Attention Artists: Prince Claus Fund

The Prince Claus Fund – Culture in Defiance: Call for project proposals
Deadline: 28 Feb 2014

From the Prince Claus Fund’s open call:

The Culture in Defiance call is aimed at projects that strive for positive change. Their impact lies in creating opportunities of freedom of speech and thought. It is focused on promoting art and culture that seek to re-imagine possibilities, by creating a space for dialogue, critical thinking and impact in their societies. For projects situated in areas subjected due to censorship, conflict or oppression.

The Prince Claus Fund supports through this call projects that strive for transformation of different realities. It seeks creative and innovative ideas that promote equality and opportunity.

The proposed call fits with the Fund’s theme Culture and Conflict.

The Prince Claus Fund supports projects with an average grant of 15.000 Euros.

For more information and application form, please visit their website.

Prince Claus Fund is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and has supported numerous arts and cultural projects worldwide. Many projects and exhibitions in Vietnam have also been beneficial from it such as Manzi’s exhibitions of “One Planet” by Nguyen Manh Hung, “Nhà Tây Transforms” by Nguyen The Son and Tran Hau Yen The, “The Broken Chapters” by Nguyen Tran Nam; the  multiplex project of contemporary art “Skylines With Flying People”; and the photograph book of photographer Quang Phung “Around the Hoan Kiem Lake”.