
Genesis Foundation
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UK charity that nurtures and develops emerging talent in the arts through partnerships with leading arts organisations. For latest activity, see our Instagram.
Joined January 2010
📣Announcing the 1st play commissioned from the Genesis @almeidatheatre playwrights programme – 1536, by @AvaPickett!. From writing 1536 on our 2021/22 programme, to it winning the @blackburn_prize, to bringing it to life in the 2024-25 season, we could not be happier for Ava. 👏
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📣 Announcing the 15th @GenesisSixteen cohort, and @FlorenceMPrice as the Genesis Sixteen Conducting Scholar! 👏. To date, more than 300 exceptional singers have taken part in our fully-funded choral programme, run in partnership with @TheSixteen. 👉
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This week our @GenesisSixteen singers have been preparing for 2 special performances @StJPiccadilly. 🎶 10 July, 5pm (Free).Choral Evensong: recorded for future broadcast @BBCRadio3. 🎶 12 July, 6pm (£5).Evening Concert: part of @TheSixteen's Sounds Sublime Choral Festival.
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Delighted to announce the appointment of @FlorenceMPrice as our 2025-26 @GenesisSixteen Conducting Scholar!🎶. Florence will be joining the fifteenth cohort of Genesis Sixteen singers as the twelfth conducting scholar on the programme.👏👏👏.
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📢 Genesis Emerging Writers’ Programme applications are OPEN!. Run by our partner @jlfbookweek, the programme offers bursaries and mentorship to ten emerging writers over 18 of any background, writing fiction, non-fiction and poetry. ✍️ Apply by 30 June:
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RT @NationalTheatre: Huge congratulations to former #NationalTheatre Director #RufusNorris, who has received a knighthood for his services….
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Rufus Norris, the former Director of the National Theatre, has been knighted by HM The King in the King's 2025 Birthday Honours for his services to theatre.
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So excited for Genesis Emerging writer @GuyStagg's book launch with @WaterstonesNW3 next month!📚. Guy developed 'The World Within' as part of our Genesis Emerging Writers' programme.✍️. 📍Waterstones, Hampstead.🗓️ 3 July.⏲️ 6.30pm. 👉 Book tickets:
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A huge congrats to not one, but THREE @GenesisSixteen alumni who’ve been selected as the latest @mco_london Apprentices! 👏👏👏. Well done Allyn Wu (baritone, Genesis 13), Áine Smith (soprano, Genesis 12) and Will Harmer (bass-baritone, Genesis 11)!🤩.
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RT @BookBrunch: Applications are now open for the annual Genesis Emerging Writers’ Programme (@Genesis_Fndn). (£) h….
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1 week since the world premiere of three new Genesis Foundation commissions by @lucywalkermusic @millicent_james & Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade. Voices of Angels was performed by Harry Christophers & @TheSixteen at both @stjpiccadilly & St John’s Church in Cumnock. 📸Alistair Veryard
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FOUR ⭐️s all round for Ava Pickett's 1536! 🤩. @TheStage .@TimeOutLondon .@WhatsOnStage .@londontheatre .@standardnews . 1536 is the 1st play to be commissioned through our Genesis Almeida New Playwrights, Big Plays Programme. A huge congrats to Ava! 👏.
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RT @derrychoirfest: A fantastic opportunity for young conductors in the UK & Ireland:. GENESIS SIXTEEN CONDUCTING SCHOLARSHIP 2025-26 | App….
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A special invitation from Harry Christophers @TheSixteen, Lucy Winkett @StJPiccadilly & Harriet Capaldi. 👀. Voices of Angels takes place at both St James’s Piccadilly on 22 May, and St John’s Church in Cumnock on 24 May. 👼. 👉 👉
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👆Here's a clip of @TheSixteen in another of our commissioned concerts from 2022, performed inside the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London.👑.
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1 month to go until Voices of Angels👼🎶. Performed by @TheSixteen, the programme is based around three new Genesis Foundation commissions of a specially commissioned cycle of poems by Robert Willis. 22 May, @StJPiccadilly .24 May, Cumnock. 🎟️
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🏆🏆 And our partner @AlmeidaTheatre for TWO wins with The Years: Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Romola Garai & Best Director – Eline Arbo! . 📷 Joanne Davidson
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⭐️ Our 2021 Genesis Future Director Award winner @youngvictheatre @diyanzora for her nomination for Best New Production in Affiliate Theatre with English @KilnTheatre.
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Genesis spotted at the @OlivierAwards! 🤩 . HUGE congrats to…. ⭐️ Genesis Foundation Prize winner Joe Hill-Gibbins for his nomination for Best New Opera Production with Duke Bluebeard’s Castle @E_N_O.
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