Deadline: 31-Jan-23
The Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is happy to be launching the second edition of արդ եւս|in view – the grant programme dedicated to cultural creativity in the Western Armenian language.
Through this flagship programme, the Department will continue supporting initiatives that aim to create new culture in the Armenian language. Its aim is to inspire, facilitate, and support innovation and contemporaneity in the cultural and creative sectors in Western Armenian, in order to sustain future generations through a vibrant language and culture.
Objectives
- The արդ եւս | in view program gives opportunities to individuals and small groups to create, produce, and distribute diverse cultural productions in Western Armenian. Cultural production is understood in its widest sense to include practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills, as well as instruments, tools, and spaces in which the language is central.
- The term culture is also taken in its broad sense, encompassing the arts, the humanities, and heritage, with particular emphasis on creativity, innovation, and contemporaneity —culture that speaks to the realities of their times. After all, cultural production that combines traditions with new knowledge and practices is indispensable for community revitalization, continuity, growth, and progress
Priorities
- The priorities of the արդ եւս | in view are to:
- Celebrate creativity in Western Armenian.
- Enhance the intrinsic relationship between language and culture, ensuring the evolution of both.
- Emphasize the cohesive force of culture.
- Enhance lifelong practices for a sustainable Western Armenian culture.
- Ensure the vitality of different Armenian communities through culture.
- Give visibility to innovative cultural practices taking place all over the Armenian world.
- Give more opportunities for gender-balanced participation.
- Include the youth and new cultural practices in shaping their common cultural environment and identity.
- Create an open space for all to participate and take responsibility for cultural creation and preservation, harnessing creativity and inclusiveness at the same time.
- Address global issues and interact with other cultures through Western Armenian as a medium.
Funding Information
- The արդ եւս | in view program aims to fund up to 10 projects per year.
- This number may vary due to the quantity and quality of applications received. Grant amounts will be determined based on the needs of each project, but may not exceed 10,000 Euros per project in total, non-renewable
Eligibility Criteria
- This call for proposals is open to everyone wishing to engage in cultural production in Western Armenian across the Diaspora and Armenia, within the framework of eligible activities that address the core components of the grant program.
- The արդ եւս | in view program will accept submissions from individuals, small groups, as well as nonprofit organizations and institutions. All interested parties above the age of 18 are welcome to apply, with the exception of for-profit entities which are not eligible. Applicants need not necessarily be established artists.
- The projects could include but are not limited to the following areas:
- The arts, heritage, and the humanities.
- Creative expressions of ideas, experiences, and emotions in a range of media, including:
- Theatre, performing arts.
- Visual arts.
- Literature, literary criticism, translations (books, audio books, journals, periodicals, essays, websites, online publications, graphic novel).
- Interdisciplinary and hybrid forms of cultural expression that have emerged thanks to new media.
- New music.
- Videos, installations, animations, blogs, YouTube channels, podcasts, vodcasts, applications.
- Radio programs and creative broadcasting on different platforms.
Evaluation Criteria
- The following criteria will be taken into account during the assessment of the applications:
- Creative value and innovative character.
- Thematic relevance.
- Projects that address contemporary and global themes.
- Creativity in the use of the Western Armenian language.
- Quality of content and activities.
- The adoption of forward-looking and forward-thinking approaches.
- Cultural production manifested through different expressions and traditions, combined with new knowledge and practices.
- The use of the language as the main vehicle of production.
- With particular emphasis on:
- Challenging cultural and artistic imagination.
- Reaching a larger, targeted, or underserved audience.
- Engaging youth and women.
- Including activities that are sustainable and will continue to have positive impacts after the end of the project.
- Taking environmental concerns into consideration when possible.
- Applicants are encouraged to benefit from existing global cultural practices and to think of ways to incorporate these successful practices into the current realities of Armenians.
For more information, visit https://gulbenkian.pt/armenian-communities/2022/10/20/in-view-2022-2023/