total number of grants:
77

Date of Grant Letter:

6/12/2009

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16242

Organization:

Golden Apricot, Cinema Development, NGO

Contact:

Susanna  Harutyunyan

Grant Amount:

8324  USD

Purpose:

The 2nd Mini Margaret Mead Traveling Festival will be organized in Yerevan on 12 – 19 July, 2009 and will be attached to Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival as an established film festival in order to achieve greater visibility, to enlarge the audience and to get maximum responses. The program will be presented in the frameworks of the 6th GAIFF programs. The main goals of current initiative are: to promote this annual documentary film festival in Armenia among local filmmakers; to present Armenian documentaries along with the Mead Festival selection and to push local filmmakers to send their films/submissions to the Margaret Mead Festival; to promote exchange, and to use documentaries as means of generating dialogue

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Date of Grant Letter:

6/11/2009

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16096

Organization:

Theatre for Changes, NGO

Contact:

Tigran  Sekoyan

Grant Amount:

10000  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to organize the 1st Interactive Art Festival in Armenia with participation of artists, theatrical troupes, and cultural organizations from Armenia, Georgia and Turkey. During the 5 day festival (22.09.2009 - 26.09.2009), the artists and theatrical troupes from different countries will be invited to Armenia to perform interactive forum theatre plays as well as art works of different genres containing interactive elements; 4-day training for all participants will be organized by highly qualified expert from the UK. The Interactive Art Festival will not only constitute unique cultural event but a new form of social platform promoting cultural dialogues and collaboration between artists from different countries who use the techniques and elements of interactive aer in their creatice endeavors

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Date of Grant Letter:

6/24/2009

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16226

Organization:

Armenian Actors Union, NGO

Contact:

Arthur  Ghukasyan

Grant Amount:

24800  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to organize 10-day workshops, seminars, round tables, working groups and master classes with a topic “Theatre Design Development in Southern Caucasus and Central Asia” from 1- 10 October 2009 at the Yerevan State Puppet Theatre with participation of theatre troupes and experts from Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The main goal of the project is: to organize a master class for theatre designers, light designers, dress designers, directors coming from Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and for other High Fest participants from 30 foreign countries; to strengthen cultural links and stimulate cross border cooperation in diverse spheres of culture among Caucasian, Central Asian and European countries; to assist them to create valuable and professional contacts for future cooperation; to stimulate the participants’ close cooperation with other international theatre workers in the field of Theatre Design; to organize an exhibition with the works done during the seminars and workshops in order to promote new theatre design with partner countries; to organize international joint projects (performances, conferences, seminars, master classes, etc.; through seminars, master classes, and workshops to increase the awareness of arts practitioners on innovative approaches and strategies in the sphere of Theatre Design; to increase professional diversity in the sphere of theatre design through providing a favorable atmosphere for sharing and exchanging ideas, competencies and knowledge and to create comprehensive database and provide up-to-date information on cultural events and organizations in the sphere of Theatre Design

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Date of Grant Letter:

8/31/2009

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16270

Organization:

Armenian Foundation for Promotion of Cinema and TV for Children and Youth Rolan Bykov Foundation

Contact:

Nune  Manukyan

Grant Amount:

11642  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to carry out the 5th International Festival for Children and Youth from October 10-19, 2009 in Yerevan and Gyumri and later in 5 regions of Armenia. Participation at the Festival is a good opportunity for Armenian children and youth to watch and become aware of the good quality films produced for their age. It is expected to have more than 130 thousand people of different age groups attending the festival. At the end of the festival, the jury, comprised of children and adults, will nominate the best films. This International Festival promotes cooperation between creative film organizations worldwide and gives an opportunity for the exchange of professional experience and for further international projects. During the festival, 6 master classes, meetings and discussions in Yerevan and 2 in Gyumri with guest film directors will be carried out. In the framework of this project, guests and film directors from Greece, Turkey, Poland, Russia, India and Georgia will participate at the festival

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Date of Grant Letter:

9/18/2009

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16384

Organization:

Utopiana.am, NGO

Contact:

Anna  Barseghian

Grant Amount:

25000  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to develop a cultural space for research, dialogue and creative-production initiatives in various fields of artistic expressions. The funding is given for one year and is directed to institutional development of the organization during which the organization will develop its research, artistic, image, sound and graphic labs. During project implementation, 6 workshops and lectures with 4 weeks duration each will be conducted by the experts coming from various countries, two photo, video, editing and sound trainings will be carried out for young artists, three exhibitions presenting the results of the workshops and trainings will be carried out. Throughout the entire project, booklets and posters will be published to present the current activities of the project. At the end of the project a catalogue and a DVD will be prepared presenting all the artistic products of the project

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Date of Grant Letter:

8/28/2009

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16280

Organization:

Center for International Union of Puppeteers-UNIMA Armenia

Contact:

Armen  Safaryan

Grant Amount:

24800  USD

Purpose:

For the following purpose: to carry out International Festival of Puppet Theaters “Toumanian Fairy Tale Day”, which will take place from September 5-11, 2009 with participation of theatrical troops from Turkey, Denmark, Slovenia, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Italy and other countries. During the Festival days a great number of entertaining and educating activities will be organized – scenic events and fireworks, master classes in puppet art, a puppet exhibition, daily evening clubs, excursions, video demonstrations and the like. The official web site of the organization will be updated and will provide in deep information about the festival

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Date of Grant Letter:

11/30/2009

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16509

Organization:

Liza, Legal Gender Cultural Foundation

Contact:

Mariam  Ohanyan

Grant Amount:

9995  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to discuss the problems of Women-Creativity-Gender Equality through films, problems of violence, inequality, discrimination and other problems related to women’s rights and gender problems. The 4th KIN International Film Festival will be held on December 1-5, 2009 in Yerevan. The program will consist of: 1) Competition “Feature film”, 2) Competition “Documentary film”, 3) Competition “Animation/Experimental Film”, 4) Best film on Gender Issue, 5) Guests’ program, 6) Retrospective screening of films of Polish women film directors. Special prizes will be given for the “Best Film”, “Special Prize” and Diplomas. During the days of the Festival master-classes will be organized with the guests of Festival. Master-classes will be held in the State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography. A catalogue will be published in two languages Armenian and English to provide comprehensive information about the works presented at the festival. The films “Winners of KIN-2009” will be screened in Gyumri

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Date of Grant Letter:

12/21/2009

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16523

Organization:

Armenian Open University, Department of Fine Arts

Contact:

Ruben  Arevshatyan

Grant Amount:

9990  USD

Purpose:

The main goal of the following project "Changes through Exchanges 3” experimental educational project (2009-2010) is to invite artists, curators, theoreticians and cultural workers from Turkey, Russia/Germany, Georgia and Kazakhstan to lead workshops, lectures and seminars for students from the Yerevan Academy of Fine Arts, Gyumri Academy of Fine Arts, “Mkhitar Sebastatsi” educational complex, ACCEA, Utopiana, etc. and three invited young curators from France. The porgram of the project will be based on two years experience of the organization in the development of the relevant porgram for students

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Date of Grant Letter:

10/20/2009

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16429

Organization:

City Research Center, NGO

Contact:

Ashot  Mirzoyan

Grant Amount:

16855  USD

Purpose:

The project will be implemented in two main phases; phase one will consist of a Research component; the International group will carry out a research within three regions –Kars, Gyumri and Kutaisi. The fields of research are vernacular households, oral histories (fairy tales, rural and urban stories, legends), cultural islands (culture of minorities). The research group will include theatre/performance artist, musicians, sculptors. Some type of artistic/cultural dialogue will be established: screenings, lectures, performances (see below). The research will last no less than 6 days each country; Armenia, Turkey and Georgia. As a result, it is anticipated to have information about cultural pattern of the places, information on and generation of the art/culture events to be organized on the next stage and a web site about the project. Phase two- Development of the Network . The program processes: research, hands-on projects will bring together people who are interested on the same topics related to culture in Turkey, Armenia, Georgia. In the framework of the project, it is expected that project participants (2 from each country) will carry out visits to Gyumri, Kutaisi and Kars. The web site will be also updated

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Date of Grant Letter:

12/30/2009

Program:

Civil Soceity

Grant Number:

16526

Organization:

Civil Society Institute,NGO

Contact:

Tamara  Hovnanyan

Grant Amount:

18445  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: support and regular update of the Human Rights in Armenia (www.hra.am) portal, regular publication of analytical, investigative and news stories on the website; technical upgrade and re-design of the website into thematic areas and selecting and hiring new staff for the website, i.e. journalists, additional coordinator as well as solicitation of material for the website from independent experts. Within the timeframe of the project a Board will be established for the website and regular meetings will be held to discuss progress and potential areas for thematic development of the website. In addition, the implementers will make rigorous outreach with the human rights NGO community, international organizations and all relevant stakeholders as well as promote the website and its content through social networks. Upon completion of the grant an external evaluation will be conducted

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