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The 45th recipient of the Creatives Grant is Felix Mufti, ‘a scouse activist, performer, writer and chaos-causer who loves to tell his unhinged life stories through rhythm n’ rap inspired spoken word, poetry, prose and music.’ We were a big fan of Felix’s performance on the last season of Sex Education. He was so memorable, so skilled. So real in a way that his performance stopped feeling like a performance. The veneer of the TV screen disappeared and he just seemed like a real personality, someone familiar and warm and critical, a whole person and not just a name on a script. The criteria for this grant has always focused on people early on in their career. All too often, working class creatives get one shot at success because they are unable to afford to take on further opportunities, as being a part of the creative industry comes at such a tremendous cost — one the middle classes often don’t even notice. That also means that when an artist does have a moment of success, the people around them assume they’ve made it now. There’s this sense that they’ll be fine forever! I know how false that is first hand. We really want Felix to carry on performing, writing, and creating music. We hope this grant can go a small way towards bringing him a long successful special deserving career, and that this ‘early career’ moment is only a moment. I feel that way about all our recipients! I hope one day they are so successful they forget who we are :))))
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Felix Mufti is a scouse activist, performer, writer and chaos-causer who loves to tell his unhinged life stories through rhythm n’ rap inspired spoken word, poetry, prose and music.
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