With funding from Help Musicians, over the next two years we are looking for six excellent artists to be a musician in residence at one of these museums and explore the creative links between the tangible culture and history of the museum collections and artefacts and the intangible culture and history of folk songs and tunes.
The residencies are spread over a 12 month period. Each artist will receive a bursary of £5000 to develop a new music work to be performed at the end of the residency and deliver outreach activities to engage people with the museums and with folk music.
The first residencies started in Autumn 2017 with the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield.
Applications are invited now for residencies with NMM and MERL, for a January 2018 start.
THE RESIDENCIES
National Coal Mining Museum for England, Wakefield, Yorkshire
Period - Autumn 2017 for 12 months
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Period - January 2018 for 12 months
Closing date for applications: Monday 6 November 2017
Museum of English Rural Life, Reading
Period – January/February 2018 for 12 months
Closing date for applications: Friday 10 November 2017