{"id":6033,"date":"2014-07-01T09:12:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T09:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2014-08-26T15:12:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T15:12:53","slug":"penned-in-the-margins-selected-to-join-the-arts-councils-national-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/07\/penned-in-the-margins-selected-to-join-the-arts-councils-national-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Penned in the Margins selected to join the Arts Council&#8217;s National Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>We received some thrilling news this morning. Arts Council England has announced its latest three-year funding decisions, and Penned in the Margins has been selected to join its National Portfolio. We will receive a total of \u00a3135,000 over three years to support our ambitious, cutting-edge programmes of books, literary events and cross-artform productions.<\/h2>\n<p>Our model has always combined page and stage in new and exciting ways, with notable works including the &#8216;avant-garde cabaret&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/01\/electronic-voice-phenomena\/\">Electronic Voice Phenomena<\/a> and the groundbreaking poetry anthology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/02\/adventures-in-form\/\">Adventures in Form<\/a>. This new support (starting 2015) will enable us to make more and better work, reach new and wider audiences, and build a more sustainable organisation for the future. It&#8217;s particularly timely news as we celebrate our ten-year anniversary this year. Penned in the Margins began in 2004 as a poetry reading series in a converted railway arch in south London, and has since developed into one of the country&#8217;s leading producers of innovative books and performance.<\/p>\n<p>This year we announced our busiest programme yet, with projects including the anthology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/03\/mount-london\/\">Mount London: Ascents in the Vertical City<\/a>, a stage version of Claire Trevien&#8217;s award-longlisted book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/02\/the-shipwrecked-house-2\/\">The Shipwrecked House<\/a>, and a new solo show by Hannah Silva entitled <em>Schlock!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are looking forward to continuing our support for talented writers and artists, working with cultural partners, and making new work for audiences who are not afraid of taking risks.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Chivers, Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We received some thrilling news this morning. Arts Council England has announced its latest three-year funding decisions, and Penned in the Margins has been selected to join its National Portfolio. We will receive a total of \u00a3135,000 over three years to support our ambitious, cutting-edge programmes of books, literary events and cross-artform productions. Our model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}