The Caribbean Tradition Fund (CCF) has introduced its second name for proposals. Thirty-four grants totalling USD 550,000 will probably be awarded to candidates from 12 international locations.
The second name will probably be open to initiatives from six new international locations: Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Curacao and the Cayman Islands.
This name will give attention to three themes: Archiving and Reminiscence; Migration and Caribbean Collaboration. The decision contains initiatives from all sectors of the humanities: Literary Arts, Visible Arts (all media, together with pictures and new and time-based media), Performing Arts (music, dance, theatre), Competition Arts, Movie (fiction and documentary, characteristic size and brief), Interdisciplinary artwork kinds, Structure and Design.
This second name below the CCF is thru its partnership with the Andrew Mellon Basis. Help from the Mellon Basis has considerably elevated the variety of grants to be distributed. The Mellon grant additionally contains funding for residencies, fellowships and exchanges and can assist the creation of a searchable database of funding alternatives to be made accessible by way of the CCF web site, caribbeanculturefund.org.
The grant will probably be administered in partnership with two organizations: the fiscal sponsor, Ayiti Demen, a New York-based group supporting work in Haiti and the broader Caribbean; the executive associate, le Centre d’Artwork often known as Centre d’Artwork d’Haïti, devoted to artwork and positioned in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The decision for proposals opens on September 24, 2024 with workshops, mentorship classes scheduled for the month of September. The submission window will open on October 1, 2024.
