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Faber and LRB to contribute to The Space

22.02.12 | Charlotte Williams

Faber and the London Review of Books are among those to receive Arts Council England funding to create original commissions for The Space, a digital channel created in partnership with the BBC which will be available from May until October this year.

ACE has committed up to £3.5m of funding to projects for The Space, with individual "in principle" grants ranging from £15,000 to £185,000. The Space channel will be available to view for the time period on PCs, smartphones, tablets and connected TVs.

Faber's project will be a "digital journey" dubbed "60 Years in 60 Poems", which will enable viewers to "discover the past" through the prism of 60 new works from major poets in Carol Ann Duffy's Jubilee Lines anthology.

The London Review of Books will work on a project called "Re-imagining the Literary Essay for the Digital Age".

Other projects given the go-ahead include a GPS-enabled mobile "Trail App" that will explore Nottingham through Alan Sillitoe's novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

ACE chief executive Alan Davey said: "The Space is one of our most significant interventions of recent years and I'm delighted to be able to announce such exciting and imaginative contributions from artists and organisations."
 

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