Participation & Engagement at
Norfolk & Norwich Festival

From April 2012, Norfolk & Norwich Festival will become one of ten regional Bridge Organisations in England that will support innovative and transformative arts and cultural work with children and young people.

As one of two Bridge Organisation for the East (the other being the Royal Opera House), we will be funded by Arts Council England to help realise their goal that 'every child and young person should experience the richness of the arts'. We will be working to make arts and cultural experiences and opportunities more coherent and accessible for children, young people and their families and will be placing particular emphasis on quality and excellence - raising the standard of art being produced for, with and by children and young people. 

For more information on the Bridge programme, please download this briefing paper which has been supplied to us by Arts Council England.

In light of the Festival’s new Bridge role, the completion of the Creative Partnerships programme and to provide a more appropriate fit and context for the future artistic direction of the Festival, a Participation and Engagement Department will be created from the beginning of October.  

In addition to taking on and further developing the work with children and young people led by the Festival’s Creative Learning department, the new department will also have responsibility for devising and delivering all aspects of the organisation’s wider engagement programmes, including volunteering and participation.