[Call for Applications] South-South Arts Fellowships

Living Arts International (LAI) is inviting applications for the South-South Arts Fellowships 2022. We are launching this fellowship as our pilot international program.

We are acutely aware of the limited support available for nurturing wider and deeper connections among cultural workers within the Global South. In this context, the South-South Arts Fellowships 2022 seek to support individuals/collectives/teams or groups to build initiatives that enable long-term professional networks, alliances and collaborations among cultural workers and artists/creative practitioners living and working in developing economies in Africa (including North Africa), Asia (including West Asia and Central Asia) and the Pacific.

Five Fellowships are being offered in 2022. Fellows will be expected to bring an initiative with them, which they have already been developing in some way and through which they intend to deepen and strengthen network building over the period of the Fellowship. Selected fellows will work on their proposed initiatives over six months from July to December 2022 – they will organise two virtual or hybrid activities during this period. Fellows will be offered the following forms of support:

• A stipend of USD 3000 per Fellowship awarded (this stipend is an honorarium for the fellows for their ideas and work on the Fellowship activities)
• Feedback on proposals and access to new networks from three advisors to the Fellowship program: Khadija El Bennaoui (Morocco/UAE), Deirdre Prins-Solani (South Africa) and Pooja Sood (India)
• A grant of USD 3000 per Fellowship for curating and organizing one virtual or hybrid activity to develop the proposed idea or initiative. Selected fellows will work on this activity individually. Activities may be inter-regional or intra-regional in scope, i.e., o linking different regions within Africa (note: here, ‘Africa’ includes North Africa) or o linking different regions within Asia (note: here, ‘Asia’ includes West Asia and Central Asia) or o linking different regions within the Pacific or o linking different regions of Africa, Asia and the Pacific
• An amount of up to USD 20,000 is available in total for curating and organizing up to three inter-regional virtual activities. This budget is shared between all 5 Fellowships. Selected fellows will organise these activities in collaboration with one another.

Fellows will share learnings and findings among themselves. Fellows will also contribute to a public report mapping opportunities, challenges, gaps and needs regarding South-South cultural connectivity.

For more information, please see https://www.connectingsouth.org/.

Source: https://www.connectingsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Call-for-Applications-2022-FINAL.pdf

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