About AFAC General Grant Categories

AFAC supports projects in the following fields:

Performing Arts: AFAC’s General Grant for performing arts is open to classical, folk, and experimental theatre for all age groups including children and youth; dance performances, including but not restricted to contemporary dance; public intervention performances, street art, live art, interactive and site-specific format, documentary theatre, and festivals. It also supports playwriting, acting, directing, dancing, and choreography workshops.

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Visual Arts: AFAC’s General Grant for visual arts supports painting, sculpting, photography, installations, audio-video arts, publications (artist book or other publications) and multi-media works of a contemporary and innovative nature. The grant can support exhibitions, visual arts book publications as well as art production.

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Creative and Critical Writings: AFAC's General Grant for Creative and Critical Writings supports Critical writings, Theater writings, Poetry and short stories (publishing support),  Graphic novels, Adaptations of international and Arab classic novels for young adults, Children and young adults literature (publishing support), Electronic literary platforms...

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Cinema: AFAC offers funding for development and scriptwriting, production and post-production of animation, experimental and narrative films in short, medium and feature lengths.

Music: AFAC offers funding for music productions, performances, collaborations, album recordings and other musical projects.

Training and Regional Events (TR): AFAC offers funding for workshops in cultural and artistic fields, collaborative projects among artists and academics, multi-media libraries, archives and cultural documentation.