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Western Armenian Culture Grant Programme

Deadline: 31 January 2024

The Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (hereinafter CGF) is launching the third edition of now again|in view —a grant programme dedicated to cultural creativity in the Western Armenian language.ough this flagship programme, the Department will continue supporting initiatives that aim to create new culture in Armenian.

Through this flagship programme, the Department will continue supporting initiatives that aim to create new culture in Armenian.

now again|in view aims to inspire, facilitate, and support innovation and contemporaneity in the cultural and creative sectors in Western Armenian, in order to sustain future generations through a vibrant language and culture. It brings support to cultural changemakers and strives to inspire people and communities to experience, reimagine, and share culture through the development and implementation of fresh ideas that matter for envisioning a vibrant future for the Western Armenian language and culture.

Objectives

The now again|in view programme gives opportunities to individuals and small groups to create, produce, and distribute diverse cultural productions in Western Armenian. Cultural production is understood in its widest sense to include practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills, as well as instruments, tools, and spaces in which the language is central. The term culture is also taken in its broad sense, encompassing the arts, the humanities, and heritage, with particular emphasis on creativity, innovation, and contemporaneity —culture that speaks to the realities of their times. After all, cultural production that combines traditions with new knowledge and practices is indispensable for community revitalization, continuity, growth, and progress.
The priorities of the now again|in view are to:
- Celebrate creativity in Western Armenian.
- Enhance the intrinsic relationship between language and culture, ensuring their evolution.
- Emphasize the cohesive force of culture.
- Foster cultural participation and practices as important ways for empowerment and re-appropriation of cultural resources, and essential factors for the transmission, creation, and dynamic evolution of resources for development.
- Enhance the immense potential and power culture has to influence, challenge, and transform society.
- Stimulate the preservation, renewal, and transmission of essential development vectors to future generations through the sustainable creation and use of cultural resources.
- Enhance lifelong practices for a sustainable Western Armenian culture.
- Ensure the vitality of different Armenian communities through culture.
- Mobilize culture and diversity of Armenian voices to foster stronger presence.
- Give visibility to innovative cultural practices taking place all over the Armenian world.
- Give more opportunities for gender-balanced participation

For more information, visit Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.