Call for Proposals #1

The Caribbean Culture Fund (CCF) is pleased to announce our inaugural call for proposals. Distributed by Le Centre d’Art, this call is open to artists and arts and culture organizations. The inaugural call is limited to applicants from the following countries: Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

The CCF call for proposals invites individuals, organizations, and institutions to submit their cultural and creative projects in April 2024. Selection will be based on respect for the values and criteria defined below, on the quality and feasibility of proposals, and on the proven abilities of project leaders. We invite bidders to write their projects simply and clearly, paying particular attention to the relationship between objectives and budget, and to consider implementation constraints.

• Visual Arts (all media, including photography and new and time-based media)
• Performing Arts (music, dance, theatre)
• Festival Arts
• Film (fiction and documentary, feature-length and short)
• Interdisciplinary art forms (involving any of the above)
• Architecture and Design

Call 1.1: Art for Social Change and Civic Engagement
The CCF will award ten grants of USD 10,000. Artists and arts organizations are invited to interpret this theme through new work or continuation of existing work. Sub-themes such as Caribbean identities, climate justice, may also be explored. Preference will be given to educational, experimental, and inclusive creations and productions, or training and/or transmission activities. Creativity means presenting quality original and/or experimental projects.

Call 1.2: Caribbean Collaboration
The CCF will award six grants of USD 25,000 for projects that reflect or catalyze intra-regional cooperation and the promotion of arts across linguistic and geographic boundaries within the region. These include joint productions, translation and/or subtitling. The primary applicant must be in one of the countries prioritized for this call, but the collaborators may be in any other eligible country or the Caribbean diaspora.

Please find more information on the capp and application requirements here.

For more information, email grants@caribbeanculturefund.org. This call for proposals is launched March 25, 2024, and will be open for submissions from April 1 to April 30, 2024.