The Roberto Cimetta Fund is an international association promoting artistic exchange and the mobility of professionals in the field of contemporary performing arts and visual arts within the Mediterranean area.
The Fund supports and encourages travel which allows culture professionals to find the opportunities, partners and means to realise personal or collective projects; thus facilitating networking, exchanges of experience and cultural and artistic cooperation.
The individual travel grants cover travel and visa costs for trips such as attending professional cultural network meetings, workshops, artist's residences, festival, symposiums etc.
The Roberto Cimetta Fund travel grants are given to specific individuals and not to organisations. European professionals may apply but only if their project has a strong Mediterranean connection.
Priorities will be given to:
1. Artists and operators coming from or going to the following cities and countries :
- Algeria (Algiers)
- Armenia (Gumri)
- Israel (Haifa)
- Italy (Province of Genova)
- Morocco (Marrakech)
- Palestine (Bethlehem)
- Tunisia (Tunis)
2. In order to prepare Guimaraes, European Capital of Culture 2012, the Roberto Cimetta Fund and Guimaraes 2012 have opened a new
joint Mobility Fund: e RCF/Guimaraes12 Mobility Fund.
This Fund supports artistic mobility from Guimaraes to the Euro-Mediterranean region and from the Euro-Mediterranean region to Guimaraes.
The Euro-Mediterranean region is comprised of:
- the European countries including EEA countries,
- the countries from the East and South coasts of the Mediterranean: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Jordan, Israel,
Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey,
- the countries of the Balkans: Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, Croatia,
- the countries of the Arabian Gulf: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Bahrain, Oman.
Eligible applicants:
- artists or cultural operators willing to travel to Guimaraes, Portugal or from Guimaraes to prepare a collaborative artistic project, take
part in a residency, run or attend a workshop, attend a meeting of professionals, a seminar or a conference.
Priorities will be given to:
- applications concerning the following artistic sectors: music, performing arts, cinema, contemporary art, design and architecture
preferably within a "residency" project.
The Fund covers travel and visa costs.
The trip must take place after the date of the next selection.
Deadlines:
30 June 2012 (call will be published on 1st June)
30 September 2012 (call will be published on 1st September)
Deadline: 30 June 2012
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