Mekong Cultural Hub is calling for applications from artists, producers and community organisers in Asia to host an event on the 2025 Meeting Point theme ‘Building Bridges’ between 26 September and 5 October 2025.
The Local Gatherings programme aims to expand the community of people engaged with the Meeting Point platform, and to give practitioners micro-grants to organise events in their local communities.
This year, a total of 9 people or groups will be selected to host a gathering, which can be in any format, and with any number of people. In order to facilitate more connection between local gathering hosts, their communities and the main Meeting Point programme, MCH organises a series of online exchanges for hosts in the months before their gatherings take place. These exchanges are guided by Local Gatherings Community Curator, Do Huu Chi (Vietnam), with support from the MCH team.
After completing their events, the 9 selected gathering hosts will attend the in-person Meeting Point in Vientiane, Laos, 16–18 October 2025, where they will give a creative presentation to the other delegates about learnings and outcomes from their gatherings.
Micro-grants of 500 USD, 1,000 USD or 1,500 USD are available to support hosts to organise the gatherings. MCH will also cover all costs for one representative per gathering to attend the Meeting Point in-person.
