Deadline: 13 June 2025
The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture is pleased to invite grant applications to support training and workshops in the different cultural and artistic fields, archive and documentation platforms, in addition to residencies, symposiums, forums, and festivals (multidisciplinary, music, film, performing arts, visual arts, and literature).
Funding Information
- The Training and Regional Events grant provides annual grants of up to USD 25,000 for individuals and teams, and up to USD 35,000 for collectives and institutions.
Eligibility Criteria
- AFAC welcomes proposals from individuals from Arab countries (22 member states of the Arab League), regardless of their place of residence, citizenship, or ethnic and national identification.
- AFAC also accepts proposals from local, regional, and international institutions and organizations whose projects are related to arts and culture from the Arab region. These include artistic and cultural institutions, galleries, venues, and both nonprofit and for-profit entities.
Ineligibility Criteria
- To avoid any conflict of interest or favoritism, members of the AFAC board of trustees and AFAC staff members, their business partners, or family members are not eligible to apply.
- Likewise, members of the current year’s reader and juror committees cannot apply for the categories they are evaluating.
- Recipients of grants in two consecutive years will not be eligible to apply for the next two consecutive years. For example, if you received a grant in 2021 and another one in 2022, you will only be eligible to apply in 2025.
- Applicants with a current open grant are also ineligible to apply.
For more information, visit The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture.
