Norfolk & Norwich Festival: The Open Fund for Organisations
Norfolk & Norwich Festival: The Guildhall Sessions
Norfolk & Norwich Festival will commission six women artists to create new music for The Guildhall Sessions, a project placing new music in Norwich’s medieval Guildhall. The artists will have R&D time in the building’s unique spaces – its uses as various as city council headquarters, courts of justice, toll house, jail, armoury, and seat of the Sheriff – before filming a performance of their new music for release on digital platforms, with screenings during Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2024.
Norfolk & Norwich Festival shares exceptional arts experiences across East Anglia. Through our two main activities – the Festival and Festival Connect & Create – we lead and support celebration, creativity and curiosity in our community to make our part of the world a great place to live, learn, work and play.
Norfolk & Norwich Festival takes place in Norwich and around Norfolk each May. The Festival programme is multi-artform, contemporary, international and audience centred. The Festival is distinctive because we collaborate with artists – from down the road and around the world – to explore the unique physical and cultural identities of our place and to make art which is meaningful to the lives of our audiences.
Norfolk & Norwich Festival will commission six music creators to make new music for our historic home in the heart of the city. The Guildhall Sessions welcomes artists from across genres to develop their work, making music in response to this extraordinary medieval building that has impacted the lives of people in Norwich and around Norfolk for over 600 years. We look forward to sharing these commissions with audiences on digital platforms, and in the Norwich Guildhall itself, with screenings during the 2024 Festival (May 10-26). We’re grateful to PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund for Organisations for its support of The Guildhall Sessions.