Deadline: 31-Jan-24
The Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (hereinafter CGF) is launching the third edition of now again|in view —a 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 Armenian.
now again|in view aims 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. It brings support to cultural changemakers and strives to inspire people and communities to experience, reimagine, and share culture through the development and implementation of fresh ideas that matter for envisioning a vibrant future for the Western Armenian language and culture.
Objectives
- The now again|in view programme 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.
- The priorities of the now again|in view are to:
- Celebrate creativity in Western Armenian.
- Enhance the intrinsic relationship between language and culture, ensuring their evolution.
- Emphasize the cohesive force of culture.
- Foster cultural participation and practices as important ways for empowerment and re-appropriation of cultural resources, and essential factors for the transmission, creation, and dynamic evolution of resources for development.
- Enhance the immense potential and power culture has to influence, challenge, and transform society.
- Stimulate the preservation, renewal, and transmission of essential development vectors to future generations through the sustainable creation and use of cultural resources.
- Enhance lifelong practices for a sustainable Western Armenian culture.
- Ensure the vitality of different Armenian communities through culture.
- Mobilize culture and diversity of Armenian voices to foster stronger presence.
- Give visibility to innovative cultural practices taking place all over the Armenian world.
- Give more opportunities for gender-balanced participation
Areas
- 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 novels).
- 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 programmes and creative broadcasting on different platforms.
Funding Information
- The now again|in view programme 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. The same recipient(s) cannot apply to an now again|in view grant in consecutive years with different projects. However, unsuccessful applicants may apply again in subsequent years.
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 programme.
- The now again|in view programme will accept submissions from individuals, small groups, as well as non-profit 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.
For more information, visit Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.