Fierce is delighted to announce the artists chosen for the 2016 round of Fierce FWD. Fierce FWD (previously Platinum) is a development programme for emerging Live Artists living or working in or originally from the West Midlands.
The Fierce FWD artists 2016 are Suriya Aisha, Sean Burns, Thomas Doherty, Vivian Chinasa Ezhuga, James Harris, Myah Jeffers, Malik Nashad Sharpe, Louisa Robbin, Benedict Stewardson, Emily Warner and Kaye Winwood & Olivia Winteringham. You can find out more about the artists and their Fierce FWD projects over on the Fierce FWD pages which will be updated as the projects progress.
We are also delighted to announce a new collaboration with Birmingham Repertory Theatre who we’ll be working with to deliver a programme of talks and workshops for the Fierce FWD artists and the participants of the Theatre Makers strand of their own Rep Foundry development programme.
Each of the FWD artists receive a £500 micro bursary to start to develop a new project. They might want to spend it on materials, studio time a research trip or something else entirely. Furthermore, over the course of the next six months the Fierce FWD artists will undertake a number of research trips to Live Art events around the UK including SPILL Festival of Performance, In Between Time: Bristol International Festival, Steakhouse Live and Arika.
Fierce FWD is generously supported by Arts Council England and Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
