The South-South Arts Fellowships 2022 aim to nurture wider and deeper connections among cultural workers within the Global South. The Fellowships will support initiatives that enable long-term professional networks, alliances and collaborations among cultural workers living and working in developing economies in Africa (including North Africa), Asia (including West Asia and Central Asia) and the Pacific. Living Arts International (LAI) are launching this Fellowship as their pilot international programme, as they are acutely aware of the limited support available for South-South connectivity in arts, culture and heritage.
Five Fellowships are being offered in 2022. Selection is through an open call for applications. Fellows will be expected to bring an initiative with them, which they have already been developing in some way and through which they intend to deepen and strengthen network building over the period of the Fellowship. Selected fellows will work on their proposed initiatives over six months from July to December 2022 – they will organise two virtual or hybrid activities during this period.
Fellows will be offered the following forms of support:
- A stipend of USD 3000 per Fellowship awarded (this stipend is an honorarium for the fellows for their ideas and work on the Fellowship activities).
- Feedback on proposals and access to new networks from three advisors to the Fellowship program: Khadija El Bennaoui (Morocco/UAE), Deirdre Prins-Solani (South Africa) and Pooja Sood (India).
- A grant of USD 3000 per Fellowship for curating and organising one virtual or hybrid activity to develop the proposed idea or initiative. Selected fellows will work on this activity individually. Activities may be inter-regional or intra-regional in scope.
- An amount of up to USD 20,000 is available in total for curating and organising up to three inter-regional virtual activities. This budget is shared between all 5 Fellowships. Selected fellows will organise these activities in collaboration with one another.
Applications are open to:
- Individuals/collectives/teams or groups working in arts, culture and/or heritage sectors, who are actively involved in bringing together and creating opportunities for creative practitioners and cultural workers in the Global South. Applicants should be able to demonstrate interest and professional experience in curating, programming and/or organising transnational exchange and collaborations in the focus regions. (Note: if you are applying as a collective or team/group, it will be counted as one Fellowship).
- Citizens of developing economies in Africa (including North Africa), Asia (including West Asia and Central Asia) and the Pacific who are residing and working in the eligible countries/territories.
- Individuals/collectives/teams who are already developing an initiative that responds to a specific gap in South-South connectivity in arts, culture and/or heritage.
