Funding guides

On the Move Guide to mobility funding opportunities in Africa (2016) - download the guide

On The Move Guide to mobility funding opportunities: Focus on 13 Arab countries: On the Move and the Arab Education Forum launch the online Guide to funding opportunities for the international mobility of artists and culture professionals - Focus on 13 Arab countries: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. www.on-the-move.org

North Africa Cultural Mobility Map: Short introduction of main and secundary funding organisations for cultural mobility in Northern Africa. www.nacmm.org


Directory

Most directories are not fully up-to-date, but can give you a good overview of what is around.

Ifacca: Have a look at the IFACCA directory, international listing of contacts for arts councils and ministries of culture.


Specific initiatives

Prince Claus Fund’s Mobility Fund

The Prince Claus Fund’s Mobility Fund supports the cross-cultural exchange of artists and cultural practitioners by covering travel costs. Individuals living in and traveling from countries listed in the DAC list are considered eligible.

 

Funding in Africa

Funding in Africa


Regional funds


Art Moves Africa

Art Moves Africa (AMA) is an international non-for-profit organisation aiming to facilitate cultural and artistic exchanges within the African continent. AMA offers travel funds to artists, arts professionals and cultural operators living and working in Africa to travel within the African continent in order to engage in the exchange of information, the enhancement of skills, the development of informal networks and the pursuit of cooperation. The AMA grants cover travel, visa and travel insurance costs.

www.artmovesafrica.org

Eligibility: Individuals from any African country


ANT Mobility Funding

Pro Helvetia Johannesburg has for some time been investing in transnational collaborations, exchanges and joint projects among organisations and creative practitioners operating across the SADC region, with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Their investments are focused on projects, networks and platforms that have a shared interest in building a stronger regional creative fabric. For the current phase of the programme (2018 – 2020) ANT Mobility Funding has been separated into two distinct and more focused streams. The first is directed at individual artists and arts practitioners; and the second to bands, performing arts companies, collectives, festivals and arts organisations generally. The geographical scope is the SADC region, see the full list of eligible countries here.

www.prohelvetia.org.za


Organisation Mondiale de la Francophonie

Artists from French-speaking countries can be eligible for support to take part in festivals, exhibitions, trainings (in certain cases) in the fields of visual arts and performing arts. Read more about the programmes here. The organization offers diverse programs addressing mobility of artists, professional training, and structuring of cultural spaces.

www.francophonie.org

Eligibility: Individuals from French-speaking countries in the South (inc. African countries).


Make sure to check also the funding in the Arab world, which includes Northern Africa.


Bi- and Multilateral


Pro Helvetia Cape Town

Pro Helvetia Cape Town is one of the Pro Helvetia representations abroad, set up at the beginning of 1998.

In collaboration with its liaison offices, Pro Helvetia supports residencies in India, China and South Africa. Swiss artists and cultural practitioners (e.g. curators, event organisers, mediators) in the areas of the visual arts, music, literature, theatre and dance are eligible to apply. At the same time, Pro Helvetia facilitates residencies in Switzerland for artists and cultural practitioners from the above-mentioned regions.

www.prohelvetia.org.za

Eligibility: Swiss and South African artists


ifa Artists' Contact

The ifa Artists' Contact programme promotes the international cooperation of German and foreign persons engaged in the cultural sector. Working stays as well as working tours from developing and emerging countries to Germany are supported if the realisation is in the interest of foreign cultural policy. Focus on visual arts, 2 deadlines per year (31 January and 15 August).

www.ifa.de

Eligibility: Individuals from developing and emerging countries and German nationals.


Thami Mnyele Foundation

The Thami Mnyele Foundation runs a unique three month artists-in-residence program in Amsterdam (Netherlands) for African artists. Any professional in visual arts can apply (no deadline) for the funded residency.

www.thami-mnyele.nl

Eligibility: (visual) artists from the whole of Africa


Per country


Zimbabwe

The Culture Fund of Zimbabwe Trust (CFoZT) was partner with HIVOS in the Culture Fund Hivos mobility Fund (2013-2015). The Culture Fund will continue to receive applications from practitioners in the creative industries for international funding.

www.culturefund.org.zw

Eligibility: Individuals from Zwimbabwe


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