- A community grants scheme for diverse community and heritage groups to produce events/activities as part of the programme between July 2023 – September 2024. Grant applications will open in mid-July 2023.
- Community workshops, where residents can together decide who their 'York Trailblazers' are and co-decide the people who’ll be celebrated by the sculptures on the Trailblazers trail. Taking place in the summer of 2023.
- Commissions for visual artists responding to the community-decided York Trailblazers, to make each sculpture design unique and representative of the person they celebrate. Call outs for artists will take place in autumn/winter 2023.
- Commissions for five digital heritage experiments: creating key links between past and future craft, linking to York's status as a UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts. Commissions will be released throughout the project, depending on their focus.
- A large-scale public realm sculpture trail, schools' engagement, and a long-term trail legacy to transform areas of York. The trail will be installed in the city in Spring-Autumn 2024.
York Trailblazers is an exciting and inclusive city-wide programme of events and activities across 2023 – 25, celebrating York’s heritage, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Trailblazers will inspire residents to discover and celebrate the history and heritage stories of people who are important to our local communities.
Working with partners across the city, and engaging with residents, schools and community groups, the Trailblazers project will reach out to all parts of the city.
The activities funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund will enable York Civic Trust, Make It York and partners to uncover lesser-known heritage stories of York through community workshops, a large-scale sculpture trail, community grant funding, partner events and marketing.
This project is possible thanks to National Lottery players.
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