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SUMMARY:British Council’s Festival Connect Fund 2024/5
DESCRIPTION:Opportunity type:  Grant\nFor:  Festival Organisers\nDeadline: 31/03/24, 11:00 pm GMT\nRewards: Up to £40,000\nLocation Eligibility: Some African countries\n\nAbout this opportunity\n\nBritish Council has launched their Festival Connect Fund, granting funds to festival organisers to help them organise events in Africa. The Festival Connect Fund seeks grant proposals from festivals across various art forms such as Creative Technology, Dance, Film, Literature, Music, Theatre, and/or multi-disciplinary arts.\nThey acknowledge the broad diversity of festivals and in this regard welcome applications from festival organisations operating either annual, triennial, or biennial festival programmes both face-to-face and online.\nFestivals can apply for the following activities:\n\ncommissioning, co-production, development, or presentation of new or remounted work from across countries in Africa and internationally. These may include live/in-person and digital components.\ncommunity engagement programme /arts events alongside the festival\nother associated activities including mobility and travel to support festival development, partnership building etc. that support the festival programme.\nadministrative and technical costs towards managing/producing the festival, up to 30% of the grant amount applied for.\n\n What can this look like?\n\nProgramming of young, emerging artists between African festivals\nIncubation of existing art (e.g. a piece that already exists that would benefit from further development)\nCross programming, co-production, and/or curation of work\n Experimentation between festivals/artists\n\n You may also apply for funding for activity costs that your festival expects to incur.\nThese might include:\n\nArtists’ fees (including performance fees)\nVenue-rental costs\nStaff costs (e.g. administrative, technical, and front-of-house support directly related to the festival)\nAudience engagement – activity carried out to develop ongoing relationships with current and new audiences.\nMarketing and publicity costs\nTechnical and production costs\nTravel costs and expenses for artists.\nA contribution to the festival programme archiving.\n\n This fund is not open to the following:\n\nnon-arts festivals (e.g. food and wine festivals, wellness festivals, carnivals/parades) or arts activity within non-arts festivals\n\nAll festival activity should be undertaken between May 2024 and April 2025.\nRewards\nA total of £200,000 is available for festivals in the eligible countries to support collaborations, exchanges, mobility, and showcasing on scales ranging from £ 10,000 – £ 40,000 maximum per application.\nEligibility\n\nThis call is open to festivals engaging with all art forms in the following countries:\nEthiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.\n\nEntry Fee\nFree.\nHow to Apply\nApply using the link: Festival Connect Fund.\nAll questions regarding this fund should be sent to the online enquiry form on their website .\n
URL:https://trybeafrica.com/search_creative_opportunities/british-councils-festival-connect-fund-2024-5/
CATEGORIES:For festival organisers
LOCATION:Some African Countries
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