The Cultural Exchange Fund - NOW CLOSED | Thank You For Your Applications

In the first of three rounds of awards, Arts Presenters is pleased to announce the following recipients:

• Chicago Human Rhythm Project --- Brazil
• Maui Arts & Cultural Center --- American Samoa
• PushPush Theater --- Germany
• Great Performances at Vanderbilt (University) --- Scotland
• UMass Fine Arts Center --- Cape Verde
• MAPP International Productions --- Tunisia
• UCLA Live --- France
• Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. --- France
• Pentacle (DanceWorks, Inc.) --- Germany
• Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State --- Germany
• Lotus Education & Arts Foundation --- Norway and UK

Recipients of the Round Two 2008 Cultural Exchange Fund Travel Subsidies:

• Elsie Management --- United Kingdom
• Cal Performances --- United Kingdom
• Miami Dade College Cultural Affairs --- Ecuador
• Music Center/ Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles --- Germany
• REDCAT/Roy and Edna Disney, CalArts Theater --- Ecuador
• Baryshnikov Arts Center --- United Kingdom
• Washington Performing Arts Society --- Spain
• Bernard Schmidt Productions, Inc. --- France
• Japan Society, Inc. --- Japan & Taiwan
• Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts --- Ireland

Recipients of the Round Three 2008 Cultural Exchange Fund Travel Subsidies:

• Backbeat Foundation, Inc. --- Montreuil, France
• City Parks Foundation --- Berlin, Germany to attend Womex
• Asia Society --- Indonesia
• Montclair State University --- Festival d'Automne a Paris
• Stanford Lively Arts --- CINARS in Montreal, Canada
• San Francisco International Arts Festival --- International Theatre Festival to attend Potsdam, Germany

The Cultural Exchange Fund is an international travel subsidy program supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will assist professionals within the presenting field to build partnerships and collaborations. These new relationships will lead to expanded presenting and touring opportunities in the U.S. for deserving international work, and support long term development projects, residencies or commissions.

All current members of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters are eligible to apply. Applications for presenting organizations will be more favorably reviewed. However a chief executive, programmer or artistic director from a presenting organization who is unable to make the proposed trip has the option to apply to send a manager or producer in his/her place. Applications requesting a travel subsidy for a manager or producer applying on behalf of a consortium would be accepted as well. For-profit organizations are not eligible for funds unless mangers and agents clarify that they are traveling on behalf of a presenter for the advancement of a specific project. The Cultural Exchange fund is not for the purpose of U.S. artists performing or traveling to meet with international presenters about performance opportunities. Funds cannot be used to build a company roster, which would be considered for ongoing business development. Travel funds may also not be used for ongoing business development of presenting organizations.

The maximum amount awarded per applicant is $2,000.00. The award for travel is handled on a reimbursement basis, and funds are issued once original copies of all travel and per diem receipts are submitted with a final report within 30 to 90 days of travel. If the awardee does not use the funds to travel within four months of the announcement, the awardee forfeits the full amount of the travel subsidy. There will be three rounds of funding during the 2008 calendar year, so the applicant may reapply for the appropriate round for the proposed travel. No member organization or individual member may receive more than one Cultural Exchange Fund program within a twelve-month period.

Application Deadlines and Award Announcement Dates are as follows:

1st Round Deadline: April 11, 2008 2nd Round Deadline: July 3, 2008 3rd Round Deadline: September 12, 2008

Announcement: May 9, 2008 Announcement: July 31, 2008 Announcement: October 10, 2008

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