Deadline: November 13,
2015.
(This information is
published on the Arts & Culture Trust’s blog – see http://www.act.org.za)
Pro Helvetia Johannesburg has announced a new three-year
agreement with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
Their co-operation with the SDC extends back to 1999 and has
played a powerful reinforcing role to their work in facilitating exchange,
collaboration and connection between Switzerland the SADC region. The focus of the
SDC-financed programme has for some years been on enabling transnational
collaboration and exchange between artists, projects and organisations across
the SADC region, with the aim of making a contribution to the development of a
regional cultural fabric within SADC.
The SDC has always taken culture into account in its work,
and has a long tradition of supporting cultural expressions alongside concerns
with hard development issues in the areas of, for example, health, education
and governance.
In the strategy 2013-2016 for Swiss international
cooperation, culture and arts are for the first time explicitly mentioned as a
means of realising development objectives. To this end, the SDC applies a
‘percent for culture’ principle to its development funding, whereby at least 1%
of the overall SDC programme budget is used to support culture “in and of” SDC
partner countries.
At the end of 2014, Pro Helvetia Johannesburg renewed its
mandate to administer the SDC Southern African Regional Programme’s support for
Arts & Culture for a further three years (from 2015-17). During this period they
will exercise this support in two areas, the first being through micro- grants
for short-term projects that involve collaboration between professional artists
and arts organisations within the Southern African region (ANT Project funding and
ANT Research grant). This funding stream also now enables artists, curators,
managers and organisers to access funding to support research and project
development trips to other countries in the region.
The second area is focused on support to existing projects
and organisations that play a strong role in promoting a more networked and
connected arts sector in the SADC region, whether through creative
collaboration, sharing of skills and knowledge, or the presentation of
significant creative voices from across the region.
Geographically, the projects involve Southern African
cross-border collaboration. Here Southern Africa includes Angola, Botswana,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius,
Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania (including
Zanzibar), Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Submission deadline is November 13, 2015.
For more information link to http://www.act.org.za/blog/2016-ant-call-for-funding-applications/
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