total number of grants:
78

Date of Grant Letter:

10/26/2006

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15267

Organization:

"Paros" Disabled Center for Development of Education and Culture, NGO

Contact:

Suren  Ohanyan

Grant Amount:

16377  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to raise the cultural intellect of the disabled people through Art therapy, to involve them into active cultural life and change the attitude towards them through discovering talented people, involving them into the integrated groups and organizing vocal and dancing lessons for future performances; to organize debates, TV programs and round tables for discussing the problem of inaccessibility of cultural premises for the disabled people. It is anticipated to organize 5 seminars with disabled and their family members in different cities (Yerevan, Vanadzor, Gyumri, Stepanavan and Alaverdi), posters and booklets will be printed and disseminated, and the project will be finalized by gala concert in Yerevan

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Date of Grant Letter:

9/26/2006

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15250

Organization:

Spiritual Armenia, NGO

Contact:

Anahit  Harutyunyan

Grant Amount:

17295  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to facilitate the development of legislation on cultural rights and that of cultural policy as well as the protection of cultural rights; to prepare and publish a comprehensive report on cultural rights and policy in Armenia; to make a summary of recommendations prepared both by local and international organizations on priorities of the field; to identify the cultural rights, necessary criteria and recommendations for future implementation; to study those international treaties and conventions which are ratified and supposedly implemented by Armenia; to examine respective national legislation; to conduct a sociological survey in the filed of cultural rights to find out how various representatives working in the cultural field understand cultural rights and assess their implementation; to conduct public discussions on the results of conducted research as well as survey in order to have the feedback and comments of wider civil society; to make analysis of the statistical data and compare it with the results of the conducted survey

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Date of Grant Letter:

6/27/2006

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15073

Organization:

UNIMA-Armenia

Contact:

Armen  Safaryan

Grant Amount:

13900  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to organize an annual festival of puppet theatres and troupes titled “Tale Day” with participation of 12 puppet theatres, managers of all (27 in total) puppet theatres and troupes of the 10 regions of Armenia and Yerevan; to stage the performance “World tales” in 10 regions (including towns and villages) of Armenia; to meet the local puppet theatre specialists to discuss the situation, creative atmosphere and plans of the theatre; to organize a three-day meeting with producers and directors of the participating puppet theatres in the state puppet theatre after H. Toumanyan to discuss vanguard directions and their expression in puppet art, review websites and magazines issued by UNIMA INTERNATIONAL

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Date of Grant Letter:

6/30/2006

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15025

Organization:

Vtak, NGO

Contact:

Valeri  Paranyan

Grant Amount:

13470  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to continue the existing tradition of holding the “Theatrical Lori” festival and revive the cultural life in the region; to satisfy the cultural demands not only of the population in Alaverdi and near-by settlements and villages, but also in other regions of Armenia through filming the performances and broadcasting them via local TV channels; to have own input in bringing-up the young people and adolescents; to enable 14 regional theatrical groups to activate their creative lives thus contributing in revival of cultural life in respective regions; to provide opportunity for young actors and producers to express themselves; to strengthen cultural links between the regions and Yerevan; to establish contacts with state and non-government organizations which will take part in organization of the festival; to organize 28 performances using the capabilities of the selected 14 theatres; to organize a seminar on theatre art; to organize filming of the festival; to organize broadcasting of the best performances through local TV channels

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Date of Grant Letter:

6/30/2006

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15046

Organization:

Free Forum for Civil Initiatives, NGO

Contact:

Gayane  Markosyan

Grant Amount:

14111  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to contribute to strengthening the principles of civic initiations through increasing the creative activeness of young people; to revive the prestige and promote children’s esthetic upbringing in marzes of Armenia; to strengthen the culture of implementing joint activities and provide for self-expression of the young people involved in the project; to activate the cultural life of the community; to organize Master Photography classes; to organize photo exhibitions in regions of photos filmed by children

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Date of Grant Letter:

7/24/2006

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15032

Organization:

Kobalt Artists, NGO

Contact:

Arpine  Tokmajyan

Grant Amount:

9990  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to create possibilities for real creative, socio-cultural open interaction among representatives of different countries by creating regularly functioning "Art-a-Nish" Artists' residency network which will enable intercultural dialogue; to create a mobile communication among different countries of the region in the field of contemporary art to promote a better understanding of different cultures and mentalities and establish strong cultural network; to decrease the level of decentralization of cultural life in Armenia by promoting the activation of cultural events in Gyumri and village Artanish; to invite 33 artists from Russia, Georgia, Iran, Turkey, UK, Austria, Germany and Armenia to take part in "Art-a-Nish" Artists' Residency program; to create art works on "Sea: Dreams and Illusions" theme, which will become part of the 5th Gyumri International Biennial together with the art works of about 50 artists from 22 countries; to invite Mass Media to Artanish and Gyumri

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Date of Grant Letter:

7/24/2006

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15033

Organization:

Liza, Legal Gender Cultural Foundation

Contact:

Mariam  Ohanyan

Grant Amount:

9975  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to organize "Kin" International Festival in collaboration with representatives from Georgia, Mongolia, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Iran at the beginning of December, 2006; to present films of women-directors from each country; to hold discussions on films and gender problems; to publish catalogue in Armenian and English covering information on Festival; to update www.liza.am website with information about "Kin" Festival

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Date of Grant Letter:

10/31/2006

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15256

Organization:

Gayanna, NGO

Contact:

Gayane  Tadevosyan

Grant Amount:

17303  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to activate the cultural life and activities of national minorities residing in Armenia; to present the cultural diversity and existing problems in order to grab the attention of wider public for facilitating the social integration of national minorities; to organize cultural activities for national minorities to enhance their integration process; to promote and deepen intercultural dialogue among national minorities residing in Armenia through organization of meetings, round tables, discussions, etc.; to organize festivals, concerts and exhibitions to present cultures of national minorities to society; to inform public and raise awareness on national minorities residing in Armenia through presentation of their cultural heritage; to create an initiative groups, which will identify optimal ways of collaboration and organization of cultural events to strengthen intercultural relations of national minorities residing in Armenia

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Date of Grant Letter:

10/30/2006

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

15234

Organization:

National Association of Art Critics

Contact:

Nazaret  Karoyan

Grant Amount:

19800  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to organize the two-week international summer school from July 23, 2007 to August 5, 2007 for art curators in Yerevan, Armenia. Twenty participants – prospective and practicing curators will be invited from former socialist countries (including Armenia) and Turkey to take part in lectures, seminars and workshops lead by prominent critics, theorists and curators in the field of contemporary art. The summer school will invite three instructors for theory and method courses as well as the workshop. Besides fixed seminars and workshop, there will be one-time presentations by local and international artists, curators and cultural workers. These short seminars will be organized in close coordination and correspondence with partner-institutions in Turkey, Kazakhstan and Slovenia. The classroom teaching will run parallel with studio, gallery and museum visits as well as with a curatorial practicum to organize an exposition or an art-event as a final presentation of the workshop results. The outcome will be a publication of the methodological manual with articles and suggestions from specialists with expertise in teaching and organizing these type of programs

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Date of Grant Letter:

2/10/2006

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

14986

Organization:

Caucasus Media Institute

Contact:

Anna  Yavruyan

Grant Amount:

3780  USD

Purpose:

The project aims to provide support to one foreign student coming to CMI Photojournalism course to cover accommodation, monthly stipend, educational needs, travel for completing the given assignment within Armenia

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