total number of grants:
68

Date of Grant Letter:

12/16/2008

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16100

Organization:

Center for International Union of Puppeteers - UNIMA Armenia

Contact:

Armen  Safaryan

Grant Amount:

8950  USD

Purpose:

For the following purpose: to organize New Year movable theatre shows, which include shows with big doll masks, dancing, games, competitions, and circus shows with animal dolls in four special schools of Armenia with participation of actors from the Puppet Theatre and Theatre of Pantomime. The project participants/experts will decorate the halls of the schools for the event. The performance is called "Fairies, Santa Clause, and the Funny Buffalo". At the end of the performance 520 children will receive prizes and presents

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Date of Grant Letter:

12/17/2008

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16079

Organization:

National Association of Art Critics

Contact:

Nazaret  Karoyan

Grant Amount:

25000  USD

Purpose:

The project involves networking between five partner institutions, curriculum development for contemporary curatorial studies, organization of seminars and workshops and publication of critical texts. The main focuses are on developing and facilitating The World of Art curatorial program in Ljubljana, Critical Spaces’ curatorial postgraduate program at the University of Plymouth, Townhouse Gallery’s yearly curatorial educational program in Cairo, Egypt as well as one-year seminars for contemporary art curators and cultural workers in Yerevan and its pilot project – the International Summer Seminars’ Program for Art Curators. The main component for which the funding is requested, is the curatorial educational program in Yerevan, Armenia. The project, will bring together practicing curators from former Soviet Republics, Eastern European and EU countries and the Middle East in a series of lectures, seminars and practical workshops that are directed towards critical knowledge production, networking and cooperation. The program also seeks to research and develop alternative methods and models for contemporary art education in the respective contexts of partner institutions. The Summer Seminars’ Program’s alumni networking initiatives as well as annual meeting between the partner institutions will be initiated. As a result of effective networking and capacity building, it is planned to turn the annual curatorial educational program in Armenia into an accredited postgraduate university program, thus helping to reform the art educational curriculums of established academic institutions on the one hand, and preparing capable and professional art curators, critics, managers on the other hand. Particularly, during this year the organization will carry out- 4th Summer Seminar for Art Curators for two weeks, one partners networking meeting,one year seminar’s program, school of contemporary art curatorial program,publication of first volume of anthology on curatorial practice

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Date of Grant Letter:

5/26/2008

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15889

Organization:

Utopiana.am, NGO

Contact:

Lusine  Chergeshtyan

Grant Amount:

5000  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to organize a two-week workshop for around 40 local and international Art students and Artists, mainly to organize 3 lectures with participation of 40 students and artists from the Academy of Fine Art, the National Association of Art Critics and Dutch Art Institute in Amsterdam, to organize a workshop/field works in teams for around 40 local and international art students, to carry out a team research on global developments on visual art in Armenia, to publish a catalogue/guidebook in English on the research and project results, to organize a final public Art exhibition on the joint works/ Art productions of all 40 participants. The research of the visual Art in Armenia will be done in particular from the point of view of post-soviet communist nationalism, the abandonment of the soviet ‘economy’, the deindustrialization and economical liberalization and finally a research of the role of the empire-like Armenian Diaspora on it

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Date of Grant Letter:

8/21/2008

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15954

Organization:

Center for International Union of Puppeteers - UNIMA Armenia

Contact:

Armen  Safaryan

Grant Amount:

17452  USD

Purpose:

For the following purpose: to organize international festival entitled “Tale Day” in Dsegh village with participation of national as well as international puppet theaters from the period of 5-11 September, 2008. Among the international theaters the participation of renowned theaters from Spain, Russia, Germany, Lithuania, Ukraine, China, Slovenia, Italy and Georgia should be outlined. The festival is organized in Dsegh as the performances are based on fairy tales of H. Tumanyan

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Date of Grant Letter:

8/29/2008

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15962

Organization:

Armenian State Philharmonic Orchestra

Contact:

Arman  Padaryan

Grant Amount:

13797  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to organize a human rights awareness campaign during the 2nd Yerevan International Music Festival. To achieve the goal it is planned to print and disseminate festival booklets, posters, flyers, leaflets, banners with HR Universal Declaration articles, to carry out a surveys on HR declaration with a prize to get a seasonal ticket of Armenian State Philharmonic Orchestra. Before the concert a press conference will be organized with participation of guest musicians and HR experts to discuss how art can contribute in promotion of Human Rights

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Date of Grant Letter:

8/27/2008

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15963

Organization:

Art-Laboratory, NGO

Contact:

Harutyun  Zulumyan

Grant Amount:

8300  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to reveal and bring the attention of the society towards human rights violations through artistic performances, also by this to promote political art in Armenia. During the project the organization will carry out three artistic performances in the most crowded places of Yerevan - at the Northern Avenue, near Universities and other educational institutions, in front of the National Gallery, inside “Tashir” trade center, in Gyumri - in the central square and in front of the Gallery of Modern Art, also will organize 6 seminar-discussions on human rights-freedom of consciousness, right to security and liberty of a person, children’s and women’s rights protection, environmental problems, protection of the rights of marginalized layers of the society, will carry out two flash mobs on the topics freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of consciousness, will organize four meetings with “GALA” TV, with veterans and the community, with Helsinki Committee Association of Vanadzor Office, will meet with the staff of the factory and the village community to discuss environmental problems and will make a photo exposition, will organize two expositions, and at the end of the project will carry out an exhibition and will create a catalogue about the project

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Date of Grant Letter:

7/18/2008

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15779

Organization:

City Research Center, NGO

Contact:

Ashot  Mirzoyan

Grant Amount:

19771  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to broaden the debate on human rights and the peaceful settlement of conflicts beyond the immediate intellectual circles within the South Caucasian capitals, and to introduce it to those who are excluded from discussions on socio-political issues due to information blockages and the collapse of regional infrastructure. By encouraging and activating potential organizers of the different local documentary film festivals and regional Human Rights Film Clubs the project aims at sustainable promotion of cultural and political life in the regions of the South Caucasus. The applicant will organize documentary films screening in 5 cities of Armenia; Noyemberyan, Vanadzor, Gyumri, Yerevan and Yeghegnadzor. The films will be about conflicts and human rights. During the festival, the organization will carry out forums and discussions about human rights and peaceful conflict resolution. At the end of the festival, the organizers will publish a book with illustrated documentation of the project including interviews and discussion summaries, which will offer a basis for the development of follow-up-projects in future.project including interviews and discussion summaries, which will offer a basis for the development of follow-up-projects in future

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Date of Grant Letter:

10/31/2008

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16005

Organization:

Liza, Legal Gender Cultural Foundation

Contact:

Mariam  Ohanyan

Grant Amount:

9995  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to organize an International Kin Film Festival the purpose of which is to discuss problems of Women-Creativity-Gender Equality through films, problems of violence, inequality, discrimination and other problems related to women’s rights and gender issues. The Fifth KIN International Film Festival will be held in 26-30 November, 2008. There will be two prizes for the "Best Film" and "Special prize" and diplomas for the participants. During the project a round-table on "Problems of Women Film makers" will be organized. A catalogue will be published in two languages Armenian and English to provide comprehensive information about the works presented at the festival

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Date of Grant Letter:

10/30/2008

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15967

Organization:

Eco-Era, NGO

Contact:

Hrayr  Savzyan

Grant Amount:

18000  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to raise awareness of citizens about their right to live in clean environment and about the current ecological situation in Armenia. It is planned to carry out one photo exhibition with the best 55 photos made during the site visits, two rock concerts with participation of the most famous rock bands and organize a documentary film screening on ecological issues in Armenia. The activities will be carried out in Yerevan, Vanadzor, Kapan, in Teghut and Shnogh villages

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Date of Grant Letter:

11/10/2008

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16006

Organization:

City Research Center, NGO

Contact:

Ashot  Mirzoyan

Grant Amount:

4000  USD

Purpose:

For the purpose of developing cultural spaces and audiences in the underrepresented communities in North Armenian, West Georgia, Eastern Turkey through enhancing various interactions (cultural actor+audience; cultural actor+cultural actor; audince+audience) to organize a three-day working meeting of initiative group in Kutaisi, Georgia

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