The Caribbean Culture Fund (CCF) has announced the grantees for the third call for proposals. The total amount disbursed in this call was USD 400,000 with selection based on respect for the values and criteria defined, alignment with the stated themes, the quality and feasibility of proposals, and the proven abilities of project leaders.
Art for Change
The Art for Change theme invited creatives and cultural organizations to explore the transformative power of art in shaping the Caribbean they envisioned. With projects that covered regional aspirations, challenges, and triumphs; they proposed changes they wished to see.
CCF awarded ten grants of USD 10,000 each for projects that demonstrated the use of arts and culture to catalyze change. This theme was open to applicants from Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, and Suriname.
Awardees:
Echoes of the Islands — Christa-Joy Burton / Sharefold Media (Multimedia) — Antigua & Barbuda
Salt & Skin — Edrin Symonette (Pottery, Ceramics & Sculpture) — Bahamas
Radical Acts of Publishing — Sonia Farmer / Poinciana Paper Press (Literature & Publishing) — Bahamas
Wired for Change: Empowering Voices Through Carnival Art — Damian Moore (Design) — Belize
Kalinago Cultural Revival through Artistic Display — The Kalinago Council (Performing Arts: Theatre, Dance, Festivals) — Dominica
Koudmen Across the Sea — Edward Collins (Pottery, Ceramics & Sculpture) — Dominica
Before Us: Capturing Ancestral Wisdom in the Rupununi — Janelle Persaud (Multimedia) — Guyana
Decoding the Baboon Dance — Rohan Sagar (Multimedia) — Guyana
CREAL: Création pour une Éducation Alternative — ACTE école d’art dramatique / ARTICENA (Performing Arts) — Haiti
Brownsweg Transmigration Museum — Loes Trustfull / SORG (Libraries & Archives) — Suriname
Caribbean Collaboration
Projects in this category reflected connections across the Caribbean community. Applicants worked with collaborators and formed partnerships that included the design and implementation of projects that reflected connections to the larger African Diaspora and the legacy of African culture in the Caribbean were also considered.
CCF awarded ten grants of USD 25,000 for projects that reflected or catalyzed intra-regional cooperation and the promotion of arts across linguistic and geographic boundaries within the Caribbean and its Diasporas. This theme was open to applicants from: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, and Suriname.
Awardees:
Roots & Rhythms: Sound the Shift — Javan Hunt (Music & Sound Recording) — Bahamas / Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
Sacred Bounce: Uniting Pok-Ta-Pok & Batu — Northern Maya Association (Other: Sport) — Belize / Puerto Rico / Honduras
Island Life: Where Family, Culture and Farms Thrive — Efua Akoma (Literature & Publishing) — Grenada / Dominica / St. Lucia
The Caribbean Memory Project — Videomega Productions (Libraries & Archives) — Guyana / Jamaica
Divided Islands — Muska Films / Rachele Magloire & Stephen Gerard Kelly (Film) — Haiti / Dominican Republic
Le Kreol Jazz, un genre musical à part entière — Fondation Haiti Jazz (Music & Sound Recording) — Haiti / St. Lucia / Martinique
Zile M — Josué Azor (Multimedia) — Haiti / Dominican Republic
Djombo Seketi: Traditional Dance Across Borders — Stichting Bureau Vereniging Van Saamaka Gemeenschappen (Performing Arts) — Suriname / Jamaica
BIPOC Curator Cohort — Miguel Keerveld (Visual Arts: Painting & Visual Effects) — Suriname / Jamaica
Clay Roots: Reviving the Ancestral Artform of Pottery in Nevis — Nevis Historical and Conservation Society (Pottery, Ceramics & Sculpture) — St. Kitts & Nevis / Barbados
Residencies and Fellowships
CCF also awarded ten grants of USD 5,000 to support registered institutions in organizing short-term residences and fellowships in the Caribbean. Priority was given to established residency programs and/or cultural events and institutions that were interested in supporting the participation of creatives from other areas of the Caribbean. Chosen programs are able to use funds to cover airfare, accommodation, stipends for creatives, and interpretation.
Awardees:
Wintertuin Curaçao Festival Residency — Stichting de Wintertuin Curaçao (Literature & Publishing) — Curaçao / Puerto Rico
An Ba Lanmè Residency — Waitukubuli Artist Association Inc (Visual Arts) — Dominica / Martinique
Arts au Pluriailes (One Archipelago) — One Archipelago (Multidisciplinary) — Guadeloupe / Caribbean / U.S.
FotoKontré Cross-Residency — Association La Tête dans les Images (Photography) — French Guiana / Guadeloupe / Martinique / Haiti
PREE Moonraker Residency Programme — PREE Literature Limited (Literature & Publishing) — Jamaica
Mediated Voices Artist-in-Residence at CARIMAC — CARIMAC, UWI Mona (Multidisciplinary / Media) — Jamaica
Extempora: In the Shade — In the Shade (Multidisciplinary) — Martinique
Buscando raíces — Asociación de Documentalistas de Puerto Rico (Film) — Puerto Rico / Dominican Republic
Sound Futures — The Masterroom Studio Ltd (Music & Sound Recording) — Saint Vincent & the Grenadines / Trinidad & Tobago / Puerto Rico
Kambule: The Spirit of Carnival Festival Residency — Idakeda Group (Multidisciplinary) — Trinidad & Tobago
About the Caribbean Culture Fund (CCF)
The Caribbean Culture Fund (CCF) supports individuals, organizations, and institutions engaged in cultural and creative projects across the Caribbean. CCF works across all genres and themes through open calls for proposals. Grants are awarded based on alignment with stated themes, underlying values, and demonstrated quality, feasibility, and capacity of project leaders. CCF places emphasis on creativity through projects that demonstrate social commitment; inclusion; sustainability; and the transmission and/or preservation of knowledge, heritage, and cultural practice.
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