MRAC values artists at every stage in their development and in any artistic discipline. The Next Step Fund grant is designed for artists to propose a project that has the potential to help them overcome a barrier to success, sustain the continued success of their artistic career, and/or leverage an opportunity that could benefit their career in the future.

Proposed projects may range from plans that propel an artist’s career forward to projects designed to maintain an artist’s ability to create. We value both ends of this spectrum and everything in between. Most importantly, projects should reflect the career stage of the applicant and be in alignment with their stated goals.

Next Step Fund

A working grant gives you the opportunity to pursue and deepen your artistic practice. It is available as a grant covering a period of one, two, five or ten years. The grant amount is deposited into the private account stated in your application within six weeks of the award decision being announced.

* A one-year working grant is for SEK 100,000 and is tax-exempt.
* A two-year working grant is for SEK 100,000/year and is tax-exempt.
* A five-year working grant is three price base amounts per year (currently SEK 171,900 per year) and is taxable.
* The long-term grant is three price base amounts per year (currently SEK 171,900 per year) and is taxable.

Working grants and long-term grants

In 2019, the Speculative Literature Foundation and DesiLit co-sponsored the A.C. Bose Grant in memory of Ashim Chandra Bose, a lover of books—especially science fiction and fantasy. Bose’s children, Rupa Bose and Gautam Bose, founded the grant to honor the legacy of the worlds their father opened up for them. The donors hope that this grant will help develop work that will let young people imagine different worlds and possibilities. 

  
**This grant, as with all SLF grants, is intended to help writers working with speculative literature.** Speculative literature spans the breadth of fantastic writing, encompassing literature ranging from hard science fiction to epic fantasy, including ghost stories, horror, folk and fairy tales, slipstream, magical realism, and more. Any piece of literature containing a fabulist or speculative element would fall under our aegis.

  
This grant is awarded on the basis of merit. If awarded the grant, the recipient agrees to provide a brief excerpt from their work and an autobiographical statement describing themselves and their writing (500-1,000 words) for our files and for public dissemination on our website and mailing list.

  
Please note that the goal of these grants is to help as many writers as possible, so recent winners can reapply but will be considered low-priority within a 2-year window of winning.

A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature

The current round of the Asphalt Art Initiative grant application is open to cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States with populations of 50,000 or more. The deadline to apply is January 31, 2025\. The program will award 10 cities grants of up to $100,000 each, as well as on-call technical assistance from the tactical urbanism firm Street Plans and impact evaluation support from Sam Schwartz Consulting. Winning cities are expected to be announced in spring 2025 for projects installing in 2025-26.

Previous Asphalt Art Initiative grant rounds awarded $25,000 per project. Building on the success of the 90 funded projects to date, this year’s grants will award up to $100,000 for large-scale projects that will make signature streets safer and more accessible, create dynamic new public spaces, or enact other similarly transformative roadway redesigns.

Asphalt Art Initiative

The Open Fund for Individuals is one of Creative Scotland’s key funding programmes, supporting the wide range of activity initiated by artists, writers, producers and other creative practitioners in Scotland.

  
The Open Fund for Individuals is one of Creative Scotland’s key funding programmes, supporting the wide range of activity initiated by artists, writers, producers and other creative practitioners in Scotland. The overall annual budget for this fund is £5 million.

  
**What the fund supports**

The fund is intended to support periods of research, development and/or delivery of creative activity, such as specific projects and productions for up to 24 months. It can support an individual’s time where this is related to specific creative outcomes. 

  
We will ask you to tell us the start and end date for this activity and to describe the outcomes, benefits and impacts that you wish to achieve.

You can apply for between £500 and £50,000.

  
As standard, if your application request is between £500 and £20,000 you will hear the outcome in 10 weeks. If your application request is between £20,001 and £50,000 you will hear the outcome in 14 weeks.

  
To accommodate the office closure over the Christmas and New Year period:

  
* Applicants applying for over £20,000 will have an additional 2 weeks added on to the turnaround period
* From 23 October 2024 onward, applicants applying for under £20,000 will have an additional 2 weeks added on to the turnaround period

  

Open Fund for Individuals

The aim of this small charity is to provide financial support to individuals who wish to travel abroad or in the United Kingdom to attend a conference, to pursue a research project or undertake a short course of study in the field of movement or dance.

  
The diversity of the projects realised and the consequent communication between different sectors of the dance community world-wide is very much in tune with Lisa Ullmann’s own life and work. She was a distinguished teacher of movement and dance, whose unique work contributed to the dance education of countless students, dancers and teachers.

  
We also provide financial support to remove barriers and improve accessibility for applicants to the awards. This additional resource could support you to access: translation from other languages, transcription of audio and video files, or the support of a paid producer to support with writing an application.

  
If you are disabled LUTSF will fund:

  
* All travel costs from your home to your destination and return

  
* Where the need for an access support worker is evidenced, we will provide return travel costs for the support worker in addition to the applicant’s travel costs.

Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship Fund

In contrast to the fixed artist residencies in Switzerland and abroad, the travel grants are awarded to Swiss cultural professionals whose main focus is cultural exchange with the countries and regions of East-Central and Southeast Europe. Individuals and artistic duos from the following disciplines are invited to apply:

  
* Literature/translation
* Composition
* Cultural criticism/curatorial work
* Theatre (directing, dramaturgy, playwriting)
* Dance
* Visual arts

  
Travel grants provide the opportunity to establish new networks, conduct research for current or future projects, implement specific projects and develop or refine ideas for new projects. Grant recipients have the freedom to choose when they will travel, within a maximum period of one year, and can schedule this according to their professional and family responsibilities. The travel grants are designed to foster creative processes and serve as an inspiration for exploring the regions in question.

  
The Landis & Gyr Foundation does not fund travel in countries of East-Central and Southeast Europe that are on the list of countries the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) explicitly advises against visiting. Please consult the FDFA’s general travel advice before applying.

  
Travel and research must be conducted with due care and consideration of ethical aspects and cultural differences. The exact areas and times of travel can be freely organized within the one-year period.

  
Travel grants are also suitable for stays accompanied by children. In order to promote a healthy work-family balance, the Foundation offers parents the opportunity to apply for financial aid of up to CHF 1,000 per month to help cover the cost of childcare and/or travel expenses for children. If a family stipend is desired, this must be stated in the application documents and family expenses specified in the budget. In such cases, applicants are advised to contact the Foundation before submitting their application. Grant recipients are responsible for organizing childcare themselves: the Landis & Gyr Foundation does not assume any responsibility in this regard.

Depending on the individual project and the planned activities, grant recipients receive the stipend either as a single payment or in several instalments over the course of the grant year. Each year, the Foundation generally awards several travel grants of CHF 5,000 to CHF 10,000 (for shorter trips and stays), up to CHF 30,000 (for longer projects).

TRAVEL GRANTS 2026: East-Central and Southeast Europe

Every year, the Landis & Gyr Foundation awards ten artist grants of CHF 30,000 to Swiss artists and cultural professionals in the following disciplines:

  
* Literature
* Composition
* Dance
* Theatre
* Dance
* Visual arts

  
Artist grants are awarded exclusively to individuals or established artistic duos with an outstanding track record who are either currently working on a project or have concrete plans for a new one. Recipients of an artist grant are free to choose where and when, within the grant year, they will work on their project.

  
Applications for the following will not be considered:

  
* Requests for education, training, further education or production grants
* Grant requests for completing a doctoral thesis

ARTIST GRANTS 2025

BRODER LAB is a support for and exchange between music + theatre makers who are looking for a push in the back with their own creation to launch their trajectory as a maker, performer or group.

  
In season 25-26, BRODER frames and supports three promising projects by ambitious makers, players, musicians, ... who want to roll up their sleeves for a new creation that moves beyond the classical boundaries of the music theater world. After that, you jump into the wide world on your own strength, with a solid push in the right direction.

  
BRODER also wants to learn something from you and you also inspire each other in the LAB project: new angles, new groundbreaking hybrid forms, new content, new voices, ... We will have an open discussion about what music + theater can be today and tomorrow.

  
**WHAT DOES BRODER EXPECT?**

  
* You will rehearse for at least 1 week in the Arca Theater and in parallel you will discuss artistic choices and visions with us. There is limited availability of the hall, so you will be flexible in your planning to make that possible;
* You perform the show at least once in the Arca Theater;
* You actively participate in the meeting moments with the other LAB makers and the BRODER team, including the LAB days on December 2, 3 and 4, 2025;
* You will watch at least 1 rehearsal moment of another LAB project;
* You will watch the other LAB performances and enter into discussions with the other LAB makers and the BRODER team;
* You become part of the BRODER family of makers, players, musicians, ... and commit yourself to this group and any meeting moments;
* You actively promote the LAB and the other LAB makers to the outside world.

BRODER offers support for these groups consisting of:

  
* **a co-production budget for your creation of 7,500 euros;**
* one week of rehearsal space in Arca Theater (December 25 – January 26);
* 1 or more performances in Arca Theater with technical support;
* inspiring meeting moments with the BRODER team and the other LAB makers, including during the LAB days on December 2, 3 and 4, 2025;
* support in the form of coaching by the artistic and business team of BRODER;
* production framework within the resources and time available to BRODER;
* communication about the project in the BRODER network.
* To implement this project, you will therefore need to recruit other partners, financial support and/or your own resources in order to make it a reality.

Broder Lab: Support for music & theatre producers

The Temenos Academy has established an award in memory of the artist Thetis Blacker, to further the study of the art of batik. The award is administered by the Temenos Academy in association with the Batik Guild, a UK-based non-profit organization, which exists to encourage a wider appreciation and understanding of batik as a centuries-old craft which continues to meet the needs of creative artists working today. Thetis Blacker was a member of the Batik Guild. 

  
The award, which is made every 2 years, is open to members of the Batik Guild, and other batik artists.

THETIS BLACKER (1927-2006) made a remarkable contribution to Temenos as an artist and lecturer. Her work was first featured in Temenos 4, and her ‘Phoenix Egg’, designed especially for the journal, appeared on the covers of issues 6-9\. During her life-time she was regarded as the pre- eminent batik artist in the West. Her brilliantly colourful and masterfully executed dye paintings were commissioned for and exhibited in cathedrals and churches in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. She was also a writer and the author of A Pilgrimage of Dreams (1973), an account of her own vivid dreams.

  
As a Churchill Fellow, Thetis Blacker studied the craft of batik in South East Asia. The purpose of the Thetis Blacker Temenos Batik Scholarship is primarily, but not exclusively, to support overseas research, study and travel in the field of batik creation.

The next award of up to £2,000 will be made in 2025\. **Application forms will be available from the Batik Guild Secretary from October 2024 onwards.**

Thetis Blacker Temenos Batik Scholarship

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