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News release

30 March 2010

Home Live Art given grant by City Bridge Trust to mash up in Lambeth

The City Bridge Trust, whose sole trustee is the City of London Corporation, has awarded Home Live Art a grant of £11,000. The grant is to create and develop innovative music performance projects in Lambeth with local elders and work alongside young people from across South London.

The £11,000 grant will be given over three years to fund a new innovative music and intergenerational project ‘Ida Barr’s Mash Up’. The project will be led by the performance artist Chris Green playing the role of music hall/rap star pensioner Ida Barr and will explore the relationship between popular music hall performance and contemporary rap music over a series of singing and voice workshops. The context for the performance will be a community tea dance, which will also feature other local dance and singing groups.

Home Live Art is a creative production company which presents and promotes innovative live events in a wide range of contexts and scales, throughout London and the UK. It is known for its projects which combine professional performance with community engagement and participation.

Laura Godfrey Isaacs, Director, Home Live Art, said:

“Ida Barr’s Mash Up is a unique project which is looking to build respect and understanding between different age groups. This grant will enable us to continue our aim of developing a legacy beyond the project life by building new artistic and community partnerships.”

The City Bridge Trust is the charity funded from ancient tolls over London Bridge. Astute financial administration of the bridge many centuries ago by medieval monks has enabled the latter day City Bridge Trust to make over 5,800 grants totalling more than £230 million to causes across wider London since 1995 alone.

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  2. About the City of London Corporation
    The City of London Corporation is a uniquely diverse organisation. It supports and promotes the City as the world leader in international finance and business services and provides local services and policing for those working in, living in and visiting the Square Mile. It also provides valued services to London and the nation. These include the Barbican Centre and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama; the Guildhall Library and Art Gallery and London Metropolitan Archive; a range of education provision (including three City Academies); five Thames bridges (including Tower Bridge and the Millennium Bridge); the Central Criminal Court at Old Bailey; over 10,000 acres of open spaces (including Hampstead Heath and Epping Forest), and three wholesale food markets. It is also London’s Port Health Authority and runs the Animal Reception Centre at Heathrow. It works in partnership with neighbouring boroughs on the regeneration of surrounding areas and the City Bridge Trust, which it oversees, donates more than £15m to charity annually.
  3. The City Bridge Trust 
    The City Bridge Trust is London’s largest independent grant-making trust, and its sole trustee is the City of London Corporation. Through grant-making and strategic initiatives, the City Bridge Trust works closely with voluntary groups and charities to reduce disadvantage in London. The City Bridge Trust was set up in 1995 as the grant making arm of Bridge House Estates whose original purpose was to maintain the first stone bridge across the River Thames – London Bridge. Its funds date from the 12th century when tolls were first charged. www.citybridgetrust.org.uk
  4. Bridge House Estates
    The parent charity is The Bridge House Estates. This was set up to fund the maintenance and development of the City’s bridges with an annual provision set aside for this purpose. It receives no financial support from the Government or from any other fund. The fund paid for the building of Blackfriars Bridge, the purchase of Southwark Bridge, and the construction of Tower Bridge. In February 2002 the fund took over the ownership and maintenance of the pedestrian-only Millennium Bridge. The primary function of the Bridge House Estates remains the maintenance of London, Tower, Southwark, Blackfriars and the Millennium Bridges.
  5. Home Live Art
     For more information go to www.homeliveart.com