In keeping with its dedication to supporting independent cultural organizations against the backdrop of political, social, economic and cultural challenges that hamper the ability of organizations, initiatives and individuals engaged in culture and the arts in the Arab region to achieve their aims, Culture Resource has launched Wasl. The new program is inspired by the desire to create new spaces for addressing the commonly shared difficulties that obstruct the development of such organizations, initiatives and individuals while remaining sensitive for their particular contextual properties and open to new individual or multilateral experiences.
Wasl aspires to empower the cultural sector in the Arab region and to build bonds between cultural organizations across this region. Towards these ends, the program promotes networking between independent cultural organizations, strengthens the culture of collaboration and mutual learning between them by supporting collaborative projects, and organizes training workshops that engage the principles and methods of “peer learning.” A more general end is to help generate a critical and effective cultural force to press for the values of freedom of creativity and social justice.
The program offers a seed Funding of 7,000USD to support a collaborative cultural project between two organizations; A participatory training workshop; A one-week working visit for each partner in the city in which the other partner’s organization is located; Professional accompaniment of the collaboration progress through its various phases; A set of tools to support the professional and institutional development and the management of the collaborations; Becoming part of a network of cultural organizations, and a closing networking event in one Arab city.
Applications are accepted until Monday 29 October 2018.
For more information and for applying, please visit this link.
