AL-MU7AFFIZ – Cultural Grant offers one-time financial support for the implementation of new or ongoing project, or a small travel grant to empower individuals or groups within Lebanon. This initiative seeks to foster individual and collaborative work processes and artistic research, providing resources to nurture creativity and innovation in the Lebanese cultural scene.
The fund's mission is to provide targeted financial support to sustain Lebanon's cultural sector. This includes funding projects, events, festival participations and initiatives that promote artistic expression, preserve cultural heritage, and encourage innovation. By focusing on immediate support, the fund addresses urgent needs within the cultural community, enabling it to thrive and enrich Lebanon's cultural landscape.
The grant is intended to provide flexible financial support to individuals/collectives who do not have sufficient funds of their own to realise their projects or part of their projects, or to travel to participate or attend training programs in festivals.
Support includes but is not limited to the production of a work, a workshop, a seminar, a podcast/radio project, a text production, the development of a work of research (in the form of a text, an audio, a short film, a book, a small exhibition, etc.) and other forms of artistic work.
Individuals or collectives currently based in Lebanon whose practice falls within one or more of the following disciplines and fields. And:
a. Who wish to work individually on a project.
b. Or wish to collaborate with an individual or collective based in Lebanon or abroad.
Working in the fields of:
- Visual Arts (painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture, photography, media-art)
- Performance Arts (dance, theatre, performance, music)
- Artists’ moving image
- Critical and Creative Writing
- Artistic Research
- Professional development in the art fields
