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Grant List
Grants To Oraganizations
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Date of Grant Letter: |
4/1/2012 |
| Program: |
Arts&Culture |
| Grant Number: |
17910 |
| Organization: |
Utopiana.am, NGO |
| Contact: |
Nora Galfayan |
Grant Amount: |
15000 USD |
| Purpose: |
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For the following purposes: to develop online TV - Ac[TV] which is designed to become an alternative virtual public space to support and promote activist and advocacy groups and movements in Armenia, mainly those standing for environment and public space. Ac[TV] will use art as a critical tool to research, analyze, present and participate in formulating this notion at societal level, as well as becoming an alternative platform for its development. Ac[TV] will be present in the hot spots of public space activism, will observe public spaces, analyze and present individual and collective processes of advocacy work. Ac[TV] will have four major functions: (1) examining the area - daily analysis, reports, etc. on public places, actions in “protest spaces”; (2) anti-advertisement - an advertising parody; (3) human: portrait style films about common but distinguished people with “unusual” lifestyle and progressive values; (4) word: a cultural pavilion of analytical conversations with artists, sociologists and other experts. By the end of the project, produced materials will be developed into an artistic film |
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Date of Grant Letter: |
4/1/2012 |
| Program: |
Arts&Culture |
| Grant Number: |
17910 |
| Organization: |
Utopiana.am, NGO |
| Contact: |
Nora Galfayan |
Grant Amount: |
15000 USD |
| Purpose: |
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For the following purposes: to develop online TV - Ac[TV] which is designed to become an alternative virtual public space to support and promote activist and advocacy groups and movements in Armenia, mainly those standing for environment and public space. Ac[TV] will use art as a critical tool to research, analyze, present and participate in formulating this notion at societal level, as well as becoming an alternative platform for its development. Ac[TV] will be present in the hot spots of public space activism, will observe public spaces, analyze and present individual and collective processes of advocacy work. Ac[TV] will have four major functions: (1) examining the area - daily analysis, reports, etc. on public places, actions in “protest spaces”; (2) anti-advertisement - an advertising parody; (3) human: portrait style films about common but distinguished people with “unusual” lifestyle and progressive values; (4) word: a cultural pavilion of analytical conversations with artists, sociologists and other experts. By the end of the project, produced materials will be developed into an artistic film |
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Date of Grant Letter: |
4/23/2012 |
| Program: |
Arts&Culture |
| Grant Number: |
17899 |
| Organization: |
Socioscope, NGO |
| Contact: |
Evelina Gyulkhandanyan |
Grant Amount: |
14960 USD |
| Purpose: |
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The project aims at: 1) revealing challenges that people face in a result of mining through investigative photo-journalism, 2) investigating environmental issues in Syuniq region, and 3) at initiating awareness raising campaign to inform and to motivate people to fight for their rights. Syuniq region is chosen as a case to demonstrate the vivid negative impact of the mining. Many personal-, community- and state-level problems have been reported since 2006 by different parties (NGOs, media, community) in this region. Along with ecological issues, many human rights violations, health and socio-economic problems people encounter in this area. The project will comprehensively capture, but not limit by highliting the following issues: 1) health issues, because of pollution of air and water, 2) landslides, other seismic problems, 3) exploitation of workers, violations of labor rights.
A group of 3 professional photojournalists will conduct interviews with different parties (community people, workers, local activists, eco-activists from Yerevan, etc.), participate in local activities, and shoot photos to develop different products - Multimedia, Photos, and Post Cards. The exhibition in Lovers Park, Yerevan will be organized to raise awareness of people and to motivate them to join different initiative groups. Also, in addition of Syunik region mines, photographers will explore other mines too, such as Teghut, Amulsar and will organize exhibitions in at least in two marzes as well |
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Date of Grant Letter: |
8/31/2012 |
| Program: |
Arts&Culture |
| Grant Number: |
18167 |
| Organization: |
ICOM National Committee of Armenia |
| Contact: |
Marine Haroyan |
Grant Amount: |
14700 USD |
| Purpose: |
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For the following purposes: to organize Annual Conference 2012 in Yerevan which will be the first international professional meeting of museum society in the Region. Within the conference two workshops to be run by two experts will be organized for museum workers on two topics: “Writing Text Labels in Museums” and “Writing Text for Digital Media”. The first workshop will be held on October 20, 2012 from 10:00 -13:00, the second workshop will be held on the same day October 20, 2012 from 15:00 – 18:00. Maximum number of participants for each conference workshop will be 20 |
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Date of Grant Letter: |
4/1/2012 |
| Program: |
Arts&Culture |
| Grant Number: |
17889 |
| Organization: |
Center for International Union of Puppeteers-UNIMA Armenia |
| Contact: |
Armen Safaryan |
Grant Amount: |
16406 USD |
| Purpose: |
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For the following purposes: to carry out 30 open air puppet shows focusing on elections: raising awareness about the electoral rights and highlighting wide spread violations during the elections. The performances will be carried out in Armenia’s regional centers, small towns and villages - three shows in each region/marz |
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Date of Grant Letter: |
2/29/2012 |
| Program: |
Arts&Culture |
| Grant Number: |
17845 |
| Organization: |
Child Development Foundation |
| Contact: |
Lusine Simonyan |
Grant Amount: |
10000 USD |
| Purpose: |
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For elaboration of two scenarios that will be staged by disabled and non-disabled children. Children will be selected based on criteria developed by the specialists. The inclusive group will include more than 20 children as direct beneficiaries. Through these thematic plays the organization will cover issues such as children’s leadership, the importance of the attention of the society to children’s current problems, and encouraging for equal involvement. The group will have trainings to get prepared for the plays three times a week during four months period. After the trainings, trained artists will stage the plays in different inclusive schools of Yerevan, Vanadzor and Gyumri. Social workers, psychologists, speech therapists will be involved in the project to help the artists prepare the plays and to reflect on certain needs. After the end of the first phase, the trained theatre group will be able to continue staging the plays at schools and kindergartens in different cities to raising awareness on the topic and promote equal rights and opportunities for children |
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Date of Grant Letter: |
9/28/2012 |
| Program: |
Arts&Culture |
| Grant Number: |
18219 |
| Organization: |
Armenian Center of Contemporary Experimental Art (ACCEA/NPAK) |
| Contact: |
Seda Shekoyan |
Grant Amount: |
21747 USD |
| Purpose: |
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For the following purposes: to develop international and interdisciplinary platforms in the domain of arts and culture in Armenia through public events, which are intended to shape sustainable cultural policy and building networks with other entities and organizations to encourage knowledge sharing in Armenia and beyond. The project is envisioned to be realized at Armenian Center for Contemporary and Experimental Art (ACCEA) by organizing the following key activities; development of adequate platform in the domain of culture and arts (organizing series of forums with skype-sessions, lectures, conferences, seminars, panel and round table discussions, festivals, etc.); facilitating international interaction and establishment of professional contacts between foreign and Armenian specialists-art critics and artists, architects and curators, writers and literary critics, philosophers and sociologists, and others; organizing four sets of forums and conferences during the year; organizing 8 educational seminar during the year based on specific topics; publication of two books (150-200 pages) during the project which will include analysis, reviews, translations, interviews, etc.; organizing research of 20-year archive of ACCEA with rich cultural, artistic and theoretical potential for prompting new discussions and analysis |
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Date of Grant Letter: |
4/1/2012 |
| Program: |
Arts&Culture |
| Grant Number: |
17900 |
| Organization: |
Art Laboratory, NGO |
| Contact: |
Hovhannes Margaryan |
Grant Amount: |
10150 USD |
| Purpose: |
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For the following purposes: to organize two exhibitions called “Reading Tumanyan - five thousands dram” and “The choice of art and art of choice” in Yerevan and in the regions of Armenia during pre and post election periods. The first exhibition, through installations, street art and video art will raise awareness on pre-election bribes, the second exhibition will involve artists and art students from the region and will be focused on social, ecological and political art. Two exhibitions will be organized in three cities of Armenia - Gyumri, Hrazdan and Vanadzor. It is planned to have one month exhibition in each of these cities |
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Date of Grant Letter: |
2/1/2012 |
| Program: |
Arts&Culture |
| Grant Number: |
17823 |
| Organization: |
Naregatsi Art Institute |
| Contact: |
Levon Eskenian |
Grant Amount: |
29921 USD |
| Purpose: |
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For the following purposes: to strengthen Armenian Civil Society and Artistic Community by implementing a broad series of events targeted at those groups of artists and spheres of artistic activity that were defined and justified as neglected and vulnerable. The project will implement altogether 90 concerts, exhibitions, master classes, meetings, films screenings and other cultural events in the spheres of contemporary classical music, early European and Baroque music, traditional and ethnic music, film music, electronic music, improvisation, new media, documentary film, animation and forms in contemporary visual arts, and will feature those social groups that are defined and justified as vulnerable and/or neglected (as young and emerging professionals, the artists in the regions, communities of people with disabilities, ethnic minorities and children). More attention will be given to the events featuring the artists in the regions and trainings for Nŕrĺgatsi Art Institute staff as capacity building and sustainability components |
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Date of Grant Letter: |
4/23/2012 |
| Program: |
Arts&Culture |
| Grant Number: |
17849 |
| Organization: |
City Research Center, NGO |
| Contact: |
Ashot Mirzoyan |
Grant Amount: |
14000 USD |
| Purpose: |
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The project aims to bring together participants from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey into direct contact in a Georgian village with mixed population of Armenians, Georgians, Azerbaijanis for 12 days, where they will do a research and online registration of the cultural practices from different hidden and underrepresented social and ethnic groups. Seminars and trainings on human rights, democracy, and intercultural dialogue by the experts will be conducted. These activities will help to improve relations and get rid of stereotypes and prejudices nourished for decades within the societies. Advocacy and presentation of the project "Pathways to Cultural Spaces" and screening of the film "ber_A_ber" will be organized in different organizations and institutions within the various cities of the Caucasian region. During the project it is also planned to conduct a survey on various cultural specifics and similarities and present them in a web site www.culturalcaucasus.org |
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