The deadline for the submissions is 10 August 2023 at 23:59 CEST | Mentorship Award: Moving Narratives (an award of €10.000)
Are you a cultural practitioner or artist who thinks that culture can be a powerful tool for challenging prevailing narratives and their influence on our lives? We encourage you to apply for the Mentorship Award: The multidisciplinary program Moving Narratives challenges eurocentric social and historical discourses, centers the viewpoints of marginalized people, and creates links between today’s emancipatory movements and their historical forebears. Moving Narratives reexamines the legacies of the past.
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Programme
The Prince Claus Fund and the British Council are teaming up to offer the Mentorship Award: Moving Narratives, which will bring together 12 accomplished, socially and politically active artists and cultural practitioners (with a minimum of seven and a maximum of fifteen years of relevant professional experience).
Participants will be supported by four mentors as they work together to experiment, share, and develop artistic approaches that challenge prevailing narratives and the injustices they uphold, whether they are based on gender, race, class, or other intersecting concerns. We welcome applications from artists drawing inspiration from their own communities and lived experiences, and we give priority to practices that emphasize intersectional and locally rooted perspectives that oppose prevailing ideologies.
This pilot program will use a variety of interactive forms, such as workshops, reading groups, guest speakers, and peer-to-peer review sessions, to promote conversations and collaborations within the cohort and to assist each artist in their practice. The majority of the activities will be conducted online, however the cohort will meet in person twice for the Labs (intense six-day mentoring sessions). The cohort will work together to develop a joint project within the parameters of the program that will take the form of a printed publication and an online platform.
Benefits
- Each participant will also receive a €10,000 award to use toward the project or body of work they described in their application.
- The participant’s suggested project will serve as the program’s starting point and serve as the basis for the one-on-one sessions with the mentors, even if the grant is not strictly tied to a project plan or budget.
Eligibility:
We are accepting applications from independent, seasoned artists and cultural practitioners who:
- Are artists, cultural practitioners, or creatives whose work highlights marginalized histories and challenges dominant worldviews; Live and work in one of our eligible regions in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, or Eastern Europe;
- The Prince Claus Fund and the British Council possess a broad disciplinary understanding of arts and culture. When we speak about artists and cultural practitioners, we are talking to individuals who engage in a personal artistic endeavor.
- People who work as managers, facilitators, academic researchers, or others in the arts field who do not have their own independent artistic endeavors are not eligible to apply.
- have 7 to 15 years of professional experience that is appropriate. Only individual artists, regardless of age, who meet the requirements for professional experience, measured from the day they first engaged in a professional artistic activity to the date their application was submitted, are eligible for the Mentorship Award.
- Candidates must be fluent in English due to the nature of the mentorship program.
For More Information
Visit Mentorship Award Website for further details and to apply
Mentorship Award: Moving Narratives (an award of €10.000)
