Call for applications for Arts Network Asia (ANA) grants

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to apply to the ANA grant scheme for artists, managers and cultural workers interested in engaging with Asia, Asian communities and Asian arts.

You may have a project that shares our philosophies and beliefs.

We will consider projects that encourage challenging, provocative exchanges and collaborations between different cultures within Asia.This includes contemporary art, contemporary art and its relationship to traditional arts, encounters between traditional cultures.

These collaborations and exchanges between diverse cultures can be sited within the same country or even the same city.

One of the objectives of the new ANA is to explore the potential of local-regional-global complementation. Hence the local continuities of relating to different generations, linking memories, local wisdoms and the future sustainabilities of cultures will also be considered.

ANA primarily supports processes as opposed to products. We are open to partially supporting existing projects. In considering proposals, we will look positively at the reality of funding you already have from other sources. Past grantees can also apply.

Our grants are up to a maximum of US$10 000.

We support many fields of communication: hybrid interdisciplinary work, performance, community projects, visual arts, video/film, youth projects, literature, critical discourse, technical training and arts management.

Your projects should begin after May 2007.

We believe that such a grant scheme is the most participatory way to approach a broad and inclusive base responding to the needs within Asia. Hence, the workshops, collaborative processes, research, study grants, residencies, internships should move towards diversity, mutual understanding, empowerment, autonomy, dialogue through arts and culture.

You may review some past projects that ANA has supported at www.artsnetworkasia.org - please note these illustrations are only guidelines.


PROCEDURE

We hope to receive from you a one-page outline plus a 200 word biography by 31 Jan 2007. This can be in either English or a language of your choice from Bahasa Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Thai and Vietnamese).The one page should inform about the content, philosophy and intention of your project.

If your application meets ANA’s objectives, you will receive an invitation by the end of February 2007 to develop your application into a full proposal. These full proposals will have another dateline for submission. Subsequently, successful applications will be informed in April 2007.

If you have any further questions, please contact Tay Tong: taytong@theatreworks.org.sg or
fax on +65-6737-7013.
If you wish, you may mail your outline to:
Arts Network Asia
c/o 72-13, Mohd Sultan Road
Singapore 239007

You may wish to contact the ANA Peer Panel member residing in your country (see Annex A). The ANA panel members can help nurture ideas and provide some guidance but they will not write the proposals on your behalf.

If you know of other individuals who might be similarly interested, we would appreciate if you would forward this information to him/her.

We look forward to your application.

Yours truly,

Tay Tong
Manager, Arts Network Asia

ANNEX A

Arts Network Asia(ANA) is a group of independent artists, cultural workers and arts activists primarily from Southeast Asia that encourages and supports regional artistic collaboration as well as develops managerial and administrative skills within Asia. Arts Network Asia is motivated by the philosophy of meaningful collaboration, distinguished by mutual respect, initiated in Asia and carried out together with Asian artists.

ANA is a forum for Asia’s expression and its relationship to the rest of the world. It recognizes the cultural diversity and pluralisms of Asia, and looks at the continuum that is Asia, from tradition to contemporary urban life. In particular, Arts Network Asia is about collaborations, research, networking, dialogues across cultures. It is a network where individuals from around the world, through residencies and projects, develop local communities in Asia. It pays attention to the diverse perspectives of a global Asian urban metropolis, the continunities and disruptions with Asian tradition, the multiple contexts of everyday life.

The ANA was initiated by TheatreWorks (Singapore), who hosted and managed it from 1999 to 2003, while Five Arts Centre (Malaysia) hosted the network from 2004 to 2006.

ANA is currently hosted once again by Theatreworks at 72-13 Singapore from? 2007 to 2009. Currently, the ANA Peer Panel comprise : Fred Frumberg (Phnom Penh, Cambodia), Gridthiya Gaweewong (Bangkok, Thailand). Dinh Q. Le (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), Ong Keng Sen (Singapore, Singapore), Anoli Perera (Colombo, Sri Lanka), Rahayu Suppangah (Solo, Indonesia), Margaret Shui-Tan (Taipei, Taiwan), Tran Luong (Hanoi, Vietnam) and Nikko Zapata (Manila, Philippines). The new ANA is administratively directed by Tay Tong.

The ANA is supported by the Ford Foundation and the Asian Cultural Council, through special funds from the Rockefeller Foundation.

Contact Information
ANA Peer Panel Members

Fred Frumberg  (in Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
Email: ffrumberg@aol.com

Gridthiya Gaweewong (in Bangkok, Thailand)

Dinh Q. Le (in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)

Ong Keng Sen   (in Singapore, Singapore)
Email: kengsen@theatreworks.org.sg
   
Anoli Perera  (in Colombo, Sri Lanka)

Rahayu Supanggah (in Solo, Indonesia)
Email: supanggah@yahoo.com
Margaret Shiu-Tan (in Taipei, Taiwan)

Tran Luong (in Hanoi, Vietnam)
Email: tranluong60@yahoo.com

Nikko Zapata  (in Manila, Philippines) 
Email: nv_zapata@yahoo.com


Please note :
The ANA Host Centre, its staff, the Peer Panel members; and their respective partners/spouses/ organizations cannot apply to the ANA for grants.