the Genesis Foundation has awarded a further £360,000 in grants through its Genesis Kickstart Fund to 36 arts projects run by creative freelancers throughout the UK. Since it started its distributions last year, a total of 95 future-facing projects have benefitted from the £1million fund, which was established during the pandemic to enable outstanding freelance talent to thrive in paid work. The first phase of grants, announced in 2021 and totalling £640,000, marked the Genesis Foundation’s 20th anniversary.
The projects, running across the UK and involving more than 1,000 freelance creative professionals, embrace the visual, performing, digital and screen arts. They were nominated and selected by an advisory council of artists and cultural leaders including Barbara Broccoli, Farooq Chaudhry, Rupert Goold, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Kathryn McDowell and Rufus Norris. While representing a diversity of genres, subject matter, social causes and objectives, the projects are all marked out by their focus on quality. Their themes include climate change, inclusivity, migration, mental health, queer activism and ableism.