Monday, June 29, 2009

Cultural Exchange Fund

Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the Cultural Exchange Fund is a travel subsidy program that assists U.S.-based presenters working to build partnerships and collaborations with international touring artists, companies, and their collaborators to promote the display of work by artists from around the world in its own cultural context. In promoting cross-cultural arts programming, Arts Presenters strongly encourages travel to the following locations: Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.

Amount: $2,000

Due date: July 31, 2009 or November 16, 2009

Arts Presenters will award travel subsidies to individual presenters, presenting organizations adn to groups of presenters traveling to see the work of artists, companies and/or to develop and advance projects with international artists and their collaborators. All applicants must be active members of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

For more information, click here.