Prince Claus Fund Seed Award 2025 (€5,000 grant) – YOA

Deadline: January 21, 2025

Applications are open for the Prince Claus Fund Seed Award 2025. Each 12 months, the Prince Claus Fund grants the Seed Award to 100 rising artists who work in contexts the place cultural expression is underneath strain. The Seed Award is meant to provide rising artists the possibility to amplify their apply and pursuits, thereby sparking a brand new wave of changemakers.

Emerging artists and cultural practitioners carry a brand new wave of concepts, views, and power to the power of tradition. They play a pivotal position in shaping new norms by free expression and creating protected areas, fostering cooperation in occasions of neighborhood crises, and selling simply and truthful methods of being. As such, rising artists deserve the possibility to experiment and construct momentum of their work, and the Seed Award goals to help this journey.

Award

• Each Seed Award recipient will obtain a grant of €5,000 to put money into creating their creative and cultural apply on their very own phrases.

Eligibility

Open to particular person candidates who:

• are within the early and exploratory phases of their profession, throughout the preliminary 1 to five years of their skilled profession (excluding study years); 
• have established an modern and fascinating creative or cultural apply that addresses urgent social/political points which might be vital inside their native context; 
• have acquired little to no institutional recognition/help for his or her creative/cultural practices; 
• are from, residing, and dealing in eligible nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. 

Application

Note that solely accomplished purposes which might be submitted through the Prince Claus on-line application platform will likely be thought of. The application deadline is January 21, 2025, at 17:00 Amsterdam time. 

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For extra info, go to Prince Claus Fund Seed Award.