Hibah untuk Karya Kreatif

Apakah kalian suka membuat karya kreatif? Ini adalah kesempatan untuk mendapatkan Hibah dari British Council melalui program Connections Through Culture (CTC) yang akan dibuka kembali pada 16 Oct - 8 Nov 2020.

CTC diluncurkan pertama kali di Asia Tenggara pada Agustus 2019 untuk mempromosikan pertukaran seni dan budaya antara Inggris dan Asia tenggara. Hibah untuk sektor seni dari British Council ini merupakan proyek pertama untuk mendukung inovasi seniman dan organisasi seni di lima negara di Asia Tenggara dan Inggris untuk berkolaborasi dan menjalin hubungan jangka panjang. Lima negara diantaranya Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand dan Filipina.

Di Indonesia, Connection Through Culture pada 2019 menerima 37 pendaftar dan 7 pekerja seni dan organisasi seni dan budaya terpilih untuk saling berkolaborasi dan bekerja sama di bidang musik, seni visual, teater, kesusastraan, fashion dan bentuk seni lainnya.

CTC merupakan dana hibah bilateral dan sebelum pandemi Covid-19, hibah ini digunakan untuk biaya bepergian internasional. Namun dengan adanya ketidakpastian aturan penerbangan antar negara, hibah ini akan digunakan untuk membangun dan menguatkan hubungan seni dan budaya yang baru maupun yang sudah terjalin antara Inggris dan Indonesia melalui pendanaan yang dapat digunakan untuk menciptakan diskusi dan eksplorasi kolaborasi yang dapat dilakukan secara virtual.

Penerima hibah dari Asia Tenggara dan Inggris dapat menggunakan dana yang diberikan untuk menciptakan berbagai macam wadah dan diskusi – diskusi untuk mempertemukan pakar, sesama seniman, pemerhati serta partisipan lainnya yang berlokasi di Inggris dan Asia Tenggara dengan jumlah dana hibah online sebesar 2,500 GBP sampai 7,500 GBP pada Januari hingga Juni 2021. Partisipan yang berhasil untuk periode program 2020 – 2021 akan diumumkan pada akhir bulan November 2020.

Berikut contoh proyek karya kreatif yang mendapatkan hibah CTC (in progress), semoga menjadi inspirasi untuk proposal kalian:

d/Deaf projects between UK & Malaysia since April 2020, after winning CTC round 1, Elaine Foster (UK-Malaysia) started collaborating with Anthony Chong (Malaysian Deaf Educator), Sheena Baharudin (Malaysian Multimedia Poet) & Ana Jonessy (Malaysian Sign Language translator) to create a cultural exchange, sharing & learning opportunity between British and Malaysian poets, artists and deaf educators to share experiences around Deaf people and the Deaf experience, Deaf arts, sign languages and poetry. She hopes that the collaboration will be impactful through a series of online knowledge-sharing workshops, composing and designing of a multimedia poem that incorporates Bahasa Malaysia, Malaysian Sign Language, English and film and video, a manual for teachers for Malaysian Sign Language using poetry, and an online or physical event either in Malaysia or the UK to share and promote poetry in translation, Malaysian Sign Language and deaf culture, poetry education, deaf poetry/ arts, disability and access in the arts.  
 
Online archive of Contemporary Vietnamese Art - As a recipient of a CTC grant in 2019, Anh Tuan Nguyen (Vietnam) is forming the first part of the online ‘Vietnam Art Archive’ with the collaboration and support from UK art researchers and museum experts. He is currently working with colleagues from the UK (SOAS London, Tate Research Centre Asia, among others) and Vietnam (Salon Natasha Archive, FCAC Vietnam, and other independent curators) for this project. He is collecting data, building a web platform, and will soon be publishing the online archive of contemporary art. The first part of archive will be focusing on a collection of video art / artists in Vietnam since the beginning of 1990s to 2020, and will feature works of more than 20 Vietnamese acclaimed artists.  
 
Radio exchange: NOODS Radio UK x Indonesian crews - Although Leon Pattrick of Noods Radio (Wales) is still waiting if it’s possible to travel to Indonesia as their initial plan was to connect with local radio crews in the first quarter of 2020, his team have been working with partners to curate several shows to be aired on their station. Their activities are radio residences, guest shows and takeovers: Some takeovers are already in place in September and October featuring UK and Indonesian crews. Radio guest shows by artists from across Java already happened, while some of them are already residents of the show. Graphic designer and Domestik boss Ryan Ady Putra also designed a t-shirt for Noods Radio which they will share at the end of September to coincide with the takeovers. Leon’s team is also thinking of taking over another UK station, Norrm Radio. As we revised our CTC agreement with Noods Radio during the pandemic, one project of Noods Radio hopefully is to release artists’ music, mixtape or live recording via cassette. They believe this may be a project they can look to work together when they do eventually visit Indonesia.
 
Comics festival in the Philippines with UK collaboration September 2020 is a busy month for the KOMIKET team of Paolo Herras (Philippines) as they present the first Philippine International Comics Festival (PICOF). Initially slated as a live gathering of guests and speakers from everywhere, the digital festival happens digitally in four weekends. Komiket shares the UK comics scene and community through Julie Tait of Lakes International Comics Art Festival (LICAF) as she leads a webinar about her festival and gives a short lecture about UK's graphic novels and the comics creator community that the Lakes festival was able to build through the years. KOMIKET also takes part in the digital 2020 festival of LICAF in October 2020 as one of its exhibitors.

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