Among those to receive awards are artists Amy and Emma-Jo Bairstow, whose project Vespertine Garden will create an immersive installation of UV-lit sculptural plants and creatures at the South Square Centre in Thornton.
Dancer and choreographer Joachim Keke will premiere The Memory House, an immersive Afro-diasporic dance-theatre experience.
In Frizinghall, Zine artist Munaza Kulsoom will create an exhibition and series of zines with South Asian residents about gardening.
Writer, director and artist Kamal Kaan – who won a Gardeners’ World Magazine award for his Saltaire yard – will perform a contemporary dance, music and poetic show called To Leave This Soil Altered.
Funding will also go to Kirsty Taylor, whose theatre show, Birth Mum, will be created in collaboration with women’s services professionals and those with lived experience of child removal.
Poet Kauser Mukhtar will create a puppet show based on a satirical poem by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.
There will also be a dance-theatre show by Ella Tighe called Fierce Little Things, and painter Anji Timlin will create work for two separate exhibitions in Keighley and Ilkley.
