At its June meeting, the City Council of Ostrava approved the new Program for the Support of Culture and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage for the years 2025-2027 and, together with it, the announcement tender procedure for the provision of subsidies in the field of culture for the year 2025. Applicants can submit their projects in the period from 13/09/2024 to 27/09/2024 .
Through a multi-year subsidy program, the Statutory City of Ostrava supports long-term projects in the field of culture , which help to develop the quality of artistic fields, enrich the social life of the city's inhabitants, promote Ostrava's culture and local artists throughout the republic and abroad, and many of them also contribute significantly to education in areas of culture and various types of art.
Financial support is intended not only for established projects with a long tradition, whose organizers will be able to apply for a multi-year subsidy, but part of the budget for one-year subsidies is reserved for completely new projects. We want to motivate especially young people to actively co-shape Ostrava's cultural events. Projects without which the Ostrava cultural season can hardly be imagined, such as the Colors of Ostrava festivals, the Ostrava Summer Shakespeare Festival or Folklore without Borders Ostrava and year-round galleries, music clubs and cultural centers, require greater financial stability due to long-term planning . In the fall, they will be able to apply for a multi-year subsidy until 2027, " adds Lucie Baránková Vilamová, deputy mayor for culture and finance.
Ostrava announces a tender in the following thematic areas:
Musical and performing arts
Literature and journalism, including publishing activities
Fine art, architecture and photography, including publishing activities and art exhibitions
Cultural and educational activities (e.g. exhibitions, expositions, librarianship)
Other cultural activities, including multidisciplinary projects
Audiovisual works
The deadline for submitting applications for the selection procedure is from September 13 to 27, 2024. Those interested can find the complete wording of the program on the city's website, and a manual has also been prepared for applicants in the field of culture, which guides them through the application process step by step. In case of any questions, applicants can contact the project administrators, or arrange a project consultation.
The Department of Culture also prepared a webinar at the end of June, which presented the basic changes of the new subsidy program compared to the existing one. The recording of this webinar is available on the city's website under the links to the relevant calls . At the beginning of September, a more detailed webinar will be held for the applicant, which will guide the preparation of the application itself. The culture department will inform about the date of its event through its communication channels. Workers in the field of culture can join the FB group Kultura2030 or subscribe to the regular monthly newsletter via the registration form .
The application form for the webinar for applicants can be found here.
Source: TZ Statutory City of Ostrava
Illustration photo: FB Culture 2030
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