Project Funding 2021 / 2022
Marina Theatre Summer School
The Spinning Wheel Theatre provided 20 young people from Lowestoft with the opportunity to work with theatre professionals on a project “Jason and the Argonauts’
English Touring Opera (£3,000)
ETO returned to touring live opera experiences for schools. Their production of “Back into the World” was performed at Brancaster Primary School, Norwich Primary Academy, North Walsham Junior School and Middleton Primary.
Britten Pears Arts (£2,000)
Celebrations of Suffolk Schools Music took place at Snape Maltings, during which 1190 young people performed
Orchestras Live (£2,000)
Support was given to a new project: “We have to move on”, a Living Heritage Music project, celebrating and commemorating Newmarket’s welcoming of Jewish refugees during the Nazi period. The final concert was given on 4 July 2022.
Wonderful Beast (£2,000)
A project, “First the Dance, then the Feast”, involving professional artists, traditional musicians and the Eastern Angles Theatre created a four-week workshop series for 4 primary schools (Snape, Bealings, Holton St. Peter and Handford Hall, Ipswich.) The performance which resulted was performed at Thorington Theatre on 23rd and 24th June 2022.
Total Ensemble (£2,000)
The Trust continued to support this community theatre company which offers workshops leading to performance for young people marginalised by disability or any other heightened life challenge.
This year their project “Egmont” was performed at the Hostry Festival, Norwich in October 2021.
Benedetti Trust (£2,000)
The Trust supported this new charitable trust which worked with the Norfolk Music Service to prepare 680 primary school children at the beginner level to take part in a live performance at Saffron Hall and the Inspiration Trust in Norwich.
Sistema (£2,000)
The trust has supported NORCA & Systema over a number of years. This grant was to enable them to keep in touch with the young musicians and carry on coaching online and zoom contact during the Covid pandemic
N&N Festival (£2,000)
The Festival worked with students from Flegg High School, Sheringham High School and the City of Norwich School (45 students in total) playing a variety of instruments including violins, cellos, woodwind and brass, keyboard, percussion and guitar. They were joined by 12 players of the Britten Sinfonia.
Events took place in Great Yarmouth, Sheringham and Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich where they performed a version of Time & Tide by Pete Letanka.
On the final Saturday of the Festival the players again gathered in Chapelfield to give the world premiere of the full version of Time & Tide introduced and conducted by Pete Letanka.
The Festival’s Music director said “Teachers and the Norfolk Music Hub have raved about the way Pete Letanka energised the performers. We are very grateful to the Chivers Trust for their support, which made it happen.“
Wonderful Beast (£2,000)
A project, “First the Dance, then the Feast”, involving professional artists, traditional musicians and the Eastern Angles Theatre created a four-week workshop series for 4 primary schools (Snape, Bealings, Holton St. Peter and Handford Hall, Ipswich.) The performance which resulted was performed at Thorington Theatre on 23rd and 24th June 2022.
Frozen Light (£2000)
Frozen Light mounts multisensory experiences for children with profound disabilities. The production titled, Fire Songs, was performed as part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival in May 2022. The General Manager of Frozen Light wrote “ Thank you again for the support of the Chivers Trust in making this project possible”
