Call for applications: Arab world grants for artists and writers

Culture Resource offers artists and writers grants of up to $7 000 for individual projects and $10 000 for collaborative projects, thereby enabling the grantees to:

• Sustain their individual or collaborative creativity.
• Enhance their skills and those of the technicians they work with. 
• Preserve artistic life and creativity during the COVID-10 pandemic and the subsequent period. 
• Conceive and develop new approaches to individual and collective creativity, thereby laying a fresh cultural and artistic groundwork for the post-crisis period.

Applicants should note:

• The grant covers a period of six to nine months. 
• An additional $1 000 may be available for projects that include a skills development component for the applicant artists or fellow artists and/or technicians in their team. 
• The proposed artistic/literary project must be new and not previously published or displayed. 
• The applicant may not have a currently open grant from Culture Resource. 

Eligibility

The grant targets:

• Applicants must be artists or writers from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. 
• Groups and individuals.
• Artists from all disciplines: music, performing arts, visual artists, music, cinema and literature. 

How to Apply

• Fill in the application form with all the required information in Arabic, apart from the blanks that should be filled in English.
• Submit all supporting documents mentioned in the application as attachments along with the application form.
• Email the form with the supporting documents to exceptionalgrants@mawred.org.

The application deadline is 3 July at 4pm Beirut time. 

Successful applicants will be notified on 30 July.

View the original call here.