Deadline: 1-Mar-22
Pro Helvetia is now acccepting applications for the Performing Arts Program to promote the contemporary professional performing arts in Switzerland with a view to ensuring their diversity as well as their national and international reach.
Pro Helvetia defines performing artists as both natural and legal persons who are artistically active in art forms such as dance, theatre, music theatre, contemporary circus or performances in public spaces. The field includes individual artists, companies and institutional ensembles.
It supports the creation of new productions, as well as the dissemination of Swiss performing arts outside Switzerland and cultural exchange within Switzerland.
Pro Helvetia only supports projects of cross-regional or international significance and supplements the promotional activities of Switzerland’s cantons and cities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Pro Helvetia promotes the contemporary professional performing arts in Switzerland with a view to ensuring their diversity as well as their national and international reach. It supports the creation of new productions, as well as the dissemination of Swiss performing arts outside Switzerland, international cultural exchange and exchange between Switzerland’s various linguistic regions. As a national foundation, Pro Helvetia only supports projects of cross-regional or international significance and supplements the promotional activities of Switzerland’s cantons and cities.
- To be eligible for support, projects must:
- have a clear connection to Switzerland
- be of nationwide importance
- be adequately co-funded by other public or private funders (including event organisers)
For more information, visit https://prohelvetia.ch/en/performing-arts/
