"Reclaiming Our Commons" Grant: A Proposal for Cultural Collaboration Across the Arab Region
By: Culture ResourceLast update:
Applicant criteria
NationalityNo specific nationality required
Age
- No specific age required
Gender
- Both
Opportunity criteria
LocationRemotely
Needed documentsSample of your work, Application form
Deadline2024-04-12
Opportunity description
Culture Resource is offering a "Reclaiming Our Commons" Grant: A Proposal for Cultural Collaboration Across the Arab Region,” which was formulated in partnership with A.M Qattan Foundation and has been developed by a number of fellow and partner organizations, including Ettijahat – Independent Culture, Aflamuna, and L’art Rue, which constitute a nucleus contributing to project funding and programming. “Reclaiming Our Commons” is a call to contribute to building a participatory creative process addressed to initiatives, cooperatives, independent cultural and artistic organizations, as well as artists and cultural actors. It seeks to support artistic and cultural projects across diverse artistic and interdisciplinary domains, provided they adopt cooperative, participatory, and/or commons-based approaches, whether at the project development level, project ownership, project interpretations and outputs, or project revenues.
Benefits
Culture Resource and the project partners will provide grants ranging from €8,000 to €30,000 to fund approximately 12 projects (the funding will be determined based on each project’s needs). The projects will be implemented and showcased in various cities across the Arab region in 2024 and 2025. Subsequently, specific projects will be selected to participate in central events in Beirut and Ramallah, the details of which will be determined later.
Eligibility criteria
- Application is available for:
- Individuals: Artists from diverse artistic disciplines and independent cultural actors, provided they are from the Arab region (regardless of ethnicity and citizenship status), whether they are living inside or outside the Arab region.
- Groups: Independent non-governmental initiatives, cooperatives, and artistic and cultural organizations in the Arab region or abroad, whose work serves artistic and cultural production in Arabic.
- Recipients of any other grant from Culture Resource’s programs may still apply to this project.
Required Documents:
- Application form, which includes the following:
- Project idea;
- Linking the project to the broader context of its community;
- Explaining how the project approaches the concept of commons;
- Defining the project’s objective;
- Specifying the group/s that the project targets;
- Outlining the proposed activities;
- Defining the project’s outputs;
- Identifying the resources you propose sharing;
- Describing how the project’s outputs will be documented.
- Detailed project budget, including the cost of production, presentation, and documentation (please download this form)
- Timeline, detailing the process of project implementation, presentation, and documentation (please download this form).
Selection Process
- A jury composed of independent experts in the field of arts and culture will evaluate the applications and select the projects based on the following set of eligibility criteria:
- The project’s quality and the innovation of its concept;
- The way the project approaches the concept of commons and its relevance to the call’s objective;
- The project’s relevance to the general social and political context;
- The feasibility of the project’s implementation and the adequacy of the proposed budget.
- The selection takes into consideration the possibility of connecting the projects within the context of building cultural collaboration in the Arab region, while taking into account geographical and gender diversity.
About Culture Resource:
Founded in 2004, Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy) is a regional, non-profit organization that seeks to support artistic creativity in the Arab region and to encourage cultural exchange between intellectuals and artists within this region and abroad. The work of Culture Resource emanates from a deep appreciation of the renewable value of Arab cultural heritage, in all its ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity, and from a faith in the importance of generating a new Arab spirit of creativity as a key to liberating the imagination and stimulating progress. Culture Resource also believes that artistic and literary activities are a social necessity which demands the moral and material support on the part of all effective forces in society.
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